The Neuron: AI Explained
The Neuron is a podcast companion to the popular daily newsletter that covers the latest AI developments, trends, and research. Hosted by Grant Harvey and Corey Noles, it aims to deliver digestible, informative, and authoritative takes on AI to help listeners stay up to speed. New episodes are released on Wednesdays and Sundays across all podcasting platforms and YouTube.
Episodes
What If Apps Didn’t Need Code?
Runway co-founder Anastasis Germanidis explains Solaris, an “interface world model” that generates software frame by frame instead of rendering a traditional interface from HTML and CSS. The model reacts directly to clicks, drags, and keyboard input, while language models or agents can still handle logic and tool calls behind the scenes. The conversation explores personalized interfaces, local-ver
BONUS: OpenAI DevDay 2026 LIVE WATCH PARTY: Reacting to Every Big Announcement
OpenAI DevDay 2026 is here, and we’re hosting a watch party to watch the keynote LIVE.Join Grant Harvey and Corey Noles from The Neuron as we react to OpenAI’s biggest DevDay announcements in real time, figure out what’s actually new, and translate the demos into what they mean for the rest of us.📅 OPENAI DEVDAY KEYNOTE:Tuesday, September 2910:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ETFeaturing Sam Altma
Can AI Help Cure Genetic Disease?
Corey and Grant sit down with Mammoth Biosciences co-founder and CEO Dr. Trevor Martin to explain how CRISPR is moving from a laboratory tool toward one-time medicines. Trevor breaks down how Mammoth searches massive biological datasets for new CRISPR systems, why AI is useful but still constrained by missing clinical data, and what it would take to build a feedback loop between AI models, wet lab
BONUS: GPT-6 Sol vs Claude Opus 5.5 LIVE: Which AI Model Is Better?
GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, AND Claude Opus 5.5 all just dropped. So which model should you actually use?Join Grant Harvey and Corey Noles from The Neuron LIVE today as we put the newest models from OpenAI and Anthropic head-to-head.OpenAI says GPT-6 Sol makes roughly half as many mistakes as GPT-5.6 Sol, bringing Astra-level reliability to a much cheaper model, while GPT-6 Luna is designed for fast, h
How Hume AI Is Teaching Voice Systems to Understand More Than Words
AI voices can already sound startlingly human. The harder problem is whether they actually understand how humans speak.Andrew Ettinger, CEO of Hume AI, joins Corey Noles and Grant Harvey to explain why voice AI still has a “listening problem.” A transcript can capture the words someone says while stripping away tone, hesitation, frustration, background noise, dialect, speaker identity, and the oth
BONUS: OpenClaw 2.0 with Chief Architect Vincent Koc
OpenClaw 2.0 just landed, and we’re going straight to the person helping build it. 🦞This week on The Neuron LIVE, Vincent Koc, Chief Architect of OpenClaw, joins us for a hands-on look at the biggest OpenClaw update yet.Vincent will demo OpenClaw 2.0, break down what’s new, and show how OpenClaw is evolving from an open-source personal AI assistant into a broader agentic computing platform.We’ll c
Inside CoreWeave’s AI Infrastructure With Chen Goldberg
AI infrastructure used to be the part developers were supposed to forget about. What happens when the infrastructure itself starts determining what AI can doCorey Noles sits down with Chen Goldberg, Executive Vice President, Product & Engineering at CoreWeave, to unpack the systems underneath the next wave of AI. Using CoreWeave’s newly announced multi-rack NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 deployment a
BONUS: A Beginner’s Guide to GitHub, LIVE with Cassidy Williams
UPDATE: Blog version here https://theneuron.ai/explainer-articles/github-for-beginners-how-to-use-it-with-ai-coding-agents/GitHub can feel intimidating if you didn’t come up as a developer, especially now that AI coding agents can build software before you’ve learned what a repo, branch, or pull request even is.That’s why The Neuron is going LIVE with Cassidy Williams from GitHub for a beginner-fr
GPT-6 Astra One-Shot Demos
Corey and Grant put GPT-6 Astra through six identical one-shot build tests to see what it can create with almost no follow-up instruction. The episode covers an interactive black hole lab, a Blender scene, a physics game, a photo-to-sci-fi-world reconstruction, a mechanical sound diagnostic prototype, and the latest version of Cat Doom. The biggest through-line is how much capability now comes out
BONUS: Apple’s AI Era Starts Now? Meta’s Free AI Agent + OpenAI’s $1M Math Fight
We’re going LIVE after Apple’s biggest event of the year to break down John Ternus’s first major keynote as CEO and the big question: Is Apple finally entering its AI era?We’ll unpack what Apple revealed around Siri, Apple Intelligence, and its broader AI strategy, plus what feels different under Ternus.Then, we’re breaking down a packed day of AI news:🍎 Apple’s AI era: What the announcements tell
OpenAI Astra, Local AI, and the Hardware Race
What happens when AI models get powerful enough that the bottleneck stops being the model, and starts becoming the computer, the power grid, or the safeguards around it?Corey Noles and Grant Harvey break down a packed week in AI, starting with OpenAI’s expected Astra model and the controversy around recurrent-depth reasoning, chain-of-thought monitoring, and critical cybersecurity capabilities. Th
BONUS: Claude Fable 5.1 LIVE: Testing Anthropic’s New AI Agent
Anthropic just released Claude Fable 5.1, its newest frontier model for long-running coding, research, and agentic work.So naturally, we’re putting it to the test LIVE. 🤖Early testing suggests Fable 5.1 is faster, easier to work with, and capable of handling massive coding projects, long-form writing, and autonomous agent tasks more efficiently. Every even found that it used less than half as many
Where Does AI Agent Security Actually Live?
AI companies spend enormous effort making models safer, but the model tested in the lab isn't necessarily the system a company eventually deploys. Alice CEO and co-founder Noam Schwartz joins Corey and Grant to explain why prompts, tools, memory, permissions, data, and agent-to-agent interactions create an entirely new security surface. They dig into the growing “trust gap” around enterprise A
BONUS: AI Tool Roundup: What’s Actually Worth Trying?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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?
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?
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
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
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
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
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.
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?
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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)
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
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.
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.
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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Inside Google Labs: 3 AI Tools That Will Change How You Create
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)
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)
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
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
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)
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
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