The Generative AI Meetup Podcast

https://novacut.ai/  https://genaimeetup.com/  0:00 Longcat: 1.6T Model Without US GPUs 1:08 Meituan: The Super App Behind Longcat 4:54 China's Exploding AI Competitor Scene 8:23 Inside Huawei's Ascend GPU Architecture 17:14 Cost & Energy: Huawei vs Nvidia 29:21 OpenAI's Custom Inference Chip Strategy 36:23 Software Optimizations: The Path to 10,000x 45:38 GPT-5.6: Sol, Terra, Luna Models 58:0...

https://novacut.ai/   Description: Anthropic pulls access to Fable, and China responds the same day with GLM 5.2. In this episode we break down the escalating AI arms race, US export controls on chips and frontier models, and whether the "Great Firewall of America" is already here. ⏱️ Topics: Anthropic restricts Fable — what happened and why China's GLM 5.2 release and how close they're catching u...

https://novacut.ai/   https://genaimeetup.com/   Anthropic has officially closed a $65 billion Series H at a $965 billion valuation, nearly 2.5x its valuation from just 100 days ago. Meanwhile, funding is flowing across the ecosystem: Frameworks AI at $15B, Baseten at $11B, OpenRouter's $113M Series B, and Cognition AI's $1B Series D. NVIDIA went on an open-source super week with Nemotron 3 Ultra,...

  This week on AI Meta, we break down Andrej Karpathy’s move to Anthropic, Claude’s growing developer   mindshare, and why recursive self-improvement may be the next major frontier in AI. We also cover   Google’s latest Gemini announcements, Anthropic’s reported compute deal with xAI/SpaceX, the rise of   gray-market Claude API access in China, OpenAI’s ongoing drama, Cerebras, Nvidia, Intel, and...

https://novacut.ai/     Shashank and Mark break down a packed few weeks in AI: new open-source and local models, MCP and tool   use, Chinese labs closing the frontier-model gap, Google's full-stack advantage, and the exploding cost   of data-center buildouts.   They debate whether AI spending keeps compounding as models get cheaper and demand rises, or whether   smaller, local, good-enough models...

In this episode, recorded across two continents with   Mark in Fukuoka, Japan and Shashank by the Ganges River in   Rishikesh, India, the hosts dive into the rapidly evolving AI   landscape. They explore how ChatGPT has reached mass adoption even   among yoga practitioners and Ayurvedic doctors in India, discuss   the newly released Gemma 4 and its surprising quality as a local   model, debate the...

Youtube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@GenerativeAIMeetup Mark's Travel Vlog:  https://www.youtube.com/@kumajourney11 Mark's Personal Youtube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@markkuczmarski896 Attend a live event:  https://genaimeetup.com/ Shashank Linked In:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashu10/   Novacut: https://novacut.ai     Mark and Shashank break down the latest developments in AI fr...

After a brief hiatus, Mark and Shashank dive into the whirlwind of AI developments from recent weeks. They explore Kimi 2.5's impressive open-source capabilities, Google's groundbreaking Project Genie world model, and AI solving previously unsolved mathematical problems. The conversation shifts to the Davos discussions between Demis Hassabis and Dario Amodei on AGI timelines, before taking a fasci...

It’s been a travel-heavy hiatus—Mark’s been living in Spain and Shashank’s been bouncing across Asia (including a month in China)—but they’re back to unpack a packed week of AI news. They start with the headline hardware story: the Groq (GROQ) deal/partnership dynamics and why ultra-fast inference is becoming the next battleground, plus how this could reshape access to cutting-edge serving across...

Youtube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@GenerativeAIMeetup Mark's Travel Vlog:  https://www.youtube.com/@kumajourney11 Mark's Personal Youtube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@markkuczmarski896 Attend a live event:  https://genaimeetup.com/ Shashank Linked In:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashu10/     In this episode of the Generative AI Meetup Podcast, Mark (in Ohio) and Shashank (in India)...

From a tiny island in Seychelles to the heartland of Ohio, we unpack a wild week in AI. First up: 1X’s “Neo” humanoid—$20k to buy or $500/month to rent—promising laundry, dishes, and errands soon…with a lot of teleoperation today. We debate whether tele-ops is a feature (not a bug), who it employs, and how quickly autonomy could follow. Then we zoom out to the money: Nvidia touches a $5T valuation...

In this episode of the Gen. AI Meetup Podcast, hosts Shashank and Mark dive into the latest AI developments that are reshaping how we create, code, and browse. They explore OpenAI's impressive Sora 2 video generation model and its built-in social network, compare it with Google's VO3, and discuss whether AI-generated content will become mainstream entertainment. The conversation shifts to the newe...

Ask a question on our Youtube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@GenerativeAIMeetup Mark's Travel Vlog:  https://www.youtube.com/@kumajourney11 Mark's Personal Youtube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@markkuczmarski896 Attend a live event:  https://genaimeetup.com/ Shashank Linked In:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashu10/     In this episode of the Generative AI Meetup Podcast, hosts Shashank a...

Ask a question on our Youtube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@GenerativeAIMeetup Mark's Travel Vlog:  https://www.youtube.com/@kumajourney11 Mark's Personal Youtube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@markkuczmarski896 Attend a live event:  https://genaimeetup.com/ Shashank Linked In:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashu10/   Mark Linked in:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/markkuczmarski/   In this...

Ask a question on our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GenerativeAIMeetup Mark's Travel Vlog: https://www.youtube.com/@kumajourney11 Mark's Personal Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@markkuczmarski896 Attend a live event: https://genaimeetup.com/ Shashank Linked In:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashu10/   Mark Linked in:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/markkuczmarski/  

Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GenerativeAIMeetup Mark's Travel Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@kumajourney11 Mark's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@markkuczmarski896 Gen AI Meetup: https://genaimeetup.com/ Shashank Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashu10/   Mark Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markkuczmarski/   Join hosts Shashank and Mark in this electrifying episod...

Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GenerativeAIMeetup Mark's Travel Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@kumajourney11 Mark's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@markkuczmarski896 Gen AI Meetup: https://genaimeetup.com/ Shashank Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashu10/   Mark Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markkuczmarski/  

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https://rtrvr.ai/ Join hosts Shashank from Google AI Labs and Mark (currently on hiatus from Amazon) as they interview Arjun and Pavani, the founders of Retriever AI. This episode explores how Retriever's innovative browser extension brings agentic LLM capabilities directly to your desktop browser, offering unique advantages over cloud-based alternatives. Learn how Retriever can automate repetitiv...

https://www.genspark.ai/ https://genaimeetup.com/ Follow the podcast: https://podcast.genaimeetup.com/ Join hosts Shishank and Mark as they dive deep into the world of generative AI agents with Lenzoy Lin, Engineering Lead at Gens Park. Discover how this rapidly growing startup is revolutionizing productivity through their suite of AI agents - from their groundbreaking phone call agent to deep res...

https://www.realwear.com/ Timon Binder: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timon-binder/   Join us for a special episode as we sit down with Timon Binder, CTO of Realware, a leading AR hardware company transforming the enterprise landscape. Timon shares his journey from co-founding a startup in Switzerland to leading innovation in the US, revealing how Realware’s AR headsets are revolutionizing industrie...

Langflow: https://www.langflow.org/   https://www.producthunt.com/products/langflow   Langflow Desktop: https://www.langflow.org/desktop   In this insightful interview, Rodrigo from Langflow discusses the evolution and future of their low-code agent building platform. Starting with his background in machine learning and data science, Rodrigo explains how Langflow began as a vision to connect speci...

In this special episode, hosts Mark and Shashank take a break from their usual news coverage to explore the rapidly evolving world of AI agents. They define what agents are, examine their current capabilities, and make bold predictions about how these technologies will transform our lives over the next 1, 5, and 10 years. The hosts discuss how AI agents are already revolutionizing software develop...

In this episode, hosts Mark and Shashank dive into recent developments in generative AI technology. They begin with NVIDIA's latest GTC announcements, including partnerships with GM for self-driving technology and advancements in robotics with Google DeepMind and Disney. The hosts debate the merits of camera-only versus LiDAR-based autonomous driving systems, referencing Mark Rober's viral compari...