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Aleph: The AI Platform for Modern Finance

Aleph: The AI Platform for Modern Finance

Co-founders Albert Gozzi and Santiago Perez De Rosso of Aleph discuss their journey building an AI-native FP&A platform. They share insights on their first-principles approach of meeting finance teams in spreadsheets, achieving rapid time-to-value, and the early challenges of building a horizontal product. The conversation covers their YC experience, scaling to a $29M Series B, and their vision for the future of finance powered by pragmatic, accuracy-focused AI.

ChatGPT Atlas, OpenAI’s new web browser

ChatGPT Atlas, OpenAI’s new web browser

A discussion on OpenAI's new browser ChatGPT Atlas, Andrej Karpathy's pessimistic timeline for AI agents, the DeepSeek-OCR paper on visual context compression, and a study suggesting large language models can suffer from "brain rot" when trained on low-quality social media data.

Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding

Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding

Amjad Masad, founder of Replit, joins a16z to discuss the rise of AI agents that can now plan, reason, and code for hours. He explains how reinforcement learning and verification loops unlocked long-horizon reasoning, why AI is advancing fastest in verifiable domains like code, and debates whether "good enough" AI might be a local maximum that blocks the path to AGI.

Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)

Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)

Chip Huyen, an AI expert and author of 'AI Engineering', explains the realities of building successful AI applications. She covers the nuances of model training, the critical role of data quality in RAG systems, the mechanics of RLHF, and why the future of AI improvement lies in post-training, system-level thinking, and solving UX problems rather than just chasing the newest models.

AI Agents + LLM Reasoning: Transforming Autonomous Workflows

AI Agents + LLM Reasoning: Transforming Autonomous Workflows

Explore the distinction between LLMs and AI agents, focusing on how agents leverage reasoning, tool calling, and the ReAct prompting framework for autonomous decision-making and task execution in complex business workflows.

No Priors Ep. 137 | With Warp Co-Founder & CEO Zach Lloyd

No Priors Ep. 137 | With Warp Co-Founder & CEO Zach Lloyd

Warp CEO Zach Lloyd discusses the evolution of the developer terminal into an agentic platform, the shift from manual coding to a future of automated development, and the philosophical questions surrounding AI intelligence versus consciousness.