Quantum Computing Remains Fundamentally Impractical
Quantum computing has been generating hype for 30 years with promises that it will revolutionize everything from cryptography to drug discovery. Companies like IBM, Google, and IonQ keep announcing qu...
19 Juni 11min
Robotics Is Finally Getting Useful At Scale
Robotics has been 'five years away' from transformation for decades. But something actually shifted around 2023. Companies like Tesla, Boston Dynamics, and Sanctuary AI started deploying robots that d...
12 Juni 12min
The Economics of Training Versus Inference Are Inverting
For the first decade of deep learning, the bottleneck was training—getting enough compute and data to build models. But as models have become larger and more capable, the cost structure has inverted. ...
29 Maj 12min
Retrieval Augmented Generation Solved a Real Problem
Large language models are trained on data with a knowledge cutoff. Ask them about events after their training date, or about proprietary information, and they confabulate—they generate plausible-sound...
22 Maj 14min
When Open Source Models Became Viable Alternatives
For years, the frontier of machine learning was controlled by a handful of companies with massive resources: OpenAI, Google, Anthropic. But in 2023, open-source models like Llama started demonstrating...
8 Maj 10min
The Infrastructure Behind Generative AI Is Reshaping Manufacturing
Everyone talks about ChatGPT and image generation, but the actual economic consequence is happening in the data centers running these models. Training a state-of-the-art LLM requires tens of thousands...
24 Apr 12min
The Quiet Consolidation of Cloud Infrastructure
AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud control roughly 70 percent of the global cloud market, yet most conversations about cloud computing still treat it as a fragmented, competitive space. This episode maps ho...
17 Apr 14min
Transformers Changed How Machines Understand Language
In 2017, a Google research team published a paper titled 'Attention Is All You Need' that introduced the transformer architecture. Within six years, that architecture became the foundation for every l...
17 Apr 9min
