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The best minutes from long interviews with the people building AI.

Long AI interviews are where founders and researchers say what they actually think, but few people have two hours for every episode. Real Alpha finds the few minutes worth hearing in each one and plays them from the second they start, in the show's own player. 3,646 moments so far, from 613 episodes of 63 shows.

Why we built it

“I follow the big AI interview shows to keep up for work, and I'm always behind. The part I want from an episode is usually a few minutes in the middle, so I built Real Alpha to find those minutes for me.”

Rushabh Sheth, founder

Real Alpha went live on October 14, 2026. It's for people who follow AI for work, like founders, engineers, investors and product people, and can't keep up with every long interview.

How a moment is picked

  • Every hour we check the shows we follow for new episodes, like Dwarkesh Podcast, Lenny's Podcast, No Priors, Latent Space and BG2.
  • An episode is cut once its YouTube views clear a bar set by that show's usual views, so we cut what people are actually watching. Anyone signed in can also ask for an episode.
  • Claude, an AI model, reads the episode's transcript (the show's own, or our Whisper transcription where there isn't one) and picks its best stretches of about four minutes, each with the key quote and takeaways.
  • Code then checks every quote word for word against the transcript and lines each moment's start and end up with the video. Anything that doesn't match is dropped.
  • Nothing waits for a person before it goes up. We look over new moments after, and every moment's page has a Report a problem button (starts late, ends early, wrong speaker) that comes straight to us.

The videos stay the shows'

We don't copy or upload any video. Each moment plays in the show's own YouTube player, from the right second, with a link to the full episode. Hosts and the people we feature can fix their page or suggest a show.

Watching is free with a free account. Real Alpha Pro ($7 a month, $49 a year or $99 once, with 7 days free) adds an alert whenever anyone you follow is cut, every write-up and transcript in full, and search and Ask across every moment.

Pro pays for Real Alpha, and sponsors and company listings can too. Every paid placement is labeled and kept apart from our picks: no one can pay for a moment, its place in the feed, or a spot among the builders and companies we list.

Who runs it

Real Alpha is run by Rushabh Sheth, who started it and is co-founder and CEO of Docsumo, an AI company. Write to hello@realalpha.app, or from any page.

Reporters can quote any moment with a link (how to cite us), and AI assistants can search every moment through our MCP server. Follow along on X, YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn.