{"podcast":{"title":"The Neuron: AI Explained","slug":"the-neuron-ai-explained-6886341","podcast_index_feed_id":6886341,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f51d3fd0/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://theneuron.ai/podcast","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/41023348/41023348-1713558859331-ee0e43d6222a6.jpg","author":"The Neuron","episode_count":110,"summary":"The Neuron is a daily newsletter with 700,000+ readers that covers the latest AI developments, trends and research; this is our podcast, hosted by Grant Harvey and Corey Noles. We aim to create digestible, informative and authoritative takes on AI that get you up to speed and help you become an authority in your own circles. Available Wednesdays and Sundays on all podcasting platforms and YouTube. Subscribe to our newsletter: https://www.theneurondaily.com/subscribe","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T18:20:07.084790+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-neuron-ai-explained-6886341"},"episode":{"title":"What Comes After GPUs? Great Sky’s Bet on Brain-Like AI","slug":"what-comes-after-gpus-great-sky-s-bet-on-brain-like-ai","published_at":"2026-05-27T18:40:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-neuron-ai-explained-6886341/what-comes-after-gpus-great-sky-s-bet-on-brain-like-ai","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-neuron-ai-explained-6886341","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-neuron/episodes/What-Comes-After-GPUs--Great-Skys-Bet-on-Brain-Like-AI-e3jvk4j","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f51d3fd0/podcast/play/120622675/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-27%2F424997359-44100-2-dbc56e08c1d4c.mp3","summary":"What if the next big AI breakthrough is not a bigger model, but a completely different kind of computer? Jeff Shainline, co-founder and CEO of Great Sky, joins The Neuron to explain how his team is building brain-inspired AI hardware using superconductors, photonics, and analog computation. Great Sky’s architecture, called Superconducting Optoelectronic Networks, or SOENs, is designed to move beyond the traditional GPU roadmap by co-locating memory and processing, communicating with light, and mimicking some of the high-connectivity dynamics found in biological brains. In this conversation, Jeff breaks down why today’s chips can struggle with fast, multimodal inference; why transformers may be powerful but inefficient for some future workloads; how Great Sky’s system differs from quantum computing; and why early applications could include fusion reactors, particle physics, video understanding, content moderation, and eventually new model architectures that do not map neatly onto today’s hardware. Subscribe to The Neuron for grounded, practical conversations about where AI is going next—and what actually has to work before the hype becomes real.","meta_description":"What if the next big AI breakthrough is not a bigger model, but a completely different kind of computer? Jeff Shainline, co-founder and CEO of Great Sky,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3594,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-neuron-ai-explained-6886341/episodes/what-comes-after-gpus-great-sky-s-bet-on-brain-like-ai/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-neuron-ai-explained-6886341/what-comes-after-gpus-great-sky-s-bet-on-brain-like-ai.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}