"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
A podcast by Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz

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233 Episodes
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Scaling "Thinking": Gemini 2.5 Tech Lead Jack Rae on Reasoning, Long Context, & the Path to AGI
Published: 4/5/2025 -
Reward Hacking by Reasoning Models & Loss of Control Scenarios w/ Jeffrey Ladish of Palisade Research, from FLI Podcast
Published: 4/2/2025 -
Shortwave Rides the Tidal Wave: Inbox Agents, Hyper-Growth & Hiring AI Managers, with CEO Andrew Lee
Published: 3/29/2025 -
Code Context is King: Augment’s AI Assistant for Professional Software Engineers, with Guy Gur-Ari
Published: 3/27/2025 -
Unlocking Cells' Secrets: Diffusion, Deconvolution, & Discovery with Siyu He, author of Squidiff & CORAL
Published: 3/23/2025 -
a16z on AI Voices: Call Centers, Coaches, and Companions with Olivia Moore & Anish Acharya
Published: 3/19/2025 -
Agency over AI? Allan Dafoe on Technological Determinism & DeepMind's Safety Plans, from 80000 Hours
Published: 3/15/2025 -
China's Tech Tightrope: Power, Regulation, and the AI Race with Angela Zhang
Published: 3/12/2025 -
Historic AI Developments & the Emerging Shape of Superintelligence, from the Consistently Candid Podcast
Published: 3/8/2025 -
Frontier Models for Frontier Science with Professor Derya Unutmaz, Immunologist & ChatGPT Pro Grantee
Published: 3/6/2025 -
US-China Relations: History, Culture, and AI Competition, with Noah Smith, from Econ 102
Published: 3/1/2025 -
The Adversarial Mind: Defeating AI Defenses with Nicholas Carlini of Google DeepMind
Published: 2/27/2025 -
New Jersey’s AI Moonshot: Governor Phil Murphy on Partnerships, Progress, and Preparedness
Published: 2/22/2025 -
Inference Scaling, Alignment Faking, Deal Making? Frontier Research with Ryan Greenblatt of Redwood Research
Published: 2/20/2025 -
An Application-Free Future? Speaking Directly to Data with illumex CEO Inna Tokarev Sela
Published: 2/15/2025 -
Claude Cooperates! Exploring Cultural Evolution in LLM Societies, with Aron Vallinder & Edward Hughes
Published: 2/12/2025 -
Software Supernova: Lovable's "Superhuman Full Stack Engineer" to Transform Idea to App in Seconds
Published: 2/9/2025 -
Software Supernova: Bolt.new - The AI Web App Developer In Your Browser
Published: 2/9/2025 -
Gemini's Next Frontier: 2.0 Flash, Flash Lite Strategy & Real-Time APIs with Logan K from Google Deepmind
Published: 2/6/2025 -
Distributed Training, Decentralized AI: Prime Intellect's Master Plan to Make AI Too Cheap to Meter
Published: 2/5/2025
A biweekly podcast where hosts Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg interview the builders on the edge of AI and explore the dramatic shift it will unlock in the coming years. The Cognitive Revolution is part of the Turpentine podcast network. To learn more: turpentine.co