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State of AI with Nathan Benaich

Nathan Benaich (Air Street Capital)
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The State of AI podcast from Nathan Benaich - investor at Air Street Capital and author of the State of AI Report, the most widely read analysis of AI, published every year since 2018. Two things, every week. Short, opinionated breakdowns of what's actually moving in AI: frontier research, the geopolitics, and the capital. And long-form interviews and playbooks with the founders and scientists bui... more

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Poolside trained Laguna S 2.1 on 4,096 NVIDIA H200s and published the open weights sixty days later. The 118-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model runs multi-hour autonomous coding sessions, handles up to a million tokens of context, and fits qu... more

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Black Forest Labs has launched FLUX 3, a multimodal foundation model that learns jointly from images, video and audio within a single architecture, and mimic robotics has released FLUX-mimic, a video-action model built on that backbone a... more

Raia Hadsell, VP of Research at Google DeepMind, makes the case that intelligence is more than language: the same recipe that learns the patterns of text can learn the patterns of any complex system. She walks through DiffusionGemma and text diffusio... more

At RAAIS 2026, Nathan Benaich sits down with Hadrien Canter, co-founder and CEO of Alta Ares, the air-defense company building AI-guided interceptors to shoot down cheap drones and cruise missiles. They get into why Europe has lost air superiority fo... more

World models are the bet that AI should learn the world by watching it and acting in it, not just by reading about it. At RAAIS 2026, Odyssey co-founder and CTO Jeff Hawke makes the case: a world model is a neural simulator - an interactive stream of... more

Ted Moskovitz leads the Science of Scaling team at Anthropic, the group that works out how to turn compute into smarter models. In this RAAIS 2026 fireside with Air Street Capital's Nathan Benaich, he argues that frontier scaling has become an empiri... more

Vivek Natarajan, Research Lead for AI, science and medicine at Google DeepMind, on porting the self-play and search recipe behind AlphaGo into scientific and clinical reasoning. He walks through the AI co-scientist, which generates and debates hypoth... more

At RAAIS 2026, Google DeepMind's Roberta Raileanu lays out a recipe for superhuman scientific discovery: AI systems that make groundbreaking discoveries across domains faster than people can. She walks through three ingredients - reinforcement learni... more

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Christoph Schneider
Representative at Audi Production Lab
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Episode: Black Forest Labs FLUX 3: from video generation to robot control
Raia Hadsell
VP of Research at Google DeepMind
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Episode: The case for intelligence beyond language
Hadrien Canter
Co-founder and CEO of Alta Ares
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Episode: Europe’s air defense gap
Jeff Hawke
co-founder and CTO of Odyssey
Odyssey at Rise 2026
Episode: From driving the world to dreaming it
Ted Moskovitz
Leader of the Science of Scaling team at Anthropic
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Episode: Turning compute into intelligence
Vivek Natarajan
Research Lead at Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind
Episode: Accelerating science and medicine with collaborative agents
Angelos Perivolaropoulos
Research engineer at ElevenLabs, speaker on GPU efficiency for voice AI
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Episode: Compute scarcity is an engineering problem
Uwe Horstmann
CEO and founder of Stark
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Episode: STARK: Europe's next defense prime
Nikolay Donets
Head of Machine Learning Engineering at Revolut
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Episode: What it takes to ship AI under regulation - Nikolay Donets, Revolut

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Nathan Benaich
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Jeremy Kahn (Fortune) on Mastering AI
Q: What advice would you give to a founder about storytelling and working with the media?
Founders should tell compelling stories with honesty and humility, focusing on how their technology works and building relationships with journalists through transparency.
Jeremy Kahn (Fortune) on Mastering AI
Q: Having read Turing, Weizenbaum, and Minsky's work, how do you think they'd feel about the current field?
The early AI pioneers would have varied views on today's field; Turing would be pleased with advances, Minsky would be skeptical of achieving AGI through deep learning alone, while Weisenbaum would emphasize the moral challenges AI poses.

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What is State of AI about and what kind of topics does it cover?

Frontier AI, world models, and the practicalities of building and governing advanced AI systems are frequent throughlines across recent episodes. Conversations span technical deep-dives on world-models, safe scaling, and data-centric AI to strategic discussions on defense tech, policy, and sovereignty. Notable angles include open-ended AI research, collaborative agents for science and medicine, and the challenges of deploying AI at scale in regulated industries. The show frequently features researchers, founders, and leaders from DeepMind, Anthropic, Profluent, Revolut, and defense-oriented startups, offering both conceptual frameworks and real-world deployment lessons. Listeners can expect rigorous, environment-grounded discussions, practi... more

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