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00:54:25

The Collaboration that Built Modern AI

Radical Talks ·

2025/12/17

The story of modern AI cannot be told without Geoffrey Hinton and Jeff Dean. In this special episode of Radical Talks, recorded live at NeurIPS, the longtime collaborators and friends join Radical Ventures Co-Founder Jordan Jacobs to explore how bold ideas finally met the infrastructure required to scale them. From early breakthroughs at Google to the choices shaping today’s systems, they reflect on the leadership decisions, risks, and responsibilities that will define what comes next for AI.

00:38:26

Radical Talks, Masterclass Edition: Joelle Pineau on...

Radical Talks ·

2025/12/03

Joelle Pineau is one of the architects behind modern AI — and as Chief AI Officer at Cohere, she’s focused on turning breakthrough research into real-world impact. In this special episode of Radical Talks, recorded live at Radical Ventures’ AI Founders Masterclass, Joelle joins Radical Partner Sanjana Basu to explore how frontier AI actually makes its way from the lab into the enterprise. Drawing on her experience building FAIR at Meta and now leading applied AI at Cohere, Joelle shares how

00:25:00

Fei-Fei Li on Building Spatial Intelligence

Radical Talks ·

2025/11/19

Fei-Fei Li, renowned AI researcher and CEO and Co-founder of World Labs, is pushing the field toward its next frontier: spatial intelligence. Fresh off the commercial launch of Marble — World Labs’ generative world model that turns simple prompts into fully editable 3D environments — she joins host Molly Welch to explore why modeling and reasoning about the physical world remains the missing dimension in today’s AI paradigm. Drawing on the legacy of her ImageNet work, which helped ignite the deep

00:35:32

Radical Talks, Masterclass Edition: WRITER CEO May...

Radical Talks ·

2025/11/06

May Habib co-founded WRITER in 2020 after previously co-founding a localization startup, bringing her longtime passion for language technology to enterprise AI. Under her leadership as CEO, WRITER has developed into a full-stack AI platform serving global companies like Salesforce, Uber, and Vanguard while continuously adapting to the unprecedented pace of change in the generative AI landscape.

00:52:29

Purpose-Driven Innovation at Palantir

Radical Talks ·

2025/10/23

The following post is based on the latest Radical Talks episode with host Molly Welch, Partner at Radical Ventures, and featuring Ted Mabrey, Head of Palantir Commercial. Listen to the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube.

00:41:50

RL Renaissance

Radical Talks ·

2025/10/09

Radical Partners Molly Welch and Aaron Rosenberg are joined by General Reasoning Co-founder and CEO Ross Taylor to discuss the AI approach powering today's reasoning revolution: reinforcement learning.

00:25:30

Building the Physical World's First AI Engineer

Radical Talks ·

2025/09/24

The AI revolution is changing nearly every industry, from software to content creation, yet one crucial area remains largely untouched: the design of physical things. While AI is great at manipulating digital bits, the physical world — from skyscrapers to spacecraft — still relies on traditional engineering approaches that haven’t fundamentally changed in decades.This gap represents a huge, untapped opportunity. Physical systems could benefit enormously from AI-assisted design, but it’s a tough

00:37:20

Voice AI's Enterprise Revolution - How Natural...

Radical Talks ·

2025/09/10

While consumer voice AI has long frustrated users with clunky interactions, enterprise voice AI has reached a turning point. The architectural improvements over the past 12-18 months have enabled natural, contextual conversations that are revolutionizing industries from recruiting to healthcare. Sanjana and Arsham join host Molly Welch to discuss why voice represents the most natural human interface, the breakthrough technology stack that's finally working, and how companies like Ribbon are

00:30:05

Rob Toews on Overcoming AI's Catastrophic Forgetting

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2025/08/27

In this week's Radical Talks podcast, Radical Partner Rob Toews joins host Molly Welch to discuss AI’s curse of catastrophic forgetting and the challenge of building systems capable of continual learning.Rob digs into why this limitation exists and the early work being done to solve it, exploring the emerging AI paradigm that could bridge the gap between static models and truly adaptive intelligence. Continual learning holds the promise of AI systems that grow smarter with every interaction,

00:01:16

A New Season of Radical Talks

Radical Talks ·

2025/08/20

Coming soon, Radical Talks cuts through AI hype to showcase what's truly driving innovation. Hosted by Radical Ventures partner Molly Welch, each episode features intimate conversations with researchers, founders, and investors at AI's cutting edge. Discover contrarian perspectives and insider insights you won't find anywhere else, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

01:38:18

Geoffrey Hinton in conversation with Fei-Fei Li

Radical Talks ·

2024/10/08

In honour of Geoffrey Hinton winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, we bring you an exclusive Radical AI Founders Masterclass talk between, Geoffrey Hinton and Fei-Fei Li, hosted and moderated by Jordan Jacobs, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Radical Ventures. The conversation marked the first time Geoff Hinton and Fei-Fei Li have shared a stage, and featured a dramatic recounting of the 2012 ImageNet competition when their professional careers first intersected. It was a pivotal moment in the

00:43:01

Alison Gopnik: AIs need moms

Radical Talks ·

2021/06/16

In the same paper where Alan Turing outlined his famous criteria for determining when a computer is capable of thinking like a human being, he also shared advice on building a device that might one day pass the ‘Turing Test.’ “Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind,” the pioneer of computer science writes,“why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's?”The deep learning breakthroughs by Geoffrey Hinton and the architects of neural networks created

00:36:38

Fei-Fei Li: Making Sense of Healthcare with Machine...

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2021/01/28

A feature conversation with AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li. As WIRED magazine put it: “She’s one of a tiny group of scientists—a group perhaps small enough to fit around a kitchen table—who are responsible for AI’s recent remarkable advances.” The Stanford Computer Science Professor and Co-Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, joins Radical Ventures Managing Partner, Jordan Jacobs, for a feature conversation on the enormous opportunities to improve healthcare with AI, the state of

00:44:02

Pieter Abbeel: Making Robots Smart

Radical Talks ·

2020/10/29

A feature interview with Pieter Abbeel, an innovator at the cutting edge of where AI meets robotics. In this episode of Radical Talks, Radical Ventures Managing Partner Jordan Jacobs chats with Pieter about the impact of COVID19 on automation, how AI has revolutionized the field of robotics and they also share a few thoughts on how professional sports should be thinking about robot refs. Pieter Abbeel is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California,

00:46:41

Dr. Eric Topol: Artificial Intelligence and the...

Radical Talks ·

2020/09/15

Dr. Eric Topol joins Radical Ventures Managing Partner Jordan Jacobs for a discussion about the latest challenges in combatting COVID-19, and how Artificial Intelligence is the future of healthcare — the key to better health and more compassionate care.Dr. Topol is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, professor of molecular medicine, and executive vice president of Scripps Research. His latest book is Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare

00:54:05

Re-Imagining the Economy with Eric Schmidt

Radical Talks ·

2020/07/24

Welcome to the premier episode of Radical Talks. Created by Radical Ventures, an early stage venture fund investing in technology and Artificial Intelligence, Radical Talks explores the intersection of technology, the economy, politics and culture with global thought leaders. In our first episode we're joined by Eric Schmidt. Eric was the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, and the Executive Chairman of Google -- and then Alphabet -- from 2011 to 2017. He is also an investor in Radical Ventures. In

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