Latent Space
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Outlasting Noam Shazeer, crowdsourcing Chai AI with >1.4m DAU, and becoming the "Western DeepSeek" — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research
One last Gold sponsor slot is available for the AI Engineer Summit in NYC . Our last round of invites is going out soon - apply here - If you are building AI agents or AI eng teams , this will be the single highest-signal conference of the year for you! While the world melts down over DeepSeek , few are talking about the OTHER notable group of former hedge fund traders who pivoted into AI and built a remarkably profitable consumer AI business with a tiny team with incredibly cracked engineering team — Chai Research . In short order they have: * Started a Chat AI company well before Noam Shazee
Everything you need to run Mission Critical Inference (ft. DeepSeek v3 + SGLang)
Sponsorships and applications for the AI Engineer Summit in NYC are live ! (Speaker CFPs have closed ) If you are building AI agents or leading teams of AI Engineers , this will be the single highest-signal conference of the year for you. Right after Christmas, the Chinese Whale Bros ended 2024 by dropping the last big model launch of the year: DeepSeek v3 . Right now on LM Arena, DeepSeek v3 has a score of 1319, right under the full o1 model, Gemini 2, and 4o latest. This makes it the best open weights model in the world in January 2025. There has been a big recent trend in Chinese labs relea
[Ride Home] Simon Willison: Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
Due to overwhelming demand (>15x applications:slots), we are closing CFPs for AI Engineer Summit NYC today. Last call! Thanks, we’ll be reaching out to all shortly! The world’s top AI blogger and friend of every pod, Simon Willison, dropped a monster 2024 recap: Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 . Brian of the excellent TechMeme Ride Home pinged us for a connection and a special crossover episode, our first in 2025. The target audience for this podcast is a tech-literate, but non-technical one. You can see Simon’s notes for AI Engineers in his World’s Fair Keynote . Timestamp * 00:00 Introd
Beating Google at Search with Neural PageRank and $5M of H200s — with Will Bryk of Exa.ai
Applications close Monday for the NYC AI Engineer Summit focusing on AI Leadership and Agent Engineering! If you applied, invites should be rolling out shortly. The search landscape is experiencing a fundamental shift. Google built a >$2T company with the “10 blue links” experience, driven by PageRank as the core innovation for ranking. This was a big improvement from the previous directory-based experiences of AltaVista and Yahoo. Almost 4 decades later, Google is now stuck in this links-based experience, especially from a business model perspective. This legacy architecture creates fundament
AI Engineering for Art — with comfyanonymous, of ComfyUI
Applications for the NYC AI Engineer Summit, focused on Agents at Work , are open ! When we first started Latent Space, in the lightning round we’d always ask guests: “What’s your favorite AI product?”. The majority would say Midjourney. The simple UI of prompt → very aesthetic image turned it into a $300M+ ARR bootstrapped business as it rode the first wave of AI image generation. In open source land, StableDiffusion was congregating around AUTOMATIC1111 as the de-facto web UI. Unlike Midjourney, which offered some flags but was mostly prompt-driven, A1111 let users play with a lot more param
Latent.Space 2024 Year in Review
Applications for the 2025 AI Engineer Summit are up, and you can save the date for AIE Singapore in April and AIE World’s Fair 2025 in June . Happy new year, and thanks for 100 great episodes! Please let us know what you want to see/hear for the next 100! Full YouTube Episode with Slides/Charts Like and subscribe and hit that bell to get notifs! Timestamps * 00:00 Welcome to the 100th Episode! * 00:19 Reflecting on the Journey * 00:47 AI Engineering: The Rise and Impact * 03:15 Latent Space Live and AI Conferences * 09:44 The Competitive AI Landscape * 21:45 Synthetic Data and Future Trends *
2024 in Agents [LS Live! @ NeurIPS 2024]
Happy holidays! We’ll be sharing snippets from Latent Space LIVE! through the break bringing you the best of 2024! We want to express our deepest appreciation to event sponsors AWS , Daylight Computer , Thoth.ai , StrongCompute , Notable Capital , and most of all all our LS supporters who helped fund the gorgeous venue and A/V production! For NeurIPS last year we did our standard conference podcast coverage interviewing selected papers (that we have now also done for ICLR and ICML ), however we felt that we could be doing more to help AI Engineers 1) get more industry-relevant content, and 2)
2024 in Synthetic Data and Smol Models [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
Happy holidays! We’ll be sharing snippets from Latent Space LIVE! through the break bringing you the best of 2024! We want to express our deepest appreciation to event sponsors AWS , Daylight Computer , Thoth.ai , StrongCompute , Notable Capital , and most of all all our LS supporters who helped fund the gorgeous venue and A/V production! For NeurIPS last year we did our standard conference podcast coverage interviewing selected papers (that we have now also done for ICLR and ICML ), however we felt that we could be doing more to help AI Engineers 1) get more industry-relevant content, and 2)
2024 in Post-Transformers Architectures (State Space Models, RWKV) [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
Happy holidays! We’ll be sharing snippets from Latent Space LIVE! through the break bringing you the best of 2024! We want to express our deepest appreciation to event sponsors AWS , Daylight Computer , Thoth.ai , StrongCompute , Notable Capital , and most of all all our LS supporters who helped fund the gorgeous venue and A/V production! Update: see followup discussion on HN and also the YouTube discussion . For NeurIPS last year we did our standard conference podcast coverage interviewing selected papers (that we have now also done for ICLR and ICML ), however we felt that we could be doing
2024 in Open Models [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
Happy holidays! We’ll be sharing snippets from Latent Space LIVE! through the break bringing you the best of 2024! We want to express our deepest appreciation to event sponsors AWS , Daylight Computer , Thoth.ai , StrongCompute , Notable Capital , and most of all our LS supporters who helped fund the venue and A/V production! For NeurIPS last year we did our standard conference podcast coverage interviewing selected papers (that we have now also done for ICLR and ICML ), however we felt that we could be doing more to help AI Engineers 1) get more industry-relevant content, and 2) recap 2024 ye
2024 in Vision [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
Happy holidays! We’ll be sharing snippets from Latent Space LIVE! through the break bringing you the best of 2024! We want to express our deepest appreciation to event sponsors AWS , Daylight Computer , Thoth.ai , StrongCompute , Notable Capital , and most of all all our LS supporters who helped fund the gorgeous venue and A/V production! For NeurIPS last year we did our standard conference podcast coverage interviewing selected papers (that we have now also done for ICLR and ICML ), however we felt that we could be doing more to help AI Engineers 1) get more industry-relevant content, and 2)
2024 in AI Startups [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
Happy holidays! We’ll be sharing snippets from Latent Space LIVE! through the break bringing you the best of 2024 from friends of the pod! For NeurIPS last year we did our standard conference podcast coverage interviewing selected papers (that we have now also done for ICLR and ICML ), however we felt that we could be doing more to help AI Engineers 1) get more industry-relevant content, and 2) recap 2024 year in review from experts. As a result, we organized the first Latent Space LIVE!, our first in person miniconference, at NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver. For our opening keynote, we could think
Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE - with Varun and Anshul of Codeium AI
Our second podcast guest ever in March 2023 was Varun Mohan, CEO of Codeium; at the time, they had around 10,000 users and how they vowed to keep their autocomplete free forever: Today, over a million developers use their products, they still have their free tier, and they recently launched Windsurf , an AI IDE. Chapters * 00:00:00: Introductions & Catchup * 00:03:52: Why they created Windsurf * 00:05:52: Limitations of VS Code * 00:10:12: Evaluation methods for Cascade and Windsurf * 00:16:15: Listener questions about Windsurf launch * 00:20:30: Remote execution and security concerns * 00:25:
Generative Video WorldSim, Diffusion, Vision, Reinforcement Learning and Robotics — ICML 2024 Part 1
Regular tickets are now sold out for Latent Space LIVE! at NeurIPS ! We have just announced our last speaker and newest track, friend of the pod Nathan Lambert who will be recapping 2024 in Reasoning Models like o1 ! We opened up a handful of late bird tickets for those who are deciding now — use code DISCORDGANG if you need it. See you in Vancouver! We’ve been sitting on our ICML recordings for a while (from today’s first-ever SOLO guest cohost, Brittany Walker ), and in light of Sora Turbo’s launch ( blogpost , tutorials ) today, we figured it would be a good time to drop part one which had
Bolt.new, Flow Engineering for Code Agents, and >$8m ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper
The full schedule for Latent Space LIVE! at NeurIPS has been announced, featuring Best of 2024 overview talks for the AI Startup Landscape, Computer Vision, Open Models, Transformers Killers, Synthetic Data, Agents, and Scaling, and speakers from Sarah Guo of Conviction, Roboflow, AI2/Meta, Recursal/Together, HuggingFace, OpenHands and SemiAnalysis. Join us for the IRL event/Livestream ! Alessio will also be holding a meetup at AWS Re:Invent in Las Vegas this Wednesday. See our new Events page for dates of AI Engineer Summit, Singapore, and World’s Fair in 2025. LAST CALL for questions for our