The Neuron: AI Explained

BONUS: AI Tool Roundup: What’s Actually Worth Trying? Aug 21, 2026 01:51:32 AI tools are shipping faster than most normal humans can figure out what half of them actually do.So Thursday, August 20 at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET, we’re going LIVE to translate this week’s biggest AI launches into plain English. 😸The goal: understand what these tools actually are, who they’re for, what’s useful vs. hype, and which ones are worth trying.No three developers yelling model benchmarks at

This AI model will run the economy in 2030 w/ Alexandre Pasquiou Aug 19, 2026 00:45:53 AI can write code, summarize documents, and hold a conversation. But it still struggles with the structured data businesses rely on to predict churn, fraud, demand, pricing, and risk. Alexandre Pasquiou explains why language models flatten the relationships inside spreadsheets, how tabular foundation models learn from rows and columns, and why Neuralk believes one general model could replace hundr

BONUS: Learn Video Prompting for TOTAL Beginners w/ NEW LTX-2.5 + LTX Team Aug 14, 2026 00:58:52 Want to make better AI videos but have absolutely no idea what you’re doing?Perfect. Neither did most of us at first. 😹Join The Neuron LIVE this Thursday at 10 AM PT for a total beginner’s guide to AI video generation and video prompting, featuring the team behind the newly announced LTX-2.5.We’re going hands-on with the new model while learning the fundamentals of actually prompting video models

AI Can Now Write DNA. What Does This Promise, And What Could Go Wrong? With Eric Nguyen, co-founder and CEO of Radical Numerics Aug 12, 2026 00:51:17 AI can now read DNA like language, generate working biological sequences, and help scientists identify disease-related mutations. Radical Numerics CEO Eric Nguyen explains how genome language models work, why his earlier model Evo helped scientists design CRISPR systems and bacteriophage genomes, and how the company’s newer model, Omnii, combines DNA with RNA, proteins, and other biological signal

BONUS: How to Use AI Agents for Total Beginners: A Crash Course w/ Agent Builder James McAulay Aug 7, 2026 01:59:30 This is the #1 request we get every week: how to actually use agents to save time in your business.We’re bringing in James McAulay, founder of The Agent Accelerator, for a practical crash course on what AI agents are, how they work, and how beginners can start using them to get real work done.James has spent the past year building at the front lines of the agent economy. After helping ElevenLabs g

AI Agents Are About to Move Off the Cloud. Here’s What Changes Aug 5, 2026 00:54:37 What happens when the most capable AI lives in the cloud, but the work you want it to do is too private, expensive, or repetitive to send there every time?Dr. Olena Zhu, Head of AI Solutions & Ecosystem for Intel’s Client Computing Group, joins Corey Noles and Grant Harvey to explain Intel’s vision for hybrid AI: systems that route each task to the right place, whether that is a local model on

BONUS: How to Publish Your AI-Built App to the App Store Jul 31, 2026 01:08:42 Update! The definitive follow-along walkthrough guide is ready! Check it out here: https://theneuron.ai/explainer-articles/how-to-publish-an-ai-built-iphone-app-to-the-app-store/Building an app with AI is getting easier. Getting it through Apple's doors is still a different adventure.Join Corey Noles and Grant Harvey live on Thursday, July 30 at [10AM PT / 12PM CT / 1PM ET] as they walk throug

AI Can Build It, But Can AI Ship It? Jul 29, 2026 00:23:33 AI can now help almost anyone turn an idea into a working prototype. But what happens when that vibe-coded experiment needs to become secure, reliable software that real customers can trust—and pay for?Corey Noles and Grant Harvey speak with Deap Ubhi, Global Director of Technology for Startups at AWS, about AWS Startup Advisor, an AI-powered builder assistant designed to bring AWS architecture, s

BONUS: We Built 15+ Apps With AI. Here’s What Actually Worked Jul 24, 2026 02:20:41 Join Grant Harvey and Corey Noles live on Thursday, July 23, for a show-and-tell featuring the apps, games, extensions, and delightfully specific tools they’ve built with AI, plus tips to help you build your own without burning through as many tokens.Corey will demo:☕ Bean Counter, which tracks how many cups of coffee he has saved🗂️ Tab Crusher, a Chrome extension for conquering tab overload✍️ Thr

Will AI Robots Perform Surgery Better Than Humans? Jul 22, 2026 01:10:16 Autonomous surgery may sound futuristic, but automation already plays an important role in procedures requiring extraordinary precision. Mathias Unberath of Inner Logic joins Grant Harvey to explain how AI could help surgical robots understand anatomy, respond to unexpected events, and gradually take on more responsibility in the operating room. They explore which procedures could be automated fir

BONUS: AI Agents Are Here. Now What? Jul 17, 2026 02:58:07 Neuron Live is back and we are going deep on Microsoft’s big move in AI agents. 🤖This week, we’re joined by Bryan Goode, Corporate Vice President of Business Applications Marketing at Microsoft, to unpack Microsoft Agent 365, the new control plane for AI agents.Agent 365 is Microsoft’s answer to a question every company is about to face: how do you actually deploy, manage, and secure AI agents at

Inside the Hidden Geometry of AI Jul 15, 2026 00:57:36 What if neural networks are less like mysterious black boxes and more like systems we can inspect, debug, and eventually design with intention?In this episode of The Neuron: AI Explained, Corey Noles and Grant Harvey talk with Eric Ho, Cofounder & CEO of Goodfire, an AI interpretability company working to understand what’s happening inside neural networks. Eric explains why models may contain

AI That Rides Along With Truck Drivers Jul 13, 2026 00:41:40 AI agents are not just coming for laptops, inboxes, and office workflows. Samsara Cofounder and CTO John Bicket says they’re also coming for fleets, drivers, dispatchers, safety teams, and the physical infrastructure that keeps the world moving.Recorded on-site at Samsara Beyond 2026 in Las Vegas, this conversation explores how Samsara is layering AI onto dash cams, telematics devices, asset track

BONUS: GPT-5.6 Sol Goes Live: Must-Try Use Cases We’re Testing Live Jul 10, 2026 02:13:45 Join Grant Harvey and Corey Noles from The Neuron live on Thursday, July 9 at 10AM PT as we test OpenAI’s new GPT-5.6 model family in real time: Sol, Terra, and Luna.Instead of just reading benchmark charts, we’re going hands-on with the use cases people should actually try first.We’ll test:🛠️ Building a working mini-app from a messy product idea🧹 Refactoring a broken codebase without babysitting

ComfyUI Proves AI Art Is Not Zero Effort Jul 8, 2026 00:57:54 Most AI image tools give you a prompt box and a result. ComfyUI gives creators the pipeline underneath - the models, parameters, nodes, and repeatable workflows that can turn visual AI from a toy into production infrastructure.In this episode of The Neuron, Corey Noles and Grant Harvey talk with Yannik Marek, co-founder and original creator of ComfyUI, about why node-based workflows matter, how op

BONUS: Government Banning AI Fallout: China, the economy, what's at risk, and what you should do. Jul 3, 2026 01:23:47 This week on The Neuron: AI Explained, Grant and Corey break down the strangest week in frontier AI so far: Fable 5 relaunching and getting yanked almost immediately, OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 rollout arriving in a weird half-launch state, and the bigger question underneath all of it.What happens when governments can slow, restrict, or pause the most powerful AI systems right as the economy starts dependin

Can AI Agents Learn From Expert Corrections? Jul 1, 2026 00:52:36 OpenAI and Thrive Holdings built Tax AI, a Codex-powered agent that helps prepare complex tax returns while preserving evidence for accountant review. In this episode, Corey and Grant talk with OpenAI’s John de Wasseige and Arthur Fernandes Araujo about how expert corrections become structured signals, how Codex turns repeated failures into evals and scoped engineering tasks, and why the best AI d

BONUS: Humanoid Robots Need More Than Servo Motors: Here's What Jun 26, 2026 01:39:31 Humanoid robotics challenges go beyond movement and servo motors. The hardest problems are often AI problems. Bringing intelligence into the physical world means dealing with gravity, friction, uncertainty, and real consequences. Mistakes can break hardware.This week on Neuron Live, we’re joined by Nikita Rudin, Co-founder and CEO of Flexion Robotics, to unpack what it actually takes to build inte

HP Built an AI That Fixes Your Computer Before It Breaks Jun 24, 2026 00:51:03 Larry Meadows, Head of Product Strategy & Evangelism for HP's Workforce Experience Platform (WXP), joins us to break down how HP is using AI to predict and prevent IT problems before employees ever notice them. We get a live demo of the platform—from AI-powered software recommendations across 50M+ devices to automated remediation in 3–4 clicks—and dig into the global memory crisis, shadow

BONUS: AI Skills vs Agents vs GPTs: Which One Do I Use? Jun 19, 2026 02:06:28 Confused by AI Skills, Projects, Gems, Custom GPTs, and Agents?You're not alone. It's important to separate which is best for which use-case, because each has a place depending on what you're trying to get done. In this beginner-friendly live episode, we break down what these AI terms actually mean, who creates them, and when everyday users should use each one.Think of this as your pla

Why Frontier AI Still Sees Like a Toddler, w/ Andrew Dai Jun 17, 2026 00:42:57 AI can write code, pass exams, and summarize the web, but ask it to reason through a real-world image, and the magic often breaks. Andrew Dai, co-founder and CEO of Elorian, joins The Neuron to explain why visual reasoning may be one of the biggest unsolved problems in AI.Andrew spent years at Google Brain and DeepMind, including work connected to Gemini and sparse mixture-of-experts systems. Now,

BONUS: Scott Hanselman Showcases Engineering with AI LIVE from Microsoft Build 2026 Jun 12, 2026 00:44:25 Live from Microsoft Build, Corey Noles sits down with Scott Hanselman for a hands-on Neuron LIVE episode about AI-augmented software development, how it differs from just "vibe coding", and the surprisingly practical things people can now build with tools like GitHub Copilot and more.Scott is one of the best technical explainers in software: a longtime Microsoft and GitHub developer, tea

Mustafa Suleyman on Microsoft’s Humanist Superintelligence Bet Jun 10, 2026 00:14:50 In this episode of The Neuron, Corey Noles sits down with Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, at Microsoft Build 2026 to unpack Microsoft’s next AI chapter: seven new MAI models, a push toward in-house model development, and the idea of Humanist Superintelligence.Mustafa explains how Microsoft is thinking about AI that can reason, code, generate images, transcribe speech, and power real product

BONUS: New GPT Memory Feature, GPT-5.6 Rumors, Hermes Desktop Agent, New Codex Plugins, MAI-2.5 Image, Etc. Jun 5, 2026 02:02:11 Everyone is talking about Mercury-alpha, the mystery model that many believe could be GPT-5.6.In this live discussion, we're separating fact from speculation and unpacking what would actually matter if OpenAI releases a new flagship model this week.We'll cover:🔹 What Mercury-alpha is (and why people think it's GPT-5.6)🔹 The biggest rumors and evidence so far🔹 What a new OpenAI model wo

The Internet Needs Proof You’re Human Jun 3, 2026 00:55:46 How do you prove there’s a real human on the other side of the screen when AI can generate faces, IDs, accounts, agents, and entire swarms of bots?Tiago Sada, Chief Product Officer at Tools for Humanity, joins The Neuron to explain why proof of human may become one of the internet’s most important trust layers. Tools for Humanity is building the technology behind World and World ID, a system desig

BONUS: A Total Beginner’s Guide to AI Agents & Automation May 29, 2026 02:01:54 AI agents and automation sound complex, but they’re really about one simple idea: helping you spend less time on repetitive work and more time on the things that need your judgment.In this beginner-friendly Neuron Live, we’ll break down what AI agents are, how automation actually works, and how to start using both without getting overwhelmed.You’ll learn:🤖 How AI agents are different from regular

What Comes After GPUs? Great Sky’s Bet on Brain-Like AI May 27, 2026 00:59:54 What if the next big AI breakthrough is not a bigger model, but a completely different kind of computer?Jeff Shainline, co-founder and CEO of Great Sky, joins The Neuron to explain how his team is building brain-inspired AI hardware using superconductors, photonics, and analog computation. Great Sky’s architecture, called Superconducting Optoelectronic Networks, or SOENs, is designed to move beyon

BONUS: Building Real-Time AI Voice Agents with LiveKit's Ben Cherry May 22, 2026 01:09:02 Voice agents are moving from “cool demo” to real product infrastructure.In this livestream, we’re joined by Ben Cherry of LiveKit to break down what it actually takes to build real-time AI agents that can listen, respond, interrupt, call tools, and work in production.LiveKit is an open source framework and developer platform for building voice, video, and physical AI agents in production.We’ll tal

The AI Trying to Solve Math’s Biggest Mystery w/ Tudor Achim of Harmonic May 20, 2026 00:46:34 What happens when AI stops simply giving answers and starts producing proofs a computer can verify?In this episode of The Neuron, Corey Noles and Grant Harvey talk with Tudor Achim, Co-Founder and CEO of Harmonic, the company behind Aristotle — a formal reasoning system built to generate machine-checkable mathematical proofs. Tudor explains why math may be the clearest test case for moving AI from

BONUS: Can AI Actually Be Your Therapist? We Ask the CEO Building One May 15, 2026 01:13:55 May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and as AI becomes more embedded in our daily lives, one of the biggest questions we face is whether these systems can responsibly support emotional and psychological well-being.AI chatbots are increasingly being used for emotional support, but recent lawsuits faced by OpenAI and earlier ones targeting character.ai and Google's AI Overviews, as well as clin

Inside Genspark: $0 to $250M ARR in 12 Months with Wen Sang May 13, 2026 00:44:38 Genspark went from AI search startup to autonomous AI agent platform, hitting $250M ARR in 12 months with no paid ads until they bought a Super Bowl spot. Co-founder and COO Wen Sang joins Corey and Grant to explain what "AI employee" actually means, demos Genspark Claw live (including buying us coffee mid-interview), and lays out his big thesis: legacy software is becoming infrastructur

BONUS: The AI Starter Kit: What to Try...and What to Ignore May 8, 2026 02:03:15 New to AI and not sure where to start?Join us live Thursday for The AI Starter Kit: What to Try...and What to Ignore.This beginner-friendly session will help you cut through the noise and focus on the AI tools, habits, and prompts that actually matter. By the end, you’ll know what to try first, what not to worry about yet, and how to ask better questions when you get stuck.In this session, we’ll c

Can AI Really Design New Drugs? Google DeepMind Spin-out Isomorphic Labs Explains May 6, 2026 00:42:28 Can AI move from predicting proteins to actually designing new drugs? Isomorphic Labs is trying to answer one of the biggest questions in science.In this episode of The Neuron, Corey Noles and Grant Harvey talk with Rebecca Paul, Head of Medicinal Drug Design at Isomorphic Labs, and Michael Schaarschmidt, Foundational AI Research Lead.They explain why drug discovery is so slow, expensive, and fail

BONUS: OpenAI Workspace Agents 101: Build, Run, and Scale AI Workflows May 1, 2026 01:24:03 Join us Thursday as we break down OpenAI’s new Workspace Agents and what they mean for the future of work.We’ll cover:⚙️ What workspace agents are🤖 How they differ from regular chatbots🏢 Where they fit into real team workflows🚀 How to start working with them effectively🔄 What agentic AI means for workplace automation📈 Why teams are shifting from one-off prompts to repeatable AI-powered processesWh

How Google's New AI Turns Anyone Into a Music Producer (Flow Music Demo) Apr 29, 2026 00:38:58 Google just acquired an AI startup that lets anyone create real music, music videos, and custom instruments — no experience required. In this hands-on episode, Corey sits down with Kendall Rankin from Google to demo Flow Music (formerly Producer AI), the generative music tool now living inside Google Labs. They build a garage rock song about AI from scratch, generate a music video with VEO, and di

BONUS: GPT 5.5 LIVE - The New GPT "Spud" Model is Here; Let's Break It Apr 25, 2026 01:39:35 OpenAI dropped GPT-5.5, so we did the only reasonable thing: went live immediately and tried to break it.In this off-the-cuff Neuron Live, Corey and Grant walk through OpenAI's GPT-5.5 release notes, benchmark claims, rollout details, and early access reactions before testing the model live across coding, reasoning, creativity, web research, and absurd prompt challenges. We also compare a few

BONUS: LIVE: Claude Opus 4.7 Just Dropped. Here's What Actually Changed. Apr 17, 2026 01:01:31 Grant and Kyle dive into a comprehensive review and live test of the newly released Claude Opus 4.7, a cutting-edge large language model. This session explores its capabilities for coding and game dev, specifically referencing the "Renaissance / Plan Final Fantasy Tactics RPG Game" project. Discover how this ai model performs under pressure and its potential impact on game design workflo

This Company Mapped the Entire World in 3D. Here's Why. Apr 15, 2026 01:02:32 AI can reason about text and images, but it still struggles to understand the physical world. In this episode, Grant sits down with Peter Wilczynski, Chief Product Officer at Vantor (formerly Maxar Intelligence / Digital Globe), to unpack why spatial intelligence is emerging as critical AI infrastructure. Peter spent years at Palantir building ontology systems and mapping tools for defense operati

He Got 1 Million Followers in 30 Days—Here's How AI Changed Everything Apr 12, 2026 00:56:07 Brandon Baum — better known as heybrandonb to his 25M+ followers — built a YouTube empire making cinematic, effects-heavy videos that look like they cost millions but were born in a bedroom during COVID. In this episode, we get into how he went from 2 views to a million followers in a month, why he shoots everything on iPhones with a custom 3D-printed dual-phone rig, how AI tools like Firefly Boar

BONUS: We Built an App Live in 10 Minutes with AI (Vercel's CPO Shows How) Apr 10, 2026 01:59:18 Let’s build with v0 in real time. We’re going LIVE with Tom Occhino, Chief Product Officer at Vercel, to explore vibe coding and take a hands-on look at v0, Vercel’s AI-powered development platform for building apps faster. We’ll show v0 live and walk through how it turns a simple prompt into a real, shippable interface. Tom will also explain what “vibe coding” actually looks like in practice, inc

This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI Apr 8, 2026 00:46:49 A team of former Google DeepMind researchers just raised $2B to build America's answer to DeepSeek. In this episode, we sit down with Ioannis Antonoglou (Yannis), co-founder and CTO of Reflection AI, who helped create AlphaGo—the AI that beat the world champion in the game of Go back in 2016. Yannis breaks down what Reflection is building, why they're releasing frontier-level AI models as

BONUS: How We Would Teach AI From Scratch in 2026 Apr 3, 2026 02:23:23 This video is a re-upload from our livestream on YouTube. Most people are still using ChatGPT the way they used Google in 2005: type a question, get an answer, close the tab.In 2026, that’s like owning a professional kitchen and only using the microwave.In this episode, Grant and Corey walk through The Neuron’s 5-Level AI Proficiency Stack — a framework for going from “I use ChatGPT sometimes” to

Google's Secret Robotics Play That Nobody's Talking About Apr 1, 2026 00:49:27 Brian Gerkey is the CTO of Intrinsic, the robotics software company that started inside Alphabet and now sits inside Google, working directly with DeepMind and Gemini. Brian co-created ROS (Robot Operating System), the open-source platform used by over 1 million developers that powers everything from factory robots to NASA's Astrobee on the International Space Station. In this episode, Grant t

The Hidden Industry That Controls The Tech Your Company Uses Mar 30, 2026 01:11:00 Most businesses don't buy their AI services directly from OpenAI or Google—they buy it through a massive, invisible distribution network called "the channel." Victoria Durgin and Katie Bavoso of Channel Insider join Corey and Grant to explain how this hidden industry works, why AI is shaking it up unlike anything before, and what it means for businesses trying to adopt AI in 2026.Sub

How to Be "Agent Native" in 2026 w/ Every CEO Dan Shipper Mar 27, 2026 01:38:03 In this episode of The Neuron Podcast, Corey Noles and Grant Harvey sit down with Dan Shipper, CEO of Every, to talk about agent-native engineering—the framework his team uses to build and ship AI-powered products at a pace most companies can't match.Dan walks us through what happened when his AI document editor Proof went viral (and then went down), why he believes the way we build software i

Inside the Secret Labs Where AI Learns to Work Mar 25, 2026 01:02:43 Nick Heiner leads RL environment development at Surge AI, the bootstrapped company that hit $1.2B in revenue training models for OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google. In this episode, we break down reinforcement learning environments—the secret training grounds where AI agents learn to actually do work. Nick shares why even the best models fail 40% of real workplace tasks, what happened when 200 Wa

The Privacy Nightmare Hiding Inside Every AI Chat Mar 22, 2026 01:40:48 Proton—the company behind the world's largest encrypted email service with 100M+ users—just launched Lumo, a privacy-first AI assistant. We sit down with Eamonn Maguire, who leads Proton's ML team and built Lumo from the ground up. Eamonn has a PhD from Oxford and a postdoc at CERN, and he breaks down how Lumo's encryption actually works, why Big Tech's business model prevents them

Carta’s CMO Reveals What’s Really Happening to Startups Mar 20, 2026 00:49:02 Carta CMO Nicole Baer joins Corey and Grant to break down the real state of startups in 2026. With half of all venture funding now flowing to AI-native companies and seed deals at a six-year low, the startup playbook has fundamentally changed. Nicole shares Carta’s data on solo founders, the new billion-dollar timeline, why the Bay Area’s grip is tighter than ever, and how AI is reshaping everythi

Kari Briski at GTC 2026: The Future of NVIDIA AI & Nemotron 3 Mar 19, 2026 00:22:49 Recorded live at NVIDIA GTC 2026 in San Jose, Corey sits down with returning guest Kari Briski—VP of Generative AI Software for Enterprise at NVIDIA—to unpack their biggest open-source model yet: Nemotron 3 Super. Kari breaks down why a 120B-parameter model runs as fast as a 12B one, how multi-agent systems are going from science fiction to production, and why Jensen Huang is calling this "a

The AI Agent That Compressed 8 Years of R&D Into 2 Weeks Mar 15, 2026 00:47:28 Scientific discovery has always been slow. Until now.In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Qichao Hu, CEO of SES AI, to reveal how they are using AI agents to turn a 8-year research cycle into a 2-week sprint. By combining autonomous "wet labs" with advanced AI models, they are solving one of the hardest physics problems in tech: the battery bottleneck.We dive deep into how this "Mo

AI Just Democratized Filmmaking (w/ LTX Co-Founder) Mar 12, 2026 01:02:10 In this episode, we sit down with Yaron Inger, co-founder of Lightricks and LTX, to explore the future of open-source AI video.LTX-2 is currently the #1 ranked open-source audio & video model on Hugging Face — with over 4.5 million downloads in just two months.But what makes it different?It runs locally.It can be fine-tuned on your own IP.It integrates into real video workflows.And it might ch

24 Billion AI Uses Later: What Canva Learned About the Future of Design Mar 10, 2026 00:55:06 You've probably used Canva—but you probably haven't seen what it can do with AI. In this episode of The Neuron, we sit down with Danny Wu, Head of AI Products at Canva, to explore how the platform went from a simple design tool to a full-blown "Creative Operating System" powered by AI—serving 230+ million users every month.Danny walks us through how Canva's MCP server lets yo

BONUS: GPT 5.4 LIVE Test & Learn to Code in 2026: What's Essential vs. What AI Handles Now Mar 6, 2026 02:00:37 Ryan Carson taught over 1,000,000 people how to code at Treehouse and spent 25% of his entire life doing it. Now he says everything about that process needs to change.In this livestream, Ryan joins Corey Noles and Grant Harvey to rethink programming education from scratch. When AI agents can write production code, pass competitive coding challenges, and ship features while you sleep.We'll cover:🧠

AI Is Helping Build the Power Source It Desperately Needs (Brandon Sorbom w/ Commonwealth Fusion Systems) Mar 3, 2026 01:03:59 AI data centers are going to double their power consumption by 2030—so where's all that energy coming from? One answer is fusion, the same process that powers the sun.In this episode of The Neuron, we're joined by Brandon Sorbom, Chief Science Officer and Co-founder of Commonwealth Fusion Systems, to explore how his company is racing to build the world's first commercial fusion power plant—and how

BONUS: Gemini 3 Flash (Smartest, Cheapest AI) with Google DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick Feb 27, 2026 01:59:28 From the YT live archives: Google just dropped Gemini 3 Flash—a model that outperforms Gemini 2.5 Pro (their last top model) while running 3x faster at less than 1/4 the cost. It's frontier-level reasoning at Flash-level speed, and it's rolling out globally right now.We're sitting down with Logan Kilpatrick from Google DeepMind to explore what this actually means for developers, knowle

Diffusion for Text: Why Mercury Could Make LLMs 10x Faster Feb 24, 2026 00:48:32 Diffusion models changed how we generate images and video—now they’re coming for text.In this episode, we sit down with Stefano Ermon, Stanford computer science professor and founder of Inception Labs, to unpack how diffusion works for language, why it can generate in parallel (instead of token-by-token), and what that means for latency, cost, and real-time AI products.We talk through:The simplest

Can AI Improve Customer Service Without Killing Jobs? Crescendo Thinks So Feb 20, 2026 00:57:29 Customer service is one of the industries most impacted by AI — but what if AI alone isn’t the answer?In this episode of The Neuron Podcast, Grant Harvey and Corey Noles sit down with Matt Price, Founder & CEO of Crescendo, to explore how AI and humans working together can outperform automation alone. After spending 13+ years at Zendesk, Matt is now building an AI-native customer experience pl

How Google's Gemini CLI Creator Ships 150 Features a Week Feb 17, 2026 00:56:04 Taylor Mullen, Principal Engineer at Google and creator of Gemini CLI, reveals how his team ships 100-150 features and bug fixes every week—using Gemini CLI to build itself. In this first in-depth interview about Gemini CLI's origin story, we explore why command-line AI agents are having a "terminal renaissance," how Taylor manages swarms of parallel AI agents, and the techniques (li

BONUS: OpenAI Codex Demo, Learn the Absolute Basics of Coding with AI Feb 13, 2026 02:00:20 In this week's live-stream replay, we go live for a 2-hour, hands-on deep dive into GPT-5.1 Codex Max with Alexander Embiricos, product lead for OpenAI Codex. You’ll walk out feeling like an agentic-coding wizard, even if you’re starting from zero. GPT-5.1 Codex Max is OpenAI’s latest frontier agentic coding model. It’s built on an upgraded reasoning backbone and trained to handle real-world s

Why Energy-Based Models Could Be the Next Big Shift in AI Feb 10, 2026 00:55:39 Modern AI has been dominated by one idea: predict the next token. But what if intelligence doesn’t have to work that way?In this episode of The Neuron, we’re joined by Eve Bodnia, Founder and CEO of Logical Intelligence, to explore energy-based models (EBMs)—a radically different approach to AI reasoning that doesn’t rely on language, tokens, or next-word prediction.With a background in theoretica

BONUS: Our 2026 AI Predictions.... Who Wins, Who Loses, and What Changes Everything? Feb 6, 2026 02:40:33 AI is moving fast — and 2026 is shaping up to be a turning point.In this livestream, Corey and Grant from The Neuron break down our biggest AI predictions for 2026, including:🏆 Which companies, tools, and model types are most likely to come out on top📉 Who could lose ground (and what’s driving the shift)🎲 The wildcards most people aren’t factoring in yet👀 What to watch across AI policy, agents, op

Inside Google Labs: 3 AI Tools That Will Change How You Create Feb 3, 2026 01:57:11 In this special episode, we go hands-on with three cutting-edge AI tools from Google Labs. First, Jaclyn Konzelman (Director of Product Management) demos Mixboard, an AI-powered concepting board that transforms ideas into visual presentations using Nano Banana Pro. Then, Thomas Iljic (Senior Director of Product Management) shows us Flow, Google's AI filmmaking tool that lets you create, edit,

This AI Agent Builds Better Code Than Most Developers (Factory AI) Jan 27, 2026 00:56:03 Autonomous coding agents are moving from demos to real production workflows. In this episode, Factory AI co-founder and CTO Eno Reyes explains what "Droids" really are—fully autonomous agents that can take tickets, modify real codebases, run tests, and work inside existing dev workflows.We dig into Factory's context compression research (which outperformed both OpenAI and Anthropic), what makes a

OpenAI Researcher Explains How AI Hides Its Thinking (w/ OpenAI’s Bowen Baker) Jan 23, 2026 00:55:16 AI reasoning models don’t just give answers — they plan, deliberate, and sometimes try to cheat.In this episode of The Neuron, we’re joined by Bowen Baker, Research Scientist at OpenAI, to explore whether we can monitor AI reasoning before things go wrong — and why that transparency may not last forever.Bowen walks us through real examples of AI reward hacking, explains why monitoring chain-of-tho

The Hidden Cost of AI Agents No One Talks About Jan 20, 2026 01:00:54 Everyone is rushing to build AI agents — but most companies are setting themselves up for failure.In this episode of The Neuron, Darin Patterson, VP of Market Strategy at Make, explains why agentic AI only works if your automation foundation is solid first. We break down when to use deterministic workflows vs AI agents, how to avoid fragile automation sprawl, and why visibility into your entire au

Why IBM Wants AI to Be Boring Jan 13, 2026 00:53:08 IBM just released Granite 4.0, a new family of open language models designed to be fast, memory-efficient, and enterprise-ready — and it represents a very different philosophy from today’s frontier AI race.In this episode of The Neuron, IBM Research’s David Cox joins us to unpack why IBM treats AI models as tools rather than entities, how hybrid architectures dramatically reduce memory and cost, a

This AI Grows a Brain During Training (Pathway’s AI w/ Zuzanna Stamirowska) Jan 6, 2026 00:48:50 Imagine an AI that doesn’t just output answers — it remembers, adapts, and reasons over time like a living system. In this episode of The Neuron, Corey Noles and Grant Harvey sit down with Zuzanna Stamirowska, CEO & Cofounder of Pathway, to break down the world’s first post-Transformer frontier model: BDH — the Dragon Hatchling architecture.Zuzanna explains why current language models are stuc

This 24-Year-Old Raised $64M to Build an AI Smarter Than the World's Best Mathematicians Dec 30, 2025 00:59:15 Carina Hong dropped out of Stanford's PhD program to build "mathematical superintelligence" — and just raised $64M to do it. In this episode, we explore what that actually means: an AI that doesn't just solve math problems but discovers new theorems, proves them formally, and gets smarter with each iteration. Carina explains how her team solved a 130-year-old problem about Lyapunov functions, disp

How AI is Reinventing Chemistry (From a Trailer Lab to a $32B Partnership) Dec 23, 2025 00:40:53 Nick Talken started a 3D printing materials company in a trailer lab in his co-founder's backyard, sold it to a 145-year-old German chemical giant, then spun out an AI platform that's now transforming R&D for Fortune 100 companies. Albert Invent's foundational AI model—trained on 15 million molecular structures—is helping scientists at companies like Kenvue (maker of Tylenol, Neutr

Your AI Meeting Agents Aren’t Enough: Otter.ai's Sam Liang on Enterprise Knowledge Dec 16, 2025 00:50:43 Most enterprise knowledge is trapped in meetings—and then lost forever. Otter.ai CEO Sam Liang explains how his company turned meeting transcription into a $100M+ revenue business by solving a problem most companies don't even realize they have.In this episode, we cover:- Why meetings are your company's most expensive activity (and how to measure ROI on them)- Building a "meeting-cent

The Future of Windows: AI-Native Computing with Pavan Davuluri Dec 3, 2025 00:30:41 In this episode, we sit down with Pavan Davuluri, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Windows + Devices business, to explore how Windows is evolving into an AI-native platform. Pavan leads the team responsible for strategy, design, and delivery of Windows products across the full stack - from silicon and devices to platform, OS, apps, experiences, security, and cloud. With 23 years at Micr

The "Android Moment" for AI Infrastructure: Why Modular Just Raised $250M Nov 26, 2025 01:01:02 While everyone obsesses over which AI model is smartest, a quiet revolution is happening in the infrastructure layer underneath. Modular just raised $250M at a $1.6B valuation to solve a problem most people don't know exists: AI is locked into expensive, vendor-specific hardware ecosystems. Tim Davis, Co-Founder & President of Modular, joins us to explain why his company is building the "hyper

Inside Microsoft's AI Superfactory with Scott Guthrie Nov 23, 2025 00:32:01 In this episode, we sit down with Scott Guthrie, EVP of Microsoft's Cloud + AI Group, to explore the architecture behind Azure's AI Superfactory. Scott oversees Microsoft's hyperscale cloud computing solutions including Azure, generative AI platforms, and next-generation infrastructure. We dive into Microsoft's strategic approach to AI datacenter buildout, the innovative Fairwater

How 48% of Non-Engineers Are Shipping Production Software (with Retool CEO David Hsu) Nov 17, 2025 00:50:57 Retool CEO David Hsu reveals that 48% of non-engineers are now shipping software. We explore how AI is democratizing software development, why engineers might stop coding internal apps within 18-24 months, and what this means for the future of work. David shares insights from Retool's survey of 10,000+ companies, Retool’s new AppGen program, and how "tomorrow's developers" are us

Teaching Computers to Smell?! The AI That's Digitizing Scent Nov 7, 2025 00:52:42 Computers can see and hear, but they've never been able to smell—until now. In this episode, we sit down with Alex Wiltschko, Founder & CEO of Osmo, to explore how his company is using AI to digitize scent. Alex walks us through how they "teleported" the smell of a fresh plum across their lab, created the world's first AI-designed fragrance molecules, and built Osmo Studio—a

The Humans Behind AI: How Invisible Technologies Trains 80% of the World's Top Models Nov 7, 2025 01:02:09 Behind every AI response, there's an invisible army of humans who trained it. In this episode, we talk with Casper Elliott from Invisible Technologies - the company that's trained 80% of the world's top AI models. We explore how models actually learn, why data quality matters more than quantity, what enterprises get wrong about AI deployment, and whether AI will really automate everyon

The Humans Behind AI: How Invisible Technologies Trains 80% of the World's Top Models Nov 3, 2025 01:02:09 Ever wondered who's actually teaching ChatGPT and Claude how to think? Meet Caspar Eliot from Invisible Technologies - the company behind 80% of the world's top AI model training. In this eye-opening conversation, we uncover the massive human workforce behind "artificial" intelligence, why your League of Legends skills might land you an AI job, and the shocking mistakes enterpris

Inside Adobe's AI Strategy with CTO Ely Greenfield Oct 31, 2025 00:32:24 From Adobe Max 2025 in Los Angeles, Corey and Grant sit down with Ely Greenfield, Adobe's Chief Technology Officer, to explore the philosophy behind Adobe's practical AI strategy. Discover why the crowd went wild over AI renaming layers, how Adobe thinks about "additive not subtractive" AI, and where creative tools are heading next. Ely shares Adobe's vision for making AI a c

AI PC Buyer’s Guide: Specs That Actually Matter (ft. Dell’s Logan Lawler) Oct 24, 2025 01:22:40 AI is changing what we need from our computers—but does that mean you need an "AI PC"? Corey and Grant sit down with Logan Lawler from Dell Technologies who leads Dell Pro Max AI solutions to decode what matters (and what doesn't) when buying or upgrading your next computer. From CPUs and GPUs to memory, NPUs, and traps to avoid, this episode is your practical roadmap for staying fut

NVIDIA’s Kari Briski on How to Use NVIDIA Nemotron Open-Source AI Oct 15, 2025 00:38:25 Learn how to use NVIDIA's Nemotron open-source AI models with VP Kari Briski. We cover what Nemotron is, minimum hardware specs, the difference between Nano/Super/Ultra tiers, when to choose local vs cloud AI, and practical deployment patterns for businesses. Perfect for anyone wanting to run powerful AI locally with full control and privacy.Resources mentioned:NVIDIA Nemotron Models: https://www.

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