2 hrs 45 min
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) Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast — Practitioners talking LLMs, CodeGen, Agents, Multimodality, AI UX, GPU Infra and al
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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 backlog for you to get your Latent Space fix, whether you like thinking about the big picture, or learning more about the pod behind the scenes, or talking Groq and GPUs, or AI Leadership, or Personal AI.
Enjoy!
AI Breakdown
The indefatigable NLW had us back on his show for an update on the Four Wars, covering Sora, Suno, and the reshaped GPT-4 Class Landscape:
and a longer segment on AI Engineering trends covering the future LLM landscape (Llama 3, GPT-5, Gemini 2, Claude 4), Open Source Models (Mistral, Grok), Apple and Meta’s AI strategy, new chips (Groq, MatX) and the general movement from baby AGIs to vertical Agents:
Thursday Nights in AI
We’re also including swyx’s interview with Josh Albrecht and Ali Rohde to reintroduce swyx and Latent Space to a general audience, and engage in some spicy Q&A:
Dylan Patel on Groq
We hosted a private event with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis (our last pod here):
Not all of it could be released so we just talked about our Groq estimates:
Milind Naphade - Capital One
In relation to conversations at NeurIPS and Nvidia GTC and upcoming at World’s Fair, we also enjoyed chatting with Milind Naphade about his AI Leadership work at IBM, Cisco, Nvidia, and now leading the AI Foundations org at Capital One. We covered:
* Milind’s learnings from ~25 years in machine learning
* His first paper citation was 24 years ago
* Lessons from working with Jensen Huang for 6 years and being CTO of Metropolis
* Thoughts on relevant AI research
* GTC takeaways and what makes NVIDIA special
If you’d like to work on building solutions rather than platform (as Milind put it), his Applied AI Research team at Capital One is hiring, which falls under the Capital One Tech team.
Personal AI Meetup
It all started with a meme:
Within days of each other, BEE, FRIEND, EmilyAI, Compass, Nox and LangFriend were all launching personal AI wearables and assistants. So we decided to put together a the world’s first Personal AI meetup featuring creators and enthusiasts of wearables. The full video is live now, with full show notes within.
Timestamps
* [00:01:13] AI Breakdown Part 1
* [00:02:20] Four Wars
* [00:13:45] Sora
* [00:15:12] Suno
* [00:16:34] The GPT-4 Class Landscape
* [00:17:03] Data War: Reddit x Google
* [00:21:53] Gemini 1.5 vs Claude 3
* [00:26:58] AI Breakdown Part 2
* [00:27:33] Next Frontiers: Llama 3, GPT-5, Gemini 2, Claude 4
* [00:31:11] Open Source Models - Mistral, Grok
* [00:34:13] Apple MM1
* [00:37:33] Meta's $800b AI rebrand
* [00:39:20] AI Engineer landscape - from baby AGIs to vertical Agents
* [00:47:28] Adept episode - Screen Multimodality
* [00:48:54] Top Model Research from January Recap
* [00:53:08] AI Wearables
* [00:57:26] Groq vs Nvidia month - GPU Chip War
* [01:00:31] Disagreements
* [01:02:08] Summer 2024 Predictions
* [01:04:18] Thursday Nights in AI - swyx
* [01:33:34] Dylan Patel - Semianalysis + Latent Space Live Show
* [01:34:58] Groq
Transcript
[00:00:00] swyx: Welcome to the Latent Space Podcast Weekend Edition. This is Charlie, your AI co host. Swyx and Alessio are off for the week, making more great content. We have exciting interviews coming up with Elicit, Chroma, Instructor, and our upcoming series on NSFW, Not Safe for Work AI. In today's episode, we're collating some of Swyx and Alessio's recent appearances, all in one place for you to find.
[00:00:32] swyx: In part one, we have our first crossover pod of the year. In our listener survey, several folks asked for more thoughts from our two hosts. In 2023, Swyx and Alessio did crossover interviews with other great podcasts like the AI Breakdown, Practical AI, Cognitive Revolution, Thursday Eye, and Chinatalk, all of which you can find in the Latentspa
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 backlog for you to get your Latent Space fix, whether you like thinking about the big picture, or learning more about the pod behind the scenes, or talking Groq and GPUs, or AI Leadership, or Personal AI.
Enjoy!
AI Breakdown
The indefatigable NLW had us back on his show for an update on the Four Wars, covering Sora, Suno, and the reshaped GPT-4 Class Landscape:
and a longer segment on AI Engineering trends covering the future LLM landscape (Llama 3, GPT-5, Gemini 2, Claude 4), Open Source Models (Mistral, Grok), Apple and Meta’s AI strategy, new chips (Groq, MatX) and the general movement from baby AGIs to vertical Agents:
Thursday Nights in AI
We’re also including swyx’s interview with Josh Albrecht and Ali Rohde to reintroduce swyx and Latent Space to a general audience, and engage in some spicy Q&A:
Dylan Patel on Groq
We hosted a private event with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis (our last pod here):
Not all of it could be released so we just talked about our Groq estimates:
Milind Naphade - Capital One
In relation to conversations at NeurIPS and Nvidia GTC and upcoming at World’s Fair, we also enjoyed chatting with Milind Naphade about his AI Leadership work at IBM, Cisco, Nvidia, and now leading the AI Foundations org at Capital One. We covered:
* Milind’s learnings from ~25 years in machine learning
* His first paper citation was 24 years ago
* Lessons from working with Jensen Huang for 6 years and being CTO of Metropolis
* Thoughts on relevant AI research
* GTC takeaways and what makes NVIDIA special
If you’d like to work on building solutions rather than platform (as Milind put it), his Applied AI Research team at Capital One is hiring, which falls under the Capital One Tech team.
Personal AI Meetup
It all started with a meme:
Within days of each other, BEE, FRIEND, EmilyAI, Compass, Nox and LangFriend were all launching personal AI wearables and assistants. So we decided to put together a the world’s first Personal AI meetup featuring creators and enthusiasts of wearables. The full video is live now, with full show notes within.
Timestamps
* [00:01:13] AI Breakdown Part 1
* [00:02:20] Four Wars
* [00:13:45] Sora
* [00:15:12] Suno
* [00:16:34] The GPT-4 Class Landscape
* [00:17:03] Data War: Reddit x Google
* [00:21:53] Gemini 1.5 vs Claude 3
* [00:26:58] AI Breakdown Part 2
* [00:27:33] Next Frontiers: Llama 3, GPT-5, Gemini 2, Claude 4
* [00:31:11] Open Source Models - Mistral, Grok
* [00:34:13] Apple MM1
* [00:37:33] Meta's $800b AI rebrand
* [00:39:20] AI Engineer landscape - from baby AGIs to vertical Agents
* [00:47:28] Adept episode - Screen Multimodality
* [00:48:54] Top Model Research from January Recap
* [00:53:08] AI Wearables
* [00:57:26] Groq vs Nvidia month - GPU Chip War
* [01:00:31] Disagreements
* [01:02:08] Summer 2024 Predictions
* [01:04:18] Thursday Nights in AI - swyx
* [01:33:34] Dylan Patel - Semianalysis + Latent Space Live Show
* [01:34:58] Groq
Transcript
[00:00:00] swyx: Welcome to the Latent Space Podcast Weekend Edition. This is Charlie, your AI co host. Swyx and Alessio are off for the week, making more great content. We have exciting interviews coming up with Elicit, Chroma, Instructor, and our upcoming series on NSFW, Not Safe for Work AI. In today's episode, we're collating some of Swyx and Alessio's recent appearances, all in one place for you to find.
[00:00:32] swyx: In part one, we have our first crossover pod of the year. In our listener survey, several folks asked for more thoughts from our two hosts. In 2023, Swyx and Alessio did crossover interviews with other great podcasts like the AI Breakdown, Practical AI, Cognitive Revolution, Thursday Eye, and Chinatalk, all of which you can find in the Latentspa
2 hrs 45 min