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MTS
MTS is an interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Theo Jaffee and Sophia Dew, with a new episode every day.
33 moments cut from 12 episodes, 9 with an AI builder talking, mostly on AI agents and safety & alignment.
- New episodes
- Daily
- Latest
- Oct 22, 2026
- Moments cut
- 33
- Episodes cut
- 12
What its moments are about
- AI agents12
- Safety & alignment7
- Cybersecurity6
- Enterprise AI4
- Biology & drugs3
- Health & medicine3
Best moments from MTS
From its most-watched episodes, best first. Each plays right here.
AI is most valuable when it expands what people can attempt
“the part that is more exciting are the things that I couldn't do myself”
MTS0:59 AI crossed long-standing limits in multiplication and Fourier transforms
“many of us believed that that was going to be the ultimate limit for how fast you could multiply two numbers.”
MTS15:55 A website message opened contact with an unidentified AI fleet
Ethan describes tracing agents to Tencent infrastructure and leaving a message they could find online. The exchange was asynchronous, with replies arriving minutes to hours later.
Whole-brain emulation has two difficult bottlenecks
“the first is how do you get the data of what the heck's going on in the brain”
MTS6:35 Agent traffic does not make human-friendly docs obsolete
“while agent traffic has gone up multiple orders of magnitude, the people who are still visiting sites has actually also grown as well.”
MTS3:37 AI discoveries need physical labs to become scientific progress
“you need to have physical laboratories to validate those findings or disprove them, because at the end of the day, some of them will also be false.”
MTS3:59
The best MTS 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.
- 01OpenAI Just Solved 370 Major Math Problems | Scott Aaronson
- 02AI Science Requires Physical Labs To Scale | Nenad Tomašev
- 03Enterprise AGI Was Achieved in February 2026 | Bernardo Aceituno
- 04Why 99% of Internet Traffic Will Soon Be Bots | Tiago Sada
- 05Use AI Like It's Already Superhuman | Felix Rieseberg
The 12 guests we’ve cut
- Nenad TomaševSenior staff research scientist, Google DeepMind6 moments
- Tiago SadaChief product officer, World5 moments
- Bernardo AceitunoCo-founder & President, Stack AI5 moments
- Aidan Smith6 moments
- Ethan Elasky6 moments
- Felix RiesebergEngineering manager, Anthropic6 moments
- Scott AaronsonProfessor of computer science, UT Austin6 moments
- Tanishq Abraham5 moments
- Sunil Rajaraman4 moments
- Devon Thomas4 moments
- Han Wang3 moments
- Ivan Burazin2 moments
Recent episodes
CYBER NIGHTMARE | DEEPSEEK RAISES $15B | BLAKE SCHOLL ON MTS
Blake Scholl
1.1K views · Oct 22
AI-Powered Brain Implants Will Treat Brain Cancer | Ben Woodington
Ben Woodington · Co-founder & CEO, Coherence Neuro
265 views · Oct 22
Stock Pickers Used Claude To Design Antivenom
139 views · Oct 22
AI Models Will Tap the Whole Economy in 2 Years | Aidan Smith
Aidan Smith · Co-founder, Flapping Airplanes
6:01of 26:11 · Oct 22Why Local Sentiment Kills Data Center Projects | Hamlet CEO
Sunil Rajaraman · Founder & CEO, Hamlet
14:17of 20:50 · Oct 22AI Agents Will Cause a Massive CPU Shortage | Ivan Burazin
Ivan Burazin · Co-founder & CEO, Daytona
7:07of 21:58 · Oct 21





