Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

Sponsorships and tickets for the AI Engineer Summit are selling fast ! See the new website with speakers and schedules live! If you are building AI agents or leading teams of AI Engineers , this will be the single highest-signal conference of the year for you, this Feb 20-22nd in NYC. We’re pleased to share that Karina will be presenting OpenAI’s closing keynote at the AI Engineer Summit. We were...

One last Gold sponsor slot is available for the AI Engineer Summit in NYC . Our last round of invites is going out soon - apply here - If you are building AI agents or AI eng teams , this will be the single highest-signal conference of the year for you! While the world melts down over DeepSeek , few are talking about the OTHER notable group of former hedge fund traders who pivoted into AI and buil...

Sponsorships and applications for the AI Engineer Summit in NYC are live ! (Speaker CFPs have closed ) If you are building AI agents or leading teams of AI Engineers , this will be the single highest-signal conference of the year for you. Right after Christmas, the Chinese Whale Bros ended 2024 by dropping the last big model launch of the year: DeepSeek v3 . Right now on LM Arena, DeepSeek v3 has...

Due to overwhelming demand (>15x applications:slots), we are closing CFPs for AI Engineer Summit NYC today. Last call! Thanks, we’ll be reaching out to all shortly! The world’s top AI blogger and friend of every pod, Simon Willison, dropped a monster 2024 recap: Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 . Brian of the excellent TechMeme Ride Home pinged us for a connection and a special crossover episo...

Applications close Monday for the NYC AI Engineer Summit focusing on AI Leadership and Agent Engineering! If you applied, invites should be rolling out shortly. The search landscape is experiencing a fundamental shift. Google built a >$2T company with the “10 blue links” experience, driven by PageRank as the core innovation for ranking. This was a big improvement from the previous directory-based...

Applications for the NYC AI Engineer Summit, focused on Agents at Work , are open ! When we first started Latent Space, in the lightning round we’d always ask guests: “What’s your favorite AI product?”. The majority would say Midjourney. The simple UI of prompt → very aesthetic image turned it into a $300M+ ARR bootstrapped business as it rode the first wave of AI image generation. In open source...

Applications for the 2025 AI Engineer Summit are up, and you can save the date for AIE Singapore in April and AIE World’s Fair 2025 in June . Happy new year, and thanks for 100 great episodes! Please let us know what you want to see/hear for the next 100! Full YouTube Episode with Slides/Charts Like and subscribe and hit that bell to get notifs! Timestamps * 00:00 Welcome to the 100th Episode! * 0...

Happy holidays! We’ll be sharing snippets from Latent Space LIVE! through the break bringing you the best of 2024! We want to express our deepest appreciation to event sponsors AWS , Daylight Computer , Thoth.ai , StrongCompute , Notable Capital , and most of all all our LS supporters who helped fund the gorgeous venue and A/V production! For NeurIPS last year we did our standard conference podcas...

Happy holidays! We’ll be sharing snippets from Latent Space LIVE! through the break bringing you the best of 2024! We want to express our deepest appreciation to event sponsors AWS , Daylight Computer , Thoth.ai , StrongCompute , Notable Capital , and most of all all our LS supporters who helped fund the gorgeous venue and A/V production! For NeurIPS last year we did our standard conference podcas...

Happy holidays! We’ll be sharing snippets from Latent Space LIVE! through the break bringing you the best of 2024! We want to express our deepest appreciation to event sponsors AWS , Daylight Computer , Thoth.ai , StrongCompute , Notable Capital , and most of all all our LS supporters who helped fund the gorgeous venue and A/V production! Update: see followup discussion on HN and also the YouTube...

Happy holidays! We’ll be sharing snippets from Latent Space LIVE! through the break bringing you the best of 2024! We want to express our deepest appreciation to event sponsors AWS , Daylight Computer , Thoth.ai , StrongCompute , Notable Capital , and most of all our LS supporters who helped fund the venue and A/V production! For NeurIPS last year we did our standard conference podcast coverage in...

Happy holidays! We’ll be sharing snippets from Latent Space LIVE! through the break bringing you the best of 2024! We want to express our deepest appreciation to event sponsors AWS , Daylight Computer , Thoth.ai , StrongCompute , Notable Capital , and most of all all our LS supporters who helped fund the gorgeous venue and A/V production! For NeurIPS last year we did our standard conference podcas...

Happy holidays! We’ll be sharing snippets from Latent Space LIVE! through the break bringing you the best of 2024 from friends of the pod! For NeurIPS last year we did our standard conference podcast coverage interviewing selected papers (that we have now also done for ICLR and ICML ), however we felt that we could be doing more to help AI Engineers 1) get more industry-relevant content, and 2) re...

Our second podcast guest ever in March 2023 was Varun Mohan, CEO of Codeium; at the time, they had around 10,000 users and how they vowed to keep their autocomplete free forever: Today, over a million developers use their products, they still have their free tier, and they recently launched Windsurf , an AI IDE. Chapters * 00:00:00: Introductions & Catchup * 00:03:52: Why they created Windsurf * 0...

Regular tickets are now sold out for Latent Space LIVE! at NeurIPS ! We have just announced our last speaker and newest track, friend of the pod Nathan Lambert who will be recapping 2024 in Reasoning Models like o1 ! We opened up a handful of late bird tickets for those who are deciding now — use code DISCORDGANG if you need it. See you in Vancouver! We’ve been sitting on our ICML recordings for a...

The full schedule for Latent Space LIVE! at NeurIPS has been announced, featuring Best of 2024 overview talks for the AI Startup Landscape, Computer Vision, Open Models, Transformers Killers, Synthetic Data, Agents, and Scaling, and speakers from Sarah Guo of Conviction, Roboflow, AI2/Meta, Recursal/Together, HuggingFace, OpenHands and SemiAnalysis. Join us for the IRL event/Livestream ! Alessio w...

We have announced our first speaker , friend of the show Dylan Patel, and topic slates for Latent Space LIVE! at NeurIPS. Sign up for IRL/Livestream and to debate ! We are still taking questions for our next big recap episode! Submit questions and messages on Speakpipe here for a chance to appear on the show! The vibe shift we observed in July - in favor of Claude 3.5 Sonnet, first introduced in J...

We have a full slate of upcoming events : AI Engineer London, AWS Re:Invent in Las Vegas, and now Latent Space LIVE! at NeurIPS in Vancouver and online. Sign up to join and speak ! We are still taking questions for our next big recap episode! Submit questions and messages on Speakpipe here for a chance to appear on the show! We try to stay close to the inference providers as part of our coverage,...

Alessio will be at AWS re:Invent next week and hosting a casual coffee meetup on Wednesday, RSVP here! And subscribe to our calendar for our Singapore, NeurIPS, and all upcoming meetups! We are still taking questions for our next big recap episode! Submit questions and messages on Speakpipe here for a chance to appear on the show! If you've been following the AI agents space, you have heard of Lin...

We are recording our next big recap episode and taking questions! Submit questions and messages on Speakpipe here for a chance to appear on the show! Also subscribe to our calendar for our Singapore, NeurIPS, and all upcoming meetups! In our first ever episode with Logan Kilpatrick we called out the two hottest LLM frameworks at the time: LangChain and Dust. We’ve had Harrison from LangChain on tw...

Apologies for lower audio quality; we lost recordings and had to use backup tracks. Our guests today are Anastasios Angelopoulos and Wei-Lin Chiang , leads of Chatbot Arena, fka LMSYS, the crowdsourced AI evaluation platform developed by the LMSys student club at Berkeley, which became the de facto standard for comparing language models. Arena Elo is often more cited than MMLU scores to many folks...

If you’ve listened to the podcast for a while, you might have heard our ElevenLabs-powered AI co-host Charlie a few times. Text-to-speech has made amazing progress in the last 18 months, with OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode (aka “Her”) as a sneak peek of the future of AI interactions (see our “Building AGI in Real Time” recap). Yet, we had yet to see a real killer app for AI voice ( not counting musi...

Singapore's GovTech is hosting an AI CTF challenge with ~$15,000 in prizes, starting October 26th, open to both local and virtual hackers. It will be hosted on Dreadnode's Crucible platform; signup here ! It is common to say if you want to work in AI, you should come to San Francisco. Not everyone can. Not everyone should. If you can only do meaningful AI work in one city, then AI has failed to ge...

CEOs of publicly traded companies are often in the news talking about their new AI initiatives, but few of them have built anything with it. Drew Houston from Dropbox is different; he has spent over 400 hours coding with LLMs in the last year and is now refocusing his 2,500+ employees around this new way of working, 17 years after founding the company. Timestamps 00:00 Introductions 00:43 Drew's A...

We are in 🗽 NYC this Monday! Join the AI Eng NYC meetup , bring demos and vibes! It is a bit of a meme that the first thing developer tooling founders think to build in AI is all the non-AI operational stuff outside the AI. There are well over 60 funded LLM Ops startups all with hoping to solve the new observability, cost tracking, security, and reliability problems that come with putting LLMs in...