Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

TL;DR: You can now buy tickets , apply to speak , or join the expo for the biggest AI Engineer event of 2024. We’re gathering *everyone* you want to meet - see you this June. In last year’s the Rise of the AI Engineer we put our money where our mouth was and announced the AI Engineer Summit , which fortunately went well: With ~500 live attendees and over ~500k views online , the first iteration of...

Our next SF event is AI UX 2024 - let’s see the new frontier for UX since last year ! Last call: we are recording a preview of the AI Engineer World’s Fair with swyx and Ben Dunphy, send any questions about Speaker CFPs and Sponsor Guides you have! Alessio is now hiring engineers for a new startup he is incubating at Decibel: Ideal candidate is an “ex-technical co-founder type”. Reach out to him f...

Giving computers a voice has always been at the center of sci-fi movies; “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that” wouldn’t hit as hard if it just appeared on screen as a terminal output, after all. The first electronic speech synthesizer, the Voder, was built at Bell Labs 85 years ago (1939!), and it’s…. something: We will not cover the history of Text To Speech (TTS), but the evolution of the...

We will be recording a preview of the AI Engineer World’s Fair soon with swyx and Ben Dunphy, send any questions about Speaker CFPs and Sponsor Guides you have! Alessio is now hiring engineers for a new startup he is incubating at Decibel: Ideal candidate is an ex-technical co-founder type (can MVP products end to end, comfortable with ambiguous prod requirements, etc). Reach out to him for more!...

Speaker CFPs and Sponsor Guides are now available for AIE World’s Fair — join us on June 25-27 for the biggest AI Engineer conference of 2024 ! Soumith Chintala needs no introduction in the ML world — his insights are incredibly accessible across Twitter , LinkedIn , podcasts , and conference talks (in this pod we’ll assume you’ll have caught up on the History of PyTorch pod from last year and cov...

This Friday we’re doing a special crossover event in SF with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis ( previous guest !), and we will do a live podcast on site. RSVP here . Also join us on June 25-27 for the biggest AI Engineer conference of the year ! Replicate is one of the most popular AI inference providers, reporting over 2 million users as of their $40m Series B with a16z . But how did they get there? T...

We’re writing this one day after the monster release of OpenAI’s Sora and Gemini 1.5 . We covered this on Alex Volkov ‘s ThursdAI space , so head over there for our takes. IRL: We’re ONE WEEK away from Latent Space: Final Frontiers , the second edition and anniversary of our first ever Latent Space event ! Also: join us on June 25-27 for the biggest AI Engineer conference of the year ! Online: All...

Our first ever demo day aimed for 15-20 people and ended up ballooning to >200 and covered in the news . We are now running the 2024 edition in SF on Feb 23 : Latent Space Final Frontiers , a startup and research competition in “The Autonomous Workforce”, ​”Beyond Transformers & GPUs”, and “​Embodied AI”. RSVP here ! You can find all LS online/IRL events on our new calendar . Super Early Bird tick...

We are announcing the second edition of our Latent Space demo day event in SF on 2/23: Final Frontiers , a startup and research competition in “The Autonomous Workforce”, ​”Beyond Transformers & GPUs”, and “​Embodied AI”. RSVP here ! The first one was aimed for 15-20 people and ended up blowing up to >200 and covered in the Information - let’s see what a year of growth (and competition) does to th...

Note for Latent Space Community members: we have now soft-launched meetups in Singapore , as well as two new virtual paper club/meetups for AI in Action and LLM Paper Club . We’re also running Latent Space: Final Frontiers , our second annual demo day hackathon from last year . Edit from March 2024: We did a followup on the Four Wars on the AI Breakdown . For the first time, we are doing an audio...

Latent Space is heating up! Our paper club ran into >99 person Discord limits, oops. We are also introducing 2 new online meetups: LLM Paper Club Asia for Asia timezone (led by Ivan), and AI in Action: hands-on application of AI (led by KBall). To be notified of all upcoming Latent Space events, subscribe to our new Luma calendar ( sign up for individual events, or hit the RSS icon to sync all eve...

In 2023 we did a few Fundamentals episodes covering Benchmarks 101 , Datasets 101 , FlashAttention , and Transformers Math , and it turns out those were some of your evergreen favorites! So we are experimenting with more educational/survey content in the mix alongside our regular founder and event coverage . Pls request more ! We have a new calendar for events; join to be notified of upcoming thin...

Happy 2024! We appreciated all the feedback on the listener survey ( still open, link here ) ! Surprising to see that some people’s favorite episodes were others’ least, but we’ll always work on improving our audio quality and booking great guests. Help us out by leaving reviews on Twitter , YouTube , and Apple Podcasts ! 🙏 Big thanks to Chris Anderson for the latest review - be like Chris! Note...

We are running an end of year listener survey ! Please let us know any feedback you have, what episodes resonated with you, and guest requests for 2024! Survey link here . We can’t think of a more Latent-Space-y way to end 2023 than with a mega episode featuring many old and new friends recapping their biggest news, achievements, and themes and memes of the year! We previously covered the Best Pap...

We are running an end of year listener survey ! Please let us know any feedback you have, what episodes resonated with you, and guest requests for 2024! Survey link here . NeurIPS 2023 took place from Dec 10–16 in New Orleans. The Latent Space crew was onsite for as many of the talks and workshops as we could attend (and more importantly, hosted cocktails and parties after hours)! Picking from the...

We are running an end of year survey for our listeners! Please let us know any feedback you have, what episodes resonated with you, and guest requests for 2024! Survey link here! Listen to the end for a little surprise from Suhail . Before language models became all the rage in November 2022, image generation was the hottest space in AI (it was the subject of our first piece on Latent Space !) In...

We are running an end of year survey for our listeners. Let us know any feedback you have for us, what episodes resonated with you the most, and guest requests for 2024! RAG has emerged as one of the key pieces of the AI Engineer stack. Jerry from LlamaIndex called it a “hack” , Bryan from Hex compared it to “a recommendation system from LLMs” , and even LangChain started with it . RAG is crucial...

The Latent Space crew will be at NeurIPS on Tuesday ! Reach out with any parties and papers of interest. We have also been incubating a smol daily AI Newsletter and Latent Space University is making progress. Good open models like Llama 2 and Mistral 7B (which has just released an 8x7B MoE model ) have enabled their own sub-industry of finetuned variants for a myriad of reasons: * Ownership & Cont...

Catch us at Modular’s ModCon next week with Chris Lattner , and join our community ! 2024 note: Hex is now hiring AI Engineers . Due to Bryan ’s very wide ranging experience in data science and AI across Blue Bottle (!), StitchFix, Weights & Biases, and now Hex Magic, this episode can be considered a two-parter. Notebooks = Chat++ We’ve talked a lot about AI UX (in our meetups , writeups , and gue...

This episode came together at ~4 hrs notice since Dylan had just landed in SF and we had to setup quickly; you might notice some small audio issues in some segments, we apologize. We’re currently building our own podcast studio for 2024! 🙏 We’re ramping up our presence on Twitter and YouTube if you’d like to support us. Note: 17k people joined our emergency pod on Sam Altman’s ouster today. If Ch...

We left a high amount of background audio in the Devday podcast , which many of you loved, but we definitely understand that some of you may have had trouble with it. Listener Klaus Breyer ran it through Auphonic with speech islolation and we figured we’d upload it as a backdated pod for people who prefer this. Of course it means that our speakers sound out of place since they now sound like they...

SF folks: join us at the AI Engineer Foundation’s Emergency Hackathon tomorrow and consider the Newton if you’d like to cowork in the heart of the Cerebral Arena . Our community page is up to date as usual! ~800,000 developers watched OpenAI Dev Day, ~8,000 of whom listened along live on our ThursdAI x Latent Space , and ~800 of whom got tickets to attend in person: OpenAI’s first developer confer...

At the AI Pioneers Summit we announced Latent Space Launchpad , an AI-focused accelerator in partnership with Decibel . If you’re an AI founder of enterprise early adopter, fill out this form and we’ll be in touch with more details. We also have a lot of events coming up as we wrap up the year, so make sure to check out our community events page and come say hi! We previously interviewed the found...

The first workshops and talks from the AI Engineer Summit are now up ! Join the >20k viewers on YouTube , find clips on Twitter (we’re also clipping @latentspacepod ), and chat with us on Discord ! Text-to-SQL was one of the first applications of NLP. Thoughtspot offered “Ask your data questions” as their core differentiation compared to traditional dashboarding tools. In a way, they provide a muc...

Thanks to the over 17,000 people who have joined the first AI Engineer Summit! A full recap is coming. Last call to fill out the State of AI Engineering survey ! See our Community page for upcoming meetups in SF, Paris and NYC . This episode had good interest on Twitter and was discussed on the Vanishing Gradients podcast . Fast.ai’s “Practical Deep Learning” courses been watched by over >6,000,00...