The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)
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From Math Olympiads to Navier-Stokes: How Fast Is AI Progressing? with Greg Burnham
September 29, 2026 · 1 hr 8 minAI systems have gone from struggling with grade-school math to helping solve research problems that have resisted mathematicians for decades, including Navier-Stokes. In this episode, Greg Burnham, who leads AI capabilities research at…
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From Voice Agents to AI Avatars with Alexander Smola
September 17, 2026 · 1 hr 5 minVoice AI has gotten remarkably good, but natural conversation remains a high bar. Small delays, awkward interruptions, or the wrong tone can quickly break the illusion—and adding vision and visual presence only raises the stakes. In this…
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Do AI Tokenomics Matter More Than Model Benchmarks? with Chris Potts
September 9, 2026 · 59 minAs reasoning models consume more tokens and AI systems become more expensive to run, understanding what those tokens actually buy is becoming increasingly important. In this episode, Stanford professor and Big Spin co-founder Chris Potts…
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World Models and the Future of Spatial AI with Justin Johnson
September 1, 2026 · 1 hr 6 minIn this episode, Justin Johnson, co-founder of World Labs, joins us to discuss world models and the emerging field of spatial AI. We explore why many researchers see capabilities beyond language as an important frontier for AI, and what it…
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Why the Next AI Breakthrough May Come from Physics with Max Welling
August 26, 2026 · 58 minThe conventional wisdom in AI is that the next breakthrough will come from more compute, more data, and larger models. But what if the next leap comes from somewhere else? In this episode, Max Welling—co-founder and CTO of CuspAI and…
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Why Image Generation Needs More Than Bigger Models with Fatih Porikli
August 12, 2026 · 57 minText-to-image models have become remarkably good at producing realistic images. But realism isn’t the same as correctness. Ask for several distinct people, a specific composition, or a high-resolution image generated locally, and today’s…
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Why Models Are AI’s Next Training Dataset with Damian Borth
July 27, 2026 · 47 minFor more than a decade, AI has advanced by training ever-larger models on ever-larger datasets. But as high-quality training data becomes harder to find and pretraining grows increasingly expensive, researchers are looking for new ways to…
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How AI Learns to Smell with Alex Wiltschko
July 8, 2026 · 60 minIn this episode, Alex Wiltschko, founder and CEO of Osmo, joins the show to discuss his goal of giving computers a sense of smell and what it takes to build olfactory intelligence. We explore the science behind smell, from the hundreds of…