Is AI Scaling Dead? — With Gary Marcus
Gary Marcus is a cognitive scientist, author, and longtime AI skeptic. Marcus joins Big Technology to discuss whether large‑language‑model scaling is running into a wall. Tune in to hear a frank debat...
7 Touko 202554min
The ‘AI-First Company,’ Big Tech Mega Earnings, NVIDIA vs. Anthropic
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) What an 'AI-First Company' is 2) Aaron Levie's AI-first memo to Box. 3) Luis von Ahn's AI-first memo to D...
2 Touko 20251h 5min
Amazon's Head Of Prime on Tariffs, Alexa Plus Rollout, and AI Differentiation — With Jamil Ghani
Jamil Ghani is Amazon’s Vice President of Prime. Ghani joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss Amazon's position in the ongoing trade war and how Alexa Plus combined with Prime will appeal to its cust...
30 Huhti 202555min
Is Anthropic’s Claude AI Conscious?, Shopping in ChatGPT, Systrom vs. Zuck
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Anthropic researcher's assertion that there's a 15% chance Claude is conscious 2) What happens if people ...
25 Huhti 20251h 6min
Generative AI 101: Tokens, Pre-training, Fine-tuning, Reasoning — With Dylan Patel
Dylan Patel is the founder and CEO of SemiAnalysis. He joins Big Technology Podcast to explain how generative AI work, explaining the inner workings of tokens, pre-training, fine-tuning, open source, ...
23 Huhti 202541min
Is OpenAI’s o3 Model AGI?, Is AI The New Social Media?, Zuck’s Revealing Testimony
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Is OpenAI's o3 model AGI? 2) Maybe it's AGI when you squint 3) Why people are floating the idea that Open...
18 Huhti 202554min
Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace Shao
Grace Shao is a Hong Kong-based writer and analyst, and author of AI Proem on Substack newsletter. She joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss China's rise in artificial intelligence, and whether (an...
16 Huhti 20251h 4min
A Week of Trade War Chaos & What's Next For Tech
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Ranjan's experience during the financial crisis 2) The uncertainty around operating a business today 3) W...
11 Huhti 202557min
