{"podcast":{"title":"Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast","slug":"latent-space-ai-engineer","podcast_index_feed_id":6058902,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1084089.rss","website_url":"https://www.latent.space/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1084089/ca7468da5614a246d2906ee8926f6de7.jpg","author":"Latent.Space","episode_count":204,"summary":"The AI Engineer newsletter + Top technical AI podcast. How leading labs build Agents, Models, Infra, & AI for Science. See https://latent.space/about for highlights from Greg Brockman, Andrej Karpathy, George Hotz, Simon Willison, Soumith Chintala et al!","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/latent-space-ai-engineer"},"episode":{"title":"[Ride Home] Simon Willison: Things we learned about LLMs in 2024","slug":"ride-home-simon-willison-things-we-learned-about-llms-in-2024","published_at":"2025-01-12T07:31:40+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/latent-space-ai-engineer/ride-home-simon-willison-things-we-learned-about-llms-in-2024","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/latent-space-ai-engineer","url":"https://www.latent.space/p/2024-simonw","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/154656957/4097a95ced7c01d2f4e5d707978fede4.mp3","summary":"Due to overwhelming demand (>15x applications:slots), we are closing CFPs for AI Engineer Summit NYC today. Last call! Thanks, we’ll be reaching out to all shortly! The world’s top AI blogger and friend of every pod, Simon Willison, dropped a monster 2024 recap: Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 . Brian of the excellent TechMeme Ride Home pinged us for a connection and a special crossover episode, our first in 2025. The target audience for this podcast is a tech-literate, but non-technical one. You can see Simon’s notes for AI Engineers in his World’s Fair Keynote . Timestamp * 00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome * 01:06 State of AI in 2025 * 01:43 Advancements in AI Models * 03:59 Cost Efficiency in AI * 06:16 Challenges and Competition in AI * 17:15 AI Agents and Their Limitations * 26:12 Multimodal AI and Future Prospects * 35:29 Exploring Video Avatar Companies * 36:24 AI Influencers and Their Future * 37:12 Simplifying Content Creation with AI * 38:30 The Importance of Credibility in AI * 41:36 The Future of LLM User Interfaces * 48:58 Local LLMs: A Growing Interest * 01:07:22 AI Wearables: The Next Big Thing * 01:10:16 Wrapping Up and Final Thoughts Transcript [00:00:00] Introduction and Guest Welcome [00:00:00] Brian: Welcome to the first bonus episode of the Tech Meme Write Home for the year 2025. I'm your host as always, Brian McCullough. Listeners to the pod over the last year know that I have made a habit of quoting from Simon Willison when new stuff happens in AI from his blog. Simon has been, become a go to for many folks in terms of, you know, Analyzing things, criticizing things in the AI space. [00:00:33] Brian: I've wanted to talk to you for a long time, Simon. So thank you for coming on the show. No, it's a privilege to be here. And the person tha…","meta_description":"Due to overwhelming demand (>15x applications:slots), we are closing CFPs for AI Engineer Summit NYC today. Last call! Thanks, we’ll be reaching out to al…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4403,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/latent-space-ai-engineer/episodes/ride-home-simon-willison-things-we-learned-about-llms-in-2024/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/latent-space-ai-engineer/ride-home-simon-willison-things-we-learned-about-llms-in-2024.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}