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The State of Frontier Post-Training Recipes | Conversation with Finbarr Timbers

The State of Frontier Post-Training Recipes | Conversation with Finbarr Timbers

This discussion with Finbarr Timbers reviews the evolution of frontier post-training recipes, highlighting the shift from simpler SFT-DPO-RL to complex multi-teacher on-policy distillation (MOPD). It covers the organizational challenges of building models like Olmo, the rise of synthetic data and reasoning-focused RL in DeepSeek, and the complexities of integrating expert teachers, while also exploring open questions on environments, specialized APIs, and career strategies in the rapidly changing AI landscape.

CAG vs Long Context: How AI Models Use and Remember Information

CAG vs Long Context: How AI Models Use and Remember Information

Martin Keen explains how Long Context and Cache Augmented Generation (CAG) serve as powerful alternatives to RAG for providing external knowledge to LLMs. This summary details the mechanics of each approach, the role of the KV cache, the practical application through prompt caching, and the trade-offs in performance, cost, and latency for real-world AI workloads.

From $0 to $11B: The ElevenLabs Story

From $0 to $11B: The ElevenLabs Story

Mati and Piotr, the founders of ElevenLabs, discuss their journey from a weekend project to a major player in voice AI. They cover their unique remote-first culture, their philosophy of combining product and research, and their vision for voice as the next fundamental human-computer interface, aiming to create AI that can pass a 'vocal Turing test'.

The Future of Software Development - Vibe Coding, Prompt Engineering & AI Assistants

The Future of Software Development - Vibe Coding, Prompt Engineering & AI Assistants

A discussion on the state of technical infrastructure, focusing on how AI and Large Language Models represent a new, fourth foundational pillar alongside compute, network, and storage. The talk covers how AI is disrupting software itself, the investment landscape, and the future of the developer profession.