"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
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A biweekly podcast where hosts Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg interview the builders on the edge of AI and explore the dramatic shift it will unlock in the coming years.The Cognitive Revolution is part of the Turpentine podcast network. To learn more: turpentine.co
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Episodes
- 1
AI's Energy & Water Demands: Sorting Fact from Fiction with Andy Masley
·2h 4m - 2
Training the AIs' Eyes: How Roboflow is Making the Real World Programmable, with CEO Joseph Nelson
·1h 56m - 3
Success without Dignity? Nathan finds Hope Amidst Chaos, from The Intelligence Horizon Podcast
·1h 45m - 4
Scaling Intelligence Out: Cisco's Vision for the Internet of Cognition, with Vijoy Pandey
·1h 36m - 5
Your Agent's Self-Improving Swiss Army Knife: Composio CTO Karan Vaidya on Building Smart Tools
·1h 39m - 6
Zvi's Mic Works! Recursive Self-Improvement, Live Player Analysis, Anthropic vs DoW + More!
·3h 27m - 7
Education in the AI Age: a Teacher Rethinks Learning & Purpose, w/ Johan Falk of Graspable AI
·1h 52m - 8
The Customer Service Revolution: Building Fin, with Eoghan McCabe & Fergal Reid of Intercom
·1h 34m - 9
Training an AI Scientist with Feedback from Reality, w- Liam Fedus & Ekin Dogus Cubuk (from a16z)
·1h 1m - 10
Emad Mostaque on The Last Economy: 1000 Days to Reimagine Work, Value & Human Purpose
·2h 16m - 11
Stripe's Payments Foundation Model: How Data & Infra Create Compounding Advantage, w/ Emily Sands
·1h 21m - 12
AI Scouting Report: the Good, Bad, & Weird @ the Law & AI Certificate Program, by LexLab, UC Law SF
·1h 17m - 13
Bioinfohazards: Jassi Pannu on Controlling Dangerous Data from which AI Models Learn
·1h 43m - 14
Try this at Home: Jesse Genet on OpenClaw Agents for Homeschool & How to Live Your Best AI Life
·2h 6m - 15
Don't Fight Backprop: Goodfire's Vision for Intentional Design, w/ Dan Balsam & Tom McGrath
·1h 47m - 16
Situational Awareness in Government, with UK AISI Chief Scientist Geoffrey Irving
·2h 19m - 17
Universal Medical Intelligence: OpenAI's Plan to Elevate Human Health, with Karan Singhal
·2h 1m - 18
Intelligence with Everyone: RL @ MiniMax, with Olive Song, from AIE NYC & Inference by Turing Post
·55m - 19
Mathematical Superintelligence: Harmonic's Vlad & Tudor on IMO Gold & Theories of Everything
·1h 31m - 20
Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 2, w/ Abhi Mahajan, Helen Toner, Jeremie Harris, @8teAPi
·2h 23m - 21
Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 1, w/ James Zou, Sam Hammond, Shoshannah Tekofsky, @8teAPi
·1h 32m - 22
AGI-Pilled Cyber Defense: Automating Digital Forensics w/ Asymmetric Security CEO Alexis Carlier
·1h 16m - 23
Infinite Code Context: AI Coding at Enterprise Scale w/ Blitzy CEO Brian Elliott & CTO Sid Pardeshi
·1h 57m - 24
The AI-Powered Biohub: Why Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan are Investing in Data, from Latent.Space
·1h 2m - 25
AI & The Law: Changing Practice, Claude Constitution, & New Rights, w/ Kevin & Alan of Scaling Laws
·1h 37m - 26
The Internet Computer: Caffeine.ai CEO Dominic Williams on Unstoppable, Self-Writing Software
·2h 11m - 27
AMA Part 2: Is Fine-Tuning Dead? How Am I Preparing for AGI? Are We Headed for UBI? & More!
·2h 24m - 28
Pioneering PAI: How Daniel Miessler's Personal AI Infrastructure Activates Human Agency & Creativity
·2h 28m - 29
Bringing AI to Data: Agent Design, Text-2-SQL, RAG, & more, w- Snowflake VP of AI Baris Gultekin
·1h 39m - 30
AMA Part 1: Is Claude Code AGI? Are we in a bubble? Plus Live Player Analysis
·1h 55m - 31
Confronting the Intelligence Curse, w/ Luke Drago of Workshop Labs, from the FLI Podcast
·1h 16m - 32
China's AI Upstarts: How Z.ai Builds, Benchmarks & Ships in Hours, from ChinaTalk
·1h 23m - 33
Controlling Tools or Aligning Creatures? Emmett Shear (Softmax) & Séb Krier (GDM), from a16z Show
·1h 16m - 34
The Great Security Update: AI ∧ Formal Methods with Kathleen Fisher of RAND & Byron Cook of AWS
·1h 39m - 35
AI 2025 → 2026 Live Show | Part 2
·1h 40m - 36
AI 2025 → 2026 Live Show | Part 1
·1h 55m - 37
Calm AI for Crazy Days: Inside Granola's Design Philosophy, with co-founder Sam Stephenson
·1h 34m - 38
Superintelligence: To Ban or Not to Ban? Max Tegmark & Dean Ball join Liron Shapira on Doom Debates
·2h 1m - 39
Underwriting Superintelligence: How AIUC is using Insurance, Standards, and Audits to Accelerate Adoption while Minimizing Risks
·1h 14m - 40
AI-Led Sales: How 1Mind's Superhumans Drive Exponential Growth, from the Agents of Scale Podcast
·51m - 41
What AI Means for Students & Teachers: My Keynote from the Michigan Virtual AI Summit
·1h 5m - 42
Escaping AI Slop: How Atlassian Gives AI Teammates Taste, Knowledge, & Workflows, w- Sherif Mansour
·1h 40m - 43
AI in the Cancer Journey: How I'm Using AI to Help My Son
·2h 3m - 44
My Positive Vision for the AI Future, from the Existential Hope Podcast
·1h 10m - 45
What is Catholic AI? Technology Meets Theology, with Matthew Harvey Sanders, CEO of Longbeard
·1h 54m - 46
More Truthful AIs Report Conscious Experience: New Mechanistic Research w- Cameron Berg @ AE Studio
·2h 24m - 47
A Simulationship with AI, with *smiles and kisses you* Star Chris Stokes & Director Bryan Carberry
·1h 50m - 48
Is AI Stalling Out? Cutting Through Capabilities Confusion, w/ Erik Torenberg, from the a16z Podcast
·1h 38m - 49
A Positive Vision for the Future: Part 2 with Illia Polosukhin of NEAR
·1h 28m - 50
Always Bet on the Models: How Tasklet Puts the Agency in Agents, with CEO Andrew Lee
·2h 13m - 51
Chinese AI – They're Just Like Us? With Beijing-Based Concordia AI CEO Brian Tse
·2h 45m - 52
AI Discovered Antibiotics: How Small Data & Small GNNs Led to Big Results, w/ MIT Prof. Jim Collins
·1h 25m - 53
Full-Stack AI Safety: Why Defense-in-Depth Might Work, with Far.AI CEO Adam Gleave
·1h 27m - 54
Can We Stop AI Deception? Apollo Research Tests OpenAI's Deliberative Alignment, w/ Marius Hobbhahn
·2h 9m - 55
User-Owned AI: On-Chain Training, Inference, and Agents, with NEAR's Illia Polosukhin
·1h 33m - 56
Coaching the Creators: Inside the Minds Building Frontier AI with Executive Coach Joe Hudson
·1h 45m - 57
Zvi Mowshowitz on Longer Timelines, RL-induced Doom, and Why China is Refusing H20s
·3h 13m - 58
Material Abundance: Radical AI’s Closed-Loop Lab Automates Scientific Discovery
·1h 55m - 59
Untangling Neural Network Mechanisms: Goodfire's Lee Sharkey on Parameter-based Interpretability
·2h 2m - 60
What if Humans Weaponize Superintelligence, w/ Tom Davidson, from Future of Life Institute Podcast
·2h 4m - 61
The AI Whistleblower Initiative: Supporting AGI Insiders When It Matters Most, w/ founder Karl Koch
·1h 51m - 62
Autonomous Organizations: Vending Bench & Beyond, w/ Lukas Petersson & Axel Backlund of Andon Labs
·1h 49m - 63
Dean W. Ball on America's AI Action Plan & 4 Months at the White House
·3h 14m - 64
Jake Sullivan on Navigating AI Uncertainty and Managing Competition with China
·1h 13m - 65
Sovereign AI: Geopolitical Strategy & Industrial Policy for Countries 3-193, with Anjney Midha, a16z
·1h 43m - 66
The Revolution in Services: General Catalyst's AI Rollup Strategy, with Marc Bhargava
·1h 24m - 67
Private Governance: Creating a Market in AI Regulation, with Dr. Gillian Hadfield & Andrew Freedman
·1h 53m - 68
The Dawn of Dynamic AI: RFT Comes Online, w/ Predibase CEO Dev Rishi, from Inference by Turing Post
·36m - 69
The Data Factory: Inside the $100B Race for Post-Training Supremacy, with Labelbox CEO Manu Sharma
·1h 42m - 70
Cheat on Everything: Cluely's Vision for Always-On AI Assistance
·1h 20m - 71
The AI Village: Previewing the Giga-Agent Future with Adam Binksmith, Founder of AI Digest
·1h 25m - 72
402 Payment Required: a New Way for AI Agents to Pay, with Nemil Dalal, Dev Platform Lead @ Coinbase
·1h 22m - 73
2-Sigma in 2 Hours: How Alpha Schools are Using AI to Revolutionize Education
·1h 22m - 74
Living Lindy: a No-BS Conversation on AI Agents with Flo Crivello
·1h 25m - 75
Embryology of AI: How Training Data Shapes AI Development w/ Timaeus' Jesse Hoogland & Daniel Murfet
·1h 37m - 76
Embryology of AI: How Training Data Shapes AI Development w/ Timaeus' Jesse Hoogland & Daniel Murfet
·1h 45m - 77
AI Scouting Report: AI Agents -vs- Agentic AI, from Imagine AI Live
·38m - 78
The Decade of May 15-22, 2025: Google's 50X AI Growth & Transformation with Logan Kilpatrick
·1h 23m - 79
a16z on Protecting Little Tech: The Techno-Optimist AI Policy Agenda with Matt Perault, Head of AI Policy
·1h 1m - 80
Don't Make Mirror Life: Synthetic Biologist Kate Adamala on Risks & Responsibility
·2h - 81
What did Google's AI Co-Scientist "Discover"? The Human Scientists' POV, from the Podovirus podcast
·1h 11m - 82
Mechanistic Interpretability: Philosophy, Practice & Progress with Goodfire's Dan Balsam & Tom McGrath
·1h 50m - 83
The Perfect Substrate for AGI, with Replit CEO Amjad Masad
·58m - 84
The RAISE Act: Minimum Standards for Frontier AI Development, with NY Assembly Member Alex Bores
·1h 41m - 85
Gemini Robotics – AI for the Physical World, with Keerthana Gopalakrishnan and Ted Xiao of Google DeepMind
·1h 45m - 86
Titans: Neural Long-Term Memory for LLMs, with author Ali Behrouz
·2h 8m - 87
Luma Labs' Diffusion Revolution: from Dream Machine to Multimodal Worldsim - Amit Jain, Jiaming Song
·1h 17m - 88
OpenAI's Identity Crisis: History, Culture & Non-Profit Control with ex-employee Steven Adler
·2h - 89
OpenAI's Identity Crisis: History, Culture & Non-Profit Control with ex-employee Steven Adler
·2h 3m - 90
AI Control: Using Untrusted Systems Safely with Buck Shlegeris of Redwood Research, from the 80,000 Hours Podcast
·2h 26m - 91
Blueprint for AI Armageddon: Josh Clymer Imagines AI Takeover, from the Audio Tokens Podcast
·1h 59m - 92
Fiverr Goes All-In on AI: Empowering Creators, Not Replacing Them, with Micha Kaufman, CEO of Fiverr
·1h 40m - 93
Securing Superintelligence: National Security, Espionage & AI Control with Jeremie & Edouard Harris
·2h 7m - 94
Is o3 AGI? Zvi Mowshowitz on Early AI Takeoff, the Mechanize launch, Live Players, & Why p(doom) is Rising
·3h 5m - 95
Cracking the Medical Code: Why Cleveland Clinic Doctors Love Their Ambience Healthcare AI Scribe
·1h 29m - 96
Sovereign AI in Poland: Language Adaptation, Local Control & Cost Advantages with Marek Kozlowski
·1h 30m - 97
Liability for AI Harms: How Ancient Law Can Govern Frontier Technology Risk, with Prof Gabriel Weil
·2h 12m - 98
AI News Crossover: A Candid Chat with Liron Shapira of Doom Debates
·2h 27m - 99
In-AI Advertising: Better Answers for Users, Big Questions for Society, with ZeroClick's Ryan Hudson
Interview with Ryan Hudson, founder of Zeroclick, about building a native advertising platform for AI systems to enable ad-supported free tiers.
·1h 51m - 100
Building & Scaling the AI Safety Research Community, with Ryan Kidd of MATS
Interview with Ryan Kidd about the MATS AI safety research program, AGI timelines, and the state of AI safety.
·1h 54m - 101
Welcome to AI in the AM: RL for EE, Oversight w/out Nationalization, & the first AI-Run Retail Store
Apr 15, 2026·2h 31m - 102
It's Crunch Time: Ajeya Cotra on RSI & AI-Powered AI Safety Work, from the 80,000 Hours Podcast
Apr 11, 2026·3h 10m - 103
Calm AI for Crazy Days: Inside Granola's Design Philosophy, with co-founder Sam Stephenson
Interview with Granola co-founder Sam Stevenson about designing AI products for mass market adoption.
Apr 8, 2026·1h 34m - 104
Training the AIs' Eyes: How Roboflow is Making the Real World Programmable, with CEO Joseph Nelson
Interview with RoboFlow CEO Joseph Nelson about the current state and challenges of computer vision, including model deployment and performance.
Apr 4, 2026·1h 56m - 105
Success without Dignity? Nathan finds Hope Amidst Chaos, from The Intelligence Horizon Podcast
Host Nathan Labenz discusses AI timelines, scaling laws, and the potential for singularity, sharing insights from his appearance on another podcast.
Apr 1, 2026·1h 45m - 106
Scaling Intelligence Out: Cisco's Vision for the Internet of Cognition, with Vijoy Pandey
Vijoy Pandey discusses bringing Cisco's distributed systems expertise to the challenges of frontier agentic AI systems, proposing an 'internet of cognition' for agent collaboration.
Mar 25, 2026·1h 36m - 107
Your Agent's Self-Improving Swiss Army Knife: Composio CTO Karan Vaidya on Building Smart Tools
Interview with Composio CTO about their platform enabling AI agents to access thousands of tools via a single interface.
Mar 22, 2026·1h 39m - 108
Zvi's Mic Works! Recursive Self-Improvement, Live Player Analysis, Anthropic vs DoW + More!
Mar 19, 2026·3h 27m - 109
AI Scouting Report: the Good, Bad, & Weird @ the Law & AI Certificate Program, by LexLab, UC Law SF
Mar 16, 2026·1h 17m - 110
Bioinfohazards: Jassi Pannu on Controlling Dangerous Data from which AI Models Learn
Mar 11, 2026·1h 43m - 111
Try this at Home: Jesse Genet on OpenClaw Agents for Homeschool & How to Live Your Best AI Life
Mar 8, 2026·2h 6m - 112
Don't Fight Backprop: Goodfire's Vision for Intentional Design, w/ Dan Balsam & Tom McGrath
Mar 5, 2026·1h 47m - 113
Situational Awareness in Government, with UK AISI Chief Scientist Geoffrey Irving
Mar 1, 2026·2h 19m - 114
Universal Medical Intelligence: OpenAI's Plan to Elevate Human Health, with Karan Singhal
Feb 25, 2026·2h 1m - 115
Intelligence with Everyone: RL @ MiniMax, with Olive Song, from AIE NYC & Inference by Turing Post
A crossover episode featuring Olive Song from Minimax discussing reinforcement learning, model evaluation, and the company's strategy for building frontier LLMs.
Feb 22, 2026·55m - 116
Mathematical Superintelligence: Harmonic's Vlad & Tudor on IMO Gold & Theories of Everything
Feb 18, 2026·1h 31m - 117
Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 2, w/ Abhi Mahajan, Helen Toner, Jeremie Harris, @8teAPi
Feb 14, 2026·2h 23m - 118
Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 1, w/ James Zou, Sam Hammond, Shoshannah Tekofsky, @8teAPi
Feb 13, 2026·1h 32m - 119
AGI-Pilled Cyber Defense: Automating Digital Forensics w/ Asymmetric Security CEO Alexis Carlier
Feb 8, 2026·1h 16m - 120
Infinite Code Context: AI Coding at Enterprise Scale w/ Blitzy CEO Brian Elliott & CTO Sid Pardeshi
Feb 5, 2026·1h 57m - 121
The AI-Powered Biohub: Why Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan are Investing in Data, from Latent.Space
Feb 1, 2026·1h 2m - 122
AI & The Law: Changing Practice, Claude Constitution, & New Rights, w/ Kevin & Alan of Scaling Laws
Jan 29, 2026·1h 37m - 123
The Internet Computer: Caffeine.ai CEO Dominic Williams on Unstoppable, Self-Writing Software
Jan 25, 2026·2h 11m - 124
AMA Part 2: Is Fine-Tuning Dead? How Am I Preparing for AGI? Are We Headed for UBI? & More!
Jan 22, 2026·2h 24m - 125
Pioneering PAI: How Daniel Miessler's Personal AI Infrastructure Activates Human Agency & Creativity
Jan 18, 2026·2h 28m - 126
Bringing AI to Data: Agent Design, Text-2-SQL, RAG, & more, w- Snowflake VP of AI Baris Gultekin
Jan 14, 2026·1h 39m - 127
AMA Part 1: Is Claude Code AGI? Are we in a bubble? Plus Live Player Analysis
Jan 9, 2026·1h 55m - 128
Building & Scaling the AI Safety Research Community, with Ryan Kidd of MATS
Jan 4, 2026·1h 54m - 129
Confronting the Intelligence Curse, w/ Luke Drago of Workshop Labs, from the FLI Podcast
Jan 1, 2026·1h 16m - 130
Controlling Tools or Aligning Creatures? Emmett Shear (Softmax) & Séb Krier (GDM), from a16z Show
Dec 27, 2025·1h 16m - 131
The Great Security Update: AI ∧ Formal Methods with Kathleen Fisher of RAND & Byron Cook of AWS
Dec 24, 2025·1h 39m - 132
AI 2025 → 2026 Live Show | Part 2
Dec 19, 2025·1h 40m - 133
AI 2025 → 2026 Live Show | Part 1
Dec 18, 2025·1h 55m - 134
AI's Energy & Water Demands: Sorting Fact from Fiction with Andy Masley
Dec 14, 2025·2h 4m - 135
Superintelligence: To Ban or Not to Ban? Max Tegmark & Dean Ball join Liron Shapira on Doom Debates
Dec 10, 2025·2h 1m - 136
Sovereign AI in Poland: Language Adaptation, Local Control & Cost Advantages with Marek Kozlowski
Interview with Marek Kozlowski about Poland's national AI project, Project Plum, focusing on training small language models for local language and cultural context.
Dec 6, 2025·1h 30m - 137
China's AI Upstarts: How Z.ai Builds, Benchmarks & Ships in Hours, from ChinaTalk
Dec 3, 2025·1h 23m - 138
Underwriting Superintelligence: How AIUC is using Insurance, Standards, and Audits to Accelerate Adoption while Minimizing Risks
Nov 30, 2025·1h 14m - 139
AI-Led Sales: How 1Mind's Superhumans Drive Exponential Growth, from the Agents of Scale Podcast
Nov 27, 2025·51m - 140
What AI Means for Students & Teachers: My Keynote from the Michigan Virtual AI Summit
Nov 25, 2025·1h 5m - 141
Escaping AI Slop: How Atlassian Gives AI Teammates Taste, Knowledge, & Workflows, w- Sherif Mansour
Nov 20, 2025·1h 40m - 142
AI in the Cancer Journey: How I'm Using AI to Help My Son
Nov 17, 2025·2h 3m - 143
My Positive Vision for the AI Future, from the Existential Hope Podcast
Nov 12, 2025·1h 10m - 144
What is Catholic AI? Technology Meets Theology, with Matthew Harvey Sanders, CEO of Longbeard
Nov 8, 2025·1h 54m - 145
More Truthful AIs Report Conscious Experience: New Mechanistic Research w- Cameron Berg @ AE Studio
Nov 5, 2025·2h 24m - 146
A Simulationship with AI, with *smiles and kisses you* Star Chris Stokes & Director Bryan Carberry
Nov 2, 2025·1h 50m - 147
Is AI Stalling Out? Cutting Through Capabilities Confusion, w/ Erik Torenberg, from the a16z Podcast
Oct 29, 2025·1h 38m - 148
A Positive Vision for the Future: Part 2 with Illia Polosukhin of NEAR
Interview with Ilya Polosuhin about decentralized AI, blockchain technology, and the future of personal computing with AI agents.
Oct 25, 2025·1h 28m - 149
Always Bet on the Models: How Tasklet Puts the Agency in Agents, with CEO Andrew Lee
Oct 22, 2025·2h 13m - 150
Chinese AI – They're Just Like Us? With Beijing-Based Concordia AI CEO Brian Tse
Oct 18, 2025·2h 45m