Pretrained Pod

The zero-BS machine learning pod from Pierce Freeman and Richard Diehl Martinez. Dialled-in dialogue between the cutting edge of research and the startup world.

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Cerebras, a leading competitor to NVIDIA's AI infrastructure dominance, has gone public this month. They're the main company providing a real architecture alternative to NVIDIA's designs, with chips the size of dinner plates.

#Cerebras #NVIDIA #AIChips #TechCompetition #IPO

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AI is changing the market. How will we respond?

#AI #AIPolicy #TechRegulation

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What happens when Stanford students use AI?
#AI #Education #ChatGPT

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Rob Reich, associate director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, is seeing AI anxiety hit hard for Stanford students.

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We're just watching as the EU realise they have no idea how to make AI regulation work.

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Are we making AI startups liable?

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The US Govt is making plans to build an FDA-like system for AI pre-release vetting. It might be about safety, but it also feels like it's about control...

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Cloudflare just announced simultaneous huge growth and major layoffs—and it completely backfired.

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Pierce and @askcatgpt will be the first to tell you they don't know better than anybody else what AI is good for.

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OpenAI and Anthropic's best ideas come from their users, and often in a pretty direct way.

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Get ready for computer memory prices to rise and rise.

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The White House is saying almost all of the market can't have access to Anthropic's newest model...

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Google has made a big bet on the success of Anthropic...

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Sony AI's Project ACE took five years of building a robot an eight-joint arm to play elite table tennis.

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Pierce and Richard took a weekend away from San Francisco, camping near the border. Their advice is to beware of frat guys.

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Deepseek says their new V4 model was trained entirely on domestic chips.

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The Claude token budget is over with the new Opus 4.7. RIP

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Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO, after an unbelievable 15 years.

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Claude Design has just dropped, marking Anthropic's entry into yet another AI terf war.

#ClaudeDesign #Anthropic #AITools #Figma #DesignTools

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Apple is going all in on hardware with its new CEO John Ternus.

#Apple #TimCook #AppleCEO #AppleAI #JohnTernus