Waymo's Foundation Model for Autonomous Driving with Drago Anguelov - #725
Today, we're joined by Drago Anguelov, head of AI foundations at Waymo, for a deep dive into the role of foundation models in autonomous driving. Drago shares how Waymo is leveraging large-scale machi...
31 Maalis 20251h 9min
Dynamic Token Merging for Efficient Byte-level Language Models with Julie Kallini - #724
Today, we're joined by Julie Kallini, PhD student at Stanford University to discuss her recent papers, “MrT5: Dynamic Token Merging for Efficient Byte-level Language Models” and “Mission: Impossible L...
24 Maalis 202550min
Scaling Up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning with Jonas Geiping - #723
Today, we're joined by Jonas Geiping, research group leader at Ellis Institute and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems to discuss his recent paper, “Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Late...
17 Maalis 202558min
Imagine while Reasoning in Space: Multimodal Visualization-of-Thought with Chengzu Li - #722
Today, we're joined by Chengzu Li, PhD student at the University of Cambridge to discuss his recent paper, “Imagine while Reasoning in Space: Multimodal Visualization-of-Thought.” We explore the motiv...
10 Maalis 202542min
Inside s1: An o1-Style Reasoning Model That Cost Under $50 to Train with Niklas Muennighoff - #721
Today, we're joined by Niklas Muennighoff, a PhD student at Stanford University, to discuss his paper, “S1: Simple Test-Time Scaling.” We explore the motivations behind S1, as well as how it compares ...
3 Maalis 202549min
Accelerating AI Training and Inference with AWS Trainium2 with Ron Diamant - #720
Today, we're joined by Ron Diamant, chief architect for Trainium at Amazon Web Services, to discuss hardware acceleration for generative AI and the design and role of the recently released Trainium2 c...
24 Helmi 20251h 7min
π0: A Foundation Model for Robotics with Sergey Levine - #719
Today, we're joined by Sergey Levine, associate professor at UC Berkeley and co-founder of Physical Intelligence, to discuss π0 (pi-zero), a general-purpose robotic foundation model. We dig into the m...
18 Helmi 202552min
AI Trends 2025: AI Agents and Multi-Agent Systems with Victor Dibia - #718
Today we’re joined by Victor Dibia, principal research software engineer at Microsoft Research, to explore the key trends and advancements in AI agents and multi-agent systems shaping 2025 and beyond....
10 Helmi 20251h 44min
