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The Information Bottleneck

by Ravid Shwartz-Ziv & Allen Roush

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    October 10, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min

    John Platt is a Google Fellow and leads the Applied Science team at Google Research, the group working on climate and science. He's also the person behind SMO and Platt scaling. In this episode, we talk with him about how Google decides…

  • Yuandong Tian on Recursive Self-Improvement

    October 5, 2026 · 58 min

    Yuandong Tian spent many years at Meta FAIR and recently left to co-found Recursive Superintelligence, a company building AI that improves itself. In this episode, he tells us why. We start with his work on computer Go, where he built…

  • Chris Manning: Language Is the Real Unlock for Intelligence

    September 27, 2026 · 56 min

    Chris Manning is a legend in NLP. He's a professor of linguistics and computer science at Stanford and ran the Stanford AI Lab. His course CS224N, Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning, is where a whole generation of researchers…

  • Why AI Still Can't See wtih Andrew Dai

    September 24, 2026 · 58 min

    Andrew Dai spent over a decade at Google Brain and DeepMind, where he co-wrote the 2015 paper that introduced language model pre-training followed by fine-tuning, and later co-led pre-training data for Gemini. He's now co-founder and CEO…

  • Can AI Replace Doctors? Zachary Lipton on the Future of Healthcare and AI

    September 21, 2026 · 1 hr 31 min

    Zachary Lipton is an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a co-founder of Abridge, a healthcare AI company (and a jazz saxophonist!). His research spans machine learning, healthcare, and the broader impact of AI. In this…

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  • Sara Hooker on the End of Static AI

    September 16, 2026 · 1 hr 36 min

    What comes after scaling? We talk with Sara Hooker, co-founder and CEO of Adaptation Lab, about why the next generation of AI may look very different from today's static models. Sara argues that models should continuously adapt to new…

  • Tiny Recursive Models Beat the Giants - Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau (Microsoft)

    September 15, 2026 · 52 min

    Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft and the author of "Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks," the paper behind the Tiny Recursive Model that hit about 45% on ARC-AGI-1 with a fraction of the…

  • Continual Learning Is the Next Bottleneck | Rohan Anil (Core Automation )

    September 10, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

    Rohan Anil spent eleven and a half years at Google, where he went from writing memory allocators to large-scale linear solvers, then optimization at Google Brain, where he co-developed distributed Shampoo and led optimization for PaLM and…

  • World Models | John Langford (Microsoft AI Labs)

    September 5, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

    John Langford, one of the heads of Microsoft's AI Labs, the creator of Vowpal Wabbit, and a co-inventor of CAPTCHA, joins us to talk about world models. Transformers need orders of magnitude more data than humans to learn the same thing…

  • Which Tabular Model Should You Actually Use? | David Holzmüller (INRIA)

    September 3, 2026 · 56 min

    Description Tabular data is still where most of machine learning actually happens in industry, and the field has changed a lot in the last few years. In this episode we talk with David Holzmüller, a researcher at INRIA and one of the…

  • Why You Can't Just Rent 1,000 GPUs | Charles Frye (Modal)

    September 1, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

    Charles Frye (Modal, ex-Weights & Biases, Berkeley PhD) joins Ravid and Allen to explain why modern AI research is bottlenecked by compute, and why simply buying more GPUs doesn't solve it. We cover the three problems every lab hits…

  • Stella Biderman (EleutherAI) - Open Source, AI Safety, and Who We Can Trust

    August 28, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

    Stella Biderman, Executive Director of EleutherAI, joins us the week an OpenAI model autonomously broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face. Stella calls it what she thinks it is, an offensive cyber operation, and argues it's part…

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About the show

Two AI Researchers - Ravid Shwartz Ziv, and Allen Roush, discuss the latest trends, news, and research within Generative AI, LLMs, GPUs, and Cloud Systems.