Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

Giving Agents Computers — Ivan Burazin, Daytona

21 May 2026

Giving Agents Computers — Ivan Burazin, Daytona

21 May 2026

*Take the* [*2026 AI Engineering Survey*](https://notion.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bP07tSVMXH7ePCS) *and get >$2k in credits and* [*AIE WF tickets*](https://ai.engineer/wf)*!* On the product

The AI-First Graphics Editor - with Suhail Doshi of Playground AI

20 Dec 2023

*We are running an* [*end of year survey*](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCg-mQiox_Si5do-1ZIrVg9hPe5IFMjc39gfHdSp3-UaAPDg/viewform) *for our listeners! Please let us know any feedback you

The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph

14 Dec 2023

*We are running an* [*end of year survey*](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCg-mQiox_Si5do-1ZIrVg9hPe5IFMjc39gfHdSp3-UaAPDg/viewform) *for our listeners. Let us know any feedback you have

The Busy Person's Intro to Finetuning & Open Source AI - Wing Lian, Axolotl

8 Dec 2023

*The Latent Space crew will be* [*at NeurIPS on Tuesday*](https://lu.ma/8j6qpbec)*! Reach out with any parties and papers of interest. We have also been incubating* [*a smol daily AI

Notebooks = Chat++ and RAG = RecSys! — with Bryan Bischof of Hex Magic

29 Nov 2023

*Catch us at Modular’s ModCon next week* [*with Chris Lattner*](https://www.latent.space/p/modular#details)*, and* [*join our community*](https://www.latent.space/p/community)*!* *2024 note: Hex

The State of Silicon and the GPU Poors - with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis

17 Nov 2023

*This episode came together at ~4 hrs notice since Dylan had just landed in SF and we had to setup quickly; you might notice some small audio issues in some segments, we apologize. We’re currently

AGI is Being Achieved Incrementally (DevDay Recap - cleaned audio)

8 Nov 2023

We left a high amount of background audio in [the Devday podcast](https://www.latent.space/p/devday#details), which many of you loved, but we definitely understand that some of you may have had

AGI is Being Achieved Incrementally (OpenAI DevDay w/ Simon Willison, Alex Volkov, Jim Fan, Raza Habib, Shreya Rajpal, Rahul Ligma, et al)

8 Nov 2023

*SF folks: join us at the AI Engineer Foundation’s* [*Emergency Hackathon*](https://partiful.com/e/ccbe5YFUSytVsqjUAH6s) *tomorrow and consider* [*the

Beating GPT-4 with Open Source LLMs — with Michael Royzen of Phind

3 Nov 2023

*At the* [*AI Pioneers Summit*](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1717683474633773527) *we announced *Latent Space Launchpad*, an AI-focused accelerator in partnership with*

Powering your Copilot for Data – with Artem Keydunov of Cube.dev

26 Oct 2023

*The first workshops and talks from the AI Engineer Summit are* [*now up*](https://www.youtube.com/@aiDotEngineer)*! Join the >20k viewers* [*on YouTube*](https://www.youtube.com/@aiDotEngineer)*,

The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai

19 Oct 2023

*Thanks to the* [*over 17,000 people*](https://www.youtube.com/@aidotengineer) *who have joined the first AI Engineer Summit! A full recap is coming. Last call to fill out* [*the State of AI

Why AI Agents Don't Work (yet) - with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue

14 Oct 2023

*Thanks to the* [*over 11,000 people*](https://www.youtube.com/@aidotengineer) *who joined us for the first AI Engineer Summit! A full recap is coming, but you can 1) catch up on the fun and videos

[AIE Summit Preview #2] The AI Horcrux — Swyx on Cognitive Revolution

8 Oct 2023

This is a special double weekend crosspost of AI podcasts, helping attendees prepare for the [AI Engineer Summit](https://www.ai.engineer/summit) next week. After our first friendly [feedswap with

[AIE Summit Preview #1] Swyx on Software 3.0 and the Rise of the AI Engineer

7 Oct 2023

This is a special double weekend crosspost of AI podcasts, helping attendees prepare for the [AI Engineer Summit](https://www.ai.engineer/summit) next week. Swyx gave a keynote on the Software 3.0

RAG Is A Hack - with Jerry Liu from LlamaIndex

5 Oct 2023

*Want to help define *the AI Engineer stack*? >800 folks have weighed in on the top tools, communities and builders for the first* [*State of AI

Building the Foundation Model Ops Platform — with Raza Habib of Humanloop

29 Sep 2023

*Want to help define the AI Engineer stack? >500 folks have weighed in on the top tools, communities and builders for the first State of AI Engineering survey! Please fill it out (and help us

Heralds of the AI Content Flippening — with Youssef Rizk of Wondercraft.ai

20 Sep 2023

*Want to help define the AI Engineer stack? Have opinions on the top tools, communities and builders? We’re collaborating with friends at Amplify to launch* [*the first State of AI Engineering

Doing it the Hard Way: Making the AI engine and language 🔥 of the future — with Chris Lattner of Modular

14 Sep 2023

*Want to help define the AI Engineer stack? Have opinions on the top tools, communities and builders? We’re collaborating with friends at Amplify to launch the first* [*State of AI

The Point of LangChain — with Harrison Chase of LangChain

6 Sep 2023

*As alluded to on the pod, LangChain has* [*just launched LangChain Hub*](https://twitter.com/LangChainAI/status/1699095883512778823)*: “the go-to place for developers to discover new use cases and

RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era — with Eugene Cheah of UIlicious

30 Aug 2023

*The AI Engineer Summit Expo has been* [*announced*](https://twitter.com/aiDotEngineer/status/1696532657197256815/retweets/with_comments)*, presented by AutoGPT (and future guest* [*Toran

Cursor.so: The AI-first Code Editor — with Aman Sanger of Anysphere

22 Aug 2023

*Thanks to the almost 30k people who tuned in to* [*the last episode*](http://2.54.221.48/)*!* *Your podcast cohosts have been busy shipping:* \* *Alessio open sourced*

The Mathematics of Training LLMs — with Quentin Anthony of Eleuther AI

16 Aug 2023

*Invites are going out for* [*AI Engineer Summit*](https://ai.engineer/)*! In the meantime, we have just announced our first* [*Actually Open AI event*](https://partiful.com/e/jLALhobyikO5xq2JDDnm)

LLMs Everywhere: Running 70B models in browsers and iPhones using MLC — with Tianqi Chen of CMU / OctoML

10 Aug 2023

*We have just announced our first set of speakers at* [*AI Engineer Summit*](https://www.ai.engineer/summit)*! Sign up for the livestream or email*

[AI Breakdown] Summer AI Technical Roundup: a Latent Space x AI Breakdown crossover pod!

4 Aug 2023

*Our 3rd podcast feed swap with other AI pod friends! Check out* [*Cognitive Revolution*](https://www.latent.space/p/cogrev-tinystories#details) *and* [*Practical

FlashAttention 2: making Transformers 800% faster w/o approximation - with Tri Dao of Together AI

26 Jul 2023

FlashAttention was first published by Tri Dao in May 2022 and it had a deep impact in the large language models space. Most open models you’ve heard of (RedPajama,

Llama 2: The New Open LLM SOTA (ft. Nathan Lambert, Matt Bornstein, Anton Troynikov, Russell Kaplan, Whole Mars Catalog et al.)

19 Jul 2023

As first discussed on our [May Emergency pod](https://www.latent.space/p/no-moat#details) and [leaked 4 days ago](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1679925361247911936), Llama (renamed from LLaMA) was

AI Fundamentals: Datasets 101

17 Jul 2023

*In April, we released our first AI Fundamentals episode:* [*Benchmarks 101*](https://www.latent.space/p/benchmarks-101#details)*. We covered the history of benchmarks, why they exist, how they are

Code Interpreter == GPT 4.5 (w/ Simon Willison, Alex Volkov, Aravind Srinivas, Alex Graveley, et al.)

10 Jul 2023

*Code Interpreter is GA! As we do with breaking news, we convened an emergency pod and >17,000 people tuned in, by far our most biggest ever. This is a 2-for-1 post - a longform essay with our

[Practical AI] AI Trends: a Latent Space x Practical AI crossover pod!

2 Jul 2023

*Part 2 of our podcast feed swap weekend! Check out* [*Cognitive Revolution*](https://www.latent.space/p/cogrev-tinystories#details) *as well.* "Data" Dan Whitenack has been co-host of the Practical

[Cognitive Revolution] The Tiny Model Revolution with Ronen Eldan and Yuanzhi Li of Microsoft Research

1 Jul 2023

*Thanks to the over 1m people that have checked out* [*the Rise of the AI Engineer*](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1674826723068903425)*. It’s a long July 4 weekend in the US, and we’re

Commoditizing the Petaflop — with George Hotz of the tiny corp

20 Jun 2023

*We are now launching our dedicated new* [*YouTube*](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxBcwypKK-W3GHd_RZ9FZrQ) *and* [*Twitter*](https://twitter.com/latentspacepod)*! Any help in amplifying our

Emergency Pod: OpenAI's new Functions API, 75% Price Drop, 4x Context Length (w/ Alex Volkov, Simon Willison, Riley Goodside, Joshua Lochner, Stefania Druga, Eric Elliott, Mayo Oshin et al)

14 Jun 2023

Full Transcript and show notes: [https://www.latent.space/p/function-agents?sd=pf](https://www.latent.space/p/function-agents?sd=pf) Timestamps: \[00:00:00] Intro \[00:01:47] Recapping June 2023

From RLHF to RLHB: The Case for Learning from Human Behavior - with Jeffrey Wang and Joe Reeve of Amplitude

8 Jun 2023

*Welcome to the almost 3k latent space explorers that joined us last month! We’re holding our *first SF listener meetup with** [***Practical AI***](https://changelog.com/practicalai) *next Monday;

Building the AI × UX Scenius — with Linus Lee of Notion AI

1 Jun 2023

Read: [https://www.latent.space/p/ai-interfaces-and-notion](https://www.latent.space/p/ai-interfaces-and-notion) Show Notes \* [Linus on Twitter](https://twitter.com/thesephist) \* [Linus’

Debugging the Internet with AI agents – with Itamar Friedman of Codium AI and AutoGPT

25 May 2023

*We are hosting the AI World’s Fair in San Francisco on June 8th! You can* [*RSVP here*](https://partiful.com/e/tZYPSPPY7rretHFJH0Dl)*. Come meet fellow builders, see amazing AI tech showcases at

MPT-7B and The Beginning of Context=Infinity — with Jonathan Frankle and Abhinav Venigalla of MosaicML

20 May 2023

*We are excited to be the *first* podcast in the world to release an in-depth interview on the new SOTA in commercially licensed open source models - MosiacML MPT-7B!* *The Latent Space crew will be

Guaranteed quality and structure in LLM outputs - with Shreya Rajpal of Guardrails AI

16 May 2023

*Tomorrow, 5/16, we’re hosting Latent Space Liftoff Day in San Francisco. We have some amazing demos from founders at 5:30pm, and we’ll have an open co-working starting at 2pm. Spaces are

The AI Founder Gene: Being Early, Building Fast, and Believing in Greatness — with Sharif Shameem of Lexica

8 May 2023

*Thanks to the over 42,000 latent space explorers who checked out* [*our Replit episode*](https://www.latent.space/p/reza-shabani#details)*! We are hosting/attending* [*a couple more events in SF and

No Moat: Closed AI gets its Open Source wakeup call — ft. Simon Willison

5 May 2023

It’s now almost 6 months since [Google declared Code Red](https://www.latent.space/p/google-vs-openai?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fcode%2520red&utm_medium=reader2), and the results — Jeff Dean’s

Training a SOTA Code LLM in 1 week and Quantifying the Vibes — with Reza Shabani of Replit

3 May 2023

*Latent Space is popping off! Welcome to the over 8500 latent space explorers who have joined us. Join us this month at* [*various events in SF and NYC*](https://latent.space/community)*, or start

Mapping the future of *truly* Open Models and Training Dolly for $30 — with Mike Conover of Databricks

29 Apr 2023

**The race is on for the first fully GPT3/4-equivalent, truly open source Foundation Model!** LLaMA’s release proved that a great model could be released and run on consumer-grade hardware (see

AI-powered Search for the Enterprise — with Deedy Das of Glean

22 Apr 2023

The most recent YCombinator W23 batch graduated 59 companies building with Generative AI for everything from sales, support, engineering, data, and more: Many of these B2B startups will be seeking

Segment Anything Model and the Hard Problems of Computer Vision — with Joseph Nelson of Roboflow

13 Apr 2023

***2023 is the*** [***year of Multimodal AI***](https://www.latent.space/p/multimodal-gpt4)***, and Latent Space is going multimodal too!*** \* *This podcast comes with a*

AI Fundamentals: Benchmarks 101

7 Apr 2023

*We’re trying a new format, inspired by* [*Acquired.fm*](http://acquired.fm/)*! No guests, no news, just highly prepared, in-depth conversation on one topic that will level up your understanding.

Grounded Research: From Google Brain to MLOps to LLMOps — with Shreya Shankar of UC Berkeley

29 Mar 2023

We are excited to feature our first academic on the pod! I first came across Shreya when her tweetstorm of MLOps principles went viral: Shreya’s holistic approach to production grade machine

Emergency Pod: ChatGPT's App Store Moment (w/ OpenAI's Logan Kilpatrick, LindyAI's Florent Crivello and Nader Dabit)

24 Mar 2023

*This blogpost has been updated since original release to add more links and references.* The [ChatGPT Plugins announcement](https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins) today could be viewed as the

From Astrophysics to AI: Building the future AI Data Stack — with Sarah Nagy of Seek.ai

10 Mar 2023

If [Text is the Universal Interface](https://scale.com/blog/text-universal-interface), then Text to SQL is perhaps the killer B2B business usecase for Generative AI. You may have seen incredible

97% Cheaper, Faster, Better, Correct AI — with Varun Mohan of Codeium

2 Mar 2023

OpenAI just rollicked the AI world yet again yesterday — while releasing the long awaited ChatGPT API, they *also* priced it at $2 per million tokens generated, which is 90% cheaper than the

ChatGPT, GPT4 hype, and Building LLM-native products — with Logan Kilpatrick of OpenAI

23 Feb 2023

We’re so glad to launch our first podcast episode with [Logan Kilpatrick](https://twitter.com/OfficialLoganK)! This also happens to be his first public interview since joining OpenAI as their first