Conversations with the people building AI
Last call for regular tickets for AI Engineer NYC! As an exclusive for Latent Space subscribers, the first 30 of you can take a 30% off code if it helps - for new tickets only, no refunds! See you in 2 weeks! While we tend to cover industry on the pod, every so often we celebrate a clearly emerging superstar PhD. In…
Latent SpaceOct 2
As AI moves beyond the cloud and into robots, vehicles, and other physical systems, new approaches to models, simulation, and inference are emerging. Daniel and Chris are joined by Ming-Yu Liu, Vice President of Cosmos Lab at NVIDIA, who shares his perspective on open models, world models, and the future of physical…
47 MinutesPractical AI
![[AINews] Gemini 4 Argon: GDM’s answer to Astra/Fable, with 1M output](/media/images/2026/10/90cce30949bd026b.webp)
GDM last shipped a larger-than-Flash model in February (3.1 Pro), and after successive incremental 3.x Flash versions and the big GDM management shakeup last month, the largest question for GDM was when they would catch up to peers who have in the meantime launched Fable and Astra class models. Well, Argon’s here…
Latent SpaceOct 1
Three months ago Dwarkesh, who has been posting incredible blogs and episodes about RL, posted a framing question for his video essay on RLVR which upset a lot of Computer Use folks: We are no strangers to learning in public and are no strangers to the stress of getting things wrong when you have a big platform.…
Latent SpaceSep 30
![[AINews] OpenAI DevDay 2026: Dots, 6.1 Sol, Ultrafast, Decisions API, Agents API, Spaces, Marketplace, and 1.2 Billion ChatGPT WAU](/media/images/2026/09/980a7b7253ff237f.webp)
Today is the 20 year anniversary of Sam Altman’s first startup, and fittingly OpenAI the consumer AI company is so back (as is OpenAI the AI Cloud and OpenAI the Enterprise and Coding Definitely Not Anthropic Hyperscaler), with Dots — their voice-enabled answer to Instinct and Muse, ChatGPT Spaces — with Dots their…
Latent SpaceSep 30
AI systems have gone from struggling with grade-school math to helping solve research problems that have resisted mathematicians for decades, including Navier-Stokes. In this episode, Greg Burnham, who leads AI capabilities research at Epoch AI, joins us to examine what that progress says about where AI is going. We…
1h 08mThe TWIML AI Podcast
![[AINews] AMD buys World Labs for $8.2B, as Atlas solves sparse reconstruction problem for robotics, design and more](/media/images/2026/09/11152f4ac09233e2.webp)
The official post is shy, but since AMD is public, we know the purchase price. We covered them less than a year ago: Fei Fei has a lovely reflection blogpost that hints at the main reasons: Since our founding in 2024, World Labs has built leading AI spatial intelligence capabilities for everything from creative work…
Latent SpaceSep 29
![[AINews] Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos](/media/images/2026/09/68218edc4d8ad70b.webp)
Opus 5.5 shipped this week but the vibes are overwhelmingly positive: And specifically it took over the timeline for explainer videos: AI News for 9/24/2026-9/25/2026. We checked 12 subreddits, 544 Twitters and no further Discords. AINews’ website lets you search all past issues. As a reminder, AINews is now a section…
Latent SpaceSep 29
We are excited to have Anthropic share their latest AI x Finance work at AI Engineer New York, coming up in 2 weeks! In case you’ve been under a rock, here’s a non-exhaustive list of what Anthropic has been shipping since closing the largest fundraise of all time in May at $47B ARR: June: Launched Claude Tag and…
Latent SpaceSep 29
From the earliest days of open-weight models to becoming the neutral routing layer for more than 10 million developers , OpenRouter is one of the clearest bets that the future of AI will be multi-model. In this episode, OpenRouter co-founder & CEO Alex Atallah, with AMP’s Anjney Midha returning with swyx to unpack how…
Latent SpaceSep 25
![[AINews] The Future of Latent Space](/media/images/2026/09/b2dc93223c1b7724.webp)
It’s been an absolutely MONSTER week already, from new Chinese Open Weight Frontier Lab claiming the throne for the first time, to new SOTA LLM and price cuts from Anthropic and OpenAI, to Meta Connect, to TypeSafe AI’s $10B fundraise after our exclusive podcast this weekend (already one of our top of all time, with…
Latent SpaceSep 25
Earlier this month, world model company Runway introduced GWM Worlds 2, a research preview that “turns high-fidelity video and audio generation into real-time interactive simulation .” Runway calls this an “autoregressive diffusion” model; with autoregressive describing how it generates over time. One new feature in…
Latent SpaceSep 25
