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Pierce Freeman & Richard Diehl Martinez
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Two Stanford friends who flooded their kitchen using dish soap instead of dishwasher detergent 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. 6D AGO

    A deep dive on OpenAI Atlas

    Richard and Pierce break down all the new AI web browser entrants with a particular focus on OpenAI's new Atlas, tradeoffs between vision models and text based dom parsing, potential security vulnerabilities, and more.

    1h 13m

  2. OCT 29

    The browser wars are just getting started

    OpenAI releases their long awaited browser Atlas, Pytorch releases their distributed computation framework Monarch, the SALT reinforcement learning addition to GRPO, the HAL benchmark for agent evaluation, and trying to adapt the kv cache for text diffusion models. Further reading:https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-atlas/https://pytorch.org/blog/introducing-pytorch-monarch/https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.20022 https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11977 https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14973

    58 min

  3. OCT 24

    Are we in an AI bubble?

    Richard and Pierce take the bull case on whether we're in an AI bubble. They cover circular financial deals, energy build outs, AI representing 92% of GDP growth in H1 2025, and a comparison with the hype in 2000s around meaningless dot-com companies.

    1h 15m

  4. OCT 23

    LLMs can get brain rot too

    Articles written by LLMs have stabilized at exactly 50% of the internet (at least - so far as our classifiers can discriminate), the price of embedding models, OpenAI announces a new job board and certification programs for applied AI, Amazon releases the public availability of Bedrock AgentCore, and how pre-training on low quality data affects the capability of post-training. Further reading:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13928https://openai.com/index/expanding-economic-opportunity-with-ai/https://www.tensoreconomics.com/p/why-are-embeddings-so-cheaphttps://graphite.io/five-percent/more-articles-are-now-created-by-ai-than-humans

    1h 1m

  5. OCT 17

    AMD is back in the AI chipset race

    OpenAI diversifies their chip suppliers through partnerships with AMD and Broadcom, Google starts a new AI Bug Bountry problem but only for computational security not for llm hallucinations, Nvidia ships their first prosumer computer, DeepMind has a new complexity theory proof solver, and Anthropic writes their own gibberish poison pill that works across model sizes. Further reading:https://openai.com/index/openai-amd-strategic-partnership/https://investor.nvidia.com/news/press-release-details/2024/NVIDIA-Announces-Financial-Results-for-Second-Quarter-Fiscal-2025/default.aspxhttps://bughunters.google.com/blog/6116887259840512/announcing-google-s-new-ai-vulnerability-reward-programhttps://marketplace.nvidia.com/en-us/developer/dgx-spark/https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18057https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison

    58 min

  6. OCT 14

    The inaugural listener mailbag

    You asked, we answered! Rich and Pierce do their first listener mailbag. Explaining RLHF, our current development stack, whether model competition is making things better for people using them, and more.

    56 min

  7. OCT 9

    California legislators come for LLMs

    Breaking down California's recently passed SB 53 to legislate frontier model development, ISO standards in startups, and why this one passed where the older SB 1047 failed.

    1h 8m

  8. OCT 7

    Move over TikTok - a new feed's in town

    Building a modern AI app and architecting Sora II, first impressions of Sonnet 4.5, and the frontier labs go after n8n and Zapier. Further reading:https://openai.com/index/sora-2/https://openai.com/index/sora-is-here/https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4yn8B8p2YiouxLABy/claude-sonnet-4-5-system-card-and-alignmenthttps://www-cdn.anthropic.com/872c653b2d0501d6ab44cf87f43e1dc4853e4d37.pdfhttps://www.testingcatalog.com/openai-prepares-to-release-agent-builder-during-devday-on-october-6/

    1h 2m
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Two Stanford friends who flooded their kitchen using dish soap instead of dishwasher detergent 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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    Pierce Freeman & Richard Diehl Martinez
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