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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

VAIBE tracks conversations across AI-focused podcasts to show what people are talking about now, and tracks how those conversations change week by week.

This week in AI conversations

Infrastructure attention rebounded while adoption use cases fell back

Across 17 episodes from 11 contributing podcasts, infrastructure rose 3.1 points to 9.3% while adoption use cases fell 3 points to 29.2%.

The TL;DR

What changed
Adoption Use Cases fell 3 points and Agents fell 1.5 points.
Where it showed up
Adoption Use Cases, Agents, and Research accounted for 58% of the relevant conversation across 17 episodes.
How to read it
Recurrence across podcasts does not mean agreement. The cited moments show the language behind each summary.

What’s hot this week

The ideas that came up most often, what changed, and why they mattered. Open any topic to see the podcast moments behind it.

  1. Adoption Use CasesPractical ways people and organizations are putting AI to work.Discussion of adoption use cases stayed near its recent level. It made up 29% of the conversation across 11 podcasts this week.About the same29% of this week · 11 podcasts
  2. AgentsAI systems that can plan, use tools, and carry out multi-step tasks.Discussion of agents grew compared with recent weeks. It made up 16% of the conversation across 10 podcasts this week.Gaining attention16% of this week · 10 podcasts
  3. ResearchNew models, training methods, benchmarks, and discoveries from AI labs.Discussion of research eased compared with recent weeks. It made up 12% of the conversation across 9 podcasts this week.Losing attention12% of this week · 9 podcasts
  4. InfrastructureThe software and systems needed to build, deploy, and monitor AI.Discussion of infrastructure grew compared with recent weeks. It made up 9% of the conversation across 9 podcasts this week.Gaining attention9% of this week · 9 podcasts
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  1. Safety & governanceWays to reduce harm, set limits, test behavior, and govern how AI is used.Discussion of safety & governance stayed near its recent level. It made up 8% of the conversation across 9 podcasts this week.About the same8% of this week · 9 podcasts
  2. RegulationLaws, rules, and government decisions about how AI may be built and used.Discussion of regulation stayed near its recent level. It made up 7% of the conversation across 5 podcasts this week.About the same7% of this week · 5 podcasts
  3. EconomicsThe cost of building and running AI, and how money moves through the market.Discussion of economics stayed near its recent level. It made up 6% of the conversation across 11 podcasts this week.About the same6% of this week · 11 podcasts
  4. Open ModelsAI models whose weights or code are available for others to use and adapt.Discussion of open models stayed near its recent level. It made up 5% of the conversation across 7 podcasts this week.About the same5% of this week · 7 podcasts
  5. HardwareThe chips, data centers, energy, and devices that AI depends on.Discussion of hardware stayed near its recent level. It made up 3% of the conversation across 4 podcasts this week.About the same3% of this week · 4 podcasts
  6. JobsHow AI is changing work, hiring, roles, and the skills people need.Discussion of jobs stayed near its recent level. It made up 2% of the conversation across 5 podcasts this week.About the same2% of this week · 5 podcasts
  7. OtherAI discussion that does not fit another recurring topic.Discussion of other stayed near its recent level. It made up 2% of the conversation across 6 podcasts this week.About the same2% of this week · 6 podcasts
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From Jul 13–19, 2026

About this Concept

Open Models

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

Trend this week

4 of 4 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.

A closer read

What changed
Its share rose from 1.7% to 4.6%, with evidence across 7 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “Is Kimi K3 Really Fable Class?” and “Kimi K3 Is Here. China Just Hit the AI Frontier.”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 5 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 7 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

Moments are grouped by episode so repeated excerpts from one conversation do not look like separate sources.

17 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 5 podcasts

The AI Daily Brief

Is Kimi K3 Really Fable Class?

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    “In fact, as we've been discussing fine-tunes of open models like Cursor's Composer 2.5, they tend to be built around a KIMI base. On Wednesday, the KIMI K3 teaser started coming in a serious way. AI leaker Leo Synthwave wrote, I think KIMI K3 is going to shock some of the Chin...”

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    “As for features, KIMI-K3 supports a million-token context window and native image inputs alongside text. It uses a mixture of experts architecture, which has become standard for both open source and proprietary models since it was introduced by DeepSeek. And the benchmarks, we...”

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  3. A
    “clearly a very strong new pre-training run that could give a solid base model for future iterations as well”

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AI For Humans

Kimi K3 Is Here. China Just Hit the AI Frontier.

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  1. B
    “But it's not as cheap as free and probably too big to run locally unless you're like some sort of billionaire who fights robots in their spare time. You know, robots like this.”

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  2. B
    “It could be hitting next week. And wouldn't that make sense, Gavin? As we see, everybody goes open source, open weights, open this. It's always 6 months behind. And now look at this.”

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The AI Daily Brief

The New Enterprise Battle Over Who Owns the Model

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  1. A
    “That model was a larger and more capable version of their Open Model family, addressing the demand for powerful and cheap US-based models”

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  2. A
    “And yet, as regular listeners well know, benchmarks don't usually tell much of a story. Unfortunately, although there aren't all that many first impressions, the ones that we have aren't great. Professor Ethan Mollick wrote, Happy to see a new open weights model, but so far In...”

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    “The world needs open LLMs from as many players as possible. Given TLM's talent, know-how, funding, and compute, they will soon reach Opus if not Fable-5 level. So basically Yunfan's argument is that this should be treated as the first, not last, model that TML is going to put ...”

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Latent Space

🔬 The Lab of the Future Should Feel Like a Data Center — Andy Beam & Rafa Gómez-Bombarelli, Lila Sciences

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    “a good scientific prior over what is known, and therefore a good base camp to build upon”

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    “Yeah. And we use, like, we use Neutron quite a bit because we have a partnership with Nvidia. And I think there's like 30 trillion tokens that go into the pre- and post-training for that model.”

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    “Have you all— So in the process of these reasoning tokens, you are also creating what are arguably probably just rather useful datasets themselves. Have you thought about independently releasing some of those datasets open source, even in the absence of the reasoning model, wh...”

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AI Inside

Apple Says OpenAI Stole Its Secrets

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    “So, um, all right, so open source, like open source code has faced a similar situation. Open source code still fully exists. Is there any, like, is there any, like, precedent or You know, how is it— how and why is this different? Is it because it's just the scale? It's, it's b...”

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    “I think the open source code world was different. These are applications. that can do powerful, dangerous things”

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  3. B
    “Um, CH, uh, Zimis, uh, or Zimis on YouTube says, interesting, some of these companies are very pro-open source though. Microsoft with .NET, Google in general. And I—”

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Last Week in AI

#252 - GPT 5.6, Grok 4.5, Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion, AI 2040

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    “I would imagine that just the training volume is ridiculous, but the product side release here was a bit of a mess. And next, going back to models, there's a story, Chinese AI models gain ground with US companies as costs surge. So this is a bit of a trend check where it's sho...”

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  2. B
    “Keep in mind also that China is going to be clamping down on open source at some point in the next like year or 2. So many of these trends are I think properly viewed as transients, where it just becomes untenable for, you know, like cyber weapon models or models that can even...”

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    “increasingly you're going to want to like look at a model that was made, you know, with the hardware that you trust or software you trust”

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Signals to keep watching

Topics whose movement across recent reports may matter beyond this week.

Adoption Use Cases

Changed direction

Adoption Use Cases reversed course

Its share fell from 32.2% last week to 29.2% this week, reversing the previous week's rise.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks30.0%This week29.2%

Came up less often than in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments

Infrastructure

Changed direction

Infrastructure rebounded

Its share rose from 6.2% last week to 9.3% this week, reversing the previous week's drop.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks5.6%This week9.3%

Came up more often than in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments

Open Models

Gaining attention

Open Models gained ground

Its share grew from 1.7% last week to 4.6% this week.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks3.1%This week4.6%

Came up more often than in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments

Jobs

Losing attention

Jobs cooled

Its share fell from 4.7% last week to 2.3% this week.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks3.7%This week2.3%

Came up less often than in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments

Regulation

Gaining attention

Regulation gained ground

Its share grew from 5% last week to 7.1% this week.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks5.9%This week7.1%

Came up more often than in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments

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