Dmitry Kislyuk | Director, Machine Learning; Ryan Galgon | Director, Product Management; Chuck Rosenberg | Vice President, Engineering; Matt Madrigal | Chief Technology OfficerForeword from Bill Ready, CEOThe AI landscape is undergoing a fundamental shift, and it’s not the one you think. The competi...
NVIDIA Awards up to $60,000 Research Fellowships to PhD Students
For 25 years, the NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program has supported graduate students doing outstanding work relevant to NVIDIA technologies. Today, the program announced the latest awards of up to $60,000 each to 10 Ph.D. students involved in research that spans all areas of computing innovation. Se...
Most organizations feel the imperative to keep pace with continuing advances in AI capabilities, as highlighted in a recent MIT Technology Review Insights report. That clearly has security implications, particularly as organizations navigate a surge in the volume, velocity, and variety of security d...
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Amazon just dropped $50 billion on AI infrastructure for government customers, and Elon's xAI is about to close a $15 billion round at a $230 billion valuat...
#486 – Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
Michael Levin is a biologist at Tufts University working on novel ways to understand and control complex pattern formation in biological systems. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep486-sc See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, sub...
Is artificial intelligence better than bacon? One crunches data, the other
crunches joy. This playful, slightly unscientific showdown pits algorithms
against cured pork and bacon still wins.
In this post, I’ll introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm based on an “alternative” paradigm: divide and conquer. Unlike traditional methods, this algorithm is not based on temporal difference (TD) learning (which has scalability challenges), and scales well to long-horizon tasks.
We ...
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
Dan Houser is co-founder of Rockstar Games and is a legendary creative mind behind Grand Theft Auto (GTA) and Red Dead Redemption series of video games. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep484-sc See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedba...
Re:imagine 2025 Dallas - Where AI Velocity Meets Control
The Dallas stop of re:imagine 2025 opened with proof instead of prediction. A customer dialogue withAMD’s Kari Ramseth, HR Service Center Leader, illustrated what disciplined scale looks like in practice.
Post-Training Generative Recommenders with Advantage-Weighted Supervised Finetuning
Author: Keertana Chidambaram, Qiuling Xu, Ko-Jen Hsiao, Moumita Bhattacharya(*The work was done when Keertana interned at Netflix.)IntroductionThis blog focuses on post-training generative recommender systems. Generative recommenders (GRs) represent a new paradigm in the field of recommendation syst...
Protecting What Powers Progress – A Modern Look at Data Security
Modern progress runs on information. Every business, no matter the size or industry, depends on the constant movement of data to function, serve customers, and grow. The more digital the world becomes, the more vital it is to protect that information. Data security defines a company’s reputation, re...
AI Startups and the Legal Risk of Getting It Wrong
Artificial intelligence (AI) is exploding. There were 5,509 AI startups in the US between 2013 and 2023. And according to Statista, they’re receiving a massive amount of funding. “ In 2024, AI startups received more than $0.5 trillion and raised over $100 billion. “ In 2024, AI startups received mor...
#483 – Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex
Julia Shaw is a criminal psychologist and author who in her books explores human nature, including psychopathy, violent crime, the psychology of evil, police interrogation, false memory manipulation, deception detection, and human sexuality. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://...
The Hype Trap: Why Waiting for Certainty Guarantees You’ll Be Too Late
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." — Voltaire
Voltaire nailed something every business leader knows instinctively: if you wait for certainty, you’re waiting for an illusion. In business, certainty is just another word for “too late”—the point where opportunity has been cl...
Designing Transformative AI Experiences: Lessons from Hash Bajwa
"The most powerful technology doesn’t just solve problems. It inspires people to see what’s possible," says Hash Bajwa.
In Episode 6 of AI Activations, Bajwa reflects on a career spanning the United Nations, Apple, and the Obama Foundation. He shares how organizations can design AI experiences that...
AI News Weekly - Issue #456: How AI could radically change schools by 2050 - Sep 19th 2025
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How AI could radically change schools by 2050
By 2050, education will look radically different than it does now, according to psychologist and social scientist Howard Gardner — the originator of the theory of multiple intelligences — and Anthea Roberts, a visiting...
AI News Weekly - Issue #455: Albania appoints world’s first AI-made minister - Sep 11th 2025
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Albania appoints world’s first AI-made minister
Albania has become the first country in the world to have an AI minister — not a minister for AI, but a virtual minister made of ...
What exactly does word2vec learn, and how? Answering this question amounts to understanding representation learning in a minimal yet interesting language modeling task. Despite the fact that word2vec is a well-known precursor to modern language models, for many years, researchers lacked a quantitati...
Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction
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Predicting Ego-centric Video from human Actions (PEVA). Given past video frames and an action specifying a desired change in 3D pose, PEVA predicts the next video frame. Our results show that, given the first frame and a sequence of actions, our model can generate videos of...