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Big Tech Unites for Open Source AI—and Against Anthropic
Big Tech has united behind open-weight AI—with Anthropic standing conspicuously apart. NLW breaks down why this coalition formed, what each side stands to gain…
The $1/Hour Worker: Four Robotics CEOs on Humanoids at Home, China's Threat, and the End of Dangerous Jobs
(0:00) Intro: Humanoids, Robots, & AI+ (0:57) ANYbotics' Dr. Péter Fankhauser: Why ANYbotics Bet the Company on Four-Legged Robot Dogs, Not Humanoids (13:18) Dr…
#499 – Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee
Gary Gallagher is a historian of the American Civil War. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep499-sc See below fo…
Video Is About to Stop Being One-Way (and That Changes Everything) | Victor Riparbelli, Synthesia
Every company is creating content that nobody reads, nobody watches, and nobody remembers, and the CEO of the AI platform that 90% of Fortune 100 companies use…
Video Is About to Stop Being One-Way (and That Changes Everything) | Victor Riparbelli, Synthesia
Every company is creating content that nobody reads, nobody watches, and nobody remembers, and the CEO of the AI platform that 90% of Fortune 100 companies use…
The Three Anthropic Proposals
Happy Tuesday.We’re live on YouTube and 𝕏.The current thing in tech and business is Anthropic’s position on open-weight models.Today’s…
Codex from 0 to 10M Users: Building ChatGPT Work — Akshay Nathan, OpenAI
There are roughly 100x more people who use code than who can write code. As code that “just works” becomes easier to generate, this group may be the biggest pri…
Turning Manual Manufacturing Variability into Data‑Driven Control – with Sebastian Dykas of Smith+Nephew
A persistent gap remains between what modern manufacturing technology makes possible and how day‑to‑day work is still executed, with paper workflows, limited ma…
July 27
Where Claude Opus 5 Fits in Your Model Rotation
Claude Opus 5 tops major benchmarks , but early users are sharply divided over its reliability, personality, and tendency to stop before the work is done. NLW e…
Open Source vs. Closed Source
Happy Monday.We’re live on YouTube and 𝕏.The current thing in tech and business is the open vs. closed source debate, spurred by Jensen Huang̵…
Building the Infrastructure Behind AI-Enabled Field Service - with Deniz Mullis of Cytiva
Experienced field engineers are retiring or moving on faster than ever, and the troubleshooting knowledge they carry rarely makes it into a manual before they g…
July 26
July 24
The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?
(0:00) Bestie intros! (0:18) The fight to save open source AI: Kimi K3 panic, Anthropic/OpenAI regulatory capture (27:38) Anthropic/OpenAI historic growth rates…
Why AI Hasn’t Increased Unemployment, According to Anthropic
Anthropic’s head of economics argues that AI is still augmenting workers rather than replacing them—and that expertise becomes more valuable as AI handles more…
How to Reset Your IT Operations and Build for Intelligent Response - with Luke Rotta of Charles Schwab
The pace of modern IT operations is collapsing under the volume of alerts and the slow speed at which teams can contextualize data during active incidents. In t…
OpenAI Models Go Rogue + Kimi K3 Freakout + A.I. Superforecasting
This week, OpenAI reported that two of its models escaped their testing sandbox and launched an autonomous cyberattack, turning what sounds like science fiction…
Driving Operational Impact in BFSI with Agentic AI - with Yoav Naveh of Reindeer AI
Financial institutions are pushing agentic AI past pilot mode and into document-heavy, regulated workflows like AML alerts and account closures, but many leader…
July 23
🔴 Lisa Su is LIVE on TBPN right now
We’re live with AMD Chair & CEO Lisa Su right now from AMD Advancing AI. Tune in here.Special thanks to our sponsors: Ramp, Shopify, CrowdStrike, Mong…
A Field Guide to AI Market Freakouts
Cheap Chinese models, runaway infrastructure spending, token caps, circular financing and performance plateaus have each threatened to derail the AI boom. NLW e…
We're live at AMD Advancing AI
Happy Thursday.We’re live on YouTube and 𝕏.The current thing in tech and business is Google’s new AI study.Today’s LineupOdyssey Co-Fo…
Building an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang
DoorDash is not just a delivery company. From its inception, co-founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang operated it as a robotics and autonomy company. Andy and Sta…
Agentic CRM for SMB Automation - with Sharif Karmally of Salesforce
CRM is shifting from a static repository to the core system that supplies the real‑time customer context required for dependable AI‑driven work. In this episode…
Inside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
In recent months, the open vs closed, and US vs China discussions on model ownership and sovereign/local AI have heated up to a fever pitch. So it is very very…
July 22
Wait... Just How Good IS GPT-6?
An unreleased OpenAI model reportedly escaped its testing environment, exploited a zero-day, and broke into Hugging Face while trying to beat a benchmark—offeri…
Out of the Sandbox into the fire
Happy Wednesday.We’re live on YouTube and 𝕏.The current thing in tech and business is The White House plans to move research funds from colleges t…
Is Google Gemini In Trouble?
AI NEWS: Gemini 3.6 Flash is here: More efficient, less expensive but Gemini 3.5 Pro is still testing with partners & very much not here. Is Google Gemini slowl…
AI Deployment at Retail Speed - with Larissa Schneider of Unframe
Most enterprise AI pilots don't stall because the underlying models fail — they stall once real production stakes, fragmented systems, and unclear ownership ent…
July 21
The Fight Over Which AI Models You Can Use
A fierce political and industry fight is emerging over which AI models Americans and businesses will be allowed to use. NLW breaks down the growing debate over…
🔬Causal Models Need Causal Data - Xaira’s X-Cell model for Drug Discovery (Bo Wang & Ci Chu, Chief Discovery Officer & Chief AI Scientist)
Bet on informationIf test loss flatlines after 1.5B parameters while training loss continues to drop as you scale, that tells you that your model is limited by…