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Andrej Karpathy: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
MentionsAndrej KarpathyStephanie Zhan
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Andrej Karpathy (co-founder of OpenAI, former head of AI at Tesla, and now founder of Eureka Labs) talks with Sequoia partner Stephanie Zhan at AI Ascent 2026 about what's changed in the year since he coined "vibe coding." He explains why he's never felt more behind as a programmer, why agentic…
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Apple PodcastsHow Google’s Nano Banana Achieved Breakthrough Character Consistency
MentionsStephanie Zhan
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When Google launched Nano Banana, it instantly became a global phenomenon, introducing an image model that finally made it possible for people to see themselves in AI-generated worlds. In this episode, Nicole Brichtova and Hansa Srinivasan, the product and engineering leads behind Nano Banana,…
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Apple PodcastsThe Breakthroughs Needed for AGI Have Already Been Made: OpenAI Former Research Head Bob McGrew
MentionsStephanie Zhan
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As OpenAI's former Head of Research, Bob McGrew witnessed the company's evolution from GPT-3’s breakthrough to today's reasoning models. He argues that there are three legs of the stool for AGI, Transformers, scaled pre-training, and reasoning, and that the fundamentals that will shape the next…
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Apple PodcastsReflectionAI Founder Ioannis Antonoglou: From AlphaGo to AGI
MentionsStephanie Zhan
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Ioannis Antonoglou, founding engineer at DeepMind and co-founder of ReflectionAI, has seen the triumphs of reinforcement learning firsthand. From AlphaGo to AlphaZero and MuZero, Ioannis has built the most powerful agents in the world. Ioannis breaks down key moments in AlphaGo's game against Lee…
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Apple PodcastsDatabricks Founder Ion Stoica: Turning Academic Open Source into Startup Success
MentionsIon StoicaStephanie Zhan
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Berkeley professor Ion Stoica, co-founder of Databricks and Anyscale, transformed the open source projects Spark and Ray into successful AI infrastructure companies. He talks about what mattered most for Databricks' success -- the focus on making Spark win and making Databricks the best place to…
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