Intelligent Robots in 2026: Are We There Yet? with Nikita Rudin - #760

Intelligent Robots in 2026: Are We There Yet? with Nikita Rudin - #760

Today, we're joined by Nikita Rudin, co-founder and CEO of Flexion Robotics to discuss the gap between current robotic capabilities and what’s required to deploy fully autonomous robots in the real world. Nikita explains how reinforcement learning and simulation have driven rapid progress in robot locomotion—and why locomotion is still far from “solved.” We dig into the sim2real gap, and how adding visual inputs introduces noise and significantly complicates sim-to-real transfer. We also explore the debate between end-to-end models and modular approaches, and why separating locomotion, planning, and semantics remains a pragmatic approach today. Nikita also introduces the concept of "real-to-sim", which uses real-world data to refine simulation parameters for higher fidelity training, discusses how reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and teleoperation data are combined to train robust policies for both quadruped and humanoid robots, and introduces Flexion's hierarchical approach that utilizes pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for high-level task orchestration with Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and low-level whole-body trackers. Finally, Nikita shares the behind-the-scenes in humanoid robot demos, his take on reinforcement learning in simulation versus the real world, the nuances of reward tuning, and offers practical advice for researchers and practitioners looking to get started in robotics today. The complete show notes for this episode can be found at https://twimlai.com/go/760.

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Building an AI Mathematician with Carina Hong - #754

Building an AI Mathematician with Carina Hong - #754

In this episode, Carina Hong, founder and CEO of Axiom, joins us to discuss her work building an "AI Mathematician." Carina explains why this is a pivotal moment for AI in mathematics, citing a conver...

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High-Efficiency Diffusion Models for On-Device Image Generation and Editing with Hung Bui - #753

High-Efficiency Diffusion Models for On-Device Image Generation and Editing with Hung Bui - #753

In this episode, Hung Bui, Technology Vice President at Qualcomm, joins us to explore the latest high-efficiency techniques for running generative AI, particularly diffusion models, on-device. We dive...

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Vibe Coding's Uncanny Valley with Alexandre Pesant - #752

Vibe Coding's Uncanny Valley with Alexandre Pesant - #752

Today, we're joined by Alexandre Pesant, AI lead at Lovable, who joins us to discuss the evolution and practice of vibe coding. Alex shares his take on how AI is enabling a shift in software developme...

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Dataflow Computing for AI Inference with Kunle Olukotun - #751

Dataflow Computing for AI Inference with Kunle Olukotun - #751

In this episode, we're joined by Kunle Olukotun, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University and co-founder and chief technologist at Sambanova Systems, to discuss ...

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Recurrence and Attention for Long-Context Transformers with Jacob Buckman - #750

Recurrence and Attention for Long-Context Transformers with Jacob Buckman - #750

Today, we're joined by Jacob Buckman, co-founder and CEO of Manifest AI to discuss achieving long context in transformers. We discuss the bottlenecks of scaling context length and recent techniques to...

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The Decentralized Future of Private AI with Illia Polosukhin - #749

The Decentralized Future of Private AI with Illia Polosukhin - #749

In this episode, Illia Polosukhin, a co-author of the seminal "Attention Is All You Need" paper and co-founder of Near AI, joins us to discuss his vision for building private, decentralized, and user-...

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Inside Nano Banana 🍌 and the Future of Vision-Language Models with Oliver Wang - #748

Inside Nano Banana 🍌 and the Future of Vision-Language Models with Oliver Wang - #748

Today, we’re joined by Oliver Wang, principal scientist at Google DeepMind and tech lead for Gemini 2.5 Flash Image—better known by its code name, “Nano Banana.” We dive into the development and capab...

23 Syys 20251h 3min

Is It Time to Rethink LLM Pre-Training? with Aditi Raghunathan - #747

Is It Time to Rethink LLM Pre-Training? with Aditi Raghunathan - #747

Today, we're joined by Aditi Raghunathan, assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, to discuss the limitations of LLMs and how we can build more adaptable and creative models. We dig into her...

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