Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast
swyx + Alessio
The podcast by and for AI Engineers! In 2024, over 2 million readers and listeners came to Latent Space to hear about news, papers and interviews in Software 3.0.We cover Foundation Models changing every domain in Code Generation, Multimodality, AI Agents, GPU Infra and more, directly from the founders, builders, and thinkers involved in pushing the cutting edge. Striving to give you both the definitive take on the Current Thing down to the first introduction to the tech you'll be using in the next 3 months! We break news and exclusive interviews from OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Meta (Soumith Chintala), Sierra (Bret Taylor), tiny (George Hotz), Databricks/MosaicML (Jon Frankle), Modular (Chris Lattner), Answer.ai (Jeremy Howard), et al.Full show notes always on https://latent.space
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Dec 6, 2025 • 0sec
World Models & General Intuition: Khosla's largest bet since LLMs & OpenAI
Pim DeWitte, the visionary Founder and CEO of General Intuition, shares his insights on the future of AI. He discusses turning down a $500M offer from OpenAI to focus on building world models using action-labeled game clips. Pim reveals how training on game highlights fosters superhuman abilities in AI agents, making them capable of real-time action predictions. He explains the importance of episodic memory in learning, and his ambitious goal for spatial-temporal models to revolutionize AI interactions by 2030.
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Nov 25, 2025 • 0sec
After LLMs: Spatial Intelligence and World Models — Fei-Fei Li & Justin Johnson, World Labs
Fei-Fei Li, a Stanford professor and AI leader, teams up with Justin Johnson, a researcher specializing in computer vision, to explore the future of spatial intelligence through their creation, Marble. They discuss how Marble generates editable 3D environments from text and images, revolutionizing fields like gaming and robotics. The duo highlights the unique capabilities of spatial data over traditional language models, examining its potential to enhance machine understanding of the physical world while advocating for open academic resources.
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Nov 19, 2025 • 0sec
⚡️ 10x AI Engineers with $1m Salaries — Alex Lieberman & Arman Hezarkhani, Tenex
Alex Lieberman, co-founder of Tenex and ex-Morning Brew strategist, teams up with Arman Hezarkhani, a technical founder who redefined engineering at Parthian. They discuss how shifting from hourly pay to compensation based on output (story points) has enabled unprecedented productivity in AI engineering. Arman shares insights on hiring top talent through rigorous, challenging interviews to ensure quality. Together, they explore the challenges of scaling AI-driven businesses and the potential for engineers to earn over $1 million by aligning their work with AI capabilities.
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Nov 14, 2025 • 0sec
Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures
Deedy Das, a Partner at Menlo Ventures and former Glean operator, shares his insights on the fast-evolving world of AI infrastructure and investment strategies. He discusses Glean's impressive journey to a $7B valuation and examines the competitive landscape between Anthropic and OpenAI. Das reveals his investment thesis on innovative companies like OpenRouter and the strategic importance of products such as Claude Code, illustrating how AI is reshaping enterprise software and the future of engineering.
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Nov 10, 2025 • 0sec
⚡ Inside GitHub’s AI Revolution: Jared Palmer Reveals Agent HQ & The Future of Coding Agents
Jared Palmer, a senior engineering leader at GitHub and former AI pioneer at Vercel, shares insights into the future of coding agents. He elaborates on the launch of Agent HQ, a collaborative hub aimed at integrating AI in developer workflows. Palmer discusses how focused architectures like Next.js led to breakthroughs with coding agents, and why seamless AI is essential for modern developers. He also presents challenges in scaling agent-based workflows and explores the potential of coding agents beyond programming, including automating everyday tasks.
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Nov 10, 2025 • 0sec
⚡ [AIE CODE Preview] Inside Google Labs: Building The Gemini Coding Agent — Jed Borovik, Jules
Jed Borovik, Product Lead at Google Labs and a seasoned expert in AI, reveals the innovative world of Jules, an autonomous coding agent. He discusses his transition from generative AI to coding agents and how Google collaborates with DeepMind to enhance product innovation. The conversation dives into the technical evolution of agent infrastructure, challenges in managing extensive context windows, and the transformative impact of coding agents on software development. Borovik argues that these advancements are crucial for the future of AGI and the evolving software economy.
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Nov 6, 2025 • 0sec
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg: Frontier AI + Virtual Biology To Solve All Diseases
Priscilla Chan, a physician and co-founder of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and Mark Zuckerberg, an engineer and philanthropist, dive into the transformative world of AI and biology. They discuss building advanced microscopes to improve data collection and creating virtual cell models that could revolutionize disease treatment. The conversation highlights the synergistic potential of AI-driven insights in advancing precision medicine and developing a virtual immune system, accelerating the timeline to cure all diseases.
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Oct 31, 2025 • 0sec
⚡️ Ship AI recap: Agents, Workflows, and Python — w/ Vercel CTO Malte Ubl
Malte Ubl, CTO of Vercel and a leader in web platform innovation, discusses their cutting-edge AI tooling. He explains Vercel's dogfooding philosophy, ensuring tools are battle-tested before release. The conversation highlights the Workflow Development Kit, allowing serverless workflows to pause and resume, and the innovative DevOps agent that enhances anomaly detection. Malte also touches on finding practical use cases for AI agents, enhancing team productivity, and open-sourcing their tools for community benefits.
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Oct 30, 2025 • 0sec
The Agents Economy Backbone - with Emily Glassberg Sands, Head of Data & AI at Stripe
Emily Glassberg Sands, Head of Data & AI at Stripe, discusses how the company leverages AI to revolutionize financial infrastructure. She dives into Stripe’s innovative fraud detection methods, boosting detection rates from 59% to 97% through real-time model embeddings. Emily explains the launch of the Agentic Commerce Protocol with OpenAI, enabling AI-driven commerce for companies like Walmart. She also touches on the importance of diverse billing models, new fraud vectors AI faces, and how creativity will shape the future of commerce in an AI-driven world.
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Oct 16, 2025 • 0sec
Why RL Won — Kyle Corbitt, OpenPipe (acq. CoreWeave)
Kyle Corbitt, co-founder and CEO of OpenPipe, discusses the shift from fine-tuning to reinforcement learning in AI. He highlights that many AI projects fail not due to capability, but reliability issues that can be resolved through continuous learning. Kyle introduces RULER, a system that simplifies reward assignment using LLMs to judge agent behaviors. He also critiques the impracticalities of GRPO and emphasizes the importance of realistic training environments for AI agents. Finally, he shares insights on the future of continual learning and serverless RL.
