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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.

Website ↗ Last published 28 October 2026 113 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on Training Data

“The real learning from the Ukraine-Russia war is probably not drones, no drones. It is about an innovation ecosystem. That is the actual wonder weapon. We always like to read on the internet, like what new weapon system, how awesome is it? That doesn't really matter.” — Uwe Horstmann, Training Data
Uwe Horstmann · 28 Oct 2026 Listen →
“When we got AlphaZero right, you know, we gave up on the human data and finally focused on what would it be like to build an algorithm that could discover for itself. So once we got it right, that algorithm, it took just a few hours. Like it took a few hours to outperform the two years of work which we'd done with human in the loop.” — David Silver, Training Data
David Silver · 13 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The world already has tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of really talented researchers all pursuing exactly the same approach… Am I going to be the 100,001 person that's pursuing that approach? … There's this other lamppost that right now no one is looking under.” — David Silver, Training Data
David Silver · 13 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Our seven and eight-year-old TPUs are still at 100% utilization.” — Amin Vahdat, Training Data
Amin Vahdat · 6 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The world is infinitely complex, and any simulation of it is like microscopic.” — Rich Sutton, Training Data
Rich Sutton · 18 Aug 2026 Listen →
“I'm not weird. The field is weird. The field, they need to call it continual learning. It's just learning.” — Rich Sutton, Training Data
Rich Sutton · 18 Aug 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Training Data is hosted by Sonya Huang , Pat Grady , Stephanie Zhan , Konstantine Buhler , Lauren Reeder , Alfred Lin , Shaun Maguire , Roelof Botha , Josephine Chen , Ravi Gupta , Luciana Lixandru and Bill Coughran .

Recent Episodes

  1. 28 Oct 2026

    European Defense Sovereignty Starts in the Factory: Stark’s Uwe Horstmann and Johannes Schaback

    With Uwe Horstmann and Johannes Schaback

  2. 20 Oct 2026

    Inside the Robot Data Factory: Mecka's Josh Gao on Sensorizing Humans to Train Robots

    With Josh Gao

  3. 13 Oct 2026

    David Silver and Lasse Espeholt of Ineffable Intelligence: A Superlearner for the Age of Experience

    With David Silver and Lasse Espeholt

  4. 6 Oct 2026

    Google's AI Infrastructure Chief, Amin Vahdat, on the Physics & Economics of Frontier AI

    With Amin Vahdat

  5. 15 Sep 2026

    Box's Aaron Levie: On Reinventing Yourself in the AI Age and Enterprise Diffusion

    With Aaron Levie

  6. 1 Sep 2026

    Making Cities Awesome: Peregrine’s Nick Noone & Ben Rudolph

    With Nick Noone and Ben Rudolph

  7. 25 Aug 2026

    Parallel’s Parag Agrawal: Building a New Web for AI Agents

    With Parag Agrawal

  8. 18 Aug 2026

    Rich Sutton and Khurram Javed: Why AI Models Stop Learning, and How to Start It Again

    With Khurram Javed and Rich Sutton

  9. 4 Aug 2026

    Chai Discovery's Bitter Lesson: Drug Design Is Another Scaling Problem

    With Matt McPartlon and Josh Meier

  10. 29 Jul 2026

    Building the Automated AGI Lab: Core Automation's Jerry Tworek and Rohan Anil

    With Jerry Tworek and Rohan Anil

  11. 21 Jul 2026

    Factory's Matan Grinberg: The Coming ‘Dark Factory’ Where Software Builds Itself

    With Matan Grinberg

  12. 14 Jul 2026

    Anthropic's Katelyn Lesse & Angela Jiang: Building an Ecosystem, not a Walled Garden

    With Angela Jiang and Katelyn Lesse

Guests

Harrison Chase (3 episodes), Matan Grinberg (2 episodes), Mati Staniszewski (2 episodes), Noam Brown (2 episodes), Isa Fulford (2 episodes), Sridhar Ramaswamy , Jerry Tworek , Mike Knoop , Elias Torres , Ioannis Antonoglou , Tudor Achim , Matt McPartlon , and 130 more.