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Brex’s AI Hail Mary — With CTO James Reggio (acquired for $5B by Capital One!)
- ▶ 9:56 Alessio Fanelli How, at Decibel, we have this, like, AI center of excellence, which are basically the people running these teams across companies.
⚡️ Beyond Transformers with Power Retention
- ▶ 0:14 unnamed speaker You know, we, at Decibel, we invested in Manifest right at the start.
Long Live Context Engineering - with Jeff Huber of Chroma
- ▶ 0:08 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by Swix, founder of Small.ai.
⚡️Accelerators @ 3x NVIDIA H200 perf, Made in the USA - Thomas Sohmers + Mitesh Agrawal, Positron AI
- ▶ 0:06 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by Swix, founder of Small AI.
The AI Agenda: GPT5 leaks and the business of AI News — Steph Palazzolo, The Information
- ▶ 0:06 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by Squix, founder of Small AI.
⚡️OpenCode: Claude Code but Open Source, with Any Model, and frontier TUI - with Dax Reed (@thdxr)
- ▶ 0:06 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by Squix, founder of Small AI.
⚡️Mercury: Ultra-Fast Diffusion LLMs — Estefano Ermon, CEO Inception Labs
- ▶ 0:07 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by Squix, founder of Small AI.
⚡️Composio: 10,000+ tools that evolve for Agents — Karan Vaidya and Soham Ganatra
- ▶ 0:06 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by Swix, founder of Small AI.
The RLVR Revolution — with Nathan Lambert (AI2, Interconnects.ai)
- ▶ 0:07 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by Swix, founder of Small AI.
⚡️Using RFT to Build Clinical Superintelligence
- ▶ 0:07 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by my co-host Wix, founder of Small AI.
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- ▶ 2:21 Alessio Fanelli This is Alasio, partner and CTO in Residence and Decibel Partners.
- ▶ 1:37:24 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host, Swix, founder of SmallAI.
- ▶ 3:34:31 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by SWIX, founder of Small.ai.
⚡️Math Olympiad gold medalist explains OpenAI and Google DeepMind IMO Gold Performances
- ▶ 0:06 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by Swix, founder of Small AI.
AI is Eating Search
- ▶ 0:07 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CEO at Decibel, and I'm joined by Swix, founder of Small.ai. 2 times in the scene
⚡️The Future of Notebooks - with Akshay Agrawal of Marimo
- ▶ 0:06 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel.
Cline: The Collaborative AI Coder
- ▶ 0:08 Alessio Fanelli This is Celestio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by my co-host, Wix, founder of SmallAI.
⚡️Ranking Agentic LLMs — Pratik Bhavsar, Galileo
- ▶ 0:06 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by my co-host, Wix, founder of SmallAI.
Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak
- ▶ 0:08 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by my co-host Wix, founder of Small AI.
AI Video Is Eating The World — Olivia and Justine Moore, a16z
- ▶ 0:07 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by my co-host Wix, founder of Small.ai.
⚡️Warp 2.0: the Agentic Development Environment - Zach Lloyd and Ben Holmes
- ▶ 0:06 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by Squix, founder of Small.ai.
Scaling Test Time Compute to Multi-Agent Civilizations — Noam Brown, OpenAI
- ▶ 0:08 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by my co-host Spooks, founder of SmallAI.
The Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular)
- ▶ 0:08 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by my co-host this week, founder of Small.ai.
Quadratic: The AI Spreadsheet
- ▶ 0:06 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by my co-host this week's founder of Small.ai.
The AI Coding Factory
- ▶ 0:07 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by my co-host, Wix, founder of SmallAI.
⚡️Factorio Learning Environment: the ultimate Game Agent Eval — Jack Hopkins
- ▶ 0:06 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel and Swix is running late.
Why Every Agent needs Open Source Cloud Sandboxes
- ▶ 0:07 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by my co-host Swix, founder of Small AI.
GPT 4.1: The New OpenAI Workhorse
- ▶ 0:10 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by my co-host, Swix, founder of Small.ai.
The Creators of Model Context Protocol
- ▶ 0:05 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by my co-host Swix, founder of Small AI.
The #1 SWE-Bench Verified Agent
- ▶ 0:06 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host, Swix, founder of Smalley.
The Agent Network — Dharmesh Shah, Agent.ai + CTO of HubSpot
- ▶ 0:08 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host, Wix, founder of Small.ai.
The Magic of LLM Distillation — Rishabh Agarwal, Google DeepMind
- ▶ 0:05 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by my co-host, Wix, founder Osmalai.
Fullstack-Bench: The Eval for Coding Agents — with Sujay Jayakar, Chief Scientist, Convex
- ▶ 0:06 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by my co-host this week's founder, Osmal AI.
[Lightning Pod] Evals: How to Improve AI Consistently — with Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar
- ▶ 0:07 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and TTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by my co-host SWIX, founder Osmal AI.
The new OpenAI Agents Platform: CUA, Web Search, Responses API, Agents SDK!!
- ▶ 0:07 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by Spix, founder Osmal.ai.
Browserbase: Browser Infrastructure For Your AI Agents
- ▶ 0:07 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host Swix, founder of Small.ai.
Gemini 2.0 Flash and Flash Thinking: the new SOTA models for the agentic era
- ▶ 0:06 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by Swix, founder of Small.ai.
Raycast: Your AI Automation Assistant
- ▶ 0:06 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by Swix, founder of Small.ai.
S1: the $6 DeepSeek R1 Competitor (ft. Entropix)
- ▶ 0:06 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by Swix, founder of Small.ai.
Why is everyone cloning Deep Research?
- ▶ 0:08 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host, Swix, founder of Small AI.
Bee AI: The Wearable Ambient Agent
- ▶ 0:07 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host this week's founder, Osmali.
smol agents are all you need
- ▶ 0:05 unnamed speaker Uh, I'm Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by Marcos Swix, founder of Small AI.
The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
- ▶ 0:06 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host Swix, founder of SmallAI.
Agent Engineering with Pydantic + Graphs — with Samuel Colvin, CEO of Pydantic Logfire
- ▶ 0:06 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host, Swix, founder of Small.ai.
The Agent Reasoning Interface: Claude, ChatGPT Canvas, Tasks, Operator — with Karina Nguyen, OpenAI
- ▶ 0:07 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and I'm joined by my usual co-host, Swix.
Beating OpenAI and Anthropic by Looking At Data: the new #1 on SWE-Bench w/ W&B CTO Shawn Lewis
- ▶ 0:03 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host, Swix, founder of SmallAI.
Outlasting Noam Shazeer, Crowdsourcing Chai AI w/ 1.4m DAU — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research
- ▶ 0:08 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and today we're in the Chai AI office with my usual co-host, Swix.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasoning Distillation: using DeepSeek R1 to beat OpenAI o1
- ▶ 0:03 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel, and enjoy my Wix, founder of Small AI.
DeepSeek V3, SGLang, and the state of Open Model Inference in 2025 (Quantization, MoEs, Pricing)
- ▶ 0:10 unnamed speaker I'm Alessio, partner and CTO with Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host, Squix, founder of Small.ai.
OpenAI o1 isn’t a chat model (and that’s the point)
- ▶ 0:04 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel Partners.
Beating Google at Search with Neural PageRank and $5M of H200s — with Will Bryk of Exa.ai
- ▶ 0:07 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO in residence at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by co-host Swix, founder of SmallAI.
AI Engineering for Art - with comfyanonymous
- ▶ 0:07 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host, Swix, founder of Small.ai.
2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
- ▶ 0:06 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host Zwickz for the 100th time today.
Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE
- ▶ 0:07 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host, Swix, founder of SmallAI.
0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
- ▶ 0:07 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host, Swix, founder of Small AI.
- ▶ 55:46 Shawn Wang We're going to try to get Mark on the podcast, and Decibel is good friends with Salesforce.
The new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Computer Use, and Building SOTA Agents — with Erik Schluntz, Anthropic
- ▶ 0:06 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel Partners, and today we're in the new studio with my usual co-host, Sean from SmallAI.
Why Compound AI + Open Source will beat Closed AI — with Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks AI
- ▶ 0:06 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host, SWIX, founder of Smalley Eye.
Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
Agents @ Work: Dust.tt — with Stanislas Polu
- ▶ 0:06 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host of Swix, founder of Small AI.
In the Arena: How LMSys changed LLM Benchmarking Forever
- ▶ 0:07 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner in CTO and residence at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host of SWIX, founder of Small.ai.
How NotebookLM Was Made
- ▶ 0:55 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO of Residence at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host Swix, founder of Small AI.
Singapore: the AI Engineer Nation — with Minister Josephine Teo
- ▶ 0:07 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner, NCTO, and resident at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-hostess Wix, founder of Small AI.
Building the Silicon Brain - Drew Houston of Dropbox
- ▶ 0:07 Alessio Fanelli This is Salasio, partner and CTO at Decibel Partners, and there's no switch today, but I'm joined by Drew Hauston of Dropbox.
Language Agents: From Reasoning to Acting — with Shunyu Yao of OpenAI, Harrison Chase of LangGraph
- ▶ 0:06 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO in residence at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host Swix, founder of SmallAI.
The Ultimate Guide to Prompting - with Sander Schulhoff from LearnPrompting.org
- ▶ 0:07 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO in residence at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host Swix, founder of SmallAI.
- ▶ 49:21 Alessio Fanelli We do a lot of cybersecurity at Decibel.
Building AGI with OpenAI's Structured Outputs API
- ▶ 0:07 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO on Residence and Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host of Swix, founder of SmallAI.
Personal benchmarks vs HumanEval - with Nicholas Carlini of DeepMind
- ▶ 0:07 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO in residence at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host Swix, founder of SmallAI.
Is finetuning GPT4o worth it?
- ▶ 0:07 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO in residence at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host, Swix, founder of Small.ai.
Answer.ai & AI Magic with Jeremy Howard
- ▶ 0:03 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO in Residence and Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host, Swix, founder of SmallAI.
The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars of the AI Stack Recap)
- ▶ 0:07 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner, and CTO on Residence and Decibel Partners, and today we're in the Singapore studio with Swix.
Training Llama 2, 3 & 4: The Path to Open Source AGI — with Thomas Scialom of Meta AI
- ▶ 0:07 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO and residents at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host Wix, founder of Small.ai.
How AI is Eating Finance - with Mike Conover of Brightwave
How to train a Million Context LLM — with Mark Huang of Gradient.ai
- ▶ 0:04 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO on Residence and Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host, Swix, founder of Small.ai.
High Agency Pydantic over VC Backed Frameworks — with Jason Liu of Instructor
- ▶ 0:03 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO in residence at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host Swix, founder of Small AI.
Supervise the Process of AI Research — with Jungwon Byun and Andreas Stuhlmüller of Elicit
- ▶ 0:03 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO of Residence and Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host, Swix, founder of SmallAI.
Why Google failed to make GPT-3 -- with David Luan of Adept
- ▶ 0:34 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO in residence at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host of Swix, founder of Small.ai.
Making Transformers Sing - with Mikey Shulman of Suno
- ▶ 0:04 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO in Residence and residents at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host Swix, founder of Small.ai.
Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI
- ▶ 0:03 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO-in-residence at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host, Swix, founder of Small.ai.
A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
- ▶ 0:03 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO of Residence at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host Swix, founder of SmallAI.
Truly Serverless Infra for AI Engineers - with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal
- ▶ 0:03 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner in CTO and residence at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host, Swix, founder of SmallAI.
Building an open AI company - with Ce and Vipul of Together AI
- ▶ 0:03 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO resident at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host, Swix, founder of SmallAI.
The State of AI in production — with David Hsu of Retool
- ▶ 0:03 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO in residence at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host, Swix, founder of Small.ai.
The Four Wars of the AI Stack - Dec 2023 Recap
- ▶ 0:04 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO and resident at Decibel Partners, and today I'm joined just by my co-host, Swix, for a new podcast format.
The Origin and Future of RLHF: the secret ingredient for ChatGPT - with Nathan Lambert
- ▶ 0:03 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO of Residence and Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host, Swix, founder of Small AI.
The AI-First Graphics Editor - with Suhail Doshi of Playground AI
- ▶ 0:04 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO and resident at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host this week's founder of SmallAI.
The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph
- ▶ 0:04 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO in residence at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host, Swix, founder of Small.ai.
The State of Silicon and the GPU Poors - with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis
- ▶ 0:09 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO of Residence at Decibel Partners.
Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models - with Michael Royzen of Phind
- ▶ 0:10 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CEO of Residence and Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host Swix, founder of SmallAI.
Powering your Copilot for Data - with Artem Keydunov from Cube.dev
- ▶ 0:10 unnamed speaker This is Swix, writer and editor of Latent Space and founder of Small AI, and Alessio, partner and CTO in residence at Decibel Partners.
Why AI Agents Don't Work (yet) - with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue
- ▶ 0:10 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO in residence at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host, Swix, founder of Small.ai.
The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai
- ▶ 0:14 unnamed speaker This is Alessio, partner and CTO-in-Residence at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host, Swix, founder of Small.ai.
RAG is a hack - with Jerry Liu of LlamaIndex
- ▶ 0:10 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, partner and CTO on Residence and Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host, Swix, founder of SmallAI.
Ep 18: Petaflops to the People — with George Hotz of tinycorp
- ▶ 0:10 Shawn Wang Alessio's partner and CTO in residence at Decibel Partners.