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Pierce Freeman & Richard Diehl Martinez

10 years after studying at Stanford, two friends have somehow become AI experts. One builds startups, the other studies at Cambridge - together they break down LLMs and machine learning with zero BS and maximum banter.

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50:38

Nano banana is our favorite fruit

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2025/09/02

Gemini’s new image model, OpenAI is investing more in protein generation, Cohere’s SOTA generation model, and Anthropic working with DOE on nuclear securityFurther reading:https://blog.google/products/gemini/updated-image-editing-model/https://openai.com/index/accelerating-life-sciences-research-with-retro-biosciences/https://cohere.com/blog/command-a-translatehttps://red.anthropic.com/2025/nuclear-safeguards/https://www.picolm.io/demo-paper

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57:10

A breakdown of Genie 3's world model

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2025/08/28

Rich and Pierce speculate wildly (well, kind of wildly) on the internal architecture of Genie 3. They go into the history of variational auto encoders and diffusion models, 3D modeling with AI as an alternative to video game designers, a recap of the official Genie 1 paper, and possible applications of world models to the real world.Further reading:https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/genie-3-a-new-frontier-for-world-models/https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.15391

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39:52

Using chat in history class

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2025/08/21

Richard visits his high school, LLMs in education, is AI a calculator or an oracle, and more

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49:51

AI is your new favorite songwriter

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2025/08/19

Elevenlabs launches a music generator, Claude Long-Term Memory, Reddit blocks the Internet Archive, NVIDIA’s Massively Multilingual Speech, and Self Questioning Language ModelsFurther

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47:43

Tokenizers now and in the future

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2025/08/14

History of tokenization going back to 70s language modeling, modern tokenization approaches with BPE, and the future of token-free bitestreams

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58:38

All the GPTs we were promised

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2025/08/12

OpenAI releases their open weight GPT model, the release of GPT-5 and our growing attachment to different architectures, obsequiousness of language models, Genie 3 and open world models for reinforcement learning, and Pytorch as a standard in ML researchFurther reading:https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-oss/https://openai.com/gpt-5/https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/genie-3-a-new-frontier-for-world-models/https://pytorch.org/blog/pytorch-2-8/

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46:37

Running out of good data

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2025/08/07

Exhausting the data on the Internet by 2026, the value or non-value of transcripts, training on other languages, and subsidizing additional dataset generation

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64:11

Models building other models

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2025/08/05

ChatGPT's new study mode for students, Facebook's play to be the first with augmented reality LLMs, Cerebras is trying to compete with Claude Code, and are we really in an "alphago moment" for model architecture discovery?Further reading:https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-study-mode/https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2025/q2/META-Q2-2025-Earnings-Call-Transcript.pdfhttps://www.cerebras.ai/blog/introducing-cerebras-codehttps://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18074

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32:45

Evaluation metrics for reasoning models

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2025/07/31

Evaluating models on benchmarks, passing a model vibe check, formal reasoning to synthesize datasets, and what type of datasets researchers prefer

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57:37

The tea on vibe coding data leaks

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2025/07/29

OpenAI introduces their new Agent with full computer use capabilities, Anthropic is now evaluating models with other models, what the data leak at Tea can and can't tell us about vibe coding security, and more reasoning time isn't always betterFurther reading:https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-agent/https://alignment.anthropic.com/2025/automated-auditing/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/us/tea-safety-dating-app-hack.htmlhttps://safety-research.github.io/inverse-scaling-ttc/

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26:53

Choosing a college path in a post-AI world

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2025/07/17

Allocating enough time to find your passions, Bell Labs vs Frontier Labs, project based classes, and getting involved in communities

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51:27

Surfing the agentic web

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2025/07/15

Perplexity releases their AI browser Comet, Grok 4 and xAI's safety alignment strategy, the David vs Goliath of language models, and the Muon optimizer challenging Adam for its title

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38:43

The death of peer-reviewed research in AI

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2025/07/10

Anthropic & OpenAI's new approach for announcing models, double vs single blind peer review, and distribution channels for researchers

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50:53

Party with the warehouse robots

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2025/07/10

Inception Lab's new diffusion architecture Mercury, Google's emissions up 51% since 2019, DeepFleet warehouse scheduling robots, and Microsoft's delayed AI chip

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