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In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.

6 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

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Open Models · 0.8% · Aug 17–23, 2026 · About the same in the latest report

Open Models

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

Aug 17–23, 2026

0.8%Losing attentionDown 4 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 · Aug 17–23, 2026

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 4.8% to 0.8%, with evidence across 6 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “AI in the AM — Weekly Highlights: Relaunch Week (Aug 17–20, 2026)” and “AI Got Weird. So We're Changing The Show.”.
How to read it
3 cited episodes from 3 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 6 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

5 quoted moments · 3 episodes · 3 podcasts

The Cognitive Revolution

AI in the AM — Weekly Highlights: Relaunch Week (Aug 17–20, 2026)

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    “Because if you look at our evals, to give you an example, we tested most models, but Gemma 4 was one of the winners in terms of quality, speed. Quite to our surprise, because if you look at most of the benchmarks, it's not one of the models, but I have a suspicion Google has s...”
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    ConceptOpen Models

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    “The market is like, oh, you know, the OpenWeights labs are gonna, you know, OpenWeights, uh, models are gonna dominate, but then it takes 9 months to deploy.”
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    ConceptOpen Models

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AI For Humans

AI Got Weird. So We're Changing The Show.

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    “Quen, by the way, is really freaking good, and so is GLM. These are local models, or in the cloud, you can run them in the cloud or locally, that are actually great AI models that can do stuff like that.”
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    ConceptOpen Models

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    “This is using Minimax H3, an incredibly powerful open-source model that you can run locally. You can run it on— if you have a high-end graphics card, you can run it. You can rent for pennies a graphics card in the cloud to experiment. You don't have to pay out the nose for a l...”
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AI Inside

OpenAI Pumps the Brakes After Its AI Escaped

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    “We don't know the stories behind all of that, uh, but I think it's trouble time for OpenAI. Um, and, you know, we've also discussed the last 2 weeks the, the OpenWeight models as competitors, which I think is critically important. All the more important now because of the secu...”
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