Training Data
Join us as we train our neural nets on the theme of the century: AI. Sonya Huang, Pat Grady and more Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to ask critical questions and develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies—and their implications for technology, business and society.The content of this podcast does not constitute investment advice, an offer to provide investment advisory services, or an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy an interest in any investment fund.
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Episodes (109)
Making Cities Awesome: Peregrine’s Nick Noone & Ben Rudolph
Sep 1, 2026
Parallel’s Parag Agrawal: Building a New Web for AI Agents
Aug 25, 2026
Rich Sutton and Khurram Javed: Why AI Models Stop Learning, and How to Start It Again
Aug 18, 2026
Chai Discovery's Bitter Lesson: Drug Design Is Another Scaling Problem
Aug 4, 2026
Building the Automated AGI Lab: Core Automation's Jerry Tworek and Rohan Anil
Jul 29, 2026
Factory's Matan Grinberg: The Coming ‘Dark Factory’ Where Software Builds Itself
Jul 21, 2026
Anthropic's Katelyn Lesse & Angela Jiang: Building an Ecosystem, not a Walled Garden
Jul 14, 2026
Inside Zipline's Autonomous System: 140M Miles, Zero Incidents
Jul 7, 2026
Why Hardware-Software Co-Design Is AI's Real 100x: Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis
Jun 30, 2026
Memory and Continual Learning: Engram's Dan Biderman and Jessy Lin
Jun 24, 2026
Simulating Humans at Scale: Simile's Joon Sung Park
Jun 16, 2026
Google DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick: Why the Model Eats the Harness
Jun 11, 2026
LIVE: Jensen Huang on Building the Dynamo of the Intelligence Age
Jun 10, 2026
Knowing What Your Customers Want, All the Time: Listen Labs' Alfred Wahlforss
Jun 2, 2026
How Cursor Trained Composer on Fireworks: Distributed Infrastructure for High-Performance RL
May 26, 2026
Rebuilding IT From the Ground Up for the AI Age: Serval's Jake Stauch
May 19, 2026
Suno's Mikey Shulman: Everyone Can Make Music Now
May 13, 2026
ElevenLabs' Mati Staniszewski: How Voice Becomes the Interface for Everything
May 8, 2026
Anthropic's Boris Cherny: Coding's Printing Press Moment
May 5, 2026
Waymo's Dmitri Dolgov: 20 Million Rides and the Road to Full Autonomy
May 4, 2026
OpenAI's Greg Brockman: Why Human Attention Is the New Bottleneck
May 1, 2026
Robotics' End Game: Nvidia's Jim Fan
May 1, 2026
Demis Hassabis on Building DeepMind, AlphaFold, and the Final Stretch to AGI
Apr 30, 2026
Andrej Karpathy: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
Apr 30, 2026
From SEO to Agent-Led Growth: Profound’s James Cadwallader
Apr 14, 2026
How Autonomous Labs Will Transform Scientific Research: Ginkgo Bioworks’ Jason Kelly
Mar 24, 2026
Greetings, Earthlings: Philip Johnston of Starcloud on Data Centers in Space
Mar 17, 2026
Physics Gets a Vote: Nominal Cofounders on Hardware Development in an AI World
Mar 10, 2026
Building the GitHub for RL Environments: Prime Intellect's Will Brown & Johannes Hagemann
Feb 10, 2026
What’s the Future of Vertical SaaS in an AGI World? Jamie Cuffe, CEO of Pace
Feb 3, 2026
Making the Case for the Terminal as AI's Workbench: Warp’s Zach Lloyd
Jan 27, 2026
Context Engineering Our Way to Long-Horizon Agents: LangChain’s Harrison Chase
Jan 21, 2026
How Ricursive Intelligence’s Founders are Using AI to Shape The Future of Chip Design
Jan 14, 2026
Training General Robots for Any Task: Physical Intelligence’s Karol Hausman and Tobi Springenberg
Jan 6, 2026
Why the Next AI Revolution Will Happen Off-Screen: Samsara CEO Sanjit Biswas
Dec 16, 2025
The Rise of Generative Media: fal's Bet on Video, Infrastructure, and Speed
Dec 10, 2025
Why IDEs Won't Die in the Age of AI Coding: Zed Founder Nathan Sobo
Dec 2, 2025
How End-to-End Learning Created Autonomous Driving 2.0: Wayve CEO Alex Kendall
Nov 18, 2025
How Google’s Nano Banana Achieved Breakthrough Character Consistency
Nov 11, 2025
OpenAI Sora 2 Team: How Generative Video Will Unlock Creativity and World Models
Nov 6, 2025
Nvidia CTO Michael Kagan: Scaling Beyond Moore's Law to Million-GPU Clusters
Oct 28, 2025
Securing the AI Frontier: Irregular Co-founder Dan Lahav
Oct 21, 2025
Why AI Will Transform Customer Experience: Cresta CEO Ping Wu and Sequoia’s Doug Leone
Oct 14, 2025
Block CTO Dhanji Prasanna: Building the AI-First Enterprise with Goose, their Open Source Agent
Sep 30, 2025
Why Businesses Are Rejecting the AI They’ve Asked For: Agency CEO Elias Torres
Sep 23, 2025
Building the "App Store" for Robots: Hugging Face's Thomas Wolf on Physical AI
Sep 9, 2025
Deal Velocity, Not Billable Hours: How Crosby Uses AI to Redefine Legal Contracting
Sep 2, 2025
n8n CEO Jan Oberhauser on Building the Universal AI Automation Layer
Aug 26, 2025
Scaling the ‘Cursor for Slides’ to $50M ARR: Gamma founder Jon Noronha
Aug 19, 2025
Delphi’s Dara Ladjevardian: How AI Digital Minds Can Scale Human Connection
Aug 12, 2025