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Pierce Freeman & Richard Diehl Martinez

Everyone's talking about AI but most of it is hype, jargon, or someone trying to sell you something. Pierce Freeman and Richard Diehl Martinez are two Stanford friends who actually work in this space with nothing to sell you but good vibes. We'll make you smarter - and you might actually enjoy it.

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81 episodes

  1. AI’s Trust Gap: Disputed OpenAI Firings, a Shaky Math Proof and Hidden Model Costs 35:14
  2. The Agent Wars: Dots vs Muse vs Grok Bot 39:47
  3. Trump Says AI's Only Guardrail Is a "High IQ President" 50:56
  4. TypeSafe's Blazing Fast Universal Classifier 49:20
  5. The Past, Present, and Future of P(Doom) 1:01:09
  6. GPT-6 Astra: The Safety Paradox 1:19:57
  7. Inside the NVIDIA–HuggingFace Deal 1:16:10
  8. The First A.I. Designed Viruses Are Here 1:05:55
  9. The Grok Glow Up 1:11:33
  10. Hot Rogue Agent Summer 1:08:38
  11. Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI Fund Implosion 1:15:45
  12. Claude's Fable Cracked an 87 Year Old Math Problem 52:28
  13. OpenAI's Model Breaks Out of the Lab 20:34
  14. AI Questions You're Afraid to Ask 47:07
  15. AI Is Deciding the World Cup. Should It? 36:36
  16. The Government Is Deciding Which AI Model You Can Use 1:03:43
  17. Midjourney's Bizarre Pivot and SpaceX Buys Cursor 47:52
  18. Why Fable 5 Really Got Shut Down 52:24
  19. The AI-Industrial Complex Is Here 1:00:20
  20. Anthropic Is Done Subsidizing Your AI Plan 1:06:48
  21. Cerebras Built a Chip the Size of Your Head 1:11:30
  22. We Are Sleepwalking Into An AI Crisis 1:13:49
  23. AI Layoffs Just Went Mainstream 58:27
  24. AI Is Less Popular Than Congress with CatGPT 53:59
  25. China Just Cracked CUDA 1:10:54
  26. DeepSeek Doesn't Need Nvidia Anymore 1:04:29
  27. Apple Bets on Local AI 58:17
  28. Mythos Found a Bug No One Saw for 27 Years 47:45
  29. Cursor Is Training on Your Feedback 49:08
  30. State of AI in the US Government 1:19:13
  31. Claude Will Never Stop Texting You 1:09:13
  32. AI Spent the Night Improving Itself 50:55
  33. Anthropic's Beef with the Pentagon 41:07
  34. The Neo Lab Arms Race 1:14:26
  35. Ads in the Chat Window 1:12:48
  36. Your Agents Need an Org Chart 1:06:59
  37. Cracking Open OpenClaw 1:13:53
  38. DeepSeek's New LLM Architectures 1:00:08
  39. Claude Gets a New Constitution 1:14:27
  40. Why Your Agent is Cheating 1:00:59
  41. The sci-fi to startup pipeline 1:30:58
  42. Can we really trust reasoning 51:14
  43. Our biggest predictions for 2026 37:05
  44. AI's ten big moments of 2025 1:32:34
  45. Looking back on a year of product market fit 38:38
  46. Looking back on three years of an AI PhD 56:22
  47. OpenReview got "hacked" 1:07:11
  48. Pretraining is back in vogue with Gemini 3 1:01:05
  49. Teaching cars about traffic lights 1:16:57
  50. Pretty pretty please can you hack this 1:06:12