Episodes

We talk with Kyunghyun Cho, who is a Professor of Health Statistics and a Professor of Computer Science and Data Science at New York University, and a former Executive Director at Genentech, about why healthcare might be the ...

In this episode, we talk with Stefano Ermon, Stanford professor, co-founder & CEO of Inception AI, and co-inventor of DDIM, FlashAttention, DPO, and score-based/diffusion models, about why diffusion-based language models may...

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 ...

David Mezzetti , creator of TextAI, joins us to talk about building open source AI frameworks as a solo developer - and why local-first AI still matters in the age of API-everything. David's path from running a 50-person IT c...

Cody Blakeney from Datology AI joins us to talk about data curation - the unglamorous but critical work of figuring out what to actually train models on. Cody's path from writing CUDA kernels to spending his days staring at w...

Guest: Niloofar Mireshghallah (Incoming Assistant Professor at CMU, Member of Technical Staff at Humans and AI) In this episode, we dive into AI privacy, frontier model capabilities, and why academia still matters. We kick of...

Yann LeCun – Why LLMs Will Never Get Us to AGI "The path to superintelligence - just train up the LLMs, train on more synthetic data, hire thousands of people to school your system in post-training, invent new tweaks on RL-I ...

Atlas Wang (UT Austin faculty, XTX Research Director) joins us to explore two fascinating frontiers: the foundations of symbolic AI and the practical challenges of building AI systems for quantitative finance. On the symbolic...

In this episode, we hosted Judah Goldfeder, a PhD candidate at Columbia University and student researcher at Google, to discuss robotics, reproducibility in ML, and smart buildings. Key topics covered: Robotics challenges: We...

In this episode, we talk with Will Brown, a research lead at Prime Intellect , about his journey into reinforcement learning (RL) and multi-agent systems, exploring their theoretical foundations and practical applications. We...

In this episode, we discuss various topics in AI, including the challenges of the conference review process, the capabilities of Kimi K2 thinking, the advancements in TPU technology, the significance of real-world data in rob...

In this episode, we sit down with Alex Alemi, an AI researcher at Anthropic (previously at Google Brain and Disney), to explore the powerful framework of the information bottleneck and its profound implications for modern mac...

In this episode, we talked about AI news and recent papers. We explored the complexities of using AI models in healthcare (the Nature Medicine paper on GPT-5's fragile intelligence in medical contexts). We discussed the delic...

In this episode, we host Jonas Geiping from ELLIS Institute & Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen AI Center, Germany. We talked about his broad research on Recurrent-Depth Models and late reasoning in large...

In this episode of the Information Bottleneck Podcast, we host Jack Morris, a PhD student at Cornell, to discuss adversarial examples (Jack created TextAttack , the first software package for LLM jailbreaking), the Platonic r...

In this episode we talk with Randall Balestriero, an assistant professor at Brown University. We discuss the potential and challenges of Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPA). We explore the concept of JEPA, which a...

In this episode, we talked with Michael Bronstein, a professor of AI at the University of Oxford and a scientific director at AITHYRA, about the fascinating world of geometric deep learning. We explored how understanding the ...

In this episode we host Tal Kachman, an assistant professor at Radboud University, to explore the fascinating intersection of artificial intelligence and natural sciences. Prof. Kachman's research focuses on multiagent intera...

In this episode, we talked with Ahmad Beirami, an ex-researcher at Google, to discuss various topics. We explored the complexities of reinforcement learning, its applications in LLMs, and the evaluation challenges in AI resea...