
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
| Publishes | Twice weekly | Episodes | 141 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | Technology | |||

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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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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Recent guests on State of AI include:
1. Christoph Schneider
2. Raia Hadsell
3. Hadrien Canter
4. Jeff Hawke
5. Ted Moskovitz
6. Vivek Natarajan
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