Interviews with Innovators

Conversations on AI agents, inference, open models, and the future of software — with researchers and founders from NVIDIA, OpenAI, Mozilla & more. By Turing Post.

AI 101

How Responsible AI Changes In The Agent Era

14 min read

Jun 20, 2026

How Responsible AI Changes In The Agent Era

Responsible AI is becoming infrastructure for AI agents: runtime controls, system accountability, human oversight, and safeguards for tools that act

Ksenia Se

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🎙️GitHub’s Mario Rodriguez on AI Coding Agents, Copilot, and the Future of Developers

15 min read

Jun 6, 2026

🎙️GitHub’s Mario Rodriguez on AI Coding Agents, Copilot, and the Future of Developers

GitHub's CPO explains how AI coding agents changed in late 2025, what macro-delegation means, and why Copilot isn't pilot.

Ksenia Se

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🎙️Hugging Face’s Clem Delangue: Stop Comparing Engines to Cars

20 min read

May 2, 2026

🎙️Hugging Face’s Clem Delangue: Stop Comparing Engines to Cars

Why open models, local AI, and coding agents are changing who gets to build.

Ksenia Se

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🎙️"Intention is what we need": Neeru Khosla on the Future of Education and Learning with AI

15 min read

Apr 18, 2026

🎙️"Intention is what we need": Neeru Khosla on the Future of Education and Learning with AI

Neeru Khosla, co-founder of CK-12 Foundation, on AI in education, personalized learning, Flexi AI tutor, and why intention matters more than attention.

Ksenia Se

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🎙️ Be Bold, Stay Safe: How NVIDIA Is Engineering the Hardest Tradeoff in Self-Driving

16 min read

Mar 29, 2026

🎙️ Be Bold, Stay Safe: How NVIDIA Is Engineering the Hardest Tradeoff in Self-Driving

A field guide to DRIVE AV, Halos, Hyperion, Alpamayo, and the path from Level 2 to Level 4

Ksenia Se

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🎙️The New Inner Loop of Software Engineering with Michael Bolin

14 min read

Mar 14, 2026

🎙️The New Inner Loop of Software Engineering with Michael Bolin

OpenAI Codex lead explains the agent loop, sandboxing, repo design, and how software engineering changes when agents generate most of the code.

Ksenia Se

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🎙️"We Are the Only Ones Who Would Build It"

15 min read

Feb 28, 2026

🎙️"We Are the Only Ones Who Would Build It"

Ioannis Antonoglou left DeepMind to build Reflection AI's frontier open-weight models. On RL post-training, AGI, and why open science beats closed labs.

Ksenia Se

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🎙️Nathan Lambert: Open Models Will Never Catch Up

27 min read

Feb 7, 2026

🎙️Nathan Lambert: Open Models Will Never Catch Up

And why the US need them even more right now

Ksenia Se

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🎙️Inside MiniMax AI: How a Chinese AI Lab Builds Open Models

20 min read

Jan 31, 2026

🎙️Inside MiniMax AI: How a Chinese AI Lab Builds Open Models

MiniMax senior researcher Olive Song on RL training failures, open-weight model strategy, alignment, and how Chinese AI labs actually move fast

Ksenia Se

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🎙️A Fight Worth Having: The Case for Open Source AI

18 min read

Jan 24, 2026

🎙️A Fight Worth Having: The Case for Open Source AI

Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian on when open source AI beats Claude and OpenAI APIs, when it doesn't, and how company maturity (not size) decides the switch.

Ksenia Se

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Inference Show: When Will We Solve Intelligence

5 min read

Dec 27, 2025

Inference Show: When Will We Solve Intelligence

A curated collection of interviews on intelligence, systems, coding, and control

Ksenia Se

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🎙️Are Memories the missing half of AI brain?

26 min read

Dec 20, 2025

🎙️Are Memories the missing half of AI brain?

Why AI Intelligence is Nothing Without Visual Memory | Shawn Shen on the Future of Embodied AI

Ksenia Se

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26 min read

Dec 13, 2025

🎙️The browser as a body for AGI?

Why OpenAI Needs a Browser -> Ben Goodger on Building ChatGPT Atlas for AGI and What You Can Use It For Today

Ksenia Se

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🎙️What AI Is Missing for Real Reasoning?

28 min read

Nov 29, 2025

🎙️What AI Is Missing for Real Reasoning?

Axiom Math’s Carina Hong on how to build an AI mathematician

Ksenia Se

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🎙️Anneka Gupta: Designing for Uncertainty

15 min read

Nov 15, 2025

🎙️Anneka Gupta: Designing for Uncertainty

Anneka Gupta (Rubrik) on deploying AI agents safely: visibility, governance, reversibility, and why 70–90% of enterprise AI never reaches production.

Ksenia Se

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🎙️Spencer Huang: NVIDIA’s Big Plan for Physical AI

15 min read

Nov 1, 2025

🎙️Spencer Huang: NVIDIA’s Big Plan for Physical AI

Spencer Huang, NVIDIA robotics lead, explains physical AI, simulation, world models, and the three-computer system for training and deploying robots.

Ksenia Se

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12 min read

Oct 18, 2025

🎙️ What is AI OS?

Why we might need a special operating system for AI

Ksenia Se

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11 min read

Oct 4, 2025

🎙️ Can AI Сatch Cancer?

The Future of Cancer Diagnosis: Digital Pathology and AI

Ksenia Se

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11 min read

Sep 20, 2025

🎙️ What Really Blocks AI Progress?

Ulrik Hansen from Encord thinks it’s... data

Ksenia Se

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18 min read

Sep 6, 2025

🎙️ Goodbye IDE. Hello ADE?

What is the Future of Coding? Warp’s Vision

Ksenia Se

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🎙️What Limits AI Today? When Inference Will Be Like Electricity? And Why Market Fit Can Kill?

10 min read

Aug 23, 2025

🎙️What Limits AI Today? When Inference Will Be Like Electricity? And Why Market Fit Can Kill?

A very interesting interview with Lin Qiao from Fireworks AI

Ksenia Se

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🎙️MCP and the Future of AI: Bridging Context and Capability

10 min read

Aug 9, 2025

🎙️MCP and the Future of AI: Bridging Context and Capability

An Inference with Alex Hancock – Senior Software Engineer at Block, core contributor to Goose (the open-source, multi-purpose AI agent), and a member of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Steering Committee

Ksenia Se

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