Pretrained

Pierce Freeman & Richard Diehl Martinez
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10 years after studying at Stanford, two friends have somehow become AI experts. One builds startups, the other studies at Cambridge - together they break down LLMs and machine learning with zero BS and maximum banter.

  1. DEC 19

    Our biggest predictions for 2026

    We should really be on Polymarket. Pierce and Richard make their bets on GPT-6, competition between the different letters of FAANG, dynamic websites calibrated to user preferences, and increasing quality of OSS models.

    37 min

  2. DEC 17

    AI's ten big moments of 2025

    It's been a long year in the world of AI. Benchmarks are now almost totally saturated; the financial bubble keeps growing; spending more on inference compute; increasing competition from open source models; agents finally reach the mainstream; the frankly horrible job market for people out of school; multi-model models are back and increasing converging on transformer architectures. We cover them all in our anything goes holiday recap show. Plus - all the things that didn't happen this year.

    1h 33m

  3. DEC 12

    Looking back on a year of product market fit

    Pierce reflects on his own 2025. Thoughts on choosing the right buyer persona, scaling an AI business from zero lines in a github repo, the feeling of finally reaching product market fit, boring versus interesting businesses, and more.

    39 min

  4. DEC 10

    Looking back on three years of an AI PhD

    Richard takes the hot seat for the first episode of our 2025 recap series where we spend the rest of December looking back on what this year meant to us personally and in the world of AI/ML. We cover what it's like to defend a thesis in the UK, the difficulty of training meta-learning models, choosing a well scoped research topic, how to define small models, and what's needed to make them better.

    56 min

  5. DEC 3

    OpenReview got "hacked"

    OpenAI is rolling out shopping support to their users and plotting an ads rollout to challenge Google's ad business, we get a peek behind the curtain on SOTA image generation models with the release of Alibaba's Z-Image (and speculate this might be how nano banana has great text performance), and OpenReview exposes the identities behind double blind reviews.

    1h 7m

  6. NOV 28

    Pretraining is back in vogue with Gemini 3

    Pierce and Richard cover OpenAI's new long range model compression in Codex, initial takeaways of Gemini 3.0 and Nano Banana Pro, Nvidia chip exports to the UAE and Saudi Arabia, and Cloudstrike's global outage. Plus - why Pierce prefers chicken to turkey.

    1h 1m

  7. NOV 21

    Teaching cars about traffic lights

    Richard and Pierce break down the 5 levels of autonomy, whether Elon has a point about RGB vs lidar systems, sensor fusion algorithms, end to end learning in driving simulations, and more.

    1h 17m

  8. NOV 19

    Pretty pretty please can you hack this

    Pierce and Richard cover the news that Yann LeCunn is planning to depart Meta to focus on world models, Cursor 2.0 and their new home trained Composer coding model, Kimi K2 has great generalization performance for an open model but is lagging on code, Microsoft creates a super data center across 700 miles, and Anthropic reports the first hacking campaign orchestrated by AI. Further reading:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14252https://www.digit.in/features/general/meta-chief-ai-scientist-yann-lecun-thinks-llms-are-a-waste-of-time.htmlhttps://cursor.com/blog/composerhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20534https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage

    1h 6m
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10 years after studying at Stanford, two friends have somehow become AI experts. One builds startups, the other studies at Cambridge - together they break down LLMs and machine learning with zero BS and maximum banter.

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  • Creator
    Pierce Freeman & Richard Diehl Martinez
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  • Episodes
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    © 2025 Pierce Freeman & Richard Diehl Martinez
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