
Latent Space
Alessio Fanelli and Swyx
AI researchers and executives discuss cutting-edge projects, from transformer training to materials discovery.
Why we picked this
We picked Latent Space because it is the sharpest technical conversation in AI. The hosts ask working engineers the questions practitioners actually wrestle with—when to abandon RAG for grep, how agent scaffolding simplifies as models improve, how to balance latency against cost in a live clinical setting. The show trades hype for specifics: you hear about token economics, modality trade-offs, and the mechanics of deploying large models at scale. If you build with AI, or want to understand the people who do, this feed earns its place in your rotation.
Recent episodes

The Inference Engineering Masterclass — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten
Aug 3, 20261h 41m

Codex from 0 to 10M Users: Building ChatGPT Work — Akshay Nathan, OpenAI
Jul 28, 20261h 9m

Inside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
Jul 23, 20261h 54m

🔬Causal Models Need Causal Data - Xaira’s X-Cell model for Drug Discovery (Bo Wang & Ci Chu, Chief Discovery Officer & Chief AI Scientist)
Jul 21, 20261h 29m

🔬 The Lab of the Future Should Feel Like a Data Center — Andy Beam & Rafa Gómez-Bombarelli, Lila Sciences
Jul 16, 20261h 41m

Why AI Infrastructure must evolve for Agent Experience — Akshat Bubna, Modal CTO
Jul 8, 202657 min

🔬 The Coolest Diffusion Research Isn't in LLMs — Evan Feinberg & Sergey Edunov, Genesis Molecular AI
Jul 1, 20261h 48m

Why the Frontier Ecosystem must be Open — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin, Databricks
Jun 24, 20261h 8m

Red-Teaming after Mythos — Zico Kolter & Matt Fredrikson, Gray Swan
Jun 22, 20261h 6m

The Professor of Outputmaxxing — Anjney Midha, AMP
Jun 18, 202659 min

🔬 The Self-Driving Lab — Joseph Krause, Radical AI
Jun 17, 20261h 16m

Reality: The Final Eval — Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs
Jun 4, 20261h 15m
Related shows

The Infinite Monkey Cage
Witty panel discussions on science topics with comedians and experts like Robin Dunbar and Dave Gorman.

Xtalks Life Science Podcast
Xtalks editors discuss life science industry news with experts like Dr. Alessio Travaglia from FNIH.

Science and the Sea Podcast
Ocean experts discussing marine life, like whale behavior.

Harvard Data Science Review Podcast
Case studies on data's role in leading, misleading, and informing decisions in news, policy, and business.