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Last 4 days before regular tickets sell out at AI Engineer World's Fair - this is the single biggest gathering of AI Engineers, Founders, Leaders, and Researchers in the world. Attendees get >$5000 worth of sponsor credits and talk tracks are looking FANTASTIC. Join us!The AI scaling debate always focuses on the question of “how do we get more GPUs?” but the better question may be: how do we make the most of ones we already have.The fact that a frontier lab like xAI could be running at sub-10% MFU (Model FLOPs Utilization) is just a hint at what the real problem may be.For context, older frontier-scale training runs were already much higher than 10%. GPT-3 was around 21% MFU. Gopher was around 32%. Megatron-Turing NLG was around 30%. PaLM reached around 46%. And our guest Anjney says best-in-class MFU today is closer to 60–70%.It's not necessarily that xAI is uniquely incompetent (it's clear they have talented folks) but rather the priorities may be flipped in the GPU arms race.While GPU access is a bottleneck, simply increasing CapEx won't automatically translate to better models as frontier AI is increasingly a systems problem: scheduling, utilization, networking, kernels, frameworks, data pipelines, parallelism, cluster reliability, and the thousand small decisions that determine whether your theoretical FLOPs become real training progress.From building Discord's developer platform and backing frontier AI companies like Anthropic, Mistral, Black Forest Labs, and Periodic Labs to now building AMP's independent compute grid, Anjney Midha has spent years close to the real bottlenecks of AI scaling. In this episode, Anjney joins swyx at Periodic Labs to unpack why the AI race is not just about buying more GPUs, why 95% utilization would have been considered an outage at Google, and why the next era of AI infrastructure has to be more aligned, more efficient, and more responsible.We go deep on AMP's vision for a compute grid that makes FLOPs flow like megawatts, the difference between full-stack AI labs and horizontal pooling, why AI data centers need community buy-in, and how compute markets could evolve into something closer to an independent system operator. Anjney also explains why DeepMind's unpublished research points to a market failure, why end-of-life prediction remains one of the most important AI applications he has thought about for fourteen years, and why “output maxing” may become a new discipline for frontier systems.We also discuss Anthropic's culture, why “luck favors the prepared mind” in coding models, how Claude cracked coding, why too much capital too early can make AI labs fragile, what Periodic Labs is trying to do with science and superconductors, why great researchers can become great CEOs, and why Silicon Valley is both deeply missionary and deeply mercenary.We discuss:* Why 95% utilization was considered an outage at Google* Why AI infrastructure waste compounds at frontier-lab scale* Why “move fast and break things” does not work for AI data centers* How data center backlash, power grids, and community incentives shape AI scaling* AMP's vision for making FLOPs flow like megawatts* Why compute needs an independent system operator* How interruptible demand and dynamic prioritization worked inside Google* Why DeepMind research hoarding creates negative externalities* AMP's 1.2GW base-load ambition and the need for 6GW of spike capacity* Why end-of-life prediction could become one of AI's most important healthcare applications* Frontier Systems, output maxing, and full-stack alignment* Why APIs and abstraction layers become lossy as organizations scale* Superconductors, standards, and the dream of lossless systems* SF Compute, open protocols, and the future of compute marketplaces* Why non-NVIDIA chips can still benefit from NVIDIA's reference architecture* Trust boundaries and why chip startups need visibility into future model architectures* Why VCs often underestimate researchers as CEOs* Scientists as star athletes of the mind* Why great CEOs need to be confrontational up and down the stack* Why leading the frontier matters more than “winning”* How Anthropic cracked coding* Why culture is fragile, not a permanent moat* Why hardship was a feature, not a bug, for Anthropic* Why Anthropic's P0 was coding from day one* Periodic Labs, physics as the constraint, and technical reality* Silicon Valley mercenaries, missionary teams, and what happens after a breakthroughAnjney Midha* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anjney* X: https://x.com/AnjneyMidhaAMP PBC* Website: https://amppublic.com/* X: https://x.com/amppublicTimestamps00:00:00 Introduction00:00:09 Why AI Compute Is Being Wasted00:03:17 Responsible Infrastructure and Data Center Backlash00:06:07 AMP Grid: Making FLOPs Flow Like Megawatts00:12:41 Foundry, Frontier Labs, and Research Hoarding00:14:42 Gigawatt-Scale Compute and End-of-Life Prediction00:24:08 Frontier Systems, Output Maxing, and Alignment00:27:38 Compute Markets, SF Compute, and Non-NVIDIA Chips00:32:57 Trust Boundaries, Co-Design, and Researcher CEOs00:38:17 AI Coachella and First-Principles Thinking00:42:43 Leading vs Winning in Frontier AI00:45:54 How Anthropic Cracked Coding00:48:25 Culture, Hardship, and Anthropic's P000:54:03 Periodic Labs, Physics, and Silicon Valley Mercenaries00:56:26 Rishi Valley, Singapore, and Money as a Measure00:58:47 Closing ThoughtsTranscriptIntroduction: Anjney Midha, AMP, and Compute WasteSwyx [00:00:00]: We're in Periodic Labs with Anjney Midha, CEO, founder of AMP. Welcome.Compute Utilization: Node Allocation, MFU, and AlignmentAnjney [00:00:09]: Thanks for having me. At Google, there are two types of utilization usually, right? That you're measuring in these clusters. One is node allocation, and then the other's MFU. Node utilization is usually like what percentage of cards in the data center are just, used, and that, if it's not at, 95%-Swyx [00:00:29]: There is no excuseAnjney [00:00:29]: There's no excuse, right? I think 95% at Google, which is where my co-founder, Seb, came from, he built the Borg, PBorg/GQM scheduler at Google, and there I think 95% was considered an outage, so 96% node utilization is, should be standard. And most single-tenant clusters are not running at that. So that's one. And then MFU should be, I would say the best in class today is somewhere between 60 and 70%. I think this is a leadership question, right? Fundamentally it's an alignment question, which is are the people who are funding the cluster and then deploying the cluster actually aligned? And sometimes theoretically they are, but in practice the number of people in the chain, the supply chain between, the capital and all the way to whoever's managing the cluster and then whoever's measuring what the output is, are just so many, degrees of separation away that, the, The Have you ever heard the radian metaphor, which is at the beginning of an arc, if you have two arcs that are two lines that are just off by a few degrees, that-Swyx [00:01:33]: It spreads outAnjney [00:01:34]: It spreads out, right? Or at scale. And I think what's happening is a lot of cluster implementations and infrastructure, a lot of frontier labs and other teams, that's what's happening, is they're, they initialize the plan, which is kind of like North Star with a team that wants to do good, but then they're, required to scale so fast instead of iteratively that the wastage just compounds really fast at scale. And so I think we know the answer, which is just do iterative bring ups. If you spend time with people who've been in the semiconductor industry or the DSN industry for a long time, this is not new, and I don't think AI should be an excuse. Sure. Something What is new? Okay. We have a lot of new capabilities, but that doesn't mean just abandon common sense. Common sense should always be in fashion. ? AI scaling doesn't change the in fact, if anything, AI scaling should be putting a premium on the value of common sense and infrastructure because the margin of error now is so much lower and the costs of wastage are so much higher. And the cost of wastage, by the way, is not just economic. I'm, obviously I'm, I'm an investor, or I'm an investor by background. Over the last few years now we're running an AI infrastructure business called, AMP. And I think that it's okay to say this time is different on the capabilities front. We are genuinely getting capabilities at, of the, of a kind we haven't had before. That doesn't give you an excuse to say this time is different for everything, especially infrastructure. So look, I love the hacker mindset and the hustler mindset. Now, that's great for the startup mindset, but you remember this moment where Zuck went from saying, “Move fast, break things” to, move-Responsible Infrastructure and Data Center BacklashSwyx [00:03:10]: Fast and stable infrastructureAnjney [00:03:11]: Move fast with stable infrastructure. I think now we need to move fast with, responsible infrastructure. People are going to ask where the impact is. There was a really In our class yesterday, Scott Nolan, who's the founder of General Matter, came by at Stanford to speak about energy bottlenecks. And he had a phenomenal idea. He said, “if you look at the marginal unit economics of compute per hour,” he goes, “let's call it, $4 an hour. If you're having to bring up a new data center in a new community, why not just say we're going to charge 4.50 an hour, and that marginal impact or that marginal increase, we just literally take that and give it to the local community as cash?” I can tell you as a customer of that compute, I would love that. I'd be happy to pay an additional 50 cents per hour at scale.Swyx [00:03:57]: Wow. Yeah.Anjney [00:03:58]: Because if that means the public benefit is so clear to the communities that the data centers are coming up in, I'm going to feel like that compute is much more reliable. Up to 20% of all data centers this year in the US, my understanding is are at risk.Swyx [00:04:13]: Of community backlash?Anjney [00:04:14]: Correct. Of not getting the community support they need to get brought up.Swyx [00:04:19]: Wow. That's a huge number.Anjney [00:04:20]: Yeah. Now, we, I think we should dig into what that number is. I think it's a little bit of overstated. These things can get over-reported, but it-Swyx [00:04:27]: They don't just care about jobs. They care about all the other stuff around it, right? They care about power grid, they care about environments-Anjney [00:04:33]: Power grid, permitting, and so on. And imagine I think if you said there's a new AI deal. If we're bringing up a data center in your community, we're actually going to reduce the cost of your electricity bill. Okay, now we're talking. Right? The community's going, “Okay. Now this is a deal. I feel like a partner in this.” Right now that's not happening. There will be audits, there will be investigations, and when the, when the regulators come, I don't know when it's going to be, the folks who are moving fast and breaking things in the name of AI progress better be prepared. That's certainly not how we're procuring compute. Or we're, we're trying as much as we can to work with partners who have long-term track records. Many of whom, by the way, are not, AI providers. I think this whole idea of neoclouds being somehow this new category is a lot of marketing speak. There are really good, reliable, trusted data center providers in America who've been around 20 plus years. I love those folks. They know how to Sure. Are they sponsoring happy hours at NeurIPS? No. Are they legibly listed in Build? No. Are they hanging out in my, in, situational awareness parties? No. But they're adults. I trust them.Swyx [00:05:44]: They can run LAN. They can run power.Anjney [00:05:45]: They can run LAN, power, and shell. They have credit histories. We sit down, we have a conversations. Many of them live in Silicon Valley. They've, they've had to deal with the boom and bust cycles of the internet, and I love those folks. They are stable infrastructure partners and thinkers. And I think there's a lot of short-term thinking going on in the compute layer, and it's going to catch up to us. It's not going to be good.AMP Grid: Making FLOPs Flow Like MegawattsSwyx [00:06:07]: You talk about aligning incentives, and, I would think that aligning incentives means you have the full stack in one company, which is xAI and OpenAI, right? So you as a standalone infrastructure layer, why are you somehow more aligned to your portfolio companies than people who just own the whole thing?Anjney [00:06:28]: In systems design, right, there's, there's two regimes of, architecture, right? You have integration, and then you have pooling and utilization, right? So the Or rather, the way to increase utilization often is you can do systems integration where you collapse a lot of process into one node, or you can pull out a process from a node and share that amongst various That resource amongst several different nodes. And so we see the AMP grid, which is, the, what, the system we're building here, which is basically a compute grid. We're trying to do for compute what the electric grid-Swyx [00:07:02]: PowerAnjney [00:07:02]: Yeah, what the power grid did for electricity. It-- this is a pooling and utilization layer across clouds, And so we're actually the opposite of a full stack integration like approach.Swyx [00:07:12]: Super horizontal.Anjney [00:07:13]: Where it's much more horizontal and it's, it's multi-cloud, it's multi-silicon. The goal is to try to make FLOPs flow like megawatts, and that is very hard to do today for many reasons. There's stranded pools of compute all over the place and there's no fungibility. And so right now we do it at the level of scheduling, and we often do it at the economic layer. But as we start to announce what we're working on, it's extraordinary like how many folks are coming out of the woodworks and saying, “Hey, I'm actually working on a way to make compute fungible at this part of the stack and that part of the stack.” And as a grid, we'd like all of these folks to participate on the grid. There's, people often ask me, “Andra, are you a new cloud?” And I go, “No, actually neoclouds are suppliers.” sometimes they'll ask, “Are you a venture capital firm?” I go, “No, actually they are, they are demand like sort of off-takers of the grid.” We see ourselves as what's called an independent system operator. So if you study the history of the electric grid, once it became legible to a lot of factories and industrial sort of participants that, hey, actually it turns out pooling is a good idea. We should pool our generators instead of all having a generator running at half capacity in our backyard. There was a need for an independent entity who could coordinate all these parties. Transmission line, power generation, facilities, transmission lines, factories, and that neutral coordination mechanism is very critical. In order-- If you study like the history of grids, the most enduring ones were those that never owned their own assets. They were ones that had, or often started with long-term anchors who are uncorrelated sources of demand, a steel factory, a shoe mill or whatever in a particular town who weren't competitive, where the steel factory want to spike up at night, the shoe mill wanted to spike up during the day. So then you pool and you share, right? So each of you is guaranteed some base load, but then you kind of schedule your spikes to drive a peak utilization across the town. The gold standard, so to speak, historically, has been these utility companies like PJM Interconnect in the northeast of America, where they, over many years became this what's called an ISO, an independent system operator of the grid. So that's how we see ourselves. Economically, that's what we are. From a technical perspective, we started at the scheduling layer because Seb and Mihai, who, run engineering here, built that at-Swyx [00:09:28]: Did your schedulingAnjney [00:09:28]: They did that at Google. And, -Swyx [00:09:32]: And you have infra shops from Discord as well.Anjney [00:09:35]: I have some.Swyx [00:09:35]: I don't know, I don't know if Discord is like the primary identity, but what-whatever, I'm just kind of-Anjney [00:09:39]: No, D-Discord was-Swyx [00:09:40]: Choosing a well-known name.Anjney [00:09:42]: Well, I So I was running the developer platform there. The internal infrastructure I was not responsible for. That was actually a guy by the name of Mark Smith, who was extraordinary. And yes, Discord did pool So Discord is actually a counter example. I had the chance to learn a lot about fully, full stack infra there because-Swyx [00:09:56]: It's the same thing, yeahAnjney [00:09:57]: It's the, it's the other architecture which is, Discord built its own WebRTC vo-voice and video infra. So like Discord did not use-Swyx [00:10:08]: For the calls, yeah.Anjney [00:10:09]: Yeah, did not For communication, Discord did not use third party infra. It was all built in-house. And then the way you maximize utilization was you pool demand from the world's 200 million plus monthly active gamers, right? And so that's, that's how those stacks were constructed. Again, in systems design, the two concepts that keep coming up over and over again are abstraction and composition, right? And-Swyx [00:10:31]: Bundling and unbundlingAnjney [00:10:33]: Bundling and unbundling, abstraction, composition, like verticalization and-Swyx [00:10:36]: HorizontalAnjney [00:10:36]: Horizontalization. So in that sense, AMP is an independent system operator of the grid. We pool demand, we pool supply from a number of partners we trust At about 1.3 gigawatt scale over four years. And then we pool demand from some of the world's best, research labs and so on. We're sitting at one, periodic labs who need extraordinary long-term demand. And the idea is that, each of them is guaranteed base load on the grid, but they can spike up and down flexibly on, for compute, with much shorter timelines as needed. That was roughly the design of the program I came up with at a16z called Oxygen. The same-- That was the same design of the GQM, BorgX, Borg GQM implementation at Google that Mihai and Seb had built. Which was that how do you allow, teams inside of Google, on the internal infrastructure to be guaranteed capacity, for their base workloads? But when they need to spike up on research, how could they ensure that was sufficiently there? And of course, the big innovation that was not discovered, but kind of implemented in the space, this infra space maybe three, four years ago at Google was the idea of interruptible demand, right? Where you just queue up a bunch of jobs and through this like sort of credit system, there can be a bidding mechanism.Swyx [00:11:53]: Like priorities.Anjney [00:11:54]: It's a dynamic prioritization Basically. And jobs can get interrupted based on somebody else who's saying, “what? I have 10 tokens, 10 credits I want to spend on this job.” Another like team lead, research lead is “Genie 3 or whatever is only worth five, credits, and NanoBanana2 is worth 10 credits,” and so the NanoBanana job gets priority. That's a, that's a made up example.Swyx [00:12:15]: It's very real. Brain Marketplace was real. And, we've, we've covered this on the pod with David Luan, who was-Anjney [00:12:20]: Oh, great. OkaySwyx [00:12:20]: Was there. And the criticism is that, well, actually sometimes you need central command to go all in on a thing. And actually sometimes capitalism via credits doesn't work. Not, this is not a criticism of AMP. I'm just saying, this is a thing that has been tried, internally within Google, and it led to Google missing GPT.Foundry, Frontier Labs, and Research HoardingAnjney [00:12:41]: Like, we structured ourself essentially very similarly to Google. We are structured as a holdings company. So, Alphabet holdings is Alphabet holdings, and then they've got these subsidiaries called Google and-Swyx [00:12:51]: Other betsAnjney [00:12:52]: Other bets and so on. We've got, AMP holdings, and we've got our infrastructure business, and then we've got a capital business called Foundry that incubates new frontier AI labs or invests in them as venture capital, like Periodic. We put a few hundred million dollars into Anthropic from our fund earlier this year. So wherever we feel like teams are making progress, especially researchers and so on who've pushed the frontier inside of existing labs like DeepMind, I find, there comes a point where they feel misaligned with the dictatorship of Alphabet holdings. And at that point, sometimes the dictatorship doesn't want them anymore. And they're “Thank you. You've done your job here. You've kind of helped us through the zero to one phase, and for whatever reason, we're going to deprioritize your amazing, omni model or whatever it is, and instead we're going to prioritize coding.” And, I think that's a tragedy, but I get it. They're Sergey and team are running their own business there. But that doesn't mean we the rest of us should sit around waiting for that progress to get unlocked for the rest of the world and humanity. If you think about how much extraordinary research has happened inside of DeepMind over the last 10 years, I, Demis and Sergey and those guys did such a great job. But at the end of the day, so much of that has never seen the light of day?Swyx [00:14:00]: Or they're like papers only, but they never actually shipped it to production or-Anjney [00:14:03]: What's worse is the paper is actually not even being published anymore ‘cause there's a six-month embargo inside of DeepMind, right? We've heard about this where a paper comes out, and then I think there's a six-month embargo window where if anybody on the business team says, “This could be interesting” It's embargoed for life.Swyx [00:14:18]: Exactly. So the stuff that gets published is the stuff that's not good enough.Anjney [00:14:21]: There's an adverse selection problem, basically. Yeah. At this point-Swyx [00:14:25]: It's, it's a common complaint at NeurIPS, by the way, that's “Well, why would I look at the papers that are the trash of GDM?”Anjney [00:14:31]: Again, I think it's a tragedy. I get it. They're running their business, but the rest of the I think there's negative externalities of research being hoarded, and so that'there's a market failure. And somebody needs to unlock that research, and we can't do it on our own. We only have 1.2 gigawatts of compute. That's nothing. That's about $40 billion of cloud spend. We're going to need a lot-Gigawatt-Scale Compute and End-of-Life PredictionSwyx [00:14:51]: By the way, is that's a new number. I haven't, haven't come across that gigawatt number. That's huge.Anjney [00:14:56]: Yeah. And to be clear, we haven't secured all of it. That's how much demand we have started to secure. I think publicly we haven't actually confirmed how much we have for this year. In order-Swyx [00:15:04]: Where do you want to get to?Anjney [00:15:06]: I think the steady state would be that we have a base load pool Of 1.2 gigawatts at all times Of base load capacity. For spike capacity, right now my estimate is we need roughly six gigawatts over the next four years for all our teams to feel like they were able to keep moving the frontier, whatever they're working on, whether it's, like superconductor discovery over here. There's a new investment we're working on right now, which is in the end of life prediction space in healthcare. It's extraordinary how much you can, you can give this was actually my graduate school work. I went to grad school for bioinformatics at Stanford Med. And I know we-Swyx [00:15:40]: Econ, MCS, bio.Anjney [00:15:41]: So my-- I was this really weird cat where, I was never satisfied with my major options. So at one point I was an econ major, then I was a CS major, then I was a MCS major called mathematical computational science, and they decided they were going to end that major. So I took all that coursework, and I applied it to grad school, my graduate degree in bioinformatics, which was the master's program, and then I thought I was going to do a PhD. I never ended up doing it. I dropped out and went to work at Kleiner. But I was lucky enough to apprentice with this professor at, Stanford Med. His name is Nigam Shah, and he was working on end of life prediction. Stanford is one of the only research facilities in America that has a longitudinal patient data set that's larger at scale. I think it's at least 12 million patient lives. The only larger data set is at the VA, the Veterans Affairs, of America. And to do research, like do any deep learning and so on that data set, it was called the STRIDE data set at that time, you had to be a Stanford Med School affiliate, which is why I went and enrolled in the bioinformatics department. End of deep learning was early. Nigam Shah had the visibility-- the vision to see that, you could do end of life prediction to help palliative care. In America, the, over 30% of all Medicare, Medicaid spend, at least at that time, was spent on end of life care. And what's we grew up in Asia, so we all-- Yeah, at least I won't speak for you, but I have A very different relationship with death than I find folks who grew up in America do. In America, spiritually and culturally, especially in Western societies where Christianity, the Christian tradition sort of frames death as this terminal point, there's often a judgment day and so on. The way we view death is with a finality. In Indian culture, in Hindu culture, death is one-Swyx [00:17:35]: Also, he's Buddhist as well.Anjney [00:17:36]: You're Buddhist, yeah. So it's one, it's one step in a journey of many lives, right? And so, I grew up in this city called Chennai in the south of India, and when people die, you dance on the street. There's like a procession where your body is carried to be cremated and your family, like celebrates and there's drums and so on. It's this huge thing. And, It's because the idea is that you're going to be reincarnated. You've been liberated from the responsibilities of this life, and now you're onto your next. It's a new It's like going off to a new college or whatever, right? And so it was so alien to me when I got here as an undergrad- That the medical system works backwards from that assumption that we have to view death as this terminal thing and delay it, postpone it's a bad thing. And so at the time, clinical decision support in the United States was this very primitive field. Even to this day, physicians in the United States often will tell you when you have a terminal disease, this is your, we've diagnosed you, which is great. Our ability to diagnose you is extraordinary. You have somewhere between six months to six years to live. What do you do with that information? The error bars are so high that then you In times of uncertainty, we default to culture, and when the culture is let's-- this is a bad thing, I've got to prolong my life, then you start doing things like And just to, just sort of from a systems perspective, what's going on there is Physicians often feel like they need to provide such high error bars because there's always some uncertainty in end of life diagnosis, and if you provide the wrong Diagnosis or recommendation to your patient, you can be sued for medical malpractice. And then your license can be taken away. It can be catastrophic for your career. In contrast, if in countries where that's not the case, what you often observe is that patients, physicians are quite prescriptive with their recommendation. They say, “Hey, this is your condition. The literature says that you probably have this much time on Earth left. My expert opinion is that you are an outlier or whatever.” And they try to be more prescriptive, and that empowers a patient, right? ‘Cause then a patient can say, “I trust my doctor. They said on average, I have six months to live, but if I do these things, I may have a shot because of my particular predispositions or my genetic history or whatever.” And that empowers you to go about your life in a actually more scientific way than leaning on religion, culture, spirituality, and so on. In contrast, here, because of that medical malpractice sort of thing looming over your head, a physician never gives you a clear recommendation. So instead you say, “Okay, Doc, well, let's try it all.” And then you start a whole regime of drugs and therapies, and then you often spend weeks and weeks in the hospital, and that deteriorates your quality of life. And when that deteriorates your quality of life, you instead of spending your last few days doing the things you love with your family, you're spending it on a hospital bed. And that ends up being thirty percent of Medicare and Medicaid. So it's worse for the patients. The doctors feel terrible. The American taxpayer is paying a huge amount of money. And so this is why Nigam Shah, who was this professor at Stanford, said, “Anjney, if there's “ I kind of sat down with him. I was this young, I'd, I was twenty-one, and I was “I want to work on a big problem.” He's “The big problem is end of life care.” And so we tried to do deep learning to say, to-- So we started trying to run deep learning on these tried patient data sets to say, “Could you have an AI system make a recommendation that is orders of magnitude more precise about how much time you have left once you've been diagnosed with a terminal condition than a human?” And then if we can get that precision to be high enough, then you can empower the patient. And it turns out the tech works. Like it's-- Once you get the data set, like RL works. Honestly, even regression models work. You don't need to get that fancy. At the time, we were just trying, doing like very simple neural nets.Swyx [00:21:54]: Simple solutions, yeah.Anjney [00:21:54]: Today, what we can do with RL is extraordinary. The problem remains then and now is regulatory, because you actually can't shift the burden of the wrong clinical diagnoses from the physician to the AI system. And so at that time, I got quite disillusioned ten years ago for, twelve years ago where, ‘cause I felt I just didn't have the resources to influence regulation. Today, I'm very lucky. I'm in a different place. I've, I'm a lot older, and so I've been spending a lot of time on my next incubation, which is how can we unlock the, patient empowerment by training AI models to do end of life prediction much, with much more precision and ac-Swyx [00:22:37]: Oh, wow. You're still focused on this the whole time.Anjney [00:22:40]: The-- I haven't been able to get, this out of my mind a single day for the last fourteen years. This is the hill I want, I would like to die on. There's two, I would say. What? I actually, I'd prefer not to die.Swyx [00:22:51]: Yeah, exactly.Anjney [00:22:52]: But I think two bipartisan issues, I think two issues that should be bipartisan in America are how do we empower patients to make the right clinical decisions at the end of their life, such that we're reducing the taxpayer burden with science? It's just good old science, and AI can help here. And the second is, net positive data centers, ‘cause I think that's the biggest critical bottleneck on training and good enough AI models to help people at the end of their life. So there's sort of two sides of the, of the same scaling bottleneck curve, but those two, we formed AMP as a public benefit corporation. My wife and I, who you've met, you've met Viv. Her passion is education. Her family is a long line of educators and so on, and, of physicists. And so this class is my attempt to stop being the black sheep of the family and be a, an educator. But if I'm not educating, the thing I would be doing is working, on these two problems, whether on the political spectrum or as a researcher back at, in some lab. And my hope is if anyone's listening to this podcast, if they're passionate about either of those two topics, I'd love to hear from them. We'll, we'll we can share the contact in the show notes, but, we're looking for people to join both of those missions on the, on the political side as well as on the medical side, on the research side.Frontier Systems, Output Maxing, and AlignmentSwyx [00:24:08]: You said, this is a discipline that you want to form. You call it's called variously called Frontier System. It's variously called One Person Frontier Lab. What is the ideal name or shape of this? Like the, what is the mission?Anjney [00:24:24]: Of the class?Swyx [00:24:26]: Of the discipline that you're, exploring, right? I The class is called Frontier Systems. But like for me, maybe one phrase is you're, you're just anti-waste, right? Which is wasting GPUs, wasting in human and Medicare. But is there, is there a broader theme that I'm, that maybe you can encapsulate more succinctly?Anjney [00:24:45]: Yeah. The, from an engineering perspective, it's very simple. It's output maxing. It's the, it's the department of output maxing.Swyx [00:24:51]: Making the most of what we have.Anjney [00:24:52]: Exactly. I'm a huge believer in optimal outcomes. I think both in America and other countries, we are losing our appreciation for nuance, and this is the thing of And AI is the same case, right? Oh, the bitter lesson holds. Okay, fine. But that doesn't mean you just like throw 500 GB300, 500,000 GB300s at your suboptimal model scaling and you waste a bunch of compute. It also doesn't mean that, the most optimal is to have like 50 different architectures where there isn't enough standardization. One of the reasons Anthropic has had extraordinary sort of velocity is ‘cause they picked the transform architecture and said, “This is simple. Let's double down on it,” right? And now luckily there's enough investment going to the space that we can afford other architectures, but at the time, investment was just too fragmented into other architectures, so that arguably unlocked scaling. So I think there's a philosophy. I think we all owe it to ourselves to do output maxing with a new capability called AI on a global level. I think if I was starting a new department at Stanford, depending on how fuzzy or technical I wanted to be, I'd probably call it the Department of Alignment. Like-Swyx [00:25:59]: It's an overloaded termAnjney [00:26:01]: But it is, But alignment really Is a hard problem. And I think when you unlock it, full stack alignment is super hard in any organization and in any system. Like in a, in a venture capital firm, if you can have full stack alignment between your limited partners and your, the founders who are creating the value and ultimately the public that owns the IPO stock, that is a gift that keeps giving. And when you study the history of these systems, when they start off, they usually start out small scale where the feedback loop is actually so tight that there's alignment. And then the more you try to scale, the more division of labor happens, the more specialization happens, and at each step you add abstractions. And wherever there's an API interface, there's like loss. There's communication loss. And so I think a really cool thing would be for us to figure out is there a way for us to have our cake and eat it too as an engineering discipline? Is there a way to actually scale up and scale out Without losing any alignment, without lossy transmission?Swyx [00:27:01]: You mean standards?Anjney [00:27:02]: So standards is one way. The other way is you just have net new capabilities. So like what we're trying to do here is discover new superconductors. A room temperature superconductor would be a lossless transmission mechanism for energy. We would have flying cars. We are right within a few years of having a new room temperature superconductor. So I think those are the two. You either have to standardize On protocols or API specs that allow lossless communication, or you can come up with a whole new capability that unlocks so much abundance, the standardization doesn't matter ‘cause you just unlock net new capacity. This, the, so this is what I spend my days thinking about these days.Compute Markets, SF Compute, and Non-NVIDIA ChipsSwyx [00:27:38]: No, I think every infra person at, who wants scale and wants to output max does eventually end up thinking about this. We don't have time to go into it, but we have done an episode with SF Compute-Anjney [00:27:50]: Oh, coolSwyx [00:27:50]: That is trying to standardize The futures contract for compute. I don't, I don't know how that's going by the way, but like at some point this will be public.Anjney [00:27:57]: Oh, I think Evan is awesome and SF Compute is the kind of effort that I hope we can accelerate because what often happens is these exchanges are very hard to get, they, it's hard to bootstrap them, right? Because they often require-- There's many inefficiencies between parties. There's trust boundary inefficiencies in infrastructure because you don't trust, one part of the stack doesn't trust another part of the stack to give them visibility. There's capital markets inefficiencies, there's operational efficiencies. So if you can inject like a single shock to the system of a ton of compute demand or supply, then you can accelerate, these new flywheels. And so my hope is one day, or soon, if SF Compute needs extra like has excess capacity, they just hook it up to the grid and they get flooded with demand from us. And on the other side, if they have a ton of demand but they don't have supply, they just again hook up to the grid and it's a two-way protocol where they can just hook up to our capacity. And I don't think we're too far from that. Today our working implementation of it is mostly through a group of labs, universities, and a few sort of trusted parties who are, who all feel like they're in alignment to borrow an over sort of used word. But our hope is to just have it be an open protocol that anyone can hook up to on-Swyx [00:29:20]: Hook up for demand or hook up for supply? In primarily demand, it sounds like. Like you-Anjney [00:29:25]: No, bothSwyx [00:29:26]: You would want to offer demand.Anjney [00:29:27]: Both. Yeah. Unfortunately, what's happened in the last six weeks is, we thought we'd have a bunch of excess capacity by the end of this year. It's all gone.Swyx [00:29:37]: It's exploding.Anjney [00:29:38]: It, yeah. It's all gone. And so I have, my text messages are full of friends, we know many of these people, these are founders who've raised billions of dollars in San Francisco going, “Oh, any chance you have like 50 nodes in the next few weeks?”Swyx [00:29:51]: What is the scope for, non-Nvidia, right? You have Lisa Su coming and, Rainer Pope as well. And so There is a lot of demand for, more performance Alternative architectures and all that. At the same time, this hurts your standardization.Anjney [00:30:11]: I don't think so. So actually Rainer's a great example, right? Rainer is a CEO and founder of, MatX. I actually had him by for office hours in the class earlier today, and there was an insight he brought up that I hadn't considered before, which is when they decided to pick the standard For their data center, they picked the NVIDIA reference architecture. So the MatX chips Just plug in to any site that has an NVIDIA bring up planned. And, the-Swyx [00:30:42]: It's just software then. It's, it's not the-Anjney [00:30:44]: A-Swyx [00:30:44]: Hardware.Anjney [00:30:46]: Well, from an input and IO perspective It's the same footprint as an NVIDIA rack.Swyx [00:30:52]: That makes sense.Anjney [00:30:53]: Where they have done, innovated a bunch from what I can tell is on systems co-design. Which is where a lot of the gains are to be had. And so he picked He was “Anjney, we, there's just so much work to do when you're building a new chip company.”Swyx [00:31:08]: Can't fight every front.Anjney [00:31:08]: You just can't fight on every front. So my question to him was, “Well, you're working on this new chip. Their tape-out is next year. What, who are you going to partner with to host the chips?” And he said, “Whoever will host them. That's just not, that's not my focus.” And I said, “But how did you “ you decided back to our earlier systems design question, he decided that, he didn't want to be a full, fully integrated chip provider. The bottleneck they're focused on is the logic die, and they, he feels they can crank out a ton of performance gains through co-design there. But then that means you delegate, to our question earlier, it, you he's the data center provider is a different part of the stack, and so then he's dependent on that part of the ecosystem to host his chips to get the performance gains to the customer. So now you have another abstraction, and you might have loss. So I asked him, “How do you prevent loss?” And back to your point, he said, “I just picked the NVIDIA standard ‘cause I didn't want to Like I wanted to piggyback off of an existing protocol.” And that, what's great about NVIDIA is that reference architecture is known.Swyx [00:32:15]: Open.Anjney [00:32:15]: It's open. They've published it. So Jensen's actually enabled someone like Rainer to build a chip company like MatX, and I don't see them as competitive. The compute demand is so high. Like, I don't I think NVIDIA's not able to meet the demands of production, so we just need more chips. And I think it's very smart what MatX has done, which is say, “We're just going to we're not going to innovate on the data center design ‘cause actually, thank you, Jensen, you've done all the hard work. Where we can innovate is somewhere else.” And I think that's, that's very healthy. I think that's how we unblock new bottlenecks. And my view is these, the, chip teams like MatX, who have arrived at the insight that co-design is the way, The primary bottleneck for them is trust boundary. To do co-design well, you need visibility into the next model generation as soon as possible ‘cause it takes two years to tape out. So if by the time I bring my chip to market, your model architecture's changed, I'm host. Now, when he was inside Google, he was sitting next to the Gemini team. He was on Palm or whatever.Trust Boundaries, Co-Design, and Researcher CEOsSwyx [00:33:19]: His co-founder was the, was one, was one of the Palm guys, I think.Anjney [00:33:23]: Yes. Yes, exactly. So when you're inside the trust boundary of Google, then your systems co-design loop is super tight. When you leave as a founder, one of the biggest risks you take is now you're outside the trust boundary. And so what I love doing is helping chip teams who can help us unlock more capacity for the independent ecosystem access to trust. Because when I If I've been, involved with a lab from day one, and I was lucky enough to work with Anthropic, and then I'm on the board of Mistral and helped Black Forest Labs get started. I think at this point I'm on six or seven different teams.Swyx [00:33:57]: Only six? I feel like my mental number was going to be 13, but yeah, it's-Anjney [00:34:02]: No, I go deep with one at a time.Swyx [00:34:04]: You're founding CEO of Arena.Anjney [00:34:07]: Nah, that was an, that was an-Swyx [00:34:08]: Administrative CEOAnjney [00:34:09]: It was an administrative five-month gig where Whalen and Anastasios were graduating from their PhDs, and they didn't need a product team. So I helped recruit the head of engineering product and design. But Anastasios has always been the CEO of that company. I played a pinch-hitting I'm an intern. I was CEO intern For five months. -Swyx [00:34:33]: I interviewed him, and he's he's very well-spoken. I think he's a debate, former debate, champion. But also very quantitative and mathematical, which is-Anjney [00:34:41]: He-Swyx [00:34:41]: Such a unicorn.Anjney [00:34:43]: See, what's amazing about him? If you look at his output, he's an output maxer. By the time he was graduating from his PhD, which he only graduated last year, he had published more work with a citation count than, people twice his age. But at the same time, he'd already started a project called LLM Arena that was being used by millions of people As a side project. And time and time again, what I've realized is venture capitalists suck at seeing human beings as, dynamic agents where-Swyx [00:35:14]: They want to put you in a boxAnjney [00:35:15]: They want to put you in a box.Swyx [00:35:15]: This is your thing.Anjney [00:35:16]: So the first time I got introduced to Anastasios, somebody had told me “Oh, he's amazing, but he's a researcher.” I was “what? What do you mean he's a researcher?” That's what-Swyx [00:35:28]: Like he's not a CEO, not a founder.Anjney [00:35:29]: Not a CEO, exactly. I was “Are you crazy? Do you Have you met Dario?” Dario's a scientist. He's gone from zero to, what will soon be a trillion-dollar company in four years. Being a CEO, nominally speaking, is not that hard. Being a good CEO is hard. Being a great CEO actually requires a level of performance that scientists who have already published at the top of their field have accomplished. It is super hard to be a competitive scientist. To publish in academia over the last 20, 30 years, to make it to the top of your discipline at a place like Berkeley, you are a star athlete. Like, you are an athlete of the mind, and you perform at the highest levels. And to get there, whether you're, Anastasios or Whalen at Berkeley, or you are Robin, who-Swyx [00:36:23]: BFL, yeahAnjney [00:36:24]: With Black Forest, who created Stable Diffusion, or if you're, like Guillaume at Meta, who created Llama before he started Mistral. The amount of human leadership you have to demonstrate to get the resources, like get the trust of the organization, publish it, put it up. I would just fund researchers all day Right? If who have contributed already to the field. If they've, if they've put SOTA out there, they're, they're star athletes already. If they haven't done SOTA Look, they can still be good CEOs, but then I find the failure mode is that they just don't want to be CEOs, they primarily want to publish, and that's okay, too. One of the things we do with the AMP Grid is we donate excess compute. We have two nonprofits, like university labs. We carved out like a couple thousand H100s. But I do think there's extraordinary research being done on university campuses. My father-in-law's a physicist. He's a professor. Extraordinary work in physics, and we need that. But if you want to be a CEO, what you need to be willing To do is be super confrontational, outside of science. Like within the scientific community, some of the best researchers are very confrontational about their convictions, right? This architecture is right. To be a great CEO, you basically have to be willing to be confrontational up and down the stack.Swyx [00:37:41]: To your own team.Anjney [00:37:42]: To your own team-Swyx [00:37:43]: To customersAnjney [00:37:43]: Hiring, recruiting customers. Well, I would say, Yeah, pretty much to everyone Everybody. Of course-Swyx [00:37:50]: I see, I feel a little bit of that in my own work, but yeah, I can't imagine the stakes that Dario has had to go through. It's, it's pretty insane.Anjney [00:37:56]: No, I don't think the stakes are that different From how you're feeling it, right? Stakes are personal scaling vectors, right? The stakes that seem so low to you, like having this podcast where you can talk to somebody and just have a you're an extraordinary communicator, right? Like already in this conversation, you've pulled more out of me than most people, and I've been on 12 podcasts in the last two weeks.AI Coachella and First-Principles ThinkingSwyx [00:38:17]: I think I, we've just seen each other enough that there's some base trust.Anjney [00:38:20]: There's base trust.Swyx [00:38:20]: And I think, and I know that you, that I've done my homework and like I know that trust is a big deal for you, so.Anjney [00:38:27]: I think trust is about consistency, and you and I have seen each other In the community for years, right? Like, I remember the first time we met was at NeurIPS in New Orleans. I don't know if you remember that, luncheon.Swyx [00:38:38]: Oh my God.Anjney [00:38:39]: Reiko had set up this Reiko's amazing, and he set up this luncheon and-Swyx [00:38:43]: Yeah, I was “Who's this Discord guy?” I'm “Okay.” But-Anjney [00:38:45]: No, you weren't-Swyx [00:38:46]: You were just “You made some investments.”Anjney [00:38:47]: You were much less polite. You were “Who's this VC?” You're like-Swyx [00:38:51]: No, I Was I? Oh my God.Anjney [00:38:53]: It was-Swyx [00:38:53]: I'm so sorryAnjney [00:38:53]: It was visible on your face.Swyx [00:38:54]: I'm so sorry. But you weren't, you weren't The introduction was bad. I was I didn't know who you were.Anjney [00:39:00]: The, see, this is the thing about context, right? Like, but then I think I heard your accent. And I was “Are you-”Swyx [00:39:06]: Singapore, yeahAnjney [00:39:06]: “Are you Singaporean?” And you're “Yeah.” And I said, “I went to high school, JC, in Singapore.” And then the ice broke. But This is the there are in the scientific community, sometimes the stakes are very high for people who haven't had the emotional, what is called EQ Coaching and mentorship, right? Which is like to have scientific impact, you often need to be a extraordinary emotional, like emotionally in tune person with the folks you're trying to influence. And so what comes so naturally to you is actually a super high stakes thing to other people. And so I wouldn't assume that Dario's more stressed out than you. These things are you'd be surprised how similar and small sometimes the problems are to you That some of the world's biggest, leaders are facing. And that's what I've learned from this class. The guest speakers are Sam, Satya, Jensen.Swyx [00:40:01]: AI Coachella.Anjney [00:40:02]: Yeah. It's AI Coachella, right? So we got to get all the headliners, and they're I'm very lucky that some of these people have either mentored me over the years or I've done business with them. And when you, take the performative stuff out and any assumptions you may have about these people that you read in the press or on Twitter, We're all just humans. We're all trying to get along. And what's so special about this moment is AI is forcing, like scaling, the bitter lesson is forcing a lot of people to revise their assumptions for how the world works and go back to first principles or go and educate themselves. So the kind of people I was, I won't name who this person is, but I was at an event last week in Texas and, ran to somebody who said, “Anjney, I came across the class. What do you think about real time action prediction models?” And I was, don't know how happy it made me feel when they asked me that question. I know they've done the work. They've challenged themselves. I'm, they didn't ask me, “What do you think of world models?” They said, “What do you think of n-”Swyx [00:41:04]: Real time action predictionAnjney [00:41:05]: “action, real time action prediction models?” World models, don't get me wrong, are cool and everything, but you and I both know that is a layer of abstraction that is sometimes not usefully precise enough. Right? Ours-Swyx [00:41:16]: There's like four different kinds of world models.Anjney [00:41:17]: Yes, exactly.Swyx [00:41:18]: We've done the part with general intuition, by the way, which is very focused on, -Anjney [00:41:22]: Oh, cool. Yes. I love Pim. Pim is great. And this is what I love about people who've done that level of work. They realize they're not in competition with people who the rest of the world thinks they're in competition with.Swyx [00:41:34]: Because they're not in the category, they're in the specific thing they're trying to do.Anjney [00:41:37]: They're focused on their mission, and they have a systems understanding of the bottleneck they're trying to solve. And when somebody else says, “I'm working on real time, action prediction models too,” Pim goes, “Oh, I love that person. I want, I can learn from them.” But the minute they're “Oh, that person's a world model person,” it's “like which type of world model person?” But mostly they're just trying to figure out if it's a waste of their time, because we don't have enough time. So, Pim, for example, is super, loves this other company I work with we've talked about called Black Forest Labs. And he's mentioned to me multiple times that he's so, He thinks what Flux is doing is really cool. Andy Blattman came by and spoke in the class. And what I find over and over again is for people who do the work, who can be usefully precise enough about like what is actually going on in the world of frontier research, The sense of camaraderie is still well and alive, but it gets lost sometimes when you have to like abstract The technical complexities in, business terms And then the VCs are “How are you different from that world model?” I'm going to say Where do I even start to explain this stuff? And then the misalignment creeps in.Leading vs. Winning in Frontier AISwyx [00:42:43]: This is good. Yeah, I think, people listening get a sense of, what it is like to operate at a real level, like yourself, rather than at, the journalist level, where you have to sort of put everyone in, a rough category and create a narrative of competition, and who's winning today, who's behind.Anjney [00:42:58]: It-- this idea of winning is so Weird to me.Swyx [00:43:03]: You do want to win. You want you want competitiveness.Anjney [00:43:06]: No, I think you want to lead.Swyx [00:43:07]: You want SOTA.Anjney [00:43:07]: No, I think you want to lead. Yes, so you want to push the frontier. You want to push the SOTA. You want to do something that hasn't been done before. You want to capture value, but you don't want to capture so much value that, people think you're unaligned with your mission or trying to do what's best for the world. You want to capture enough value that you can keep innovating, right? And I think that people want to lead, they don't really This idea of winning and losing, again, I love Jensen. He's a, he's a leader. The mindset that he talked about on Dwarkesh's podcast, right? He's “I didn't wake up with a loser mindset.” I think that was awesome, right? Because he's, he's an engineer. Dwarkesh has done the work. So there's at least-- even though the, to me, it was very obvious they're talking about the same thing, they just passed each other. They just had to basically, Jensen has this, five-layer cake abstraction of how the industry works. And Dwarkesh had, I think from that podcast, had more of, a pre-training, mid-training, post-training systems loop concept.Swyx [00:44:04]: It's just a factor of who he talks to, right? Again, it's very clear.Anjney [00:44:06]: It's the systems It's the abstraction, the mental models, the It's the whole-- Dude, so much of the problem in the world is reasoning by analogy. And then the assumptions that are held invisibly.Swyx [00:44:19]: Yeah, I've, I've said, this is actually the best time in human history for first principles thinkers. Because everything you think will happen is actually now coming true.Anjney [00:44:28]: Correct. And the venture capital community is, notorious for this, where people look-- In times of uncertainty, they, cling to axioms that ended up being true from the previous era, and they kind of like proclaim them with confidence as if they're truths, but they're not. And it's very important to see the distinction between a heuristic and an axiom. An axiom can be proven-Swyx [00:44:55]: Like from internal consistency point of viewAnjney [00:44:56]: With internal consistency. A heuristic is a way you kind of a shortcut. And my God, the number of people I have had to put up with over the last few years who proclaim-- use heuristics As axioms to judge people, to judge which companies are going to succeed or the number of people who are “Oh, yeah, Anthropic, they're just training models right now,” but this one continue.Swyx [00:45:22]: Because that's a B2B SaaS?Anjney [00:45:23]: Yeah, the, like Which over the fullness of time, if you squint at it, maybe. But the way you arrive there is so important that you can-- you just, you can dismiss people. Here's what happened, right? What happened is Anthropic basically achieved takeoff in October of last year. That training run-Swyx [00:45:41]: Whatever, three seven?Anjney [00:45:42]: I forget the numbers now, but whatever that checkpoint was-Swyx [00:45:45]: We saw the cognition.Anjney [00:45:46]: Yeah. Right? You probably-- The, to those of us in the community, especially once post-training was done and it was released in December-Swyx [00:45:52]: Yeah. Can I sneak a sneaky question in there? I don't know if you have a perspective, maybe you don't, I just The number one question is how did Anthropic crack coding, right? Because Claude One, Claude Two, okay, like it was part of it, but it wasn't a big deal. And the leading hypothesis, it's a lucky dice roll that was then compounded, right? Like it was like Mildly better, but then they saw it and they were “Okay, let's really invest.”How Anthropic Cracked CodingAnjney [00:46:17]: I had this very annoying teacher. I went to this boarding school called Rishi Valley in India, which is like this, bird preserve. It's like three hundred and fifty acres of bird preserve in rural India, and there was no technology for seven years. There was this teacher, I won't name them, but they would have this-- I hated it every time he said this to me. He was “Luck fa-favors the prepared mind,” which is like a common saying, but the way he delivered it, always grated me, ‘cause he was always I was always one of those kids who got, a good grade without trying very hard. ‘Cause like high middle school is not that hard if you, if you're generally, paying attention and so on. And there was this one time where I-- But then I would get an eighty percent grade, and he would keep pushing me to say “The reason you didn't get the ninety-five plus percent is because you're not that lucky.” And I would say, “What do you mean?” ‘Cause I would think that I deserved that grade, and I would sometimes argue with him. And he'd say, “You didn't have a prepared mind. If you want to get lucky again “ There was basically one time where I got like ninety-five or ninety-six on this, on this subject, and I, now that I felt entitled. I was “Okay, I'm going to keep doing this,” and I didn't. And then he was “Luck favors a prepared mind. You got lucky last time, but you got to stay prepared.” And I didn't understand what he meant. Now, as I'm older, I'm okay, these adults actually knew a thing or two. Anthropic has been the most prepared company for four years. And so then when the right, context data comes in, the right developers start sending in, the right context diffs, Sure, you could say you got lucky, but if you ask me, they're pr-pretty damn prepared with paranoia for like four years. And you have to remember, it was so hard for them to get going early on that they had to do so much more with so much less that you just have to be prepared to be so efficient.Swyx [00:48:06]: Yes. There's numbers on their burn compared to OpenAI. I've, I've written about it, but they are so much more efficient in their, in their tech stack.Anjney [00:48:14]: It's not even It's not funny.Swyx [00:48:14]: Not even close.Anjney [00:48:15]: Yeah. But it's so clear, right? Like how to output max for the world. They have been prepared, and you could call that luck, but Luck favors the prepared mind.Culture, Hardship, and Anthropic's P0Swyx [00:48:25]: This is one of those things that I was going over some of your old lectures and, you were data, people think it's a moat and actually it's culture and actually it's team Actually. And I, it's-- there's different levels of moats, and this is the ultimate one that determines everything else. Which you can then compoundAnjney [00:48:43]: You're saying culture is the ultimate moat? Yeah. But the thing about culture is it's very fragile. So moats, I don't think they're-- there's very few moats I found that are actually moats. They're-- It's, it's a nice concept, but in reality, you have to replenish your culture. Ben Horowitz was, the speaker in CS153 on Tuesday, and I asked him this question about the culture bottleneck in teams because, there are several AI teams-Swyx [00:49:09]: His book, Hard Things About Hard ThingsAnjney [00:49:11]: Hard Thing About Hard Things. But more concretely, there are so many AI labs today that have all the cash they need, they have all the compute they need, and they're still not able to ship anything SOTA. And then you start seeing people leave and so on, and my diagnosis, it's, is it's the culture. And so I asked him, Ben, they're-- He's been one of the most aggressive investors in AI labs. He goes back to this thing which resonates in my mind a lot. It-- When I used to work at a16z, I would, book a conference room, and right outside the conference room, which is closest to the toilet ‘cause it was the fastest way for me to go use the bathroom between Zoom meetings-Swyx [00:49:45]: Oh my God, I'll put maxing my toilet optimization. Okay, never mind.Anjney [00:49:48]: It was not healthy in hindsight, but maybe this is TMI. But anyway, outside that conference on the wall was this quote that was printed that said, “Culture is not a set of beliefs, it's a set of actions.” And it's by Bushido, is this, Japanese philosopher. And if you stop taking the actions that demonstrate the mission alignment to what you've said to your team and to your-- the world matters to you, then your culture starts to fray. So it's not actually a moat, I would say. It's a very brittle, fragile thing that requires daily tending to like a garden. But if you figure out the system to keep that garden tended, which I think ultimately comes down to knowing yourself ‘cause you most naturally, if you're authentic and so on, you'll naturally make trade-offs that seem effortless to you, but that reinforce your culture. And then That becomes this very hard thing for other people to catch up to. And at Anthropic, from day one, there was this mission like-- missionary like zeal and belief that, hey, these capabilities will scale. These systems are stochastic, not deterministic. There will be error bars, and until we crack interpretability, there's risk. And at some point, people will go-- stop using Claude just for coding. They'll use it in some mission-critical context where there's-- it'll throw off a bug, and then people are going to come blame them, and they want to be on the right side of history where they said, “Yes, this is a powerful technology. We think it's going to change the world, And we want to be very measured and scientific about the fact that, ‘Hey, guys, these are stats models, statistical models.' That's how statistics works.” ultimately, when you're training neural nets, it is just a statistical system. And I think that Belief that safety is important and that it might seem toy-like in the early days, and sometimes, you could say, “Anjney, they totally over-exaggerated the risk,” like two years ago when they said, “Let's not launch Claude One,” or whatever. Well, okay, maybe in hindsight, but hindsight is twenty/twenty. And at the time, they didn't know how that model would be used, and to them it felt existential if somebody came and said, “You weren't responsible. It-- This wrote a bug.” The liability associated with that is massive. So how do you prevent against that? Well, day in, day out, you say safety. And when you start deviating from that, you have the team hold you accountable, you have the world hold you accountable, and I think that becomes a moat over time. At some point, that moat will get challenged and so on, and then it become fragile. I hope it endures because that's the beauty of having founders run the show, ‘cause they can make really hard trade-offs to do mission alignment. The hardest part is in the earliest days when you don't have a group of people who are going through difficulty, stress, crisis together, then your culture doesn't get defined sharply enough, and that's what I'm worried about right now, is there's so much money going to these labs. There's no hardship. There's no-Swyx [00:52:50]: To anyone who knowsAnjney [00:52:51]: There's no to anyone who knows. And that, in hindsight, was a feature, not a bug for Anthropic. The number of people who said no, the number of people who said, “Sorry, we're all doing investors in OpenAI,” that is competitive difference. It forces you to really understand, what is the hill you want to die on at the expense of everything else. What's the P zero? And there, P zero from day one was coding. The reason, the mechanism system there was if we crack coding, Then we will crack AGI. Our mission is AGI. We want to get there safely. If we focus on codin

Cum construiești un festival internațional de la zero – și îl duci la 25 de ediții?  În episodul acesta din BT Talks, Andi Moisescu stă de vorbă cu Mihai Chirilov și Cristian Hordilă despre povestea TIFF: de la un mesaj lăsat pe robotul telefonic, până la unul dintre cele mai importante festivaluri de film din Europa de Est.

Președintele ucrainean Volodimir Zelenski i-a adresat președintelui rus Vladimir Putin o scrisoare deschisă în care îi propune o întîlnire față-n față pentru încheierea războiului. Putin a răspuns că nu vede vreun motiv să se întîlnească cu Zelenski, dacă nu este schițat un acord de pace. Liderii europeni Friedrich Merz, Emmanuel Macron și Keir Starmer au salutat și susțin propunerea lui Zelenski. Care a fost miza lui Volodimir Zelenski să-i propună liderului de la Kremlin o întîlnire față-n față? Care este situația de pe front, ce putere mai are Ucraina de a rezista atacurilor Federației Ruse? L-am întrebat pe Mihai Isac, analist de politică internațională, gazda emisiunii „Fake News Alert” de la TVR Moldova. Scrisoarea lui Zelenski pare că îi e adresată lui Putin, dar fiind un document deschis, publicul ei e de fapt mult mai larg. Președintele ucrainean vizează elitele ruse, administrația Trump, liderii europeni și chiar opinia publică internațională. E un mijloc public de presiune. Cît de mult contează acest gen de diplomație?Mihai Isac: „Contează foarte mult, avînd în vedere că – ați menționat corect – nu este o scrisoare adresată doar președintelui Putin. Este o scrisoare adresată președintelui american Trump, în anul super electoral american 2026. Sînt mai puțin de șase luni pînă la așa-numitele midterm elections, alegerile de la jumătatea mandatului prezidențial din Statele Unite, unde sînt puse în joc o treime din locurile pentru Senatul american și întreaga componență a Camerei Reprezentanților. Aceste alegeri pot influența poziția Statelor Unite cu privire la Ucraina, dacă Partidul Republican va pierde controlul camerei superioare sau inferioare. Ne aducem aminte ce s-a întîmplat în epoca Biden, cînd Partidul Republican se opunea programelor lansate de administrația democrată Biden pentru susținerea Ucrainei. De asemenea, este o scrisoare adresată oligarhilor din jurul lui Putin, publicului din Ucraina, partenerilor europeni – și vedem și susținerea de care s-a bucurat acest demers din partea liderilor german, francez, britanic în timpul vizitei lui Zelenski în Marea Britanie. De asemenea, trebuie să subliniem că președintele Zelenski a încercat și implementarea unei diplomații a oligarhilor și inclusiv președintele rus a recunoscut în timpul lucrărilor summitului de la St. Petersburg, așa-numitul Davos rusesc, că oligarhul Abramovici a primit de la Zelenski un mesaj în timpul unei deplasări pe care acesta a făcut-o în Ucraina, un mesaj care a fost transmis lui Putin, dar că partea rusă refuză cu obstinație orice reluare a discuțiilor, în ciuda demersurilor de acest gen, dar și a presiunilor exercitate de alte state care ar dori să participe la declanșarea discuțiilor. Atît timp cît criza din Orientul Mijlociu ocupă agenda principală a Occidentului, Federația Rusă evită cu orice preț lansarea unor discuții care ar putea să ducă la o încetare a focului pe o perioadă mai lungă.”În eventualitatea unui acord de pace sau unui armistițiu va fi nevoie de garanții de securitate pentru Ucraina. Inclusiv o forță multinațională după încetarea focului. Ce ar trebui să conțină aceste garanții?Mihai Isac: „Aceste garanții ar trebui în primul rînd să permită instalarea unui sistem care să prevină încălcarea armistiţiului de către partea rusă. Partea rusă obișnuiește să încheie un armistițiu și să-l încalce atunci cînd îi convine. Dar este nevoie de prezență aeriană masivă, este nevoie de prezența pe teren a unor forțe din diferite state. (...) Este mult, mult prea devreme să vorbim de pace în Ucraina, dar poporul ucrainean a demonstrat că nu dorește să trăiască sub tirania Federației Ruse și, ne place sau nu ne place, vom acorda sprijin Ucrainei sau nu vom acorda sprijin Ucrainei, poporul ucrainian va continua să lupte pentru independență. Iar poziția Europei în lume va fi definită de modul în care va trata dosarul Ucrainei.”Apasă PLAY pentru a asculta interviul integral! O emisiune de Adela Greceanu și Matei Martin Un produs Radio România Cultural 

„Trebuie să fie o problemă globală.” De aici pornește conversația cu Mihai Guran, angel investor, cu două exit-uri în portofoliu și cu o experiență care vine din ani de întâlniri cu fondatori, negocieri și pariuri asumate pe idei care păreau, la început, fără șanse.Discuția aceasta se așază în jurul unei întrebări simple: cum recunoști o oportunitate reală într-o lume în care tehnologia accelerează, iar entuziasmul poate deveni zgomot de fond?Pentru mai multe resurse despre episodul de astăzi, notițe, ideile sumarizate - click aici pentru pagina episodului***Găsești notițe, ideile principale, insight-uri și cărțile menționate în toate episoadele pe florinrosoga.ro. Aici te poți înscrie și la un newsletter.Dacă îți plac aceste podcasturi, ajută-ne cu o recenzie pe Spotify sau Apple Podcasts. Este un gest simplu care ne ajută să abordăm subiecte și invitați interesanți.***Podcasturile noastre sunt aici:

Nos reunimos con Bogdan Mihai, atleta de CrossFit que ha estado en estas semifinales compitiendo por equipos, y hablamos de como ha ido el evento.

This week on Slappin' Glass, we're joined by Mihai Silvășan, head coach of U-BT Cluj-Napoca, for a deep dive into motivation, practice intensity, pace, risk-taking, and the daily work of building a team that can sustain success across a long European season.Coach Silvășan shares how he thinks about motivating players at different stages of their careers, from veterans playing for pride and legacy to younger players trying to make the next jump. He details the standards he sets from the first team meeting, why mental readiness matters more than physical mistakes, and how practice design can create the focus, competitiveness, and intensity coaches want to see on game night.The conversation also explores Cluj's high-paced offensive identity, including how they train decision-making against different ball screen coverages, build habits through 2-on-0, 3-on-0, and 4-on-0 progressions, and manage the tradeoff between speed and turnovers. Coach Silvășan also discusses using defensive traps, changing pick-and-roll coverages, and taking strategic risks without overloading players mentally.The episode closes with a thoughtful conversation on learning, resilience, and why Coach Silvășan views education as the best investment of his coaching career. What You'll Learn How Coach Silvășan connects individual motivation to team-wide competitiveness  Why the first team meeting is critical for establishing standards, accountability, and practice habits  How to motivate veterans, young players, and role players differently within the same roster  Why mental mistakes carry more weight than physical mistakes in practice  How Cluj structures practice to build intensity, focus, and decision-making under pressure  Why “chaos drills” can help players make better decisions at game speed  How to train pace without letting turnovers destroy offensive efficiency  The benefits and risks of defensive traps, changing ball screen coverages, and altering lineups  How Coach Silvășan thinks about 1-2-1-1 pressure as a way to disrupt offensive flow  Why education, curiosity, and daily learning remain central to his growth as a coachTo join coaches and championship winning staffs from the NBA to High School from over 70 different countries taking advantage of an SG Plus membership, visit HERE!

Mihai Dascalu has been to 99 countries Hey now, I am your host, Ric Gazarian. In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Mihai Dascalu. I met him at the ETF in Bangkok in 2024, and I am excited he is coming back this October. Mihai and his family left all he knew in Romania to start anew in the US. He and his family went on an epic family journey for over a year. We touch on this and his desire to Chase 193. I would like to thank everyone for their support of Counting Countries, especially my Patrons. You know them, you love them! Bisa "fully nomadic" Myles, Ted Nims, Adam "one-away" Hickman, Steph "Phuket" Rowe, Simen Flotvik Mathisen, Ed Hotchkiss, Barry Hoffner, Philippe "BC" Izedian, Gin Liutkeviciute, Sunir Joshi, Carole Southam, Sonia Zimmermann, Justine, Per Flisberg, Jorge Serpa, Sam Williams, Scott Day, Peter Fenger, Mihai Dascalu, Ryan Knott, Zipping Around The World Podcast, and Shawn McDonough for supporting this podcast. You can support this podcast by going to Patreon.com/CountingCountries. My patrons will hear the entire conversation with Mihai.. Please remember the next Extraordinary Travel Festival will be on October 22-25 in 2026. You can join the event and use the code BANGKOK. Excited to announce a new addition to the ETF, Mike Boisvert known as the Skate Nomad. He plans on skateboarding to every country in the world … what won me over was watching him skateboard with the Skater Girls of Ethiopia. Check out his reels!. Consider joining our Instagram and Facebook groups and signing up for the ETF newsletter. Any questions, please let me know. Some other community notes and updates. I will be speaking at the TCC meeting in Hanoi in May, about … my take-aways from 150 in-depth conversations with the world's most traveled people. 193 Masters looking to connect with each other consider joining a UNESCO tour in Portugal in early June, if so reach out to MTP's Justyna. And also in June is the awesome NomadMania trip to Brazil. I went to their Fergana event and it was quite awesome. And on July 12, come see me in NYC to meet Barry Hoffner, the author of Belonging To The World, for a reading RSVP exploringed@gmail.com I was in Bangkok while Mihai was in New York for this recording. Please listen in and enjoy. Thank you to my Patrons - you rock!! … Bisa Myles, Ted Nims, Adam Hickman, Steph Rowe, Simen Flotvik Mathisen, Ed Hotchkiss, Barry Hoffner, Philippe Izedian, Gin Liutkeviciute, Sunir Joshi, Carole Southam, Sonia Zimmermann, Justine, Per Flisberg, Jorge Serpa, Sam Williams, Scott Day, Peter Fenger, Mihai Dascalu, Ryan Knott, Zipping Around The World Podcast, and Shawn McDonough. Be the first on your block to sport official Counting Countries apparel! And now you can listen to Counting Countries on Spotify! And Alexa! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts today! And write a review! More about Mihai Dascalu Counting Countries: Instagram Facebook Books And check out Thor Pedersen: The Impossible Journey (Amazon US Kindle (affiliate)): https://amzn.to/46pRuDi Other book options: Thor Pedersen | Instagram, Facebook, TikTok | Linktree And Barry Hoffner: Belonging To The World (affiliate) About Counting Countries Counting Countries is the only podcast to bring you the stories from the dedicated few who've spent their lives on the singular quest of traveling to every country in the world. Less people have traveled to every country in the world than have been to outer space. Theme music for this podcast is Demeter's Dance, written, performed, and provided by Mundi. About GlobalGaz Ric Gazarian is the host of Counting Countries. He is the author of three books: Hit The Road: India, 7000 KM To Go, and Photos From Chernobyl. He is the producer of two travel documentaries: Hit The Road: India and Hit The Road: Cambodia. Ric is also on his own quest to visit every country in the world. You can see where he has traveled so far and keep up with his journey at GlobalGaz.com How Many Countries Are There? Well… that depends on who you ask! The United Nations states that there are 193 member states. The British Foreign and Commonwealth office states that there are 226 countries and territories. The Traveler's Century Club states that there are 329 sovereign nations, territories, enclaves, and islands. The Nomad Mania divides the world into 1301 regions. The Most Traveled Person states that there are 1500 unique parts of the world. SISO says there are 3,978 places in the world. And the video that explains it all! Me? My goal is the 193 countries that are recognized by the UN, but I am sure I will visit some other places along the way. An analysis of these lists and who is the best traveled by Kolja Spori. Disclaimer: There are affiliates in this post.Sherri Donovan Counting Countries

Mihai Roșca administrează, alături de fratele său și partenera lor Monica, un grup de companii cu aproape 5 milioane € cifră de afaceri: DairyMax (echipamente pentru ferme și servicii tehnice internaționale) și Sport and Safety (distribuitor oficial Helly Hansen în România, pe linia workware și sport). Hai sa tinem legatura: Academia Gomag: https://academia.gomag.ro/  Blog: https://www.gomag.ro/blog/  Comunitatea Gomag: https://www.facebook.com/groups/gomagro/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gomag.ro/  TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gomag.ro În acest episod vorbim despre momentul în care, după doi ani pe o platformă de e-commerce care îi ținea pe loc, echipa lui Mihai a luat decizia să migreze totul pe Gomag. Discutăm sincer despre ce înseamnă să fii "blocat pe platforma greșită", de ce construitul intern al integrărilor (curierat, plată, newsletter) e o capcană, și cum arată un business care chiar funcționează — fără mitul "lucrezi 2 ore pe zi de pe plajă". Subiecte discutate: - Cum se construiește un grup de companii de la zero, în Baia Mare - Diferența dintre vânzarea consultativă (ferme) și cea tranzacțională (sport) - Rolul real al social media în vânzarea către fermieri din sate izolate - De ce au migrat pe Gomag și ce s-a schimbat după - Recurența de 50% lunar pe echipamentele Helly Hansen — de unde vine - Strategia cu 30 de revânzători la nivel național - Datele pe care Mihai le urmărește zilnic (de la coșuri abandonate la prognoza meteo) - Pregătirea pentru era AI în e-commerce - 3 motive pentru care antreprenorii aleg Gomag Un episod pentru oricine are un magazin online și se gândește să schimbe platforma — sau pentru oricine vrea să audă o poveste reală de business românesc, fără cosmetizări. Invitat: Mihai Roșca, administrator Sport and Safety & DairyMax Gazdă: Cosmin Daraban, CEO Gomag Testează Gomag 15 zile gratuit: gomag.ro

With Heysel 85, Teodora Ana Mihai turns a football tragedy into a mirror for today's world and the choices we make in times of crisis The post “Heysel 85”, interview with director Teodora Ana Mihai appeared first on Fred Film Radio.

With Heysel 85, Teodora Ana Mihai turns a football tragedy into a mirror for today's world and the choices we make in times of crisis The post “Heysel 85”, interview with director Teodora Ana Mihai appeared first on Fred Film Radio.

With Heysel 85, Teodora Ana Mihai turns a football tragedy into a mirror for today's world and the choices we make in times of crisis The post “Heysel 85”, interview with director Teodora Ana Mihai appeared first on Fred Film Radio.

With Heysel 85, Teodora Ana Mihai turns a football tragedy into a mirror for today's world and the choices we make in times of crisis The post “Heysel 85”, interview with director Teodora Ana Mihai appeared first on Fred Film Radio.

With Heysel 85, Teodora Ana Mihai turns a football tragedy into a mirror for today's world and the choices we make in times of crisis The post “Heysel 85”, interview with director Teodora Ana Mihai appeared first on Fred Film Radio.

With Heysel 85, Teodora Ana Mihai turns a football tragedy into a mirror for today's world and the choices we make in times of crisis The post “Heysel 85”, interview with director Teodora Ana Mihai appeared first on Fred Film Radio.

Ana-Brigitta MIHAI a obținut numeroase premii și burse, atât în țară cât și în străinătate, cum ar fi “Lilly Scholarship” în Madrid, Spania sau “Lilly Healthcare Provider Restrictive Grant” în Viena, Austria. Dedică constant timp pentru a fi la curent cu toate noutățile din dermatologia medicală și estetică, pentru a le putea oferi pacienților săi cele mai bune rezultate posibile.  Și-a perfecționat tehnicile prin participarea la numeroase cursuri de specialitate, din care amintim “PLASTII CUTANATE CU SUBSTANȚE DE UMPLERE”, workshopul “Societatea Română de Dermatologie” și “Asociația Chirurgilor Plasticieni din România”, “Medical laser training on MOTUS AX – MOTUS AY – Laser Training Department”, totodată fiind încadrată în prezent în cursul de dezvoltare profesională MD Codes – Allergan, Clinical Specialist.   

In Episode 238 of Theology In Particular, Pastor Joe Anady and Dr. Daniel Scheiderer are joined by Pastor Mihai Chisari to discuss ministry in Moldova.   Contact: For information about International Reformed Baptist Seminary, go to irbsseminary.org. For feedback, questions, or suggestions, email Joe Anady at tip@irbsseminary.org.   

Convorbirea de față urmărește felul în care Ortodoxia și bolile psihice se întâlnesc concret în experiența părintelui Mihai Vișoiu, preot de caritate la Spitalul de Psihiatrie Voila din Câmpina. Pornind de la cuvântul Sfântului Paisie despre golirea bisericilor și umplerea psihiatrilor, dialogul atinge cauzele sufletești și sociale ale tulburărilor, rolul familiei, al Tainelor, al naturii, dar și pericolul drogurilor și al meditațiilor orientale, sugerând o cale de vindecare în Hristos.Vizionare plăcută!Pentru Pomelnice și Donații accesați: https://www.chilieathonita.ro/pomelnice-si-donatii/Pentru mai multe articole (texte, traduceri, podcasturi) vedeți https://www.chilieathonita.ro/

From limo driver to real estate broker and mortgage consultant — Mihai's story is the definition of the American Dream. In this episode of the Vegaslife Podcast, host Chris Cash sits down with Mihai, a Las Vegas mortgage consultant with Anchor Mortgage and broker/owner at Exceed Real Estate Group, to break down how investors are financing deals in Las Vegas right now.Mihai shares his incredible journey from growing up under communism in Romania, serving in special forces, immigrating to the U.S. as a bus boy on a cruise ship, and ultimately building a thriving real estate and lending business in Las Vegas. He covers DSCR loans, investment property financing, commercial real estate, assisted living home investments, and a real case study of turning $150K into 10 income-producing properties.Whether you're a first-time homebuyer, seasoned investor, or aspiring real estate agent, this episode is packed with actionable advice on lending, deal structuring, mindset, and building a life — not just a business.

Mihai Teja (47 de ani) este invitatul emisiunii „Prietenii lui Ovidiu”, fostul antrenor al celor de la Metaloglobus. Acesta vorbește deschis despre despărțirea de ultima clasată și despre culisele unui club care a încercat să supraviețuiască în prima ligă cu salarii de 1.000 și 3.000 de euro, dar cu decizii luate, uneori, peste capul antrenorului.

Romanian Artist, designer and musician Mihai (Mike) Bancila never expected to put down his paintbrush for a few weeks to help neighboring Ukrainian refugees find shelter, anywhere they could, in his hometown but that's exactly what happened. In this week‘s episode, he shares his frustration with the war, his love of art and how punk rock is giving his life some context.   We talk about the choice to be an artist and what it means to follow faithfully wherever that path takes you. How closing our studios and losing everything in 2020 taught us about creative courage and who we really are. How necessary is courage for creativity to live at the forefront of our lives? Can we overcome our collective hesitancy, as a result of the pandemic, through creative practice? We get into the importance of presence and why enjoying the process matters. He says “Art is the process of me being with me, enjoying what I am doing without thinking of the outcome”.  Mihai is high energy, inspiring and a part of a weekly artist's collective I facilitate, and today we deconstruct the most recent creative challenge he led our group in and share an inside look at our own creative process, emotional upsets and tools for problem solving that work. What we further explore in this conversation - How creative courage teaches us to correct our mistakes because we can't control- alt- delete them but instead must create solutions.- Why showing up consistently as an artist and to the work is critical.- How art teaches you the value of being present. - Why our art is our personal message to the world.  Enjoy this episode. I hope it makes you go out and make art! You can connect with Mihai (Mike) Bancilla, here: Website:: www.bcatelier.roYouTube::  https://youtu.be/N8d6fX7RYH4Insta:: https://www.instagram.com/mbancila/ Quick note, I just want to say thank you for listening to this episode. I know it means a lot to myself and my guests.  If you enjoyed this episode, you will also like: Episode #10: Catherine Just: Using Art as Medicine to Heal Your Life Episode #13: Evan La Ruffa: Building Community Through Art and Activism Episode #29: Cynthia Morris: Creativity Embodied Here, you'll discover even more deep wisdom and practical tools to be more present to your life and create what's next. Learn more about me, Robyn Ivy: https://www.robynivy.com/https://www.instagram.com/robynivy/https://www.facebook.com/robynivy/ What can you do to support this channel? Subscribe, every new listener counts to us!Engage, we are a community who supports each otherLeave a review, let us know what you thinkShare, know others who may get some value - then share out channel MORE ABOUT MIHAI: Mihai Bancila is a professional multidisciplinary artist. Graduate of The National University of Arts in Bucharest, Romania. He works on several media, including illustration, painting, sculpture, blown glass and graphic design. He came into contact with art from an early age, being practically raised in the studios of well known plastic artists (his father Dan Bancila is a well known Romanian artist).  After graduating, he worked in several companies as a designer or art director then opened an advertising agency where he was creative director. In parallel, he exhibited works of glass or painting in various group or solo exhibitions. For the last 5 years he shared a design studio “BC Atelier” together with a photographer friend.  The studio focused mainly on brand design and illustration, working a lot with theaters. Mihai bancila drew and illustrated over 50 posters for plays from Shakespeare to Fyodor Dostoevsky. He is no stranger to music either. He plays bass in a rock band from Bucharest with countless concerts - Gray Matters (band) and the story is yet to tell :))

În acest episod, Paul Olteanu povestește despre ce contează cu adevărat pentru succesul unei cafenele de specialitate, alături de Mihai Panfil, Fondator Origo Coffee & COFFeEAST.   ⭐Highlight-urile din acest episod: ➡️Care sunt principiile și valorile după care a construit brandul Origo ➡️Cum se schimbă preocuparea pentru marketing pe măsură ce crește o afacere în acest domeniu ➡️Cum arată structura de cheltuieli a unei cafenele de specialitate (chiria, cafeaua, echipamentele, salariile și care e distribuția reală)   Fii cu ochii pe noi pentru insight-uri despre cum arată antreprenoriatul #unplugged.

Today on the Driven by Data Dilemmas Show, host Catherine Dowden-King is joined by Irina Mihai, Director of Data Foundations, Decision & Data Science function, adidas. In this episode, they discuss three key stories surrounding an AI Adoption or Anarchy. They discuss the how behind adoption, the wins organisations are seeing in real-time, and the final story offers an alternative perspective on the mass layoff fears.Irina offers her candid views on how to tame anarchy and lays out some of her plans for adidas' AI adoption.Remember, you can send your own dilemmas to community@orbitiongroup.com, and Catherine will gladly read them to our expert guests to answer and provide their own insight on.Driven by Data Dilemmas is the spin-off show from the Driven by Data Podcast! Catherine Dowden-King is joined by some of our best-loved senior leaders in the data, analytics and AI space to ask them to share their experiences, advice and thoughts on data dilemmas.

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The games begin early in the AI space. In this emergency episode of Mixture of Experts, guest host Aili McConnon is joined by Chris Hay and Mihai Criveti to break down yesterday's back-to-back bombshells: Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI's GPT-5.3-Codex, released within an hour of each other. Our experts dissect both models. Which one actually performs better for coding tasks? Then, we unpack what these releases reveal about the intensifying battle for enterprise AI. Finally, Chris and Mihai share their real-world workflows—why use one model when you can leverage both? Plus, we discuss the vibe shift: multi-agent workflows aren't coming; they're already here. 00:00 – Introduction 00:14 – Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3-Codex releases 02:49 – Model comparison 06:00 – Battle for enterprise AI 10:03– Multi-agent workflows The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity. Read more about the Anthropic vs OpenAI showdown → https://ibm.biz/BdpEkv Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts #ClaudeOpus4.6, #GPT-5.3-Codex #EnterpriseAI, #AIAgents, #DeveloperTools

O ediție de Crăciun cu râsete, povești și recomandări care fac bine. Este un episod cu energie bună și mult umor, alături de Cătălina Mihai, Alex Bogdan și Ștefan Iancu, un trio care funcționează firesc și fără efort. Și cu foarte mult succes, sunt formidabili acești tineri. Mulțumim tuturor celor care au fost alături de noi la ultima ediție din an a Întâlnirilor Vorbitorincii. Înregistrarea acelei întâlniri va fi disponibilă pentru membri la începutul lui 2026. Crăciun fericit și vizionare liniștită! - Crăciun fericit! Ciocnim un pahar virtual și intrăm într-o ediție cu voie bună, bancuri și povești despre filmele și serialele care ne mai adună când zilele sunt grele. - Un (alt) trio formidabil: Cătălina Mihai, Alex Bogdan și Ștefan Iancu - Spuma filelor: ultimele recomandări de lectură din 2025. Dan Alexe – La apa morților, Rachel Kushner – Lacul creației, John Dickie – Francmasonii - (P) Petruș Stuparu: ce înseamnă, de fapt, „gura lumii". Vânătorile Dianei Popescu și final de episod cu povești culinare, exact cum cere sezonul.

Au micro d'Ariane Artinian, Mihai Gavriloiu, fondateur de GoFint, dévoile une innovation qui bouscule les codes des portails immobiliers : une recherche 100 % conversationnelle… directement sur WhatsApp, sans site ni application.Il explique :• comment GoFint diffuse déjà 660 000 annonces pour les agences et mandataires,• pourquoi la plateforme mise sur un modèle gratuit pour les pros,• comment l'IA analyse automatiquement les annonces pour proposer les biens les plus pertinents,• pourquoi les nouvelles générations délaissent Google pour des recherches conversationnelles ou 100 % sociales,• en quoi la qualité des données (GPS, DPE, description) devient essentielle pour rester visible,• et comment GoFint capte des audiences que les portails traditionnels ne ciblent pas.Mihai revient aussi sur l'origine du nom GoFint — clin d'œil à L'Île au Trésor — et sur sa vision : dans 2 à 3 ans, la recherche immobilière classique deviendra obsolète.Un épisode passionnant pour comprendre comment l'IA transforme la découverte de biens… et pourquoi WhatsApp est en train de devenir un nouveau portail immo.Cet interview a été enregistrée en live du salon Rent - d'où l'ambiance sonore...Animé par Ariane Artinian, journaliste et fondatrice du média MySweetImmo

Mihai Marcu, Președinte și CEO al MedLife, ne dezvăluie realitatea din sistemul românesc de sănătate.Cât de multe știm, cu adevărat, despre sănătatea românească? Despre calitatea serviciilor față de cea din străinătate și cum sunt priviti medicii români peste graniță? Din postura de lider al celei mai extinse rețele de sănătate din România, Mihai Marcu aduce o nouă perspectivă asupra acestui domeniu vital. Descoperă și tu astăzi cum a ajuns Medlife să ofere o soluție viabilă la sistemul de stat, dar și care este atitudinea sistemului privat vizavi de necesitatea celui de stat. Descoperă domeniile unde medicii români sunt considerați specialiști de top în Europa. Și, mai ales, află despre cel mai ambițios proiect Medlife: Longevity 100 Plus, inițiativa care va duce la îmbunătățirea esențială a sănătății românilor la un preț de 10 ori mai mic decât cel actual!Omul care a dus Medlife peste tot în țară, care a angajat aproape 10% din medicii din România și care a dus Medlife la o cifră de afaceri de peste 600 de milioane de euro vine la Fain & Simplu! Consultat de Mihai Morar.

FoodKit este un startup românesc fondat în 2019 de către Cristian Dumitru și Mihai Pîslă care și-au propus să democratizeze accesul la mâncare sănătoasă. FoodKit livrează mese sănătoase preparate sous vide (în vid), gata de servit în câteva minute. Produsele sunt pasteurizate natural, introduse în pungi speciale care pot fi încălzite în apă caldă sau la microunde. Diferența lor față de alte servicii similare este că livrează o singură dată pe săptămână, mesele rezistând 7 zile, ceea ce înseamnă mai puțin stres pentru clienți și un model mai eficient de livrare. Mihai Pîslă a început antreprenoriatul în 2010, cu un business în distribuția de combustibil pe care l-a dezvoltat până la o cifră de afaceri de 12 milioane de euro pe an, iar Chef Cristian Dumitru este CEO al FAYN Urban Eatery și fondator al Hospitality Culinary Academy, cu o experiență în domeniul HoReCa de peste 15 ani. În 2010, la vârsta de 25 de ani, a preluat conducerea unui restaurant care funcționa strict pe evenimente, a fost gazdă a emisiunii "Arena Bucătarilor" la PRO TV și "Umami: al 5-lea gust", tot pe PRO TV, o emisiune culinară în care profesioniști din bucătăria națională și internațională împărtășeau rețeta succesului lor, explicau noile tehnici și trenduri culinare, realizând în același timp preparate spectaculoase. Foodkit.ro

Te simți blocat în cariera actuală? Te gândești să faci o schimbare profesională, dar nu știi dacă e momentul potrivit sau cum să o abordezi? Mihai Zânt, antreprenor, executive coach și co-fondator Career Shift, dezvăluie tot ce trebuie să știi despre reconversiile profesionale, de la semnalele care îți arată că e timpul pentru o schimbare, până la strategii concrete de tranziție.CE DESCOPERI ÎN EPISOD:3 semnale clare că e timpul pentru o schimbareCum să distingi între impuls emoțional de moment și nevoia reală de schimbareÎntrebările cheie pe care trebuie să ți le pui înainte de o tranziție profesionalăCât timp îți permiți să cauți? Regula celor 6 luni și calculul realistCriterii de decizie la vârste diferite: 20-30 (experimentare), 30-40 (sens), 40-50 (competitivitate), 50-60 (giving back)Cum să testezi o nouă direcție profesională ÎNAINTE să te arunci completStrategii de pricing: cum să-ți stabilești salariul sau tarifele în antreprenoriatMomentele în care NU ar trebui să faci o tranziție (de exemplu, în burnout acut)Impactul AI asupra schimbărilor de carieră și cum să rămâi relevantCarieră portofoliu și roluri fracționale, noul mod de a lucraPENTRU CINE E RELEVANT EPISODUL:Persoane care simt că au nevoie de o schimbare profesională, dar nu știu dacă e momentulProfesioniști care consideră o reconversie completă sau tranziție către alt domeniuOricine vrea să treacă de la rol de angajat la antreprenoriatManageri și lideri care vor să înțeleagă mai bine dinamica schimbărilor de carierăPersoane la diferite etape de vârstă care caută claritate despre următorul pasDacă îți dorești să lucrezi cu Mihai Zânt, îl poți găsi pe Career Shift Acest episod este produs și distribuit cu susținerea E.ON Energie România. "(00:00:00) Intro""(00:04:13) 3 semnale că e timpul pentru schimbare profesională""(00:06:31) Cum distingi impulsul emoțional de nevoia reală de schimbare""(00:11:06) Criterii de decizie: ce contează la vârste diferite""(00:17:17) Întrebările cheie înainte de o tranziție""(00:18:38) Cât timp îți permiți să cauți? Calculul realist""(00:30:11) Momentele în care NU ar trebui să faci tranziția""(00:33:48) Frica vs momentul nepotrivit: cum le distingi""(00:37:32) Cum testezi o nouă direcție înainte să te arunci""(00:42:19) Career portofoliu și roluri fracționale""(00:53:38) Managementul banilor în tranziții profesionale""(00:57:03) Cum stabilești salariul pentru un nou rol""(01:04:38) Impactul AI asupra schimbărilor de carieră""(01:08:32) Manifestarea AI în companiile din România""(01:20:23) Mini ghid în 5 pași pentru schimbare profesională""(01:22:45) Resurse finale recomandate"

Let's go! Today, we mix it up with the current head coach at Mohawk College, a former D1 player, skills and life coach, Mihai Raducanu! We have a great conversation when the Romanian born who found himself in love with the game early, and once his family immigrated to Hamilton, it was over. Spending his high school years around great coaches and players, including former guest Kyle Julius Mihai started to gain interest at the D1 level.  The self-admitted stoic had a great time at Coastal Carolina and, since then has been expanding his knowledge of the game across the world. Mihai is slowly turning the culture around at Mohawk and impacting the lives of many. Grab a pen and paper, the knowledge dropped in today's episode is next level! Mihai Raducanu - Guest https://www.instagram.com/mihairaducanuofficial https://www.linkedin.com/in/mihai-raducanu-047728100 Aaron Mitchell - Host Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/a_a_mitch/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ahoopsjourney/ Website: https://www.ahoopsjourney.com/ 

Peste 70 de țări au fost reprezentate de-a lungul timpului, doar 52 de campioni urcând pe cea mai înaltă treaptă. Ediția europeană 2026 se va desfășura la Marsilia, transformând orașul într-o veritabilă capitală gastronomică. Vorbim despre această premieră pentru țara noastră, în RFI360, cu Chef Cezar Munteanu, președintele Asociației Bucătarilor și Cofetarilor din Turism – România (ANBCT) România a fost selectată oficial să participe la Bocuse d'Or Europe 2026, cea mai prestigioasă competiție gastronomică din lume. Este pentru prima dată când România ajunge la acest nivel al performanței gastronomice, alături de cele mai respectate națiuni culinare ale lumii, prin eforturile și viziunea Asociației Naționale a Bucătarilor și Cofetarilor din Turism (ANBCT), singura organizație recunoscută oficial de echipa SIRHA/ Bocuse d'Or. Procesul de selecție și de acceptare a unei țări invitate este extrem de riguros, evaluând în primul rând capacitatea organizației gazdă de a gestiona și pregăti o competiție de o asemenea anvergură. Tema aleasă pentru competiția națională și europeană Bocuse d'Or Europe, „Tradiția reinterpretată”, practic o provocare pentru candidati să îmbine trecutul cu viitorul gastronomic local, totul cu accent pe sustenabilitate, responsabilitate în bucătărie și promovarea produselor autohtone. Fiecare echipă participantă este formată dintr-un Chef, bucătar profesionist român, cu experiență demonstrată în competiții culinare, responsabil de concept și execuție; un Commis, tânăr bucătar născut după 24 ianuarie 2004, reprezentant al noii generații; și un Antrenor (Coach), profesionist cu rol de coordonare strategică și comunicare cu juriul, fără implicare directă în gătit. Toate cele trei roluri sunt obligatorii și rămân neschimbate pe tot parcursul competiției, de la etapa națională până la cea europeană, inclusiv și mondială. Echipele selectate pentru faza națională a Bocuse d'Or sunt oameni care vin din bucătării din toată țara și din restaurante de top din străinătate, care au învățat ce înseamnă rigoarea, lucrul în echipă și respectul pentru gust. Această primă ediție Bocuse este reprezentată de o generație care a crescut prin competiții, prin muncă și cu mândria de a duce gastronomia românească acolo unde îi este locul – spune Chef Cezar Munteanu, președinte ANBCT, organizatorul oficial al evenimentului. Echipele finaliste Bocuse d'Or România 2025: Chef Vasilică-Marinică Bejenaru Antrenor: Liviu Preda Commis: Andrei Fabian Lupoi Chef Vasilică Bejenaru, medaliat cu argint și bronz la IKA Culinary Olympics 2024, câștigător Arena Bucătarilor și laureat GastroPan, este coordonat de antrenorul Liviu Preda, cu peste 30 de ani de experiență și multiple distincții internaționale, medaliat la Salonul Mondial de Gastronomie și Global Chef Challenge. Alături de ei, tânărul commis Lupoi Fabian Andrei, elev al Liceului Tehnologic „Maria Baiulescu” din Brașov și ajutor de bucătar la Restaurant Belvedere, aduce entuziasmul și rigoarea noii generații în arta culinară. Chef Bogdan Cozma Antrenor: Dadiana Munteanu Commis: Andrei Nicolae Miron Echipa lui Chef Bogdan Cozma aduce împreună experiența și inovația generațiilor culinare. Chef Bogdan Cozma este premiat la IKA Culinary Olympics (locul 3), Cupa Mondială Villeroy & Boch (locul 3) și este antrenor al Echipei Naționale de Juniori, ce a obținut dublu bronz mondial. Echipa este coordonată de antrenoarea Dadiana Munteanu, dublu medaliată cu bronz la IKA 2024 și argint la Global Young Chefs Challenge 2023. Commis: Miron Andrei Nicolae, Head Chef la D.A.R Events Restaurant & Barn din Botoșani, cu peste cinci ani de experiență în gastronomie și distincții internaționale (aur la Croatian Culinary Cup 2025, argint la Rimini Vegan Chef 2025, bronz la IKA Culinary Olympics 2024 – echipa de juniori). Chef Emanuel Mocan Antrenor: Dragoș Bercea Commis: Alexia Stan Echipa lui Chef Emanuel Mocan aduce împreună performanța și viziunea culinară la cel mai înalt nivel. Chef Emanuel Mocan, câștigător Arena Bucătarilor 2017, „Les Chefs en Or” Paris (locul 1 junior, locul 3 senior), medaliat cu argint la Global Chef 2023 și dublu argint la IKA 2024. Este coordonată de antrenorul Dragoș Bercea, multiplu medaliat la competiții internaționale, cele mai recente rezultate fiind la IKA Culinary Olympics 2024 (cu 2 medalii de argint). Commis-ul este Stan Alexia, absolventă a Manchester Metropolitan University în Culinary Business Management, în prezent Sous Chef la One Soul Brașov, cu experiență internațională în Cipru și premii la competiții pentru tineri bucătari, precum Junior Chef's Arena. Chef Laurențiu Neamțu Antrenor: Daniel Nistor Commis: Mihai Pușcalău Chef Laurențiu Neamțu îmbină fine dining contemporan cu spiritul competițional al noii generații. Cu experiență în restaurante cu stele Michelin și finalist „Chefi la Cuțite”, propune o abordare rafinată, echilibrată și modernă a gastronomiei, alături de antrenorul Daniel Nistor, dublu medaliat cu argint la IKA 2024, bronz la IKA 2020, multiplu laureat GastroPan și Arena Bucătarilor. Commis Mihai Pușcalău este cel mai tânăr membru al echipei, student în primul an la American Hotel Academy din Brașov, pasionat de gastronomie și de perfecționarea tehnicilor culinare, cu ambiția de a deveni chef cu stea Michelin. Chef Mihai Ciprian Necula Antrenor: Cristian George Mihali Commis: Andra Maria Huțanu Echipa lui Chef Mihai Ciprian Necula aduce împreună rigoarea internațională și pasiunea pentru bucătăria mediteraneană. Mihai are peste 25 de ani de carieră internațională, formare în Italia și Germania și participant la IKA 2024, promovează un stil culinar bazat pe simplitate, echilibru și rafinament. Antrenorul echipei este Cristian George Mihali, chef român stabilit în Franța, cu experiență în restaurante cu stea Michelin, inclus în Top 100 Români de Pretutindeni (2024), membru al Asociației Internaționale a Discipolilor lui Auguste Escoffier și promotor al gastronomiei românești în diaspora. Huțanu Andra Maria este commis-ul, încă elevă la Liceul Tehnologic Economic de Turism din Iași și ajutor de bucătar la Hotel Unirea Iași, o tânără implicată și autodidactă, aflată la început de drum în cariera culinară. Selecția Națională Bocuse d'Or România marchează un pas important pentru gastronomia românească și confirmă ambiția unei generații de profesioniști de a se alinia standardelor mondiale. Pe 27 noiembrie 2025, cele cinci echipe vor concura într-o probă de 6 ore, la finalul căreia se va decide cine va reprezenta România la Bocuse d'Or Europe 2026, la Marsilia. Competiția din acest an are o semnificație istorică: este prima dată din 1987 când România face parte oficial din circuitul Bocuse d'Or. Evaluarea va fi realizată de un juriu internațional format din chefi de renume, un gest de recunoaștere a excelenței bucătăriei românești pe scena mondială. Bocuse d'Or Europe – Ediția Bocuse d'Or Europe 2026 va avea loc la Marsilia, în cadrul Sirha Méditerranée. În această ediție specială, Bocuse d'Or și Sirha Méditerranée creează împreună un adevărat ecosistem al gastronomiei mondiale, unde profesioniști, producători, pasionați de gătit și talente emergente se întâlnesc într-un cadru unic. Marsilia va fi transformată, pentru câteva zile, în capitala mondială a gastronomiei, oferind o scenă spectaculoasă pentru cei 20 de candidați europeni care își vor prezenta viziunea asupra „haute cuisine-ului” contemporan.

What happens when you combine 15+ years of JP Morgan institutional sales experience with a vision to disrupt European real estate? You get Mihai from  MetaWealth, and a masterclass in how to bridge the gap between traditional finance and Web3.In this episode, recorded live at Token2049 in Singapore, Mihai breaks down how MetaWealth is tackling the world's largest yet least liquid asset class, real estate, and making it accessible through a dual-rail system: Web2 and Web3. He shares why tokenization efforts have failed before, what makes MetaWealth different, and how he's getting institutional investors on board. We also dive into the macro outlook, the shift in capital from the US to Europe, and the biggest challenges of selling to institutions in a brand-new space.If you're building in Web3, interested in RWAs, or just want to understand where institutional money is heading next, this is an unmissable episode.Key Timestamps[00:01:00] Why optimism beats pessimism in building and investing.[00:02:30] Mihai's journey from JP Morgan to MetaWealth.[00:04:00] How to build trust with institutions: compliance, structure, and language.[00:06:00] Why tokenized real estate has struggled — and how MetaWealth is doing it differently.[00:09:00] MetaWealth's dual strategy: Web2 now, Web3 in parallel.[00:12:00] The launch of RO: a liquidity marketplace for RWAs.[00:16:00] MetaWealth's five-country real estate strategy.[00:17:30] Three sub-verticals: Development, Rentals, and Private Credit.[00:20:00] Challenges of selling to institutions without a big brand name.[00:24:00] Macro outlook: Europe, inflation, and opportunity.[00:26:00] The ask: feedback, partnerships, and collaboration.Be a guest on the podcast or contact us - https://www.web3pod.xyz/Connect with Metawealthhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/metawealthapp/https://twitter.com/MetaWealthDisclaimerNothing mentioned in this podcast is investment advice and please do your own research.Finally, It would mean a lot if you can leave a review of this podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and share this podcast with a friend.

Nu de mult așteptam în fața monitorului cu tub să se descarce videoclipurile muzicale sau filmele de pe net. Între timp, am dat tubul catodic și conexiunea dial-up pe feed-uri AI și short form vertical. Altfel spus, a început deja era „Slop”. Despre cum ne afectează tranziția content-ului video și influența AI a discutat discutat Marian Hurducaș cu invitații săi:Dan Cadar, editor coordonator la zonait.ro, site & canal YouTube dedicate tehnologiei, de la PC-uri și telefoane, până la jocuri. Are experiență încă din anii '90 în configurarea de sisteme și a fost mereu implicat în jurnalismul tech, atât la TV, cât și online.Mihai Sighinaș, este director de creație și fondator Blending. Producător activ în segmentul de marketing & publicitate, creator de conținut digital, regizor care apare lângă numele unor artiști notorii precum AMI, Roxen sau Nane.

Fie că sunt bărbați sau femei, cei care practică rugbyul au nenumărate povești de viață.  De exemplu, Iuliana Sava, în prezent antrenor secund al naționalei feminine de Rugby în 7, a jucat însărcinată până la 3 luni, iar Mihai Dico, campion național cu Baia Mare, a plecat de pe teren direct printre condamnați! Tudor Furdui spune poveștile celor doi rugbiști.

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Există o rețetă a îmbogățirii? Poți trăi fără să mai muncești? Cât de greu se face 1 milion de euro? Afli azi de la Olga Ursu și Mihai Morar.Olga Ursu revine la Fain & Simplu într-un moment extrem de util. Dacă nu ai văzut primul podcast cu ea, îți spunem că este unul dintre foarte puținii consultanți financiari autorizați de Autoritatea de Supraveghere Financiară din România. Că dacă urmai sfaturile ei financiare din primul podcast, astăzi aveai cu 20% mai mulți bani. Și că aveai ocazia să profiți pe termen lung de oportunitățile prezentate atunci.Poți recupera, însă, acum. Chiar dacă nu pare un moment favorabil investițiilor. Olga ne dezvăluie încă din startul podcastului că, dacă știi să citești corect știrile, chiar și cele negative, poți descoperi oportunitățile ignorate de cei mai mulți. Iar rolul ei este chiar acesta: să suplinească lipsa cronică de educație financiară cu care românii pleacă din școală. De aceea, pe site-ul ei - strategiideinvestitii.ro – ai primii pași în domeniul care îți poate asigura independența financiară, de la cum deschizi un cont la bursă, la cum să îți faci o strategie de investiții pe termen lung și un portofoliu. Află mai multe despre cum poți deveni propriul tău stăpân. Despre cum se fac banii și despre greșelile pe care le fac majoritatea celor care intră în acest joc fără experiență și îndrumare. La Fain & Simplu ai ocazia să profiți de vasta experiență a Olgăi Ursu.Un curs gratuit de educație financiară menit să te transforme din angajat în investitor.Oferit de Mihai Morar.

What does the White House have to say about AI? In episode 65 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Kate Soule, Gabe Goodhart and first-time guest, Mihai Criveti. First, Google DeepMind shared that Gemini Deep Think won Gold at IMO. Next, who is using ChatGPT agents? We get our experts' thoughts. Then, Mihai takes us through MCP Gateway and what this means for next-gen AI systems. Finally, special guest, Ryan Hagemann, joins us to analyze the White House's new AI Action Plan, released this week. What does this mean for AI policy? Tune in to Mixture of Experts to find out! 00:00 – Intro 01:16 - DeepMind at IMO 16:27 - ChatGPT agents 25:43 - MCP Gateway 35:45 - AI Action Plan The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity.

Unul dintre cei mai importanți medici cardiologi – Gheorghe Cerin – îi prezintă lui Mihai Morar abordarea neașteptată prin care vindecă oamenii.Gheorghe Cerin este medic primar în Cardiologie, doctor în științe medicale, membru al Societății Europene de Cardiologie. Și totuși, sfera sa de interes pentru tratarea bolilor de inima este ... nutriția. Poate părea surprinzător, însă studiile și practica de clinică l-au convins că bolile inimii sunt generate de felul complet greșit în care mâncăm, astăzi. Motiv pentru care, acolo unde este posibil, primul pas în tratarea problemelor cardiace făcut de doctorul Cerin este schimbarea felului în care pacienții săi se raportează la mâncare.În podcastul de astăzi, ai ocazia să descoperi cât de eronate sunt atât părerile, cât și obiceiurile noastre culinare. Cât de mult ne-am îndepărtat de la hrana reală de care organismul are nevoie și cum stresul, viața haotică de azi și alimentele nocive au cel mai dur efect asupra noastră: afecțiuni cardiovasculare grave și cancer. Adică principalele cauze de deces prematur astăzi.Însă soluția este una surprinzătoare și la îndemână: conștientizarea problemei și schimbarea felului în care ne hrănim. Explicată științific, expusă pe înțelesul tuturor și susținută cu o pasiune rar întâlnită de doctorul Cerin atât în podcatul de azi, cât și în cartea sa ‚Revoluția alimentară și sănătatea inimii'. O lucrare crucială în combaterea principalelor afecțiuni ale prezentului, susținută de un medic ale cărui acțiuni surprind plăcut prin fervoarea și pasiunea cu care încearcă să combată acest flagel, într-o perioada în care tot mai puțini medici pun pacientul pe primul loc. Ascultă sfaturile unui specialist, descoperă diete ușor de aplicat și înțelege mecanismul poftelor și cum poate fi el controlat! Și împreună cu doctorul Gheorghe Cerin poate reușim să schimbăm statistica privind speranța de viață! La Fain & Simplu, cu Mihai Morar.

The Cinematography Podcast Episode 317: Mihai Mălaimare Jr. For cinematographer Mihai Mălaimare Jr., ASC, his work with director Francis Ford Coppola from Youth Without Youth to Megalopolis has been a journey of constant education and evolution. Coppola, known for embracing new technology and a dynamic, on-set creative process, frequently pivots to explore fresh ideas in the moment. Megalopolis is Mihai's fifth collaboration with Coppola. Their partnership began when Coppola came to Romania to shoot Youth Without Youth and scout some locations for Megalopolis. Mihai recalls first encountering Coppola's “crazy ideas.” “I was like, yeah, that's crazy, but I'm 29, fresh out of film school and I'm working with Francis, so I better do it. And then you realize how much better the scene gets.” This relationship fostered a unique trust. “Little by little, we got in this interesting dynamic where I'm craving those moments. And I know it can be a really stressful situation when you prep, all of a sudden you change it 180 degrees. But I know that somehow we'll be able to find a solution and it will be better than anything we planned. And it's interesting- every single time, the scene got better.” Coppola had been developing his ideas for Megalopolis for decades, and shot test footage in 2001 with director/cinematographer Ron Fricke. He sought an ethereal, "poetic reality" with no specific timeframe, a concept Mihai initially found challenging to prepare for. However, the early footage provided crucial visual cues, and some of it was later integrated into the film. Coppola also collaborated with visual concept designer Dean Sherriff, who created a set of art keyframes for specific scenes, which guided Mihai's framing, shots, colors, and lighting. A gold and sepia color scheme added to the film's ethereal look. “It's such an amazing process of discovery with Francis,” says Mihai. “We did some storyboards, but very few. We never really shot listed. We were talking about things in general, but the idea is that when you go on set, and you have the actors, and you have sets and costumes and everything, you want to let yourself be inspired by the actors and the blocking more than just your plans and ideas.” While major scenes in Megalopolis were filmed on an LED volume stage, the movie creatively blends VFX, practical effects, and in-camera techniques. For a beautiful dreamlike driving sequence, Mihai used poor man's process for the car interiors, combining it with moving set pieces, miniature cars, and live actors dressed as statues. Coppola's long-standing admiration for the minimalist style of filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu influenced a preference for static camera work, with minimal dolly shots, tilts, or pans. "It's all about the frozen frame," Mihai explains. "It's a certain aesthetic that I like, because it's closer to still photography. There are things that are happening that you don't think of. First, you have to make sure that the composition is really spot on. And also, it's again the idea of contrast. When you do move the camera, that better be for a good reason.” Find Mihai Mălaimare Jr. Instagram:@malaimarejr_cinematography @malaimarejr_photography Hear our previous interviews with Mihai Mălaimare Jr.: https://www.camnoir.com/ep53/ https://www.camnoir.com/ep148/ Megalopolis will be on tour in select theaters starting July 20 with Francis Ford Coppola doing a Q&A after.  Sponsored by Hot Rod Cameras: https://hotrodcameras.com/ Sponsored by ARRI: https://www.arri.com/en The Cinematography Podcast website: www.camnoir.com YouTube: @TheCinematographyPodcast Facebook: @cinepod Instagram: @thecinepod Blue Sky: @thecinepod.bsky.social

Mihai Morar îl are invitat pe CEO – ul care nu și-a negociat niciodată salariul: Virgil Șoncuțean,  omul aflat la al 3 - lea mandat în fruntea Allianz Țiriac Asigurări România.Lumea asigurărilor este departe de a fi cunoscută și apreciată la justa valoare de către români. Posibil pentru ca mulți o percep ca parte din obligațiile fiscale impuse de către stat. Însă întregul concept al asigurărilor depășește cu mult polițele obligatorii RCA sau PAD, de altfel soluții eficiente în gestionarea unor accidente deseori costisitoare. Să fii asigurat înseamnă să fii în siguranță. Liniștit. Să te poți dezvolta fără teama situațiilor neprevăzute. Pentru ca ele au fost de fapt prevăzute deja de firma de asigurare, cea care va fi lângă tine când îți va fi greu.Unul dintre liderii pieței locale de asigurări ne conduce astăzi prin bucătăria internă a unui business privat cu veleități de serviciu comunitar. Află direct de la sursă ce tipuri de asigurări îți poți face și care sunt prioritățile. Ce se întamplă cu banii plătiți și cum poate face sistemul momentelor de criză. Cu câți bani și-a susținut Allianz Țiriac clienții când aceștia au avut nevoie de ajutor și de ce nu sunt recomandate cele mai ieftine polițe de pe piață.Descoperă modul în care îți poți oferi o plasă de siguranță în viață... cu doar 40 de lei pe lună! Cum? Îți spune managerul anului în România.Virgil Șoncuțean la Fain & Simplu.Cu Mihai Morar.

Zsuzsanna Berencsi has been to every country in the world   Hey now, I am your host, Ric Gazarian. Zsu Berencsi shares with us her awesome travel adventures to every country in the world with a big celebration this past December in her last country, Jamaica.  I have met Zsu twice before at both ETFs and she promises a third.  I got it on tape.  I also reconnected with Zsu at April Peregrino's 193 party in Bratislava where Zsu arranged a special field trip.     I would like to thank everyone for their support of Counting Countries, especially my Patrons.  You know them, you love them!  Bisa “fully nomadic” Myles, Ted Nims, Adam “one-away” Hickman, Steph “Phuket” Rowe, Simen Flotvik Mathisen, Ed Hotchkiss, Barry Hoffner, Katelyn Jarvis, Philippe “BC” Izedian, Gin Liutkeviciute, Sunir Joshi, Carole Southam, Sonia Zimmermann, Justine, Per Flisberg, Jorge Serpa, Sam Williams, Scott Day, and Dana Mahoutchian for supporting this podcast.  You can support this podcast by going to .  My patrons will hear extra content with Zsu that you will not hear and you can be part of our members only FB group.  And my patrons will get behind the scene video and audio from a unique roadtrip that Zsu hosted to her favorite ice cream parlor!    And now I want to take a moment for one of my parts of the podcast and that is to welcome two new patrons to the Counting Countries family.     First up is Mihai Dascalu.  He recently retired, and after a NM survey, he and his wife decided to officially Chase 193. They have a passion for UNESCOs and Mihai plays classical piano.  And I got to meet him last November at the ETF, so you know he is a cool guy!   And also welcome Ryan Knott, who has listened to over 100 episodes in the last two years, especially while driving on some roadtrips.  He visited all 50 US states with his Dad by the age of 20.  And he is planning on 100 countries by 2030.  Good luck Ryan!    And congratulations to Phil Marcus who just hit 100,000 on his Youtube channel, Phil's Guide To The World.  Occasionally, I make some cameos.     And one more and, congratulations to Alvaor Rojas for his second time to every country in the world.   And, we also have partnered with Ahmed at Aknaf Tours in Iraq who offers monthly fixed date trips from Baghdad to the marshes.  Of course it is a bit too hot.  But start planning those trips starting in September and beyond.  .  And ask me for the discount code.      Remember to keep up to date with the Extraordinary Travel Festival by joining our Instagram and Facebook groups and signing up for the on our  ETF will be sometime, somewhere in 2026 around October/November, destination unknown.     I was in Bangkok and Zsu was in Dubai for this recording. Please listen in and enjoy.    Thank you to my - you rock!! … Bisa Myles, Ted Nims, Adam Hickman, Steph Rowe, Simen Flotvik Mathisen, Ed Hotchkiss, Barry Hoffner, Katelyn Jarvis, Philippe Izedian, Gin Liutkeviciute, Sunir Joshi, Carole Southam, Sonia Zimmermann, Justine, Per Flisberg, Jorge Serpa, Sam Williams, Scott Day, Dana Mahoutchian, Mhai Dascalu, and Ryan.        And now you can listen to ! And Alexa!   And write a review! More About Zsuzsanna Berencsi Counting Countries Instagram: Her Story: https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lifestyle/20241229/zsuzsanna-berencsi-journeys-across-196-countries   About Counting Countries Counting Countries is the only podcast to bring you the stories from the dedicated few who've spent their lives on the singular quest of traveling to every country in the world. Less people have traveled to every country in the world than have been to outer space. Theme music for this podcast is Demeter's Dance, written, performed, and provided by .  About GlobalGaz Ric Gazarian is the host of Counting Countries. He is the author of three books: , , and .  He is the producer of two travel documentaries: and .   Ric is also on his own quest to visit every country in the world. You can see where he has and keep up with his journey at How Many Countries Are There? Well… that depends on who you ask!  The United Nations states that there are . The British Foreign and Commonwealth office states that there are . The Traveler's Century Club states that there are . The Nomad Mania The Most Traveled Person states that there are 1500 . SISO says there are .     Me? My goal is the 193 countries that are recognized by the UN, but I am sure I will visit some other places along the way. Disclaimer: There are affiliates in this post. Zsuzsanna Berencsi Counting Countries   

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Das Spezial: Borussias U17 im Finale um die Deutsche Meisterschaft - Trainer Mihai Enache by Borussia Mönchengladbach

Doctorul care ne salvează copiii – Mihai Craiu – îi arată lui Mihai Morar care sunt marile greșeli făcute azi de părinți.Nu există manual de creșterea a copilului. Este o expresie veche de când lumea. Sau există? Ei bine, cartea lansată de doctorul Miha Craiu - ‚Cartea sănătății copilului tău' – poate fi considerată un real manual pentru părinți. Scris de către un medic care de zeci de ani are în grijă, nici mai mult nici mai puțin, viitorul țării. Copiii. Nu rata ocazia să descoperi cum să interacționăm cu copiii de orice vârstă. Să vezi care sunt marile greșeli pe care le fac părinții astăzi, unele pornite din prea multă grijă, altele din neștiință. Să afli când să mergi la medicul de familie, și când trebuie la spital, cât timp lași copilul în fața ecranelor și multe alte răspunsuri la sutele de întrebări ale părinților. Întrebări la care răspunde medicul care consideră medicina o chemare, nu o meserie. Omul care răspunde cu empatia așteptată de micii săi pacienți, de părinții îngrijorați, de, până la urmă, oricine vorbește cu un medic. Empatie pe care nu o regăsim nici la ChatGPT, și, din păcate, nici la mulți medici care își uită menirea: cea de a aduce alinare. Descoperă azi un medic așa cum toți am dori să găsim. Mihai Craiu readuce încrederea în medicină, la Fain & Simplu! Cu Mihai Morar.

durée : 00:03:12 - Les P'tits Bateaux - par : Camille Crosnier - Aujourd'hui, Lina, 12 ans, voudrait savoir si les petits et les gros chiens ont le même nombre de dents ? Le vétérinaire Mihai lui répond. - invités : Mihai Guzu - Mihai Guzu : Vétérinaire spécialiste en stomatologie et dentisterie - réalisé par : Stéphanie TEXIER

Mihai Morar prezintă un fenomen: cea mai urmărită româncă pe tiktok, Andra Gogan.Cu peste 10 milioane de urmăritori pe tiktok și peste 6 milioane pe YouTube, Andra vine în studioul Fain & Simplu direct din Cartea Recordurilor. Însă ceea ce aflăm astăzi este mult peste statistică; pentru că Andra îi dezvăluie lui Mihai ce stă în spatele succesului ei, ce a sacrificat pentru asta și cât mai este dispusă să urmeze această cale.Aflată de la 5 ani în lumina scenei, în diversele ei forme, Andra a cunoscut de mică realitatea neștiuta a unor copii care devin cunoscuți în mediul online. Surprinzător pentru mulți, primii influenceri români nu au avut deloc viață ușoară la scoală, unde succesul din activitățile extrașcolare a adus în special ... bullying! Iar faptul că de asta s-au făcut vinovați și unii profesori este revoltător. O experiență pe care Andra a ales să o transforme în ceva pozitiv, inițiind o campanie anti bullying alături de Poliția Română. O inițiativă dublată însă de o realitate tristă: eroina a milioane de fetițe încă se confruntă cu agresivitate în mediul online chiar și astăzi.Și nu este singurul lucru ascuns în spatele zâmbetelor ei. Ce altceva nu a lăsat să se știe până acum, care sunt planurile ei, cât muncește pentru un reel de 15 secunde și cât câștigă... afli în podcastul de astăzi. Într-un interviu necosmetizat, needitat, sincer ca realitatea. Andra Gogan la Fain & Simplu. Cu Mihai Morar.

Acesta nu este un discurs politic. Nu este o pledoarie pentru un partid sau pentru un politician. Acesta e manifestul celor care mai cred în oameni. În România care nu dă vina, ci dă mâna.Trăim vremuri în care e ușor să urli și urăști, dar tot mai greu să te conectezi și să iubești. Într-o lume plină de zgomot, Mihai Morar alege să spună ce crede. Cu onestitate. Despre România. Despre alegeri. Despre vot, dar nu ca un banal „gest de duminică”, ci ca un act de responsabilitate profundă.Ce alegem, de fapt, când votăm? Un om? Un ideal? Sau poate ceea ce vrem să devenim ca popor?Acest manifest nu e despre a ne răzbuna unii pe alții, ci despre a ne regăsi unii lângă alții. Despre a pune ceva la loc, nu a da ceva jos. Pentru că, după ziua de duminică, vom rămâne tot aici. Pe aceleași străzi. În aceeași țară. Împreună.Dă mai departe acest discurs-manifest dacă simți că România are nevoie de mai multă iubire și mai puțină frică. De mai multă conexiune și mai puțină dezbinare.Un manifest Fain și Simplu.Mulțumim că ești. Mulțumim că simți. 

Welcome to this special episode of the China Compass Podcast, #22 in the weekly “Prison Pulpit” series! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. You can follow me on X (@chinaadventures) where I post daily reminders to pray for China (PrayforChina.us). To learn more about our various ministry endeavors and to get any of the missionary biographies I’ve helped to publish, please visit www.PrayGiveGo.us! Once again, we turn to the late Richard Wurmbrand to speak to us on behalf of the persecuted church… First, for those who don't know who Richard Wurmband is, here's a brief intro: Romanian Lutheran minister / 14 yrs in prison, 3 in solitary confinement / Published ”Tortured for Christ" Founded Voice of the Martyrs, but son Michael (aka, Mihai) does NOT recommend VOM’s ministry. Michael Wurmbrand’s VOM “Open Letter”: https://www.billionbibles.com/michael-wurmbrand-vom.html Michael Wurmbrand’s Ministry (and free books!): https://richardwurmbrandfoundation.com/ Sermons in Solitary Confinement: Duty Never Ends Most likely published in the early 1970s, just a few years after he fled Communist Romania… Read the book for yourself: https://richardwurmbrandfoundation.com/pdfs/ssc-english.pdf What follows was taken from “Duty Never Ends”, one of the sermons in Wurmbrand’s book, Sermons in Solitary Confinement. You can read the book for yourself or listen to the audio version of this article on the latest episode of the China Compass podcast. https://chinacall.substack.com/p/duty-never-ends If you enjoyed this, I highly recommend Richard Wurmband’s longer book of prison stories & meditations, In God's Underground: https://richardwurmbrandfoundation.com/pdfs/IGU-english.pdf My little book Unbeaten tells the story of my arrest, interrogation, and deportation from China in 2018. One of the appendices, Remember My Chains, is a message I’ve given all over the world about praying for the persecuted church. You can get both the book and the accompanying sermon, at Unbeaten.vip, or read the latter for free on my China Call Substack: https://chinacall.substack.com/p/remember-my-chains Follow or subscribe to China Compass on Spotify or Apple or right here on PubTV. You can also email any questions or comments to contact @ PrayforChina dot us. And don’t forget to check out everything we are involved in at PrayGiveGo.us. Hebrews 13:3!