Long-form interviews and conversations with tech, AI, and finance leaders (30min+)
Base 10 CEO Tuhin explains why AI inference is shifting from frontier models to custom post-trained models as companies scale, driven by 70-90% cost savings, latency requirements, and the strategic need to own proprietary data rather than feed it to potential competitors.
Dan Fu explains how LLM inference serves as the engine converting electricity into intelligence, detailing the lifecycle of requests through modern serving systems and emphasizing that GPU kernel expertise enables full-stack ML innovation.
Legendary activist investor Dan Loeb explains why short selling is returning as a critical discipline, how Third Point evolved from event-driven trading to quality-focused investing emphasizing durable moats, and why understanding technology and management adaptability is now essential for generating alpha.
CryptoBanter founder Ran Neuner argues Bitcoin may have invalidated its traditional 4-year bear cycle on May 5th by breaking above key technical resistance, driven by extreme equity market exuberance and Michael Saylor's STRC dividend mechanism creating perpetual buying pressure.
World champion arm wrestler Devon Larratt details how he competes at age 51 despite being bone-on-bone for 15+ years and unable to straighten his arms, explaining his high-frequency, low-load training philosophy and the technical concept of 'rising' to control opponents efficiently.
Jordan Peterson analyzes the personality trait of agreeableness, explaining how it impacts career success, childhood socialization, and relationship longevity, while arguing that understanding your temperament allows you to develop complementary skills and make strategic life commitments.
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Crypto analyst Crypto Kid argues that despite Bitcoin's drop to $60,000, technical indicators and market cyclicality suggest further downside to the mid-$50,000 range before a true bottom forms in Q4, recommending investors begin spot accumulation now while strictly avoiding leveraged positions.
Representative Anna Paulina Luna discusses her populist-conservative approach to reforming Congress, emphasizing anti-corruption measures like banning insider trading while pursuing transparency on government secrets including UFOs and the JFK assassination.
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana discusses her journey from Mississippi to leading autonomous vehicle technology, emphasizing that transformative innovation requires betting on terrifying opportunities while building safety-first cultures that aim for a 13x improvement over human drivers rather than settling for 'safe enough'.
Rob Platt argues that modern Vision-Language-Action models discard geometric structure, requiring massive datasets to relearn physical constraints. He proposes hybrid approaches that embed geometric symmetries (equivariance) directly into learning architectures, enabling data-efficient robot policies that respect physical laws.
Victoria Lynn from Thinking Machines Lab explains the evolution from language models to native multimodal AI systems, detailing how tokenization enables transformers to process images, audio, and video alongside text, while comparing discrete token approaches (Chameleon) against continuous diffusion-based methods (Transfusion) and their respective trade-offs in generation quality versus understanding capabilities.
President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are increasingly at odds over how to end the war with Iran, with Trump pursuing diplomatic negotiations while Netanyahu pushes for continued military escalation, creating friction that threatens to undermine potential deals.