Best Open Pixel Studios Podcasts (2025)

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Studio Atelico raises $5M to build the AI-first games studio 2:58

4d ago2:58

2:58

We’re excited to announce Air Street Capital’s lead investment in Studio Atelico’s $5M Seed round, alongside friends including Chris Ré (Stanford), Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face), and Alex Ratner (Snorkel), to back a team on a mission to redefine the role of generative AI in games.

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Guide to AI: August 2025 35:44

15d ago35:44

35:44

Welcome to the latest issue of your guide to AI, an editorialized newsletter covering the key developments in AI policy, research, industry, and start-ups over the last month.

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Profluent’s OpenCRISPR-1 published in Nature magazine 4:48

18d ago4:48

4:48

Gene editing has the potential to solve fundamental challenges in agriculture, biotechnology and human health. CRISPR-based gene editors derived from microorganisms, although powerful, often show notable functional tradeoffs when ported into non-native environments, such as human cells1. Artificial-intelligence-enabled design provides a powerful al…

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Defense AI company Delian Alliance Industries raises a $14M Series A 5:23

20d ago5:23

5:23

No one is coming to save Europe. We must build new primes here and now.

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From move 37 to drug design 5:35

27d ago5:35

5:35

At this year’s RAAIS, Max Jaderberg of Isomorphic Labs delivered a talk that felt like the spiritual sequel to AlphaGo, only this time the board isn’t 19×19, it’s the human body. The stakes? The future of drug discovery and human health. Isomorphic Labs, the biotech spinout from DeepMind, has declared a radical mission: solving disease. It's not a …

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Summer of Soup - A Conversation with Mark Jones and Nikki Weaver of The Wonton Soups 1:18:58

28d ago1:18:58

1:18:58

On this episode, Elise sits down with Mark Jones and Nikki Weaver of The Wonton Soups! The Wonton Soups are a quirky and lovable horn band from Bethlehem, PA. Blending experience from jazz, musical theater, marching band and self taught musicians, The Wonton Soups have a truly unique sound influenced by funk, ska, swing, and big band. You can follo…

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What comes after the peace dividend 6:50

1M ago6:50

6:50

At this year’s RAAIS, I joined Adam Satariano of the New York Times and Dimitrios Kottas, founder of Delian Alliance Industries and formerly Apple's Special Projects Group, for a candid conversation about one of the most taboo, yet increasingly urgent topics in tech: AI and defense. The timing couldn’t be more acute. The war in Ukraine has shown ho…

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The frontiers of pixel generation 4:15

1M ago4:15

4:15

At RAAIS 2025, Andreas Blattmann, co-founder of Black Forest Labs, shared a deep dive into FLUX.1 Kontext, the startup’s newly released generative model for controllable image and video generation. The talk gave a rare look under the hood of one of the most technically ambitious and commercially relevant AI-first companies to emerge in Europe. Andr…

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Your guide to AI: July 2025 40:06

1M ago40:06

40:06

What you need to know in AI across geopolitics, big tech, hardware, research, models, datasets, financings and exits over the last 4 weeks.

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ElevenLabs and the voice frontier 6:36

1M ago6:36

6:36

Two years ago, I met Mati Staniszewski in a time before AI voices were good enough to fool anyone. ElevenLabs hadn’t launched yet, but their vision was clear: voice was broken, and they were going to fix it. Today, ElevenLabs is one of the fastest-moving companies in the agentic voice space. Their platform powers narration for authors, dubbing for …

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2025 is the year of open-endedness 6:26

1M ago6:26

6:26

If 2016 was the year AI shocked the world by mastering Go, 2025 is shaping up to be the year they learn to innovate. This is the thesis of Ed Hughes, long-time researcher at Google DeepMind and one of the few voices charting a credible path toward AI systems capable of doing science. In his closing talk at RAAIS this year, Hughes argued that we’re …

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AI, power, and politics at RAAIS 2025 5:38

2M ago5:38

5:38

At this year's RAAIS, we convened a panel with Lionel Laurent (Bloomberg), Chris Yiu (Meta), and Benedict Macon-Cooney (Tony Blair Institute) to dissect the uneasy relationship between AI and the state. This conversation, grounded in experience across Whitehall, Big Tech, and Brussels, pulled no punches on where things stand and what still needs to…

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Inside poolside’s path to AGI with Eiso Kant 5:15

2M ago5:15

5:15

When poolside co-founder and CTO Eiso Kant stepped on stage at RAAIS 2025, he didn’t deliver the kind of slick, pre-baked keynote you might expect from the co-founder of one of the most ambitious AI companies in the world. Instead, Kant opted for a more experimental approach: a candid walkthrough of poolside’s beliefs, software systems, and bets on…

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State of AI Compute Index v4 (June 2025) 9:45

2M ago9:45

9:45

Today, we release v4 of the You'll now find updated counts as of June 2025 for AI research papers using chips from NVIDIA, TPUs, Apple, Huawei, AMD, ASICs, FPGAs, and AI semi startups, as well as updates to A100 H100/200 cluster sizes. We also include new data on the most and least commonly used chips for specific research topic areas. State of AI …

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The AI rollup mirage and the risk of repeating old mistakes 8:13

2M ago8:13

8:13

Across the technology investing world, investors are scaling their bets on a seductive thesis: Generative AI will transform low-margin service businesses into high-margin software companies. Several well-known platform venture firms have committed billions to this strategy and have begun to make their bets. This essay is co-authored by Nathan Benai…

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From research to production with Gemini and Paige Bailey 4:09

2M ago4:09

4:09

At this year’s RAAIS, Paige Bailey of Google DeepMind delivered her talk on AI research to production with interactive demos and a clear thesis: “I’m going to show you how to automate significant parts of your work.” Generative models are now a co-author, a debugger, a lab assistant, a video editor. And increasingly, models are doing the work behin…

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Ten years of RAAIS. Day one in AI. 5:57

2M ago5:57

5:57

A decade is a familiar yardstick for measuring progress. In that time, we tend to expect steady, incremental change. Historically, meaningful change tends to unfold slowly. In AI, however, the last ten years has been a story of "gradually, then suddenly". The weekly model launches we are now accustomed to feel incremental in the heat of the moment,…

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‘Sovereign AI’ is political branding. The reality is closer to digital colonialism 4:24

2M ago4:24

4:24

On AI factories, sovereign AI and what this means for national AI strategies. This article originally appeared on Fortune.com and can be read here for free.

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Guide to AI: June 2025 36:25

2M ago36:25

36:25

What you need to know in AI across geopolitics, big tech, hardware, research, models, datasets, financings and exits over the last 4 weeks.

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Britain’s Defence Strategy: from diagnosis to delivery 8:42

3M ago8:42

8:42

Our read of the UK's Ministry of Defence Strategic Defence Review 2025.

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Research and Applied AI Summit: celebrating 10 years 5:45

3M ago5:45

5:45

Bringing you the best of AI today and what’s coming tomorrow.

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Hedera Dx raises €15M Series A 7:50

3M ago7:50

7:50

Scaling on-site precision oncology infrastructure and real-world data.

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Is the EU AI Act actually useful? 12:13

3M ago12:13

12:13

Born pre-GPT-4 to shape the world of GPT-7.

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What Wall Street didn't see coming 6:27

3M ago6:27

6:27

Generative models, reinforcement learning, model efficiency, DeepMind and NVIDIA's impact weren't top of mind on Wall Street back in 2016...

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The AI Factory Illusion 7:26

3M ago7:26

7:26

Where politics and power meet AI. In recent months, a subtle but politically astute rebranding has propagated across the AI industry. Leading figures like NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang and OpenAI’s Sam Altman are no longer calling the backbone of AI infrastructure "AI data centers." Instead, they refer to them as "AI factories." At first glance, this might…

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Guide to AI: May 2025 31:54

3M ago31:54

31:54

Welcome to the latest issue of your guide to AI, an editorialized newsletter covering the key developments in AI policy, research, industry, and start-ups over the last month.

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Delian Alliance Industries launches Interceptigon autonomous strike systems 5:02

3M ago5:02

5:02

Expanding its product range as an emerging defense prime.

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Biology has scaling laws too 5:07

3M ago5:07

5:07

On Profluent’s launch of ProGen3, a new family of protein language models trained on over 3.4 billion protein sequences.

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Your guide to AI: April 2025 32:49

4M ago32:49

32:49

What you need to know in AI across geopolitics, big tech, hardware, research, models, datasets, financings and exits over the last 4 weeks.

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Our investment in Polar Mist 4:51

5M ago4:51

4:51

Building European maritime supremacy.

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Staking your ground 5:03

5M ago5:03

5:03

Why startups should push an ambitious public-facing agenda from day one

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Guide to AI: March 2025 36:04

6M ago36:04

36:04

What you need to know in AI across geopolitics, big tech, hardware, research, models, datasets, financings and exits over the last 4 weeks.

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Icehouse Punk & DIY: Open House + Artist Meetup - LVAP: Backstage 1:06:08

6M ago1:06:08

1:06:08

The Lehigh Valley Arts Podcast team had the pleasure of hosting an in-person episode at the Icehouse Punk & DIY: Open House + Artist Meetup on Sunday, February 23, 2025, from 1-4 pm at the Ice House (56 River St. Bethlehem, PA). While there, we got to sit down with a few of the vendors, attendees, and artists! This event was in partnership with Eli…

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See you in Berlin, Munich and Zurich! 3:59

6M ago3:59

3:59

We’re about to set off to bring Air Street AI meetups to Berlin on Thursday 20th Feb, Munich on Tuesday 25th Feb and Zurich on the 4th March. We focus these events on a) best practices that entrepreneurs and researchers can learn from and b) attracting the very best contributors and heavily curating event attendance to make sure that everyone makes…

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Basement Poetry: A Conversation with Chloe Cole-Wilson and Special Guests Khalid Taylor and Robin Gow 1:04:47

6M ago1:04:47

1:04:47

On this episode, Elise and podcast alum Robin Gow (@robin_gow_poet) sat down with Chloe Cole-Wilson from Basement Poetry (@basementpoetry) and special guest Khalid Taylor (@khalidantonio). Basement Poetry is an organization dedicated to empowering diverse communities through the performing arts and poetry. They create opportunities for cultural par…

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Our investment in Fern Labs 2:40

6M ago2:40

2:40

$3M day one financing to build multi-agent systems for real-world problems. Learn more at www.fern-labs.ai

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State of AI outtakes #2: embodied AI 7:33

7M ago7:33

7:33

The State of AI Report aims to provide a comprehensive overview of everything you need to know across AI research, industry, politics, and safety. To ensure the report remains at a manageable length, lots of material doesn’t make it into the final version. We’re bringing Air Street Press some of the research that didn’t make the original cut, along…

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Guide to AI: January 2025 31:52

7M ago31:52

31:52

Welcome to the latest issue of your guide to AI, an editorialized newsletter covering the key developments in AI policy, research, industry, and start-ups over the last month.

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UK defence and dynamism 13:40

7M ago13:40

13:40

Air Street’s submission to the UK Strategic Defence Review. You can read more at press.airstreet.com and https://press.airstreet.com/p/uk-defence-and-dynamism

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Vibe shifts: Microsoft and Google on AI 6:11

7M ago6:11

6:11

The dawning AI-first era is creating clear winners and losers. Here we dive into the vibe shift of both Microsoft and Google in their work on AI.

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91% of AI papers used NVIDIA in 2024 3:33

7M ago3:33

3:33

Final 2024 statistics for AI chip usage across NVIDIA, Google, Huawei, Apple, AMD, Cerebras, Cambricon, Graphcore, Groq, SambaNova, and Intel Habana in the State of AI Report Compute Index.

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Announcing Sereact's €25M Series A 2:59

7M ago2:59

2:59

Scaling AI-first software for general purpose robotics.

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AI-first biology: five years on 18:25

7M ago18:25

18:25

Revisiting my 2019 lecture on why biology was experiencing its AI moment. Read more at press.airstreet.com and https://press.airstreet.com/p/ai-first-biology-five-years-on

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Vibe shifts: is AI still an existential risk? 6:03

7M ago6:03

6:03

The dawning AI-first era is creating clear winners and losers. We’re seeing giants of the past lose ground, while companies that few initially believed in defy their sceptics. At the same time, the terms of big macro debates in the field seemingly change overnight. In this “vibe shifts” series, we’ll be diving into some of these stories and drawing…

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Composing for the Mind’s Eye: A Conversation with Damian Appiotti 1:28:20

7M ago1:28:20

1:28:20

This week, we interview Damian Appiotti. Damian Appiotti is a multi faceted musician and educator who has been playing the guitar for about as long as he can remember. He grew up with parents who both have musical backgrounds, and has had a life surrounded by music, film, and art at large. The style that Damian often works in is referred to as Prog…

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Profluent unveils Protein2PAM 2:49

7M ago2:49

2:49

New research from Profluent Bio validates the power of machine learning models to design bespoke biological systems at scale.

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How not to build a drone 12:56

7M ago12:56

12:56

How the EU spent 16 years and €8 billion on a drone that may never fly. You can read the essay on press.airstreet.com at https://press.airstreet.com/p/how-not-to-build-a-drone

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Air Street: 2024 year in review 16:09

7M ago16:09

16:09

In the spirit of building in the open and holding ourselves accountable to our progress, here is our year in review for 2024. We cover Air Street, Air Street Press, the State of AI Report, and our community engagement.

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Planet Infamy - A Conversation with Doug Boehm and Josh Berk 1:02:09

8M ago1:02:09

1:02:09

In this episode, Ben sits down with Doug Boehm and Josh Berk of PLANET INFAMY. PLANET INFAMY is an art rock collective of Lehigh Valley musicians playing innovative original compositions and irreverent improvised jams. The group features Josh Berk and Bryan Lazewski on guitar, Doug Boehm on bass, "Big Dom" Haberstumpf on drums, Shaun Adickes on key…