New podcast with @datagenproc of @EpochAIResearch digging into the open questions determining the future of frontier AI! We cover:

00:00 Predictions for RSI
18:15 The role of robotics in an AI acceleration
24:20 How far behind are Chinese models?
27:39 Does distillation explain the gap?
40:58 What Chinese job postings reveal about their labs
48:13 Are open or closed models safer?
58:10 How Epoch AI ticks
1:00:55 What a frontier post-training recipe looks like

He's one of the people who gives the best feedback on my writing, so I was stoked to have him on.