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Minus One

Minus One is an interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Aditya Agarwal, with a new episode every two weeks.

6 moments cut from 2 episodes, 6 with an AI builder talking, mostly on robotics and training data.

New episodes
Every two weeks
Latest
Oct 22, 2026
Moments cut
6
Episodes cut
2

What its moments are about

  • Robotics3
  • Training data3
  • Self-driving3
  • Evals & benchmarks3
  • Reasoning & RL2
  • World models1

Best moments from Minus One

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

  1. Minus One · · 4 min

    Closed-loop validation requires a driver, simulator and critic

    “If open-loop imitation and open-loop evaluation and validation is insufficient, that means that closed-loop is required for validation”
    Minus One18:13

  2. Minus One · · 7 min

    Reasoning and better annotations help robots generalize

    “the biggest innovation for video models has been prompt expansion.”
    Minus One13:03

  3. Minus One · · 5 min

    Waymo’s moat is its system for improving the product

    “it's much more about the machine for building the product as opposed to a snapshot of the product you have at any moment in time.”
    Minus One25:11

  4. Minus One · · 7 min

    General-purpose robots can bootstrap their own data

    “The good thing about robots is that they are less specialized. Because, like, it seems counterintuitive.”
    Minus One25:07

  5. Minus One · · 8 min

    Each additional safety nine demands more rigorous evaluation

    “that allows us to repeatedly ask this question of, is the system ready and can we deploy?”
    Minus One29:58

  6. Minus One · · 3 min

    Data strategy matters more than the world-model label

    “the most important thing for building foundation models paradoxically is not the model itself it's the data”
    Minus One34:12

The best Minus One 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. 01How Waymo Solved Self-Driving | Dmitri Dolgov, Co-CEOOct 8, 2026 · 3 moments
  2. 02How Close Are We to Robots That Can Do Anything? | Sergey Levine, Physical IntelligenceOct 22, 2026 · 3 moments

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