CERN, every mention
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the a16z Podcast 4
20VC 3
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Latent Space 3
TBPN 3
Another Podcast 2
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every year every show the a16z Podcast 4 the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 3 Latent Space 3 TBPN 3 20VC 3 Another Podcast 2 
Acquired 1 the Knowledge Project 1 
the Neon Show 1 Top Founders 1 
the MAD Podcast 1 
All-In 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where CERN comes up on the a16z Podcast, the Y Combinator Startup Podcast, Latent Space, TBPN, 20VC
We Built Our Own Salesforce in Months. Here's Why We're Cancelling the $600K Contract | Curative CEO
- ▶ 1:17:32 Fred Turner It was really pushed by a guy, Carlo Rubio, who used to be the CERN director.
Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable CEO on the Real Promise of Vibe Coding
- ▶ 45:55 Anton Osika And I, I have a story where for a while I worked at a place called CERN where they do particle physics.
GPT-5.6 Reactions, Phoebe Gates’ Phia Drama, Hollywood Chases Internet Horror | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:17 Jordi Hays Kanner in the chat says CERN has only been off for a week and John is dressing casual.
The “Messy State” of AI & How to Fix It | Ameya, Braintrust CTO
- ▶ 34:56 Siddhartha Ahluwalia If you've seen older movies like Angel and Demons, like all those CERN labs had Latina recognition.
🔬How GPT‑5 derived new results in theoretical physics and quantum gravity — Alex Lupsasca, OpenAI
- ▶ 9:26 Alex Lupsasca This is what happens in particle colliders like the LHC at CERN in Geneva.
Kling AI reaches 12M MAU, China's aging tech worker crisis, drama at ThinkingMachine | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 20:04 John Coogan Two minutes later, he was talking about a CERN-like collaboration for AI once the labs are close to AGI.
The Risk of Losing the Moon to China | Delian Asparouhov on TBPN
- ▶ 5:29 Delian Asparouhov This is like, I think like CERN, um, you know, think about like Spark down at Stanford, right?
Rolex (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:02:22 David Rosenthal It was designed in association with the engineers at CERN in Switzerland, the particle accelerator, for scientists who are working
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 42:23 Marc Andreessen And then, and then this guy, Tim Berners-Lee in, in, in, in Switzerland, uh, English guy working at, at, at CERN in Switzerland, had this kind of really at the time radical idea, which was to take a, an old idea called hypertext and, and… 3 times in the scene
Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI
- ▶ 31:21 Soumith Chintala Um, if, if you're, if, like, if, I think the scariest was when I went to, uh, visit CERN at some point, and they said they were using it, PyTorch, and they were using GANs at the same time for, like, particle physics research, and I was…
A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
- ▶ 9:44 Ben Firshman You know, like, the, the, the, the web was invented at CERN, a physics institution, to share academic writing.
The right questions to ask about TikTok
- ▶ 14:16 Benedict Evans Um, and, you know, although the web was invented at CERN, you know, the consumer internet has always basically come, been driven out of the U S and in particular, you know, the tech industry has evolved, sort of evolved over time to be…
Fireside Chat: Richard Craib (Founder & CEO, Numerai) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 10:05 Richard Craib NASA, and it's, it's crazy that this is like real, um, and there are actually others, another guy at CERN, uh, who's really amazing, uh, one of the top users, um, but yeah,
How do you destroy a tech monopoly?
- ▶ 33:46 Benedict Evans I can never remember whether CERN is in France or Switzerland.
Leonard Susskind on Richard Feynman, the Holographic Principle, and Unanswered Questions in Physics · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:35 Leonard Susskind We seem to have run out of new experimental data, even though there was a big experimental project, uh, the LHC at CERN.
Fermat's Library Cofounders João Batalha and Luís Batalha · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:11:27 Luís Batalha Yeah, I remember even, like, researchers in my, other researchers in my research group, sometimes they would have to go through CERN, uh, to, to, to, to get through CERN, uh, to, to get access to these papers.
John Preskill on Quantum Computing · Y Combinator
- ▶ 49:56 John Preskill That's what we're doing at CERN, you know, in the Large Hadron Collider, trying to, um, discern new properties of matter
#25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us
- ▶ 1:39:40 Gary Taubes But that's, and when I did my first book, so I lived at CERN for 10 months back in, in 1984, 85, and I was embedded with these physicists who discovered non-existent
20VC: Why YC Is The Exact Opposite of Proprietary Deal Flow, Why Having No Follow On Dramatically Aligns Incentives & Why Founders Do Not Have To Be Passionate About Their Idea From The Start with Michael Ma, Founding Partner @ Liquid 2 Ventures
- ▶ 6:58 Michael Ma So we have a PhD in physicist who worked at CERN, started one of the first databases of service companies.
722: This Machine Learning Agency did $800k Last Year
- ▶ 2:10 Michael Segala So back when we were doing our PhDs, and we can kind of get into this, uh, we were, do you know what the LHC is, CERN, the Large Hadron Collider?
Quantum Computing: A Primer
- ▶ 4:45 Frank Chen This is the Large Hadron Collider operated by CERN just outside of Geneva, Switzerland.
20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare
- ▶ 7:05 Keith Teare There was, uh, and the, uh, and the, uh, the CERN browser as well.