Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

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  Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT

  Published Oct 2, 2026

  Last call for regular tickets for AI Engineer NYC! As an exclusive for Latent Space subscribers, the first 30 of you can take a 30% off code if it helps - for new tickets only, no refunds! See you in 2 weeks! While we tend to cover industry on the pod, every so often we celebrate a clearly emerging superstar PhD. In 2024 we featured Shunyu Yao, who went on to build Operator at OpenAI and is now Chief AI Scientist of Tencent. In 2025 we featured Jack Morris, who went on to cofound Engram at $600m

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  Why Dwarkesh is Wrong about Computer Use + How OpenAI shipped its Jev competitor in 1 Week

  Published Sep 30, 2026

  Three months ago Dwarkesh, who has been posting incredible blogs and episodes about RL, posted a framing question for his video essay on RLVR which upset a lot of Computer Use folks: We are no strangers to learning in public and are no strangers to the stress of getting things wrong when you have a big platform. However, we were at Anthropic for the Computer Use launch, there for Claude Cowork with the first big podcast on it, organized the first Computer Use track at AIE presenting the state of

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  🔬 Bio-security is an AI Arms Race - Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics)

  Published Sep 23, 2026

  The OpenAI → Hugging Face attack has people asking “what else do we need to worry about?” and Anthropic’s filters flag two things: cyber-security and biology. The natural question is: what about bio-security, then? Clem Delangue argues that cyber-warfare defensive capabilities need to be open and to keep pace with frontier models’ attack capabilities Radical Numerics co-founder Eric Nguyen sat down with us and explained why the same models that increase biological capability can also keep defens

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  Jev: System One models for Prod, not God — with Diogo Almeida, CEO, TypeSafe AI

  Published Sep 21, 2026

  Tickets for AIE NYC now open, and apply for the invite-only AIE CODE. Join us! We have an unusual relationship with today’s guest: for years since coauthoring the InstructGPT paper, Diogo Almeida had been saying that API-available frontier models have been going down the wrong path, everything from the alignment to refusals to reliability perspectives, that we have dropped every mode other than autoregressive chat-tuned LLMs because of the overwhelming success of ChatGPT. In a launch video now v

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  🔬 The BioAI Phase Shift - Matthew McPartlon & Neil Patil, Chai Discovery

  Published Aug 11, 2026

  This January, four big AI × Pharma tools deals were announced at the huge JPM Pharma conference that takes over San Francisco every year. OpenAI-backed Chai Discovery (now worth $4B) was somehow at the heart despite being all of 2 years old. The Science team is proud to bring you the first podcast with cofounder Matt McPartlon and product lead Neil Patil to tell the full story! Editor’s note: not to be confused with Chai AI, which was another top pod of ours. Pharma suddenly doing big AI tools d

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  Codex from 0 to 10M Users: Building ChatGPT Work — Akshay Nathan, OpenAI

  Published Jul 28, 2026

  There are roughly 100x more people who use code than who can write code. As code that “just works” becomes easier to generate, this group may be the biggest prize of all — if you can get the agentic interface right. A key trend we have been tracking over at AINews is the absolute explosion in Codex usage this year, with MAU now up >10x from Jan 2026. Less than two weeks after their July 9th launch, OpenAI said ChatGPT Work and Codex had reached 10M users combined (as we cover in the pod, Codex n

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