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  1. Efficiency is Coming: 3000x Faster, Cheaper, Better AI Inference from Hardware Improvements, Quantization, and Synthetic Data Distillation

    3 september 2024 · 1 uur 5 min

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    AI Engineering is expanding! Join the first 🇬🇧 AI Engineer London meetup in Sept and get in touch for sponsoring the second 🗽 AI Engineer Summit in NYC this Dec! The commoditization of intelligence takes on a few dimensions: * Time to Open Model Equiva... Lees meer
  2. Why you should write your own LLM benchmarks — with Nicholas Carlini, Google DeepMind

    29 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 10 min

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    Today's guest, Nicholas Carlini, a research scientist at DeepMind, argues that we should be focusing more on what AI can do for us individually, rather than trying to have an answer for everyone. "How I Use AI" - A Pragmatic Approach Carlini's blog pos... Lees meer
  3. Is finetuning GPT4o worth it? — with Alistair Pullen, Cosine (Genie)

    22 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 5 min

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    Betteridge's law says no: with seemingly infinite flavors of RAG, and >2million token context + prompt caching from Anthropic/Deepmind/Deepseek, it's reasonable to believe that "in context learning is all you need". But then there’s Cosine Genie, the f... Lees meer
  4. AI Magic: Shipping 1000s of successful products with no managers and a team of 12 — Jeremy Howard of Answer.ai

    16 augustus 2024 · 59 min

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    Disclaimer: We recorded this episode ~1.5 months ago, timing for the FastHTML release. It then got bottlenecked by Llama3.1, Winds of AI Winter, and SAM2 episodes, so we’re a little late. Since then FastHTML was released, swyx is building an app in it ... Lees meer
  5. Segment Anything 2: Demo-first Model Development

    7 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 3 min

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    Because of the nature of SAM, this is more video heavy than usual. See our YouTube! Because vision is first among equals in multimodality, and yet SOTA vision language models are closed, we’ve always had an interest in learning what’s next in vision. O... Lees meer
  6. The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars Recap) + ChatGPT Voice Mode Preview

    2 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 55 min

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    Thank you for 1m downloads of the podcast and 2m readers of the Substack! 🎉 This is the audio discussion following The Winds of AI Winter essay that also serves as a recap of Q2 2024 in AI viewed through the lens of our Four Wars framework. Enjoy! Full... Lees meer
  7. Llama 2, 3 & 4: Synthetic Data, RLHF, Agents on the path to Open Source AGI

    23 juli 2024 · 1 uur 5 min

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    If you see this in time, join our emergency LLM paper club on the Llama 3 paper! For everyone else, join our special AI in Action club on the Latent Space Discord for a special feature with the Cursor cofounders on Composer, their newest coding agent! ... Lees meer
  8. Benchmarks 201: Why Leaderboards > Arenas >> LLM-as-Judge

    13 juli 2024 · 58 min

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    The first AI Engineer World’s Fair talks from OpenAI and Cognition are up! In our Benchmarks 101 episode back in April 2023 we covered the history of AI benchmarks, their shortcomings, and our hopes for better ones. Fast forward 1.5 years, the pace of ... Lees meer
  9. The 10,000x Yolo Researcher Metagame — with Yi Tay of Reka

    5 juli 2024 · 1 uur 45 min

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    Livestreams for the AI Engineer World’s Fair (Multimodality ft. the new GPT-4o demo, GPUs and Inference (ft. Cognition/Devin), CodeGen, Open Models tracks) are now live! Subscribe to @aidotEngineer to get notifications of the other workshops and tracks... Lees meer
  10. State of the Art: Training >70B LLMs on 10,000 H100 clusters

    25 juni 2024 · 1 uur 22 min

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    It’s return guest season here at Latent Space! We last talked to Kanjun in October and Jonathan in May (and December post Databricks acquisition): Imbue and Databricks are back for a rare treat: a double-header interview talking about DBRX from Databri... Lees meer
  11. [High Agency] AI Engineer World's Fair Preview

    25 juni 2024 · 50 min

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    The World’s Fair is officially sold out! Thanks for all the support and stay tuned for recaps of all the great goings on in this very special celebration of the AI Engineer! Longtime listeners will remember the fan favorite Raza Habib, CEO of HumanLoop... Lees meer
  12. How To Hire AI Engineers — with James Brady & Adam Wiggins of Elicit

    21 juni 2024 · 1 uur 4 min

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    Editor’s note: One of the top reasons we have hundreds of companies and thousands of AI Engineers joining the World’s Fair next week is, apart from discussing technology and being present for the big launches planned, to hire and be hired! Listeners lo... Lees meer
  13. How AI is eating Finance — with Mike Conover of Brightwave

    11 juni 2024 · 55 min

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    In April 2023 we released an episode named “Mapping the future of *truly* open source models” to talk about Dolly, the first open, commercial LLM. Mike was leading the OSS models team at Databricks at the time. Today, Mike is back on the podcast to giv... Lees meer
  14. ICLR 2024 — Best Papers & Talks (Benchmarks, Reasoning & Agents) — ft. Graham Neubig, Aman Sanger, Moritz Hardt)

    10 juni 2024 · 4 uur 29 min

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    Our second wave of speakers for AI Engineer World’s Fair were announced! The conference sold out of Platinum/Gold/Silver sponsors and Early Bird tickets! See our Microsoft episode for more info and buy now with code LATENTSPACE. This episode is straigh... Lees meer
  15. How to train a Million Context LLM — with Mark Huang of Gradient.ai

    30 mei 2024 · 57 min

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    <150 Early Bird tickets left for the AI Engineer World’s Fair in SF! Prices go up soon. Note that there are 4 tracks per day and dozens of workshops/expo sessions; the livestream will air <30% of the content this time. Basically you should really come ... Lees meer
  16. ICLR 2024 — Best Papers & Talks (ImageGen, Vision, Transformers, State Space Models) ft. Durk Kingma, Christian Szegedy, Ilya Sutskever

    27 mei 2024 · 3 uur 38 min

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    Speakers for AI Engineer World’s Fair have been announced! See our Microsoft episode for more info and buy now with code LATENTSPACE — we’ve been studying the best ML research conferences so we can make the best AI industry conf! Note that this year th... Lees meer
  17. Emulating Humans with NSFW Chatbots - with Jesse Silver

    16 mei 2024 · 54 min

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    Disclaimer: today’s episode touches on NSFW topics. There’s no graphic content or explicit language, but we wouldn’t recommend blasting this in work environments. Product website: https://usewhisper.me/ For over 20 years it’s been an open secret that p... Lees meer
  18. WebSim, WorldSim, and The Summer of Simulative AI — with Joscha Bach of Liquid AI, Karan Malhotra of Nous Research, Rob Haisfield of WebSim.ai

    27 april 2024 · 54 min

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    We are 200 people over our 300-person venue capacity for AI UX 2024, but you can subscribe to our YouTube for the video recaps. Our next event, and largest EVER, is the AI Engineer World’s Fair. See you there! Parental advisory: Adult language used in ... Lees meer
  19. High Agency Pydantic > VC Backed Frameworks — with Jason Liu of Instructor

    19 april 2024 · 52 min

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    We are reuniting for the 2nd AI UX demo day in SF on Apr 28. Sign up to demo here! And don’t forget tickets for the AI Engineer World’s Fair — for early birds who join before keynote announcements! About a year ago there was a lot of buzz around prompt... Lees meer
  20. Supervise the Process of AI Research — with Jungwon Byun and Andreas Stuhlmüller of Elicit

    11 april 2024 · 56 min

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    Maggie, Linus, Geoffrey, and the LS crew are reuniting for our second annual AI UX demo day in SF on Apr 28. Sign up to demo here! And don’t forget tickets for the AI Engineer World’s Fair — for early birds who join before keynote announcements! It’s b... Lees meer
  21. Latent Space Chats: NLW (Four Wars, GPT5), Josh Albrecht/Ali Rohde (TNAI), Dylan Patel/Semianalysis (Groq), Milind Naphade (Nvidia GTC), Personal AI (ft. Harrison Chase — LangFriend/LangMem)

    6 april 2024 · 2 uur 45 min

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    Our next 2 big events are AI UX and the World’s Fair. Join and apply to speak/sponsor! Due to timing issues we didn’t have an interview episode to share with you this week, but not to worry, we have more than enough “weekend special” content in the bac... Lees meer
  22. Presenting the AI Engineer World's Fair — with Sam Schillace, Deputy CTO of Microsoft

    29 maart 2024 · 43 min

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    TL;DR: You can now buy tickets, apply to speak, or join the expo for the biggest AI Engineer event of 2024. We’re gathering *everyone* you want to meet - see you this June. In last year’s the Rise of the AI Engineer we put our money where our mouth was... Lees meer
  23. Why Google failed to make GPT-3 + why Multimodal Agents are the path to AGI — with David Luan of Adept

    22 maart 2024 · 42 min

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    Our next SF event is AI UX 2024 - let’s see the new frontier for UX since last year! Last call: we are recording a preview of the AI Engineer World’s Fair with swyx and Ben Dunphy, send any questions about Speaker CFPs and Sponsor Guides you have! Ales... Lees meer
  24. Making Transformers Sing - with Mikey Shulman of Suno

    14 maart 2024 · 53 min

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    Giving computers a voice has always been at the center of sci-fi movies; “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that” wouldn’t hit as hard if it just appeared on screen as a terminal output, after all. The first electronic speech synthesizer, the Voder... Lees meer
  25. Top 5 Research Trends + OpenAI Sora, Google Gemini, Groq Math (Jan-Feb 2024 Audio Recap) + Latent Space Anniversary with Lindy.ai, RWKV, Pixee, Julius.ai, Listener Q&A!

    9 maart 2024 · 1 uur 49 min

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    We will be recording a preview of the AI Engineer World’s Fair soon with swyx and Ben Dunphy, send any questions about Speaker CFPs and Sponsor Guides you have! Alessio is now hiring engineers for a new startup he is incubating at Decibel: Ideal candid... Lees meer
  26. Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI

    6 maart 2024 · 1 uur 20 min

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    Speaker CFPs and Sponsor Guides are now available for AIE World’s Fair — join us on June 25-27 for the biggest AI Engineer conference of 2024! Soumith Chintala needs no introduction in the ML world — his insights are incredibly accessible across Twitte... Lees meer
  27. A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate

    28 februari 2024 · 1 uur 10 min

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    This Friday we’re doing a special crossover event in SF with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis (previous guest!), and we will do a live podcast on site. RSVP here. Also join us on June 25-27 for the biggest AI Engineer conference of the year! Replicate is on... Lees meer
  28. Truly Serverless Infra for AI Engineers - with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal

    16 februari 2024 · 1 uur 2 min

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    We’re writing this one day after the monster release of OpenAI’s Sora and Gemini 1.5. We covered this on Alex Volkov ‘s ThursdAI space, so head over there for our takes. IRL: We’re ONE WEEK away from Latent Space: Final Frontiers, the second edition an... Lees meer
  29. Cloud Intelligence at the speed of 5000 tok/s - with Ce Zhang and Vipul Ved Prakash of Together AI

    8 februari 2024 · 1 uur 3 min

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    Our first ever demo day aimed for 15-20 people and ended up ballooning to >200 and covered in the news. We are now running the 2024 edition in SF on Feb 23: Latent Space Final Frontiers, a startup and research competition in “The Autonomous Workforce”,... Lees meer
  30. Why StackOverflow usage is down 50% — with David Hsu of Retool

    1 februari 2024 · 58 min

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    We are announcing the second edition of our Latent Space demo day event in SF on 2/23: Final Frontiers, a startup and research competition in “The Autonomous Workforce”, ​”Beyond Transformers & GPUs”, and “​Embodied AI”. RSVP here! The first one was ai... Lees meer
  31. The Four Wars of the AI Stack (Dec 2023 Audio Recap)

    25 januari 2024 · 1 uur 8 min

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    Note for Latent Space Community members: we have now soft-launched meetups in Singapore, as well as two new virtual paper club/meetups for AI in Action and LLM Paper Club. We’re also running Latent Space: Final Frontiers, our second annual demo day hac... Lees meer
  32. How to train your own Large Multimodal Model — with Hugo Laurençon & Leo Tronchon of HuggingFace M4

    19 januari 2024 · 1 uur 12 min

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    Latent Space is heating up! Our paper club ran into >99 person Discord limits, oops. We are also introducing 2 new online meetups: LLM Paper Club Asia for Asia timezone (led by Ivan), and AI in Action: hands-on application of AI (led by KBall). To be n... Lees meer
  33. RLHF 201 - with Nathan Lambert of AI2 and Interconnects

    11 januari 2024 · 1 uur 26 min

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    In 2023 we did a few Fundamentals episodes covering Benchmarks 101, Datasets 101, FlashAttention, and Transformers Math, and it turns out those were some of your evergreen favorites! So we are experimenting with more educational/survey content in the m... Lees meer
  34. The Accidental AI Canvas - with Steve Ruiz of tldraw

    5 januari 2024 · 1 uur 4 min

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    Happy 2024! We appreciated all the feedback on the listener survey (still open, link here)! Surprising to see that some people’s favorite episodes were others’ least, but we’ll always work on improving our audio quality and booking great guests. Help u... Lees meer
  35. NeurIPS 2023 Recap — Top Startups

    30 december 2023 · 2 uur 42 min

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    We are running an end of year listener survey! Please let us know any feedback you have, what episodes resonated with you, and guest requests for 2024! Survey link here. We can’t think of a more Latent-Space-y way to end 2023 than with a mega episode f... Lees meer
  36. NeurIPS 2023 Recap — Best Papers

    24 december 2023 · 3 uur 20 min

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    We are running an end of year listener survey! Please let us know any feedback you have, what episodes resonated with you, and guest requests for 2024! Survey link here. NeurIPS 2023 took place from Dec 10–16 in New Orleans. The Latent Space crew was o... Lees meer
  37. The AI-First Graphics Editor - with Suhail Doshi of Playground AI

    20 december 2023 · 59 min

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    We are running an end of year survey for our listeners! Please let us know any feedback you have, what episodes resonated with you, and guest requests for 2024! Survey link here! Listen to the end for a little surprise from Suhail. Before language mode... Lees meer
  38. The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph

    14 december 2023 · 1 uur 20 min

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    We are running an end of year survey for our listeners. Let us know any feedback you have for us, what episodes resonated with you the most, and guest requests for 2024! RAG has emerged as one of the key pieces of the AI Engineer stack. Jerry from Llam... Lees meer
  39. The Busy Person's Intro to Finetuning & Open Source AI - Wing Lian, Axolotl

    8 december 2023 · 1 uur 4 min

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    The Latent Space crew will be at NeurIPS on Tuesday! Reach out with any parties and papers of interest. We have also been incubating a smol daily AI Newsletter and Latent Space University is making progress. Good open models like Llama 2 and Mistral 7B... Lees meer
  40. Notebooks = Chat++ and RAG = RecSys! — with Bryan Bischof of Hex Magic

    29 november 2023 · 52 min

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    Catch us at Modular’s ModCon next week with Chris Lattner, and join our community! 2024 note: Hex is now hiring AI Engineers. Due to Bryan ’s very wide ranging experience in data science and AI across Blue Bottle (!), StitchFix, Weights & Biases, and n... Lees meer
  41. The State of Silicon and the GPU Poors - with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis

    17 november 2023 · 53 min

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    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 building our own podcast studio for 2024! 🙏 We’re rampin... Lees meer
  42. AGI is Being Achieved Incrementally (DevDay Recap - cleaned audio)

    8 november 2023 · 2 uur 22 min

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    We left a high amount of background audio in the Devday podcast, which many of you loved, but we definitely understand that some of you may have had trouble with it. Listener Klaus Breyer ran it through Auphonic with speech islolation and we figured we... Lees meer
  43. AGI is Being Achieved Incrementally (OpenAI DevDay w/ Simon Willison, Alex Volkov, Jim Fan, Raza Habib, Shreya Rajpal, Rahul Ligma, et al)

    8 november 2023 · 2 uur 23 min

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    SF folks: join us at the AI Engineer Foundation’s Emergency Hackathon tomorrow and consider the Newton if you’d like to cowork in the heart of the Cerebral Arena. Our community page is up to date as usual! ~800,000 developers watched OpenAI Dev Day, ~8... Lees meer
  44. Beating GPT-4 with Open Source LLMs — with Michael Royzen of Phind

    3 november 2023 · 1 uur 7 min

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    At the AI Pioneers Summit we announced Latent Space Launchpad, an AI-focused accelerator in partnership with Decibel. If you’re an AI founder of enterprise early adopter, fill out this form and we’ll be in touch with more details. We also have a lot of... Lees meer
  45. Powering your Copilot for Data – with Artem Keydunov of Cube.dev

    26 oktober 2023 · 39 min

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    The first workshops and talks from the AI Engineer Summit are now up! Join the >20k viewers on YouTube, find clips on Twitter (we’re also clipping @latentspacepod), and chat with us on Discord! Text-to-SQL was one of the first applications of NLP. Thou... Lees meer
  46. The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai

    19 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 9 min

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    Thanks to the over 17,000 people who have joined the first AI Engineer Summit! A full recap is coming. Last call to fill out the State of AI Engineering survey! See our Community page for upcoming meetups in SF, Paris and NYC. This episode had good int... Lees meer
  47. Why AI Agents Don't Work (yet) - with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue

    14 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 5 min

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    Thanks to the over 11,000 people 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 on Twitter and YouTube, 2) help us reach 1000 people for the first comprehensive State of AI Engineer... Lees meer
  48. [AIE Summit Preview #2] The AI Horcrux — Swyx on Cognitive Revolution

    8 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 30 min

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    This is a special double weekend crosspost of AI podcasts, helping attendees prepare for the AI Engineer Summit next week. After our first friendly feedswap with the Cognitive Revolution pod, swyx was invited for a full episode to go over the state of ... Lees meer
  49. [AIE Summit Preview #1] Swyx on Software 3.0 and the Rise of the AI Engineer

    7 oktober 2023 · 39 min

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    This is a special double weekend crosspost of AI podcasts, helping attendees prepare for the AI Engineer Summit next week. Swyx gave a keynote on the Software 3.0 Landscape recently (referenced in our recent Humanloop episode) and was invited to go dee... Lees meer
  50. RAG Is A Hack - with Jerry Liu from LlamaIndex

    5 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 8 min

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    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 Engineering survey, which we will present for the first time at next week’s AI Engineer Summit. Join us online! T... Lees meer