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Claude's Data Analysis Struggles
#LeapLabs #aiengineering #JessicaRumbelow
Breaking AI to Fix It: Ian Webster's Journey from Discord's Clyde to Promptfoo's $18M Series A
In this deep dive with *Ian Webster,* founder of Promfoo (recently announced $18M Series A with Thrive Capital and NEA), we explore how his journey from building Discord's AI chatbot Clyde to creat...
Synergistic Concrete Strength Boost
#LeapLabs #aiengineering #JessicaRumbelow
Power Retention A 5x Speed Boost
#aiengineering #JacobBuckman
AI Life Coach A Simple LLM Model
#snowglobe #aiengineering #ShreyaRajpal
AI Adoption in Traditional Enterprises
#snowglobe #aiengineering #ShreyaRajpal
Tackling Hard Data Problems
Balancing Simulations & Costs
#snowglobe #aiengineering #ShreyaRajpal
Long Context in Pre Training Data
#aiengineering #JacobBuckman
⚡ Open Model Pretraining Masterclass — Elie Bakouch, HuggingFace SmolLM 3, FineWeb, FinePDF
Today *Elie Bakouch,* who leads pre-training efforts at Hugging Face and is a key architect behind SmolLM, walks us through his five pillars of model training: data quality optimization, model arch...
AI Life Coach A Simple LLM Model
Terminal-Bench: Pushing Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Factory Droid, et al to the limits
We are joined by *Alex Shaw* and *Mike Merrill,* the creators of Terminal-Bench (https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard). It is a coding agent benchmark that seemingly came out of nowhere to become the ...
Transformer's Long Context Bottleneck
#aiengineering #JacobBuckman
Scaling Simulations for AI Improvement
#snowglobe #aiengineering #ShreyaRajpal
Why RL Won — Kyle Corbitt, OpenPipe (acq. CoreWeave)
In this deep dive with Kyle Corbitt, co-founder and CEO of OpenPipe (recently acquired by CoreWeave), we explore the evolution of fine-tuning in the age of AI agents and the critical shift from sup...
Discovering Concrete Strength Patterns
#LeapLabs #aiengineering #JessicaRumbelow
Long Context in Internet Text
#aiengineering #JacobBuckman
AI in Traditional Enterprises
#snowglobe #aiengineering #ShreyaRajpal
AI Trust Unleashing the Power of New Gen Tools
Embracing AI in Software Development
#ona #aiengineering
AI Guardrails: Identifying System Breaks
#Snowglobe #aiengineering #ShreyaRajpal #AIGuardrails
Prompt Optimization Trends & Future Insights
Building Jamba 3B: the tiny Hybrid Transformer State Space Reasoning Model - Barak Lenz, CTO of AI21
Join us for an exclusive conversation with *Barak Lenz,* CTO of AI21, as he unveils their groundbreaking *Jamba 3B* model - a tiny yet powerful hybrid transformer-state space model designed to brin...
IDEs in the Age of Parallel Work
#ona #aiengineering
MCP Protocol Open Standard for Agentic APIs
MCP & Connectors Future of OpenAI Integrations
Agent Builders Why Companies Are Rebuilding, Explained
New Agent Builder - Templates & Data Enrichment Features
DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever
At OpenAI DevDay, we sit down with Sherwin Wu and Christina Cai from the OpenAI Platform Team to discuss the launch of *AgentKit* - a comprehensive suite of tools for building, deploying, and optim...
Unwinding Abstractions: The Bitter Lesson
#aiengineering #LanceMartin
⚡️Traversal: Causal ML and Reinforcement Learning
We’re excited to have the https://www.traversal.com/ founders discussing their unique approach to leveraging *AI and causal machine learning* for *incident troubleshooting and root cause analysis* ...
Pricing for ONA Enterprise & Self Serve
#ona #aiengineering #aidevelopment
⚡️The antidote to AI fatigue: Answer.ai Solveit with Jeremy Howard, Eric Ries, Johno Whitaker
http://Answer.ai launched their new Solveit course today (https://www.answer.ai/posts/2025-10-01-solveit-full.html), based on their new platform and approach to using AI for coding (or for anything...
Memory in AI Is Just Context Engineering
What is memory in AI, really? Jeff explains why memory is just context engineering in disguise—and why that’s the key to giving AI persistent skills.
Taste is your Moat (Dylan Field of Figma)
Dylan Field (CEO Figma) on how they are letting designers build with Figma Make, how Figma can be the context repository for aesthetic in the age of vibe coding, and why design is your only differe...
⚡️Raising $1.1b to build the fastest LLM Chips on Earth — Andrew Feldman, Cerebras
Andrew Feldman, CEO of Cerebras, joins us to discuss their massive $1.1B fundraise at an $8.1B valuation and their mission to build the fastest AI inference chips on Earth. He breaks down how Cereb...
Game-Changing AI Safety Insight 🎯
Why AI alignment should happen during pre-training, not after. This could completely change how we make AI systems safer and more reliable
LLMs as Re Rankers The New Retrieval Hack
Jeff breaks down how LLMs are being used as re-rankers and why this might replace traditional re-ranking methods. A cutting-edge look at the future of retrieval.
The Dark Side of Synthetic AI Data ⚠️
The hidden danger of synthetic AI data revealed: Why just copying textbook styles could be making AI models worse. Essential insights for anyone interested in AI development
⚡️Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Anthropic's roadmap for Agents and Developers — Mike Krieger, Anthropic
The gang chat with Mike Krieger, the CPO at Anthropic, to discuss the launch of Claude 4.5 and its implications for AI development. They explore the integration of AI models into products, the impo...
Humans Are Bad at This AI Task 🤯
Mind-blowing insight: Why humans are actually terrible at judging AI training data quality. The surprising study that changed everything about how we think about data curation.
Why Huge AI Models Are Actually Dying 😱
Why massive AI models might be dying out. Learn why this expert believes most AI models will be under 10B parameters in 3 years, challenging the "bigger is better" narrative.
Why Chroma Ignored the AI Hype
Jeff shares why Chroma chose focus over hype during the VectorDB gold rush. A masterclass in startup patience, vision, and resisting the pressure to raise fast and release early.
AI Feels Like Alchemy, Not Engineering
Jeff, the founder of Chroma, explains why building AI systems often feels more like alchemy than engineering—and why that needs to change. A powerful insight into the challenges of going from demo ...
Why Textbooks Won't Give Us Better AI 🤔
Are textbooks really all we need to train AI? This AI researcher explains why diversity in training data is crucial and why focusing only on textbooks is a dangerous oversimplification.
Amp: The Emperor Has No Clothes
Quinn Slack (CEO) and Thorsten Ball (Amp Dictator) from SourceGraph join the show to talk about Amp Code, how they ship 15x/day with no code reviews, and why subagents and prompt optimizers aren’t ...
Deterministic vs Non Deterministic Workflows
AI Strategy Gap in Non Tech Companies
⚡️Snowglobe: Simulations for your AI
Shreya Rajpal (guest #12 on Latent Space back in 2023!) is back in the studio with her newest product launch, Snowglobe (https://snowglobe.so/). Rather than hand writing rules and guardrails for yo...
⚡️ Beyond Transformers with Power Retention
Jacob Buckman, CEO of Manifest AI, joins us to discuss their solution to one of AI's most expensive computational bottlenecks: the ever-growing KV cache for long context inference. Power Retention ...