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 Sep 20251h 3min
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...
16 Sep 202558min
Building an Immune System for AI Generated Software with Animesh Koratana - #746
Today, we're joined by Animesh Koratana, founder and CEO of PlayerZero to discuss his team’s approach to making agentic and AI-assisted coding tools production-ready at scale. Animesh explains how rap...
9 Sep 20251h 5min
Autoformalization and Verifiable Superintelligence with Christian Szegedy - #745
In this episode, Christian Szegedy, Chief Scientist at Morph Labs, joins us to discuss how the application of formal mathematics and reasoning enables the creation of more robust and safer AI systems....
2 Sep 20251h 11min
Multimodal AI Models on Apple Silicon with MLX with Prince Canuma - #744
Today, we're joined by Prince Canuma, an ML engineer and open-source developer focused on optimizing AI inference on Apple Silicon devices. Prince shares his journey to becoming one of the most prolif...
26 Aug 20251h 10min
Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models with Jack Parker-Holder and Shlomi Fruchter - #743
Today, we're joined by Jack Parker-Holder and Shlomi Fruchter, researchers at Google DeepMind, to discuss the recent release of Genie 3, a model capable of generating “playable” virtual worlds. We dig...
19 Aug 20251h 1min
Closing the Loop Between AI Training and Inference with Lin Qiao - #742
In this episode, we're joined by Lin Qiao, CEO and co-founder of Fireworks AI. Drawing on key lessons from her time building PyTorch, Lin shares her perspective on the modern generative AI development...
12 Aug 20251h 1min
Context Engineering for Productive AI Agents with Filip Kozera - #741
In this episode, Filip Kozera, founder and CEO of Wordware, explains his approach to building agentic workflows where natural language serves as the new programming interface. Filip breaks down the ar...
29 Juli 202546min
