# Sourcery Markdown copy of https://realalpha.app/shows/sourcery/ on Real Alpha, the best minutes from long interviews with the people building AI. Cite and link the page, not this copy. [Best AI podcasts](https://realalpha.app/best/ai-podcasts/) Lab and founder interviews · [No. 5 of 37 AI podcasts](https://realalpha.app/best/ai-podcasts/#sourcery) Sourcery is an interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Molly O'Shea, with a new episode a few times a week. 14 moments cut from 5 episodes, 8 with an AI builder talking, mostly on AI agents and building AI products. Also [No. 3 of 17 business podcasts](https://realalpha.app/best/business-podcasts/#sourcery). - [Molly O'Shea](https://realalpha.app/hosts/) **New episodes** A few times a week **Latest** Oct 19, 2026 **Moments cut** 14 **Episodes cut** 5 What its moments are about - AI agents 5 - Building AI products 4 - Health & medicine 3 - Enterprise AI 3 - Inference & cost 2 - Frontier models 2 ## Best moments from Sourcery From its most-watched episodes, best first. Each plays right here. 1. Sourcery · Nov 11, 2025 · 5 min **[Palantir builds for what clients need, not what traps them](https://realalpha.app/s/palantir-builds-for-what-clients-need-not-what-traps-them/)** > “what you're supposed to be doing software is build the client that the client gets addicted to” Sourcery [24:01](https://realalpha.app/v/RG9fdLzxTaw/?t=1441) 2. Sourcery · Oct 12, 2026 · 3 min **[Long-context agents make local hardware cost-competitive with data centers](https://realalpha.app/s/long-context-agents-make-local-hardware-cost-competitive/)** > “as context expands, and as individual user has a lot of personal context, the context window increase dominates the batch size.” Sourcery [30:08](https://realalpha.app/v/1C8_n9nnx5Y/?t=1808) 3. Sourcery · Oct 16, 2026 · 7 min **[Open models now handle most token traffic on Vercel](https://realalpha.app/s/open-models-now-handle-most-token-traffic-on-vercel/)** > “I don't need to hire Albert Einstein to solve every problem, like answer every support ticket and spell check my stuff and classify my data.” Sourcery [56:15](https://realalpha.app/v/WuorvLfAFmA/?t=3375) 4. Sourcery · Oct 19, 2026 · 3 min **[Yahoo cut ad tech costs and unlocked better ad yield](https://realalpha.app/s/yahoo-cut-ad-tech-costs-and-unlocked-better-ad-yield/)** > “it lost a lot of money. So operating those things was massive, and it was hundreds of millions of dollars a year out the door” Sourcery [17:59](https://realalpha.app/v/31JELwiXgMo/?t=1079) 5. Sourcery · Oct 14, 2026 · 3 min **[Early reasoning models solved hard diagnostic cases doctors often miss](https://realalpha.app/s/early-reasoning-models-solved-hard-diagnostic-cases-doctors/)** > “And they were open AI and the 01 was batting a 10 out of 10, which was amazing to me.” Sourcery [41:38](https://realalpha.app/v/gYA2yyV6U5E/?t=2498) 6. Sourcery · Nov 11, 2025 · 5 min **[AI buyers now seek working systems, not proof that software works](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-buyers-now-seek-working-systems-not-proof-that-software/)** > “it used to be no one believed the software would work. Now everyone believes it should work.” Sourcery [29:22](https://realalpha.app/v/RG9fdLzxTaw/?t=1762) ## The best Sourcery 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. 01 [Perplexity CEO: SMBs Could Drive the Next Economic Boom](https://realalpha.app/v/1C8_n9nnx5Y/) Oct 12, 2026 · 3 moments 2. 02 [Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir: Exclusive Interview Inside PLTR Office](https://realalpha.app/v/RG9fdLzxTaw/) Nov 11, 2025 · 2 moments 3. 03 [Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on Building the Internet for Agents](https://realalpha.app/v/WuorvLfAFmA/) Oct 16, 2026 · 3 moments 4. 04 [Apollo’s Yahoo Playbook, 5 Years After the $5B Deal](https://realalpha.app/v/31JELwiXgMo/) Oct 19, 2026 · 3 moments 5. 05 [Thrive Capital’s Dr. Nworah Ayogu on Why Neuralink Is More Interesting Than SpaceX](https://realalpha.app/v/gYA2yyV6U5E/) Oct 14, 2026 · 3 moments ## The 5 guests we’ve cut - [Guillermo Rauch](https://realalpha.app/builders/guillermo-rauch/) Founder & CEO, Vercel 8 moments - [Alex Karp](https://realalpha.app/builders/alex-karp/) Co-founder & CEO, Palantir 5 moments - [Aravind Srinivas](https://realalpha.app/builders/aravind-srinivas/) Co-founder & CEO, Perplexity 3 moments - [Jim Lanzone](https://realalpha.app/people/jim-lanzone/) CEO, Yahoo 8 moments - [Nworah Ayogu](https://realalpha.app/people/nworah-ayogu/) Partner, Thrive Capital 3 moments ## Recent episodes - Sourcery **[Apollo’s Yahoo Playbook, 5 Years After the $5B Deal](https://realalpha.app/v/31JELwiXgMo/)** Jim Lanzone · CEO, Yahoo [16:57](https://realalpha.app/v/31JELwiXgMo/?t=1017) of 56:27 · Oct 19 - Sourcery **[Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on Building the Internet for Agents](https://realalpha.app/v/WuorvLfAFmA/)** Guillermo Rauch · Founder & CEO, Vercel [52:04](https://realalpha.app/v/WuorvLfAFmA/?t=3124) of 1:29:09 · Oct 16 - Sourcery **[Thrive Capital’s Dr. Nworah Ayogu on Why Neuralink Is More Interesting Than SpaceX](https://realalpha.app/v/gYA2yyV6U5E/)** Nworah Ayogu · Partner, Thrive Capital [40:00](https://realalpha.app/v/gYA2yyV6U5E/?t=2400) of 1:10:25 · Oct 14 - Sourcery **[Perplexity CEO: SMBs Could Drive the Next Economic Boom](https://realalpha.app/v/1C8_n9nnx5Y/)** Aravind Srinivas · Founder & CEO, Perplexity [29:26](https://realalpha.app/v/1C8_n9nnx5Y/?t=1766) of 54:45 · Oct 12 - Sourcery · Alex Karp **[Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir: Exclusive Interview Inside PLTR Office](https://realalpha.app/v/RG9fdLzxTaw/)** [22:38](https://realalpha.app/v/RG9fdLzxTaw/?t=1358) of 40:58 · Nov 11 ## Host this show? 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