Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast
Also known as Latent Space podcast
Interview podcast for AI engineers, hosted by swyx and Alessio Fanelli since 2023.
- Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast is the podcast of Latent Space.
- Episodes are long technical interviews with founders, researchers and engineers at AI labs and tooling companies.
- The feed also carries news recaps and conference recordings.
- Episode titles in the AI for Science series carry a microscope emoji.
- Full show notes are published on latent.space.
Why it matters. For engineers who want first-hand accounts of how models, agents and developer tools are built. Guests have included Jeff Dean, Bret Taylor, George Hotz and the creators of the Model Context Protocol.
- Started
- 20234
- Co-founded by
- swyx and Alessio Fanelli7
- AI for Science series announced
- 28 Jan 20268
- Episodes in RSS feed
- 229 (30 Sep 2026)1
- Chart peak
- #10 in US Tech podcasts (as of February 2024)5
- Publisher on Apple Podcasts
- Latent.Space2
Episodes to start with
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3 years ago
Commoditizing the Petaflop — with George Hotz of the tiny corp (opens latent.space)
George Hotz on how tiny corp is taking on Nvidia, Google and PyTorch, and on building with AMD.
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3 years ago
A live group discussion of ChatGPT's Code Interpreter launch with Simon Willison and others.
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2 years ago
The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai (opens latent.space)
Jeremy Howard on fast.ai's mission, inventing ULMFiT and why he now thinks it is wrong.
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23 months ago
How NotebookLM Was Made (opens latent.space)
Raiza Martin and Usama Bin Shafqat of Google Labs on building NotebookLM and its Deep Dive audio feature.
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19 months ago
The AI Architect — Bret Taylor (opens latent.space)
Sierra CEO and OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor on the future of software engineering and building products.
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17 months ago
The Creators of Model Context Protocol (opens latent.space)
Anthropic's David Soria Parra and Justin Spahr-Summers on the origin and design of MCP.
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7 months ago
Owning the AI Pareto Frontier — Jeff Dean (opens latent.space)
Jeff Dean on Google's search stack, sparse trillion-parameter models and co-designing TPUs with ML research.
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2 months ago
Codex from 0 to 10M Users: Building ChatGPT Work — Akshay Nathan, OpenAI (opens latent.space)
OpenAI's core product engineering lead on building ChatGPT Work.
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3 days ago
Claude Code’s Next Era — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic (opens latent.space)
Anthropic's Thariq Shihipar on shipping Claude Code alongside the Opus and Sonnet 5.5 models.
Links
Sources
- Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast (RSS feed) (opens api.substack.com) read 30 Sep 2026
- Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast on Apple Podcasts (opens podcasts.apple.com) read 30 Sep 2026
- Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast on Spotify (opens open.spotify.com) read 30 Sep 2026
- About - Latent.Space (opens latent.space) read 30 Sep 2026
- One Year of Latent Space — Alessio Fanelli (opens alessiofanelli.com) read 30 Sep 2026
- Latent Space archive (opens latent.space) read 30 Sep 2026
- Alessio Fanelli - AI Engineer speaker page (opens ai.engineer) read 30 Sep 2026
- It's Time to Science - Latent.Space (opens latent.space) read 30 Sep 2026
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