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5 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Aug 31, 2023 by Eugene Cheah · said 43 times in 12 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Eugene Cheah (5), Shawn Wang (4), Varun Mohan (2), Quentin Anthony (1), Ce Zhang (1)
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 16 mentions in 3 episodes 5 per episode
- How Zyphra went all-in on AMD + Why Devs feel faster with AI but are slower — with Quentin Anthony
- 🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- The Agent Reasoning Interface: Claude, ChatGPT Canvas, Tasks, Operator — with Karina Nguyen, OpenAI
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2024 9 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
- The Four Wars of the AI Stack - Dec 2023 Recap
- 2024 in Post-Transformer Architectures: State Space Models, RWKV [Latent Space LIVE! @ NeurIPS 2024]
- Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI
- Building an open AI company - with Ce and Vipul of Together AI
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Aug 31, 2023 neutral
Bo Peng Created RWKV on EleutherAI Forum to Parallelize RNNs
“Blink, or Bopeng is the actual name decided basically as an individual, literally at the illiterate AI forum, decided that, hey I think we can modify recurrent neural networks, no, neural networks, based on the Apple paper, the light attention that I showed pr…”
Aug 31, 2023 positive
GPT-NeoX Documentation Became Reference Notes for Subsequent Open-Source LLMs
“GPT Neo X was that it was one of the major models that had everything fully documented and they like, why they make this change in the architecture and so on and so forth. And that became like Basically reference notes for all other subsequent open source mode…”
Aug 31, 2023 positive
Jul 28, 2025 neutral
Mohan: Codeium scraped public code because The Pile was too small
“We ended up basically using a lot of open, I guess, permissively licensed code in the public internet, mainly because I think also the pile is, is fairly a small subset. I think maybe after we started, there was the stock that was also came to be, but for us, …”
Nov 3, 2025 negative
Small, funded teams are more effective than broad open-source AI consortiums
“Maybe it sounds wrong, but I feel like banding together is not necessarily good by default. There's a lot of different incentives. There's so much noise that no one knows where to focus. I prefer, if anything, I would prefer siloed focused teams who have fundi…”