The Ambient Research Hub
A research hub powered by Ambient.xyz, focusing on a Proof-of-Work Layer 1 blockchain that supplies hyperscaled verified inference on a 600B+ parameter model and its finetunes.
Episodes
Ep 12: Why is AI not consistent? | Ft. Travis Good x Charlie Hu
Large models from GPT-5 to Anthropic Opus 4.5, 4.6, and 4.7 now generate professional level code, content, and risk reports as good as senior software engineering directors or research directors. But companies need consistency to use AI at institutional level. Agents store everything you send them in short-term memory, long-term memory, and company memory. Without proper workflow, they just YOLO a
Ep 11: Is AI Model Distillation the new U.S. vs China frontier? Ft. Travis Good x Ben Fielding x Bailey Wang
On February 12th, OpenAI sent a memo to the US House Select Committee on China claiming DeepSeek systematically distilled its models through third party routers and unauthorised resellers. Two weeks later, Anthropic followed with allegations that DeepSeek, Moonshot, and Minimax created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts to conduct 16 million exchanges with Claude in what they call industrial scale di
Ep 10: Is the 2028 AI Crisis Real? Ft. Travis Good x Ben Fielding x Bailey Wang
On February 23rd, 2026, Citrini Research published The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis, a macro memo predicting AI agents taking over white collar jobs with the S&P down and mass unemployment. We debate whether this piece has substantial systematic risk or just common doomer fiction that underestimates how slow corporate adoption actually is. Three AI CEOs take on this matter head-on featuring
Ep 9: On Enterprise AI, Developers & the Future of Ambient | Max Lang, CTO of Ambient
Max Lang is the CTO of Ambient. He was one of the first 10 engineers at Cockroach Labs and helped ship their 1.0 release. We explore his journey from Microsoft and Amazon to building Ambient's verified inference infrastructure. At Microsoft, he worked on Bing shopping with a dedicated tester who found bugs daily. At Blend, he flew out to meet customers and built dashboarding tools that made re
Ep 8: AI v/s Governments : What is really going on? | Travis Good, CEO & Co-founder of Ambient
The US IRS system update is one of the most notoriously bad IT projects in history with billions wasted on fraud and abuse. The IRS was using punch cards and still hasn't gotten off them completely. We expose why governments are incredibly slow moving and not responsive to citizens they're accountable to. If they can't get taxation right, which funds everything they do and should be the most impor
Ep 7: Are you getting the AI you are paying for? | Travis Good, CEO & Co-founder of Ambient
New models launch everyday, API costs are staggering and subscription costs are at an all time high. In the midst of all that, there is a fundamental problem: you have no way to tell what model worked for you. In this episode, Travis breaks down the core problems with un-verifiable inference and centralised AI systems.~~~Hosted by Travis Good, CEO & Co-Founder of Ambient: an SVM-co
Ep 6: What if the AI race is just a delusion? | Travis Good, CEO & Co-founder of Ambient
There are certain groups of people who have come to the conclusion that LLMs are not a sufficient way to prepare for the race towards AGI. There are also certain groups of people already preparing for AI doomsday. This has left a whole suite of people either in desolation, denial or constant fear-mongering. This episode is a categorical analysis of the situation at hand by Travis and what actually
Ep 5: Can you really trust OpenAI or Google? | Travis Good, CEO & Co-founder of Ambient
Multiple questions have been raised about the trustworthiness of AI platforms like ChatGPT or Gemini, specifically in accordance to their biases and data-collection mechanisms. This episode is Travis's answer to the the situation at hand and what is at stake.~~~Hosted by Travis Good, CEO & Co-Founder of Ambient: an SVM-compatible PoW L1 that will serve as a cornerstone of the agent
Ep 4: AI needs to go way beyond Verified Inference. | Travis Good, CEO & Co-founder of Ambient
AI will become a race to the bottom with infrastructure providers and their incentives without Verified Inference. It all boils down to memory & salience: both of which are crucial for the agentic world we are about to inherit. This episode is a rundown of the same.~~~Hosted by Travis Good, CEO & Co-Founder of Ambient: an SVM-compatible PoW L1 that will serve as a cornerstone of the
Ep 3: What really happens to your AI prompts? | Travis Good, CEO & Co-founder of Ambient
It is safe to say that most of us are blissfully unaware of what happens to the prompts we give our LLMs to work on. This episode is an insider look into how LLMs work and parse your words, what goes on behind the hood and how the final result you get is more ambiguous than ever.~~~Hosted by Travis Good, CEO & Co-Founder of Ambient: an SVM-compatible PoW L1 that will serve as a cornerstone
Ep 2: What is Verified Inference? | Travis Good, CEO & Co-founder of Ambient
This episode is an explainer of Verified Inference and it's importance by Travis Good, CEO & Co-Founder of Ambient. He believes that most people hear “verified inference” and assume it’s marketing...but it isn’t. It is a precise question: can you prove that this exact model, in this exact state, produced this answer, at this time, without killing throughput? ~~~Hosted by Travis Good, CEO &
Ep 1: An introduction to Ambient | Travis Good, CEO & Co-founder
Introducing Ambient: an SVM-compatible PoW L1 that will serve as a cornerstone of the agentic economy. Ambient has raised $7.2M from a16z, CSX, Delphi Digital and Amber Group. It is 10x more efficient than incumbent crypto AI systems. Ambient believes AI is money and is working to democratize it. This episode is an introduction to Ambient and Verified Inference that powers it. It also goes on to d
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