NeurIPS
3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 1, 2025 by Shawn Wang · said 112 times in 52 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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2026 21 mentions in 12 episodes 2 per episode
- Mistral: Voxtral TTS, Forge, Leanstral, & Mistral 4 — w/ Pavan Kumar Reddy & Guillaume Lample
- 🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences
- Why AI Labs With Unlimited GPUs Still Fail — Anjney Midha, AMP
- AI-Native Engineering: 100% adoption, 5x search throughput, unlimited tokens — Mikhail Parakhin
- Agent Inference at the "Speed of Light" — How NVIDIA moves like a $4.3 Trillion Startup
- Claude Code for Finance + The Global Memory Shortage: Doug O'Laughlin, SemiAnalysis
- Goodfire AI’s Bet: Interpretability as the Next Frontier of Model Design — Myra Deng & Mark Bissell
- 🔬They Thought the Model Was Broken — Matt McPartlon & Neil Patil, Chai Discovery
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 68 mentions in 29 episodes 2 per episode
- 2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
- [State of Context Engineering] Agentic RAG, Context Rot, MCP, Subagents — Nina Lopatina, Contextual
- [State of Research Funding] Beyond NSF, Slingshots, Open Frontiers — Andy Konwinski, Laude Institute
- [State of RL/Reasoning] IMO/IOI Gold, OpenAI o3/GPT-5, and Cursor Composer — Ashvin Nair, Cursor
- [State of AI Papers 2025] Fixing Research with Social Signals, OCR & Implementation — Team AlphaXiv
- [State of Post-Training] From GPT-4.1 to 5.1: RLVR, Agent & Token Efficiency — Josh McGrath, OpenAI
- [State of MechInterp] SAEs in Production, Circuit Tracing, AI4Science, "Pragmatic" Interp — Goodfire
- ⚡ Inside Google Labs: Building The Gemini Coding Agent — Jed Borovik, Jules + AIE CODE Preview
- 21 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 21 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- The 10,000x Yolo Researcher Metagame — with Yi Tay of Reka
- The State of AI Startups in 2024 [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
- Best of 2024: Synthetic Data / Smol Models, Loubna Ben Allal, HuggingFace [LS Live! @ NeurIPS 2024]
- In the Arena: How LMSys changed LLM Benchmarking Forever
- The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars of the AI Stack Recap)
- The Four Wars of the AI Stack - Dec 2023 Recap
- The Ultimate Guide to Prompting - with Sander Schulhoff from LearnPrompting.org
- Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
Everything said about NeurIPS, oldest first
Jan 1, 2025 bearish
Jan 23, 2026 negative
Yi Tay: IR and RecSys research lags significantly behind NeurIPS and ICML
“Also the IR community and the retrieval community is also like always behind the mainstream. And then now it's just probably gotten even more worse because of ILM and stuff. So, okay, I'm getting into Hottick territory, but it's just, like, certain conferences…”