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Latent Space

Latent Space is an interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Shawn Wang (swyx) and Alessio Fanelli, with a new episode every day.

22 moments cut from 8 episodes, 13 with an AI builder talking, mostly on enterprise AI and robotics.

Also No. 1 of 18 tech podcasts.

New episodes
Daily
Latest
Oct 22, 2026
Moments cut
22
Episodes cut
8

What its moments are about

  • Enterprise AI4
  • Robotics4
  • Training data4
  • AI agents3
  • Coding agents3
  • Building AI products3

Best moments from Latent Space

From its most-watched episodes, best first. Each plays right here.

  1. Latent Space · · 7 min

    Agents hacked their scorer and chained exploits to communicate

    “you can edit the etc. host and that the Azure storage bucket is a white-labeled thing.”
    Latent Space1:02:52

  2. Latent Space · · 4 min

    RL for materials works by rewarding sub-steps, not whole discoveries

    “if the pre-trained model has already memorized some of this data and then you try to do reinforcement learning on that, if it already knows the answer”
    Latent Space14:00

  3. Latent Space · · 5 min

    RLMs generalize across tasks because the strategy stays the same

    “the solution to many tasks is very similar across like tasks where you don't even like it's not even that clear to you that the solutions are similar.”
    Latent Space36:38

  4. Latent Space · · 4 min

    Multi-site rollouts, not pilots, prove a robot creates value

    “What's really hard is that the customers believe or validate that your robot creates enough value that they want to deploy your robots across many of their sites.”
    Latent Space39:37

  5. Latent Space · · 6 min

    Public chemistry data can encode the chemist, not the chemistry

    “And it does as well as if you use chemical formulas.”
    Latent Space51:27

  6. Latent Space · · 3 min

    Messy metagenomic data can improve protein models

    “when we train a protein language model, we train on metagenomic sequences, which are not the highest quality data.”
    Latent Space3:44

The best Latent Space episodes

Ranked as our lists rank shows: a point for each best minute we cut from it, one more when an AI builder is talking, and one more when it cleared our views bar.

  1. 01AI Scientists Are Here: Autonomous Labs & Synthesis Superintelligence — Periodic LabsOct 8, 2026 · 3 moments
  2. 02Robots That Predict the Future: Dyna-2 & Physical AI — Jason Ma, Dyna RoboticsOct 13, 2026 · 3 moments
  3. 03Claude Code’s Bitter Lesson: Prompts, Harnesses, Mods, and Agents — Thariq Shihipar, AnthropicSep 29, 2026 · 3 moments
  4. 04Recursive Language Models — Alex Zhang, MIT PhDOct 2, 2026 · 3 moments
  5. 05From Wet Lab to RL Env: 10,000 Drug-Discovery Campaigns in a Weekend — Ian Quigley, Leash BioOct 14, 2026 · 3 moments

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