The Cognitive Revolution

Summary

The Cognitive Revolution covering AI Safety, Geopolitics, AI Alignment, and OpenAI. Notable guests include Helen Toner (Director of Strategy and Foundational Research Grants, CSET), Kyle Corbitt (Founder of OpenPipe, leading Serverless Training at CoreWeave), Dan Balsam (CTO & Chief Scientist, Goodfire), and Tom McGrath. Episodes span from Apr 2025 to May 2026.

22episodes

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22 episodes

The RL Fine-Tuning Playbook: CoreWeave's Kyle Corbitt on GRPO, Rubrics, Environments, Reward Hacking

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May 1, 2026 · WITH Kyle Corbitt

Reinforcement Learning (RL) fine-tuning offers a higher performance ceiling and is less prone to catastrophic forgetting than Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) because it makes smaller, more targeted up...

Reinforcement Learning (RL)Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT)Model DistillationLLM as Judge+13 more

AI in the AM: 99% off search, GPT-5.5 is "clean", model welfare analysis, & efficient analog compute

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Apr 26, 2026

Ceramic AI is disrupting the AI search market with an API designed for LLMs that is two orders of magnitude cheaper than existing solutions, potentially unlocking new use cases. Comparative analysi...

AI SearchCeramic AIAPI EconomicsRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)+17 more

Success without Dignity? Nathan finds Hope Amidst Chaos

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Apr 1, 2026

AI development is on a clear trajectory to become transformative, with expert timelines for AGI having compressed dramatically in recent years. The paradigm has shifted from next-token prediction t...

AI SafetyAI AlignmentExistential RiskP(Doom)+14 more

Scaling Intelligence Out: Cisco's Vision for the Internet of Cognition, with Vijoy Pandey

Mar 25, 2026

Your Agent's Self-Improving Swiss Army Knife: Composio CTO Karan Vaidya on Building Smart Tools

Mar 22, 2026

Zvi's Mic Works! Recursive Self-Improvement, Live Player Analysis, Anthropic vs DoW + More!

Mar 19, 2026

AI Scouting Report: the Good, Bad, & Weird @ the Law & AI Certificate Program, by LexLab, UC Law SF

Mar 16, 2026

Bioinfohazards: Jassi Pannu on Controlling Dangerous Data from which AI Models Learn

Mar 11, 2026

Try this at Home: Jesse Genet on OpenClaw Agents for Homeschool & How to Live Your Best AI Life

Mar 8, 2026

Don't Fight Backprop: Goodfire's Vision for Intentional Design, w/ Dan Balsam & Tom McGrath

Mar 5, 2026

Situational Awareness in Government, with UK AISI Chief Scientist Geoffrey Irving

Mar 1, 2026

Universal Medical Intelligence: OpenAI's Plan to Elevate Human Health, with Karan Singhal

Feb 25, 2026

Intelligence with Everyone: RL @ MiniMax, with Olive Song, from AIE NYC & Inference by Turing Post

Feb 22, 2026

Mathematical Superintelligence: Harmonic's Vlad & Tudor on IMO Gold & Theories of Everything

Feb 18, 2026

Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 2, w/ Abhi Mahajan, Helen Toner, Jeremie Harris, @8teAPi

Feb 14, 2026

Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 1, w/ James Zou, Sam Hammond, Shoshannah Tekofsky, @8teAPi

Feb 13, 2026

AGI-Pilled Cyber Defense: Automating Digital Forensics w/ Asymmetric Security Founder Alexis Carlier

Feb 8, 2026

Infinite Code Context: AI Coding at Enterprise Scale w/ Blitzy CEO Brian Elliott & CTO Sid Pardeshi

Feb 4, 2026

AI & The Law: Changing Practice, Claude Constitution, & New Rights, w/ Kevin & Alan of Scaling Laws

Jan 29, 2026

The Internet Computer: Caffeine.ai CEO Dominic Williams on Unstoppable, Self-Writing Software

Jan 25, 2026

AMA Part 2: Is Fine-Tuning Dead? How Am I Preparing for AGI? Are We Headed for UBI? & More!

Jan 22, 2026

Helen Toner OpenAI Reflections, Adaptation Buffers, and AI in Warfare

Apr 24, 2025

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