The podcast by and for AI Engineers! In 2024, over 2 million readers and listeners came to Latent Space to hear about news, papers and interviews in Software 3.0.
We cover Foundation Models changing every domain in Code Generation, Multimodality, AI Agents, GPU Infra and more, directly from the founders, builders, and thinkers involved in pushing the cutting edge. Striving to give you both the definitive take on the Current Thing down to the first introduction to the tech you'll be using in the next 3 months! We break news and exclusive interviews from OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Meta (Soumith Chintala), Sierra (Bret Taylor), tiny (George Hotz), Databricks/MosaicML (Jon Frankle), Modular (Chris Lattner), Answer.ai (Jeremy Howard), et al.
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Vasek Mlejnsky from E2B joins us today to talk about sandboxes for AI agents. In the last 2 years, E2B has grown from a handful of developers building on it to being used by ~50% of the Fortune 500 and generating millions of sandboxes each week for their customers. As the “death of chat completions” approaches, LLMs workflows and agents are relying more and more on tool usage and multi-modality. The most common use cases for their sandboxes: - Run data analysis and charting (like Perplexity) - E...
We’ll keep this brief because we’re on a tight turnaround: GPT 4.1, previously known as the Quasar and Optimus models, is now live as the natural update for 4o/4o-mini (and the research preview of GPT 4.5). Though it is a general purpose model family, the headline features are: Coding abilities (o1-level SWEBench and SWELancer, but ok Aider) Instruction Following (with a very notable prompting guide) Long Context up to 1m tokens (with new MRCR and Graphwalk benchmarks) Vision (simply o1 level) C...
Evan Conrad, co-founder of SF Compute, joined us to talk about how they started as an AI lab that avoided bankruptcy by selling GPU clusters, why CoreWeave financials look like a real estate business, and how GPUs are turning into a commodities market. Chapters: 00:00:05 - Introductions 00:00:12 - Introduction of guest Evan Conrad from SF Compute 00:00:12 - CoreWeave Business Model Discussion 00:05:37 - CoreWeave as a Real Estate Business 00:08:59 - Interest Rate Risk and GPU Market Strategy Fra...
Today’s guests, David Soria Parra and Justin Spahr-Summers, are the creators of Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP). When we first wrote Why MCP Won, we had no idea how quickly it was about to win. In the past 4 weeks, OpenAI and now Google have now announced the MCP support, effectively confirming our prediction that MCP was the presumptive winner of the agent standard wars. MCP has now overtaken OpenAPI, the incumbent option and most direct alternative, in GitHub stars (3 months ahead of ...
Unsupervised Learning is a podcast that interviews the sharpest minds in AI about what’s real today, what will be real in the future and what it means for businesses and the world - helping builders, researchers and founders deconstruct and understand the biggest breakthroughs. Top guests: Noam Shazeer, Bob McGrew, Noam Brown, Dylan Patel, Percy Liang, David Luan https://www.latent.space/p/unsupervised-learning Timestamps 00:00 Introduction and Excitement for Collaboration 00:27 Reflecting on Su...
If you’re in SF: Join us for the Claude Plays Pokemon hackathon this Sunday! If you’re not: Fill out the 2025 State of AI Eng survey for $250 in Amazon cards! We are SO excited to share our conversation with Dharmesh Shah , co-founder of HubSpot and creator of Agent.ai . A particularly compelling concept we discussed is the idea of " hybrid teams " - the next evolution in workplace organization where human workers collaborate with AI agents as team members. Just as we previously saw hybrid teams...
We are working with Amplify on the 2025 State of AI Engineering Survey to be presented at the AIE World’s Fair in SF ! Join the survey to shape the future of AI Eng! We first met Snipd ( affiliate link! we get a free month, you get a free month. but this is not a sponsored pod, we’ve never done one ) over a year ago, and were immediately impressed by the design, but were doubtful about the behavior of snipping as the title behavior: Podcast apps are enormously sticky - Spotify spent almost $1b i...
While everyone is now repeating that 2025 is the “Year of the Agent”, OpenAI is heads down building towards it. In the first 2 months of the year they released Operator and Deep Research (arguably the most successful agent archetype so far), and today they are bringing a lot of those capabilities to the API: * Responses API * Web Search Tool * Computer Use Tool * File Search Tool * A new open source Agents SDK with integrated Observability Tools We cover all this and more in today’s lightning po...
David Hershey from Anthropic discusses the creation and mechanics behind Claude Plays Pokémon. He explains the project's origin as a tool for experimenting with agents, the architecture, and the challenges Claude faces in navigating the game, including vision and memory limitations. David also touches on the model's learning capabilities, token usage costs, and potential future improvements.
In this episode, Paul Klein, founder of Browserbase, joins the Latent Space podcast to discuss building browser infrastructure for AI agents. They explore the AI-specific challenges in browser automation, the role of multimodality, and the importance of authentication. The conversation also covers Browserbase's open-source framework, Stagehand, and the future of computer-using agents.
Aarush Selvan and Mukund Sridhar from Google Gemini discuss Deep Research, an agent that automates web research and generates in-depth reports. They cover the product's inspiration, implementation challenges, fine-tuning needs, evaluation methods, and diverse use cases, emphasizing the importance of transparency and control for users. The discussion also explores the balance between speed and thoroughness, future directions, and insights from other AI products.
Bundle tickets for AIE Summit NYC have now sold out. You can now sign up for the livestream — where we will be making a big announcement soon. NYC-based readers and Summit attendees should check out the meetups happening around the Summit . 2024 was a very challenging year for AI Hardware. After the buzz of CES last January, 2024 was marked by the meteoric rise and even harder fall of AI Wearables companies like Rabbit and Humane, with an assist from a pre-wallpaper-app MKBHD. Even Friend.com , ...
If you’re in SF, join us tomorrow for a fun meetup at CodeGen Night ! If you’re in NYC, join us for AI Engineer Summit ! The Agent Engineering track is now sold out, but 25 tickets remain for AI Leadership and 5 tickets for the workshops . You can see the full schedule of speakers and workshops at https://ai.engineer ! It’s exceedingly hard to introduce someone like Bret Taylor . We could recite his Wikipedia page, or his extensive work history through Silicon Valley’s greatest companies, but ev...
Did you know that adding a simple Code Interpreter took o3 from 9.2% to 32% on FrontierMath ? The Latent Space crew is hosting a hack night Feb 11th in San Francisco focused on CodeGen use cases, co-hosted with E2B and Edge AGI ; watch E2B’s new workshop and RSVP here! We’re happy to announce that today’s guest Samuel Colvin will be teaching his very first Pydantic AI workshop at the newly announced AI Engineer NYC Workshops day on Feb 22! 25 tickets left . If you’re a Python developer, it’s ver...
Sponsorships and tickets for the AI Engineer Summit are selling fast ! See the new website with speakers and schedules live! If you are building AI agents or leading teams of AI Engineers , this will be the single highest-signal conference of the year for you, this Feb 20-22nd in NYC. We’re pleased to share that Karina will be presenting OpenAI’s closing keynote at the AI Engineer Summit. We were fortunate to get some time with her today to introduce some of her work, and hope this serves as nic...
One last Gold sponsor slot is available for the AI Engineer Summit in NYC . Our last round of invites is going out soon - apply here - If you are building AI agents or AI eng teams , this will be the single highest-signal conference of the year for you! While the world melts down over DeepSeek , few are talking about the OTHER notable group of former hedge fund traders who pivoted into AI and built a remarkably profitable consumer AI business with a tiny team with incredibly cracked engineering ...
Sponsorships and applications for the AI Engineer Summit in NYC are live ! (Speaker CFPs have closed ) If you are building AI agents or leading teams of AI Engineers , this will be the single highest-signal conference of the year for you. Right after Christmas, the Chinese Whale Bros ended 2024 by dropping the last big model launch of the year: DeepSeek v3 . Right now on LM Arena, DeepSeek v3 has a score of 1319, right under the full o1 model, Gemini 2, and 4o latest. This makes it the best open...
Due to overwhelming demand (>15x applications:slots), we are closing CFPs for AI Engineer Summit NYC today. Last call! Thanks, we’ll be reaching out to all shortly! The world’s top AI blogger and friend of every pod, Simon Willison, dropped a monster 2024 recap: Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 . Brian of the excellent TechMeme Ride Home pinged us for a connection and a special crossover episode, our first in 2025. The target audience for this podcast is a tech-literate, but non-technical on...
Applications close Monday for the NYC AI Engineer Summit focusing on AI Leadership and Agent Engineering! If you applied, invites should be rolling out shortly. The search landscape is experiencing a fundamental shift. Google built a >$2T company with the “10 blue links” experience, driven by PageRank as the core innovation for ranking. This was a big improvement from the previous directory-based experiences of AltaVista and Yahoo. Almost 4 decades later, Google is now stuck in this links-based ...
Applications for the NYC AI Engineer Summit, focused on Agents at Work , are open ! When we first started Latent Space, in the lightning round we’d always ask guests: “What’s your favorite AI product?”. The majority would say Midjourney. The simple UI of prompt → very aesthetic image turned it into a $300M+ ARR bootstrapped business as it rode the first wave of AI image generation. In open source land, StableDiffusion was congregating around AUTOMATIC1111 as the de-facto web UI. Unlike Midjourne...
Applications for the 2025 AI Engineer Summit are up, and you can save the date for AIE Singapore in April and AIE World’s Fair 2025 in June . Happy new year, and thanks for 100 great episodes! Please let us know what you want to see/hear for the next 100! Full YouTube Episode with Slides/Charts Like and subscribe and hit that bell to get notifs! Timestamps * 00:00 Welcome to the 100th Episode! * 00:19 Reflecting on the Journey * 00:47 AI Engineering: The Rise and Impact * 03:15 Latent Space Live...
Happy holidays! We’ll be sharing snippets from Latent Space LIVE! through the break bringing you the best of 2024! We want to express our deepest appreciation to event sponsors AWS , Daylight Computer , Thoth.ai , StrongCompute , Notable Capital , and most of all all our LS supporters who helped fund the gorgeous venue and A/V production! For NeurIPS last year we did our standard conference podcast coverage interviewing selected papers (that we have now also done for ICLR and ICML ), however we ...
Happy holidays! We’ll be sharing snippets from Latent Space LIVE! through the break bringing you the best of 2024! We want to express our deepest appreciation to event sponsors AWS , Daylight Computer , Thoth.ai , StrongCompute , Notable Capital , and most of all all our LS supporters who helped fund the gorgeous venue and A/V production! For NeurIPS last year we did our standard conference podcast coverage interviewing selected papers (that we have now also done for ICLR and ICML ), however we ...
Happy holidays! We’ll be sharing snippets from Latent Space LIVE! through the break bringing you the best of 2024! We want to express our deepest appreciation to event sponsors AWS , Daylight Computer , Thoth.ai , StrongCompute , Notable Capital , and most of all all our LS supporters who helped fund the gorgeous venue and A/V production! Update: see followup discussion on HN and also the YouTube discussion . For NeurIPS last year we did our standard conference podcast coverage interviewing sele...
Happy holidays! We’ll be sharing snippets from Latent Space LIVE! through the break bringing you the best of 2024! We want to express our deepest appreciation to event sponsors AWS , Daylight Computer , Thoth.ai , StrongCompute , Notable Capital , and most of all our LS supporters who helped fund the venue and A/V production! For NeurIPS last year we did our standard conference podcast coverage interviewing selected papers (that we have now also done for ICLR and ICML ), however we felt that we ...
Happy holidays! We’ll be sharing snippets from Latent Space LIVE! through the break bringing you the best of 2024! We want to express our deepest appreciation to event sponsors AWS , Daylight Computer , Thoth.ai , StrongCompute , Notable Capital , and most of all all our LS supporters who helped fund the gorgeous venue and A/V production! For NeurIPS last year we did our standard conference podcast coverage interviewing selected papers (that we have now also done for ICLR and ICML ), however we ...
Happy holidays! We’ll be sharing snippets from Latent Space LIVE! through the break bringing you the best of 2024 from friends of the pod! For NeurIPS last year we did our standard conference podcast coverage interviewing selected papers (that we have now also done for ICLR and ICML ), however we felt that we could be doing more to help AI Engineers 1) get more industry-relevant content, and 2) recap 2024 year in review from experts. As a result, we organized the first Latent Space LIVE!, our fi...
Our second podcast guest ever in March 2023 was Varun Mohan, CEO of Codeium; at the time, they had around 10,000 users and how they vowed to keep their autocomplete free forever: Today, over a million developers use their products, they still have their free tier, and they recently launched Windsurf , an AI IDE. Chapters * 00:00:00: Introductions & Catchup * 00:03:52: Why they created Windsurf * 00:05:52: Limitations of VS Code * 00:10:12: Evaluation methods for Cascade and Windsurf * 00:16:15: ...
Regular tickets are now sold out for Latent Space LIVE! at NeurIPS ! We have just announced our last speaker and newest track, friend of the pod Nathan Lambert who will be recapping 2024 in Reasoning Models like o1 ! We opened up a handful of late bird tickets for those who are deciding now — use code DISCORDGANG if you need it. See you in Vancouver! We’ve been sitting on our ICML recordings for a while (from today’s first-ever SOLO guest cohost, Brittany Walker ), and in light of Sora Turbo’s l...
The full schedule for Latent Space LIVE! at NeurIPS has been announced, featuring Best of 2024 overview talks for the AI Startup Landscape, Computer Vision, Open Models, Transformers Killers, Synthetic Data, Agents, and Scaling, and speakers from Sarah Guo of Conviction, Roboflow, AI2/Meta, Recursal/Together, HuggingFace, OpenHands and SemiAnalysis. Join us for the IRL event/Livestream ! Alessio will also be holding a meetup at AWS Re:Invent in Las Vegas this Wednesday. See our new Events page f...
