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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

Research

New models, training methods, benchmarks, and discoveries from AI labs.

Trend this week

4 of 4 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 13.1% to 12.4%, with evidence across 9 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 9 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.

15 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 5 podcasts

AI For Humans

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

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    “GPT-3 was smarter than me. I mean, it wasn't maybe as capable. I'll give myself that.”

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    “It was smarter than me.”

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    “China's latest model, Kimi K3, is out and it is inching ever closer to the frontier of American AI.”

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Practical AI

The Future of AI Infrastructure with CoreWeave

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    “And so, you know, a bunch of that observability, this is a big part of, I think, where that sort of AI-centric work that sort of, you know, we believe our secret sauce, but certainly everybody's working on that sort of like AI-centric focus on sort of being able to detect thos...”

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The AI Daily Brief

The New Enterprise Battle Over Who Owns the Model

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    “Marketing's agent turns competitor moves into landing pages. Sales' agent enriches leads, drafts emails, and updates the CRM. Ops' agent chases the paperwork and tracks the budget. Every agent has access to shared context and follows your rules about scope and approvals. It's ...”

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    “Now for context, at 975 billion parameters, Inkling is quite a bit smaller than the 1.6 billion parameters of DeepSeek V4 Pro, but a little larger than the 750 billion parameters of ZAI's GLM-5.2. Importantly, TML pre-trained Inkling from scratch. And aside from a small bootst...”

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    “On coding, Inkling scored 54.3% on SweBench Pro and 63.8% on TerminalBench 2.1, again putting it ahead of NeMoTrON and K2.5, but a little behind K2.6 and at a significant shortfall compared to GLM-5.2, 5.6 SOL, and Fable-5. On GDPVal, which measures real-world tasks and is a s...”

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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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    “those are the types of like serendipity things that we'd actually like to automate”

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    “We have lots of funny, like, RL fails that are not explicitly reward hacking. Well, I mean, one is when we trained— one of the early things we did was like, can you just like make a plate map? Like, can you like lay the experimental conditions out on a plate. And it got annoye...”

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    “We are all in on the bitter lesson and scale. We think that methods that scale and that are general beat those that are not. You know, as Ilya said at NeurIPS last year, we have but one internet. It's the fossil fuel we fracked. We got every ounce of data that we could out of ...”

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Last Week in AI

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

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    “So it's causal. It is sometimes referred to as causal.”

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    “Yeah, it's pretty interesting when you look at like the broad fingerprint of capabilities that's advertised here. So the first thing, by the way, from a You can tell what part of the model announcements I rush to immediately when I see these cyber capabilities, because that's ...”

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    “Yeah. And you know, how much does superintelligence help you with stuff building nuclear safely anyways? Onto projects in open source. And we do have a couple of interesting new models that are open source, starting with Nimotron-Labs-Diffusion, a tri-mode language model unify...”

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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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