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40 statements across 10 episodes · 24 bullish · 3 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Jan 1, 2025 by Shawn Wang · said 143 times in 57 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Shawn Wang (21), Omar Sanseviero (10), Ronak Malde (5), Alessio Fanelli (5), Dr. Jasper Zhang (4), Anjney Midha (4), Yi Tay (3), Usama Shafqat (3)
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2026 57 mentions in 16 episodes 4 per episode
- Captaining IMO Gold, Deep Think, On-Policy RL, Feeling the AGI in Singapore — Yi Tay
- ⚡️Every product of the future will be a living system — Ronak Malde, Trajectory.ai
- ⚡️ Google's Open AI Strategy — Omar Sanseviero, Google DeepMind
- Why AI Labs With Unlimited GPUs Still Fail — Anjney Midha, AMP
- Measuring Exponential Trends Rising (in AI) — Joel Becker, METR
- Inside AI’s $10B+ Capital Flywheel — Martin Casado & Sarah Wang of a16z
- 🔬 The Limits of AI in Science - Why We Need Self-Driving Labs — Joseph Krause, Radical AI
- Scaling Past Informal AI - Carina Hong, Axiom Math
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 57 mentions in 24 episodes 2 per episode
- ⚡️Math Olympiad gold medalist explains OpenAI and Google DeepMind IMO Gold Performances
- 2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
- ⚡ Inside Google Labs: Building The Gemini Coding Agent — Jed Borovik, Jules + AIE CODE Preview
- Gemini 2.0 Flash and Flash Thinking: the new SOTA models for the agentic era
- World Models & General Intuition: Khosla's largest bet since LLMs & OpenAI
- [State of MechInterp] SAEs in Production, Circuit Tracing, AI4Science, "Pragmatic" Interp — Goodfire
- [State of Post-Training] From GPT-4.1 to 5.1: RLVR, Agent & Token Efficiency — Josh McGrath, OpenAI
- Better Data is All You Need — Ari Morcos, Datology
- 16 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 27 mentions in 16 episodes 2 per episode
- How NotebookLM Was Made
- Agents @ Work: Dust.tt — with Stanislas Polu
- The 10,000x Yolo Researcher Metagame — with Yi Tay of Reka
- Answer.ai & AI Magic with Jeremy Howard
- The Origin and Future of RLHF: the secret ingredient for ChatGPT - with Nathan Lambert
- In the Arena: How LMSys changed LLM Benchmarking Forever
- Singapore: the AI Engineer Nation — with Minister Josephine Teo
- Language Agents: From Reasoning to Acting — with Shunyu Yao of OpenAI, Harrison Chase of LangGraph
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 2 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Google DeepMind, oldest first
Jan 1, 2025 positive
Swyx: DeepMind has roughly a four-year advantage over OpenAI in world modeling
“So like they have maybe four years advantage on world modeling that OpenAI does not have. Cause OpenAI basically only started Diffusion Transformers last year when they hired Build Peebles. So DeepMind has a bit of advantage here.”
Feb 28, 2025 neutral
Noam Shazeer and Jack Rae co-lead Google DeepMind's reasoning effort
“Jack Ray. Yeah. He's been a long time deep mind research scientist, was previously a pre-training person. We actually overlapped at open AI together a little bit, and then is now back at deep mind with no co-leading the reasoning effort.”
Mar 23, 2025
Agarwal: Filtered 9B Synthetic Data Outperforms 27B Self-Generated Data
“One thing we found consistently, so here what we had two models, nine Gemma, nine B and Gemma, 27 B, and we found consistently that actually generating data from nine B in a compute match setting is always better, even better for distilling or actually improvi…”
Mar 23, 2025 positive
Agarwal: Distillation Drives Year-Over-Year AI Capability Cost Reductions
“The capability which we have right now, maybe next year will be much cheaper to have that same thing. And that likely is the result of distillation, right? Like that's, it's not just because we are doing or figured out something magical. It is because distilla…”
Jun 2, 2025 bullish
Jun 2, 2025 bullish
Jun 2, 2025 positive
Kilpatrick: Gemini's SOTA video performance resulted from reasoning, not video engineering
“With reasoning is a great example of this where like multimodal with video understanding ended up like having this huge, like it's having this beautiful moment.
The model is like soda out of the box because of all the reasoning capabilities that were baked in…”
Jun 2, 2025 positive
Jun 2, 2025 positive
Jun 2, 2025 positive
Kilpatrick: Google's strategy is building Gemini as one single unified model
“Like we're here to make one model and like that model is Gemini.
And like, I think you do need to just trust this point, like to make the capabilities work in some cases, like you do need to have these forks that like go off and make that capability and harde…”
Jun 2, 2025 positive
Mallick: Gemini Live API allows custom VAD tuning and third-party integration
“Now developers can actually tune the sensitivity on our voice activity detection model as well as, you know, how much of the prefix, like how much of a time duration at the beginning, at the start or stop of saying things. And we also have a mode where now you…”
Jun 2, 2025 positive
Jul 24, 2025 positive
DeepMind and OpenAI eliminated formal Lean translation for 2025 IMO solutions
“What surprised me is this time they don't use formal language, but instead they just use LM. And so last year when they tried to do the IMO, they need like a like a human to kind of translate the natural language. Problems to Lean, and then they use Lean to ki…”
Jan 23, 2026 neutral
Yi Tay: Today's Models Likely Couldn't Invent the Transformer from Pre-2015 Data
“Even today's models, they might not even be able to invent the transformer. Like, if you freeze the time at a certain time, and even you bring the time, I mean, the model is a transformer, so I just say there's no, assuming there's no leakage.”
Jan 23, 2026 positive
Jan 23, 2026 neutral
DeepMind Shipped Full Gemini IMO Config Only to Select Mathematicians
“So the inference time config was like the one serve to most people is different, but And the full IMO, like, inference config was presented, like, shipped to some mathematicians just because of the inference cost, right? But that was good enough to be a genera…”
Jan 23, 2026 neutral
Jan 23, 2026 neutral
DeepMind Singapore Explicitly Adds AGI to Job Postings
“I think that, like, one reason why we work on these models is that we want to get to AGI, and, like, this was a right thing that we added AGI to the job posting, yeah. There is no, like, formal name of the team yet, but it's basically the Gemini theme Singapor…”
Jan 23, 2026 positive
Yi Tay: On-policy RL is more generalizable than imitation fine-tuning
“So I think on policyness is basically this idea of like model training on its own outputs and letting the model like generate its own trajectories and then letting some reward verify it and then the model train its own outputs. I think this is more generalizab…”
Jan 23, 2026 positive
Yi Tay: Independent research taste is a stronger hiring signal than execution
“If somebody comes up with something and then does something that you feel that is very tasteful and it aligns with what Like researchers in the labs, like one, and they come up with that independently, you know that the function that is good, right? Like if yo…”
Jan 23, 2026 bullish
Tay: Most specialized tools will be subsumed directly into model parameters
“Then the most I can see in the future is there'll be a model then that, that is, there's something that really cannot be subsumed by a model. Then you just use a tool or something, right? But my prediction is that I think most things can be subsumed by the mod…”
Jan 23, 2026 neutral
Jan 23, 2026 positive
Yi Tay: AI progress is driven by compounding small incremental changes
“I think that it's true that sometimes a lot of progress on the whole is just a series of small incremental changes that, yeah, that push. I think that's accurate. That's true. There's also, it also feels that there's also a lot of like small, like seemingly mi…”
Jan 23, 2026 bullish
Jan 23, 2026 neutral
Jan 23, 2026
Yi Tay: I had almost no RL background before returning to DeepMind
“I spent a lot of my past life, I call it the past art, working on like architectures and pre-training, but I think now I more, I have like transitioned more into RL. I'm not like old school RL, but the games RL and the old school RL, and to be honest, I had al…”
Jan 23, 2026 positive
DeepMind Singapore is keeping its Gemini RL team small to maximize compute per capita
“We're hiring, like, my team will work on like RL and reasoning for Gemini and Gemini deep thing. I think we care more about like talent density now. So we're not like also like growing that big, this small team first, just because compute per capita is probabl…”
May 24, 2026 bullish
May 24, 2026
Sanseviero: DeepMind is building agentic tools for research ablations and evaluations
“So for example, within the team, we are building skills to do experiments and ablations and evaluations and how the research team can use all of these agentic tools as part of their research process is also quite interesting.”
May 24, 2026 bearish
May 24, 2026 bullish
Sanseviero: Next generation of AI fine-tuners will not write code
“I do think the next generation of fine tuners will not be, I mean, will be people that are not coding at all, right? Like one year ago, we had to write like our own Colab with Transformers or Oncelot or whichever library of your choice. I do think as we like k…”
May 24, 2026 positive
May 24, 2026 positive
Sanseviero: Many Gemma 4 Launch Partners Skipped Fine-Tuning Due to Base Performance
“For Gemma four, we had 50 To 60 partners. And some of them were like, oh yeah, we're going to try and fine tune the 27 B model for this vision task. And they were like, oh, actually the model works too well out of the box. We don't need to fine tune it. Yeah. …”
May 24, 2026 bullish
May 24, 2026 neutral
May 24, 2026 bearish
May 24, 2026 neutral
Sanseviero: Gemma 4 cannot yet process video and audio simultaneously
“The other thing we do not support yet is video with audio, so we can understand, like, video input or audio input separately, but if you want to pass, like, in the same, from both the visual part and the audio part, we still need to do some improvements around…”
Jun 3, 2026 negative
Jun 17, 2026 positive