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18 AI-focused podcasts currently tracked18 AI podcasts

Currently tracking18 AI-focused podcasts

  • AI For Humans
  • AI Inside
  • AI Today Podcast
  • Eye on AI
  • Gradient Dissent
  • Interconnects
  • Last Week in AI
  • Latent Space
  • Machine Learning Street Talk
  • Me, Myself, and AI
  • No Priors
  • Practical AI
  • The AI Daily Brief
  • The AI Native Dev
  • The Artificial Intelligence Show
  • The Cognitive Revolution
  • The TWIML AI Podcast
  • Training Data

Trends over time

Jul 13–Oct 4, 2026 · 12 published weeks

In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.

2 topics highlighted · Sep 28–Oct 4, 2026

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Topic attention across published weeksEach colored line uses the same attention scale. Only topics with published measurements are shown; their shares do not necessarily total 100%. Breaks mean missing measurements, not zero. Dated dots open that topic and week below.0%11.3%22.5%33.8%45%Jul 13Jul 20Jul 27Aug 3Aug 10Aug 17Aug 24Aug 31Sep 7Sep 14Sep 21Sep 28Adoption Use Cases: About the same in the latest reportAdoption Use Cases33.4%Research: Gaining attention in the latest reportResearch22.7%Agents: About the same in the latest reportAgents14.5%Safety & governance: Losing attention in the latest reportSafety & governance8.6%Hardware: Gaining attention in the latest reportHardware7.9%Regulation: About the same in the latest reportRegulation3.9%Open Models: About the same in the latest reportOpen Models3.1%Economics: Losing attention in the latest reportEconomics2.5%Infrastructure: About the same in the latest reportInfrastructure1.2%Jobs: About the same in the latest reportJobs1.2%Other: Below threshold in the latest reportOtherNo measurement

Direction compares the latest report with recent weeks; small changes are “About the same,” and gaps mean no measurement.

Open Models · 3.1% · Sep 28–Oct 4, 2026 · About the same in the latest report

Open Models

AI models whose weights or code are available for others to use and adapt.

Sep 28–Oct 4, 2026

3.1%About the sameUp 1.2 percentage points from last week

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Open Models, week by weekDated controls show each week's attention share. Gaps mean no qualifying measurement, not zero. Select a week to read its discussion below.0%11.3%22.5%33.8%45%
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Open Models · Sep 28–Oct 4, 2026

A closer read

What changed
Its share rose from 1.9% to 3.1%, with evidence across 7 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “#258 - Opus 5.5, Sol and Luna, Muse, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, Xi” and “Open models and the future of Physical AI with NVIDIA”.
How to read it
3 cited episodes from 3 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 7 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

3 quoted moments · 3 episodes · 3 podcasts

Last Week in AI

#258 - Opus 5.5, Sol and Luna, Muse, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, Xi

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    “DeepSeek continuing to do what it's doing and seems to be a very powerful, fast, smaller model.”
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