The Frontier Podcast
Weekly conversations with the researchers, engineers, and founders building the future. From AI agents to fusion energy — deep dives into the technologies reshaping our world.
The AI Agent Revolution: From Chatbots to Autonomous Systems
Andrej Karpathy on the transition from language models to autonomous AI agents — tool use, memory architectures, multi-agent coordination, and what it takes to build production-grade agent systems.
Meet the Team
Dr. Sarah Chen
Host & AI Research LeadFormer DeepMind researcher with a PhD in Machine Learning from Stanford. Covers AI, quantum, and computational breakthroughs.
Marcus Webb
Co-host & Security Analyst20-year cybersecurity veteran, former NSA, now advising Fortune 500s on Zero Trust and PQC migration.
Dr. James Park
Co-host & Space EditorFormer SpaceX propulsion engineer. Covers launch vehicles, satellite constellations, and the lunar economy.
Recent Episodes
Fusion at Q>10: Inside Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Bob Mumgaard, CEO of CFS, breaks down the SPARC test that achieved Q>10 and what it means for commercial fusion by the 2030s.
Scaling Laws: Are They Dead or Still Holding?
Sebastian Raschka on whether AI scaling laws are hitting a wall, the shift to reasoning-focused post-training, and what actually drives progress in 2026.
Post-Quantum Cryptography: The 2030 Deadline
Dustin Moody from NIST explains the post-quantum cryptography standards and why every enterprise needs to migrate before 2030.
CRISPR Cures: Three Years of Casgevy Long-Term Data
Dr. Haydar Frangoul shares three-year follow-up data from the Casgevy trial and discusses the future of CRISPR therapeutics.
Quantum Error Correction: Google's Surface Code Breakthrough
Hartmut Neven from Google Quantum AI explains their below-threshold error correction result and the path to fault-tolerant quantum computing.
Solid-State Batteries at 500 Wh/kg: The Production Race
Jagdeep Singh, CEO of QuantumScape, discusses their 500 Wh/kg cell and the path to volume production by 2027.
Episode Archive
Showing 104 episodes
AI The AI Agent Revolution: From Chatbots to Autonomous Systems
Andrej Karpathy
Founder, Eureka Labs
Fusion Fusion at Q>10: Inside Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Bob Mumgaard
CEO & Co-founder
AI Scaling Laws: Are They Dead or Still Holding?
Sebastian Raschka
Independent LLM Researcher & Author
Cybersecurity Post-Quantum Cryptography: The 2030 Deadline
Dr. Dustin Moody
Mathematician, PQC Lead
Biotech CRISPR Cures: Three Years of Casgevy Long-Term Data
Dr. Haydar Frangoul
Principal Investigator
Quantum Quantum Error Correction: Google's Surface Code Breakthrough
Dr. Hartmut Neven
VP of Engineering
Energy Storage Solid-State Batteries at 500 Wh/kg: The Production Race
Jagdeep Singh
CEO
AI Open Source vs Closed Source LLMs: Who's Winning?
Gabe Goodhart
AI Research Engineer
AI China vs US: The AI Arms Race
Jeffrey Ding
Assistant Professor of Political Science
AI Will AI Replace Programmers? The Vibe Coding Revolution
Ethan Mollick
Professor at Wharton
AI Reasoning Models: How Chain-of-Thought Changed AI
Jason Wei
Research Scientist
AI The Trillion Dollar AI Investment Pipeline
Leopold Aschenbrenner
Founder
AI AI Hardware Crisis: NVIDIA's Chip Dominance and Beyond
Kaoutar El Maghraoui
AI Hardware Researcher
AI Multimodal AI: When Models See, Hear, and Speak
Aaron Baughman
AI Engineer & Master Inventor
AI RAG is Broken: How to Actually Build Production AI Systems
Greg Kamradt
AI Engineer & Educator
Cybersecurity Zero-Day Economics: The $25M Exploit Market
Katie Moussouris
CEO & Founder
Cybersecurity AI vs AI: When Attackers Use LLMs for Phishing
Rachel Tobac
CEO & Ethical Hacker
Cybersecurity Zero Trust Architecture: Beyond the Buzzword
George Finney
CISO
Cybersecurity Ransomware as a Service: The Supply Chain Attack Epidemic
Allan Liska
Senior Security Architect
Cybersecurity Deepfake Detection: The Arms Race Against Synthetic Media
Hany Farid
Professor of EECS
Cybersecurity Nation-State APTs: Tracking Advanced Persistent Threats
Suzanne Spaulding
Director, Defending Democratic Institutions
Cybersecurity Cloud Security in the Multi-Cloud Era
Tim Mackey
Principal Security Strategist
Cybersecurity The Cybersecurity Talent Gap: 4 Million Open Jobs
Lynn Dohm
Executive Director
Cybersecurity Supply Chain Attacks: SolarWinds to npm Packages
Chris Hughes
Cybersecurity Resident Fellow
Space Starship V3 and the Path to Mars
Tim Dodd
Spaceflight Communicator
Space Artemis II: Returning Humans to the Moon
Pamela Melroy
Deputy Administrator
Space The Lunar Economy: Mining Water Ice at the South Pole
Dr. Clive Neal
Planetary Geologist
Space Europa Clipper: Searching for Life on Jupiter's Ocean Moon
Dr. Bonnie Buratti
Senior Research Scientist
Space The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope: 100x Hubble's Field of View
Dr. Julie McEnery
Project Scientist
Space Commercial Space Stations: The Post-ISS Era
Mike Suffredini
CEO & President
Space Satellite Constellations: Starlink, Kuiper, and the Orbital Gold Rush
Tim Farrar
Managing Director
Space Direct-to-Device: When Satellites Connect Your Phone
Mark Matossian
Director of Space Systems
Space Space Debris: The Kessler Syndrome and Orbital Cleanup
Lucas Pleney
Co-founder & CTO
Space Voyager 1 at 50: Interstellar Mission Update
Dr. Linda Spilker
Voyager Project Scientist
Biotech AlphaFold 4 and the Protein Design Revolution
John Jumper
Director, AI for Science
Biotech GLP-1 Revolution: Beyond Weight Loss to Addiction and Alzheimer's
Dr. Daniel Drucker
Senior Investigator
Biotech AI-Driven Drug Discovery: From Years to Weeks
Daphne Koller
CEO & Founder
Biotech mRNA Beyond COVID: Cancer Vaccines and Rare Diseases
Dr. Katalin Karikó
Nobel Laureate & Professor
Biotech The Biotech Bull Market: IPOs, M&A, and Investor Sentiment
Stephen Hansen
Director of Biopharma Intelligence
Biotech Organoids and NAMs: Replacing Animal Testing in Drug Discovery
Dr. Thomas Hartung
Director, CAAT
Biotech Cell Therapy Manufacturing: Scaling CAR-T to the Masses
Dr. Carl June
Director, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies
Biotech Radiopharmaceuticals: The Targeted Radiation Gold Rush
Dr. Ken Song
CEO & President
Biotech The Obesity Drug Wars: Novo Nordisk vs Eli Lilly
Dr. John Wilding
Professor of Diabetes & Endocrinology
Nuclear SMR Economics: NuScale's Path to Certification
John Hopkins
CEO
Nuclear Nuclear Renaissance: Why Big Tech is Betting on Fission
Bridget van Dorsten
Energy Analyst
Nuclear The World Bank Lifts Its Nuclear Ban: What It Means
Sama Bilbao y León
Director General
Nuclear TerraPower's NRC Construction Permit: A Milestone
Chris Levesque
CEO
Nuclear Uranium Markets: Pricing, Supply, and the Fuel Cycle
Nick Touran
Nuclear Engineer
Nuclear Nuclear vs Data Centers: Powering the AI Boom
Jake Jurewicz
CEO & Co-founder
Nuclear Prefab Nuclear: Blue Energy's Factory-Built Reactors
Jake Jurewicz
CEO & Co-founder
Nuclear China's Nuclear Buildout: 10 Reactors Per Year
Andrew Meehan
Nuclear Policy Analyst
Nuclear Nuclear Restart: Bringing Decommissioned Plants Back Online
Regis Matzie
Nuclear Consultant
Nuclear The UK's SMR Bet: Rolls-Royce Wins Big
Tom Samson
CEO
Energy Storage Iron-Air Batteries at Scale: Form Energy's 100-Hour Storage
Mateo Jaramillo
CEO & Co-founder
Energy Storage The 50 GW Milestone: US Storage Market Update 2026
Anna Darmani
Principal Analyst
Energy Storage Sodium-Ion Batteries: The Cheap Alternative to Lithium
Marek Kubik
Energy Storage Expert
Energy Storage Grid Storage as Transmission: A New Paradigm
Peter Kelly-Detwiler
Energy Analyst & Host
Energy Storage Data Center Batteries: On-Site Storage for AI Loads
Noah Roberts
Executive Director
Energy Storage China's 65 GWh Month: The Global Storage Arms Race
Tim Montague
Solar & Storage Analyst
Energy Storage Solar-Plus-Storage: Why Half of All Solar Now Ships With Batteries
Shawn Shaw
CEO & Author
Energy Storage Long-Duration Storage: Beyond 4 Hours to 100 Hours
Dan Shobert
Energy Storage Analyst
Energy Storage Battery Safety: NFPA 855 and the 0.3% Fire Rate
Paul Rogers
Fire Protection Engineer
Robotics Humanoid Robots: Figure 03 and the $30K Production Mile
Brett Adcock
Founder & CEO
Robotics Tesla Optimus Gen 3: From Demo to Factory Floor
Lars Moravy
Director of Robotics Engineering
Robotics The Humanoid Boom: China's State-Backed Push to Dominate
Boris Sofman
Robotics Engineer & Analyst
Robotics Warehouse Automation: Tote-to-Person and Multi-Agent Orchestration
John Santagate
Founder & Principal Consultant
Robotics Embodied AI: When Robots Learn Like Children
Dr. Pieter Abbeel
Professor & Co-founder
Robotics iRobot's Bankruptcy: What Went Wrong in Consumer Robotics
Colin Angle
Former CEO & Co-founder
Robotics Boston Dynamics and the Atlas Transition: Electric Hydraulics
Robert Playter
CEO
Robotics Dexterous Manipulation: The Last Frontier of Robotics
Dr. Ken Goldberg
Professor of Industrial Engineering
Robotics Agricultural Robots: Autonomous Farming at Scale
Jorge Heraud
CEO & Co-founder
Robotics Surgical Robotics: Beyond da Vinci to Autonomous Procedures
Dr. Fred Moll
Founder & Chief Development Officer
AV Waymo's 15-City Expansion: Robotaxi Unit Economics
Tekedra Mawakana
Co-CEO
AV 2026: The Year of the Robotaxi
Alex Gunz
Future Trends Analyst
AV End-to-End AI Driving: Wayve and Waabi's $2B Bet
Alex Kendall
CEO & Co-founder
AV Mercedes Drive Pilot L3: The Autonomous Highway Reality
Markus Schäfer
CTO & Board Member
AV NVIDIA Powers Uber: The Trillion-Dollar Self-Driving Stack
Gary Lapidus
AV Industry Analyst
AV Autonomous Trucking: Dallas to Houston Without a Driver
Raquel Urtasun
CEO & Founder
AV Zoox: The Purpose-Built Robotaxi Hits the Streets
Aicha Evans
CEO
AV AV Regulation: The Federal vs State Patchwork
Pat Tsen
Deputy Executive Director
AV Autonomous Delivery: DoorDash, Drones, and Sidewalk Robots
Ashu Rege
VP of Autonomous Technology
AV When Robotaxis Fail: Waymo's Flood Pause and Edge Cases
Alain Kornhauser
Professor & Host, Smart Driving Cars
Quantum The 1,000-Qubit Era: IBM's Condor and Beyond
Jay Gambetta
VP, Quantum Computing
Quantum Has Quantum Advantage Been Achieved? The Great Debate
Dominik Hangleiter
Ambizione Fellow
Quantum Quantum Meets AI: Allies Not Competitors
Celia Merzbacher
Executive Director
Quantum The Road to 40,000 Logical Qubits by 2030
Paul Terry
CEO
Quantum Q-Day: When Quantum Breaks the Internet's Encryption
Marc Yoder
Field CISO
Quantum Quantum Sensing: The Most Underrated Quantum Technology
Dr. Jun Ye
Physicist & Fellow
Quantum Quantum Chemistry: Simulating Molecules That Classical Computers Can't
Bert de Jong
Senior Scientist
Quantum Quantum Funding: The Series A/B Gap
Kris Naudts
Co-founder
Quantum The Quantum Marathon: Why We're Still at the Start
Andre Koenig
Quantum Researcher & Commentator
Quantum Programming Quantum Computers: Will AI Be the Interface?
Robert Wille
Professor & CEO
AI The 100K GPU Cluster: Inside xAI's Memphis Supercomputer
Greg Yang
Co-founder & SVP Engineering
AI Autonomous Weapons: The Ethics of AI in Warfare
Paul Scharre
Executive VP & Director of Studies
Space Blue Origin New Glenn: Finally Orbiting
Jarrett Jones
SVP, New Glenn
Quantum The Quantum Workforce: Who Owns the Quantum Plan?
Brad Pollard
Field CTO
Biotech Women's Health and ARPA-H: Reimagining Maternal Care
Dr. Renee Wegrzyn
Director
Nuclear Oklo's Fast Reactor: The Aurora Houseplant Power Plant
Jacob DeWitte
CEO & Co-founder
AV May Mobility's Robotaxi Deal: Geofenced Autonomy at Work
Edwin Olson
CEO & Founder
Nuclear X-Energy's IPO and the Advanced Reactor Investment Landscape
Clay Sell
CEO
Energy Storage Behind the Meter: Google's $4.75B Solar-Storage Acquisition
Shawn Shaw
CEO & Author
BCI Precision Neuroscience: The BCI That Maps the Brain in 15 Minutes
Ben Rapoport
CEO & Co-founder
Energy Storage FEOC Compliance: The $100/kWh Chinese Battery Dilemma
John Weaver
Energy Storage Analyst
Fusion The Future of Fusion: A 2027 Outlook Panel
Dr. Melanie Windridge
Fusion Communicator & Physicist
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