The Generative AI Meetup Podcast
Hosted by Mark and Shashank, software engineers and organizers in Silicon Valley. Get their grounded perspective each week as they explore the generative AI landscape through news analysis, tech discussions, hands-on experiments, and clear explanations. Dive into the latest language models, AI agent capabilities, and RAG techniques. Understand the hardware race, key research, startup trends, benchmarks, and the real-world impact of AI across industries like healthcare, robotics, and creative work. We also test AI limits, explain core concepts, discuss ethics, and interview builders shaping the field. For engineers, developers, researchers, and anyone seeking a practical understanding of AI’s rapid evolution and its applications.
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Join hosts Shishank and Mark as they dive deep into the world of generative AI agents with Lenzoy Lin, Engineering Lead at Gens Park. Discover how this rapidly growing startup is revolutionizing productivity through their suite of AI agents - from their groundbreaking phone call agent to deep research tools and slide creation capa...
Timon Binder: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timon-binder/
Join us for a special episode as we sit down with Timon Binder, CTO of Realware, a leading AR hardware company transforming the enterprise landscape. Timon shares his journey from co-founding a startup in Switzerland to leading innovation in the US, revealing how Realware’s AR headsets are revolutionizing industries like manufacturing, logistics, an...
Langflow: https://www.langflow.org/
https://www.producthunt.com/products/langflow
Langflow Desktop: https://www.langflow.org/desktop
In this insightful interview, Rodrigo from Langflow discusses the evolution and future of their low-code agent building platform. Starting with his background in machine learning and data science, Rodrigo explains how Langflow began as a vision to connect specialized AI models years before ChatGPT ...
In this special episode, hosts Mark and Shashank take a break from their usual news coverage to explore the rapidly evolving world of AI agents. They define what agents are, examine their current capabilities, and make bold predictions about how these technologies will transform our lives over the next 1, 5, and 10 years.
The hosts discuss how AI agents are already revolutionizing software development, research, and reasoning ta...
In this episode, hosts Mark and Shashank dive into recent developments in generative AI technology. They begin with NVIDIA's latest GTC announcements, including partnerships with GM for self-driving technology and advancements in robotics with Google DeepMind and Disney. The hosts debate the merits of camera-only versus LiDAR-based autonomous driving systems, referencing Mark Rober's viral comparison video. They also discuss NVIDIA...
This conversation delves into the latest developments in AI, particularly focusing on Google's Gemma models and their capabilities. The discussion covers the differences between various types of language models, the significance of multimodal inputs, and the training techniques employed in AI models. The hosts also explore the implications of open-source versus proprietary models, the hardware requirements for running these models,...
In this conversation, Mark and Shashank discuss the latest advancements in AI, particularly focusing on China's lead in developing agentic models like Manus. They explore the capabilities of Manus, its performance on the Gaia benchmark, and the implications of AI in various sectors, including software development and customer service. The discussion also delves into the philosophical aspects of AI's potential to solve humanity's pr...
Mark's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@UCqLp0T6WBwxmuJdmo4mUW5A Databricks Events: https://lu.ma/okxq0bt1
In this episode of The Generative AI Meetup Podcast, we dive deep into the evolving landscape of AI coding assistants and their real-world applications. Our hosts explore the capabilities of Cursor, Claude 3.7, and other frontier models, discussing how these tools are transforming development workfl...
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@GenerativeAIMeetup
https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-anthropic-economic-index https://x.com/xai/status/1891699715298730482 - Grok 3 http://x.com/karpathy/status/1891720635363254772 https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/innovation/microsofts-majorana-1-chip-carves-new-path-for-quantum-computing/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorana_fermion https://...
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In this episode, we explore Stanford's groundbreaking S1 paper, which introduces a technique to transform any language model into a reasoning model for just $6 in computation costs. We dive deep into the implications of this research, discussing budget forcing techniques, the true costs of AI development, and the philosophical limits of a...
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@GenerativeAIMeetup
• The dramatic $97.4B bid by Elon Musk to acquire OpenAI and the complex nonprofit/for-profit structure debate • Analysis of OpenAI's true market value and competition in the AI space • ASML's groundbreaking sub-2nm chip manufacturing technology • Intel's challenges and the future of US semiconductor manufacturing • The fascinating history of Silicon Valley, from Bell Labs to m...
🔥 NVIDIA's Stock Crash & The DeepSeek Revolution: What You Need to Know
In this episode, we dive deep into the recent NVIDIA stock crash and how DeepSeek, a groundbreaking AI model from a Chinese hedge fund, is disrupting the entire AI industry. We break down:
• Why DeepSeek R1's achievements are sending shockwaves through the tech world • How they achieved similar results to OpenAI at 1/1000th of the cost • Technical innovati...
🔥 EXCLUSIVE: First Look at Sentient AI's Revolutionary Dobby Model
Join us for an unprecedented interview with the secretive Sentient AI team, who've raised an astounding $85M in seed funding. Get the inside scoop on their groundbreaking AI model Dobby - the world's first truly community-owned and aligned AI assistant.
In this special episode: • Meet the minds behind Sentient's business development and AI research teams • Deep div...
Meetup Event: https://www.meetup.com/gen-ai/events/305158672
deep seek: https://chat.deepseek.com/
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In this week's episode, Mark and Shashank dive into the latest announcements from NVIDIA at CES 2025, including the groundbreaking RTX 50 series GPUs and the emergence of tiny, single-user supercomputers. They explore the implications of TSMC's 4nm chip production in Arizon...
Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es03jKOsJpE
Arc Prize: https://arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-pub-breakthrough
https://deepmind.google/technologies/veo/veo-2/ Sora: https://openai.com/index/sora-is-here/ New video models pika2: https://pikartai.com/login/ - takes awhile to generate. A few minutes sora veo2 https://www.deepseek.com/
In this episode of the Generative AI Meetup Podcast, Mark and Shashank return after the...
In this episode, Mark and Shashank dive into OpenAI's latest announcement, the $200/month GPT Pro model, and explore its capabilities, like self-reflection and handling complex reasoning tasks. They discuss how this new tier might impact researchers, developers, and knowledge workers, and compare it with advancements from Google, Amazon, and the open-source community. The conversation spans cutting-edge topics like agentic behavior...
In this episode, Mark and Shashank dive into the transformative world of AI-generated music with tools like Suno and Oudio, exploring their implications for the music industry and creativity. They debate the strengths and weaknesses of leading generative AI models, including Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's GPT, and Elon Musk's ambitious X.AI. The duo also discusses the critical role of hardware in AI, from Intel’s challenges to OpenAI...
This week, Shashank and Mark sit down with SambaNova Systems, a leading AI chip startup competing with tech giants like Nvidia and Cerebras. Joined by SambaNova's Director of Machine Learning, Urmish, and founding team member Raghu, they explore how SambaNova's reconfigurable data flow architecture is changing the game in AI inference and training. They discuss the company’s unique hardware, fast inference capabilities, memory ...
In this week's episode, Shashank and Mark dive deep into Nvidia's current dominance in the AI hardware space and the potential challengers on the horizon. As companies like AMD, Cerebras, and SambaNova work to chip away at Nvidia’s massive lead, is it time to reconsider your portfolio? Plus, we explore cutting-edge applications of generative AI in DNA analysis, gene therapy, and how AI agents could revolutionize everything from med...
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