The Information Bottleneck

Naomi Saphra, Kempner Research Fellow at Harvard and incoming Assistant Professor at Boston University, joins us to explain why you can't do interpretability without understanding training dynamics, in the same way you can't...

Stefano Soatto, VP for AI at AWS and Professor at UCLA, joins us to explore how the agentic era fundamentally redefines machine learning, from static train-and-test models to dynamic, interactive control systems. This shift u...

Tanishq Abraham , CEO and co-founder of Sophont.ai , joins us to talk about building foundation models specifically for medicine. Sophont is trying to be something like an OpenAI or Anthropic but for healthcare - training mo...

Anastasios Angelopoulos , Co-Founder and CEO of Arena AI (formerly LMArena), joins us to talk about why static benchmarks are failing, how human preference data actually works under the hood, and what it takes to be the "gold...

Fred Sala, Assistant Professor at UW-Madison and Chief Scientist at Snorkel AI, joins us to talk about why personalization might be the next frontier for LLMs, why data still matters more than architecture, and how weak super...

Bayan Bruss, VP of Applied AI at Capital One, joins us to talk about building AI systems that can make autonomous financial decisions, and why money might be the hardest problem in machine learning. Bayan leads Capital One's ...