Hosted by Mark and Shashank, software engineers and organizers in Silicon Valley. Get their grounded perspective each week as they explore the generative AI landscape through news analysis, tech discussions, hands-on experiments, and clear explanations.
Dive into the latest language models, AI agent capabilities, and RAG techniques. Understand the hardware race, key research, startup trends, benchmarks, and the real-world impact of AI across industries like healthcare, robotics, and creative work. We also test AI limits, explain core concepts, discuss ethics, and interview builders shaping the field.
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Hosted by Mark and Shashank, software engineers and organizers in Silicon Valley. Get their grounded perspective each week as they explore the generative AI landscape through news analysis, tech discussions, hands-on experiments, and clear explanations.
Dive into the latest language models, AI agent capabilities, and RAG techniques. Understand the hardware race, key research, startup trends, benchmarks, and the real-world impact of AI across industries like healthcare, robotics, and creative work. We also test AI limits, explain core concepts, discuss ethics, and interview builders shaping the field.
For engineers, developers, researchers, and anyone seeking a practical understanding of AI’s rapid evolution and its applications.
Gemini 3, GPT-5.1, Anti-Gravity & Yann LeCun’s Exit: Are We Near AGI or Just in a Bubble?
The Generative AI Meetup Podcast
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Gemini 3, GPT-5.1, Anti-Gravity & Yann LeCun’s Exit: Are We Near AGI or Just in a Bubble?
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In this episode of the Generative AI Meetup Podcast, Mark (in Ohio) and Shashank (in India) finally sit down after a month of travel to unpack a very eventful stretch in AI. They dive into Google’s new Gemini 3 Pro, its standout scores on Humanity’s Last Exam and ARC-AGI, and why these reasoning benchmarks matter more than yet another near-perfect standardized test score. Mark also makes a public feature request to DeepMind: please increase Gemini’s max output tokens.
From there they get hands-on with the developer experience:
Google’s new Anti-Gravity coding IDE (and how it compares to Cursor)
Using GPT-5.1 Codex High in Cursor’s autonomous “plan mode”
Why long context and long output windows are critical for deep research and book-length projects
The conversation then shifts to the bigger picture:
LLMs as therapists, sycophancy, safety, and the danger of AI always agreeing with you
Mark’s rant on robotics, humanoid robots, and a coming age of extreme abundance where robots handle most physical and intellectual work
Why learning to code may become the mental equivalent of going to the gym—a “brain gym” in a world where AI can do most practical tasks
They also cover the latest AI industry drama and milestones:
Yann LeCun leaving Meta, what that might signal about Big Tech AI labs, and how godfathers like Hinton, LeCun, and Bengio see the road to AGI
DeepMind’s new game-playing agent and why world models in 3D environments matter for real-world robotics
Genspark hitting unicorn status and what it means for “ChatGPT wrapper” startups
Co-inventing a new term on air: a “narwhal” = a trillion-dollar private company
If you’re curious about where frontier models, coding agents, robotics, and AGI trajectories all intersect—plus some philosophical musing on jobs, meaning, and abundance—this episode is for you.
The Generative AI Meetup Podcast
Hosted by Mark and Shashank, software engineers and organizers in Silicon Valley. Get their grounded perspective each week as they explore the generative AI landscape through news analysis, tech discussions, hands-on experiments, and clear explanations.
Dive into the latest language models, AI agent capabilities, and RAG techniques. Understand the hardware race, key research, startup trends, benchmarks, and the real-world impact of AI across industries like healthcare, robotics, and creative work. We also test AI limits, explain core concepts, discuss ethics, and interview builders shaping the field.
For engineers, developers, researchers, and anyone seeking a practical understanding of AI’s rapid evolution and its applications.
