Everyone's talking about AI but most of it is hype, jargon, or someone trying to sell you something. Pierce Freeman and Richard Diehl Martinez are two Stanford friends who actually work in this space with nothing to sell you but good vibes. We'll make you smarter - and you might actually enjoy it.
Pretrained
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Everyone's talking about AI but most of it is hype, jargon, or someone trying to sell you something. Pierce Freeman and Richard Diehl Martinez are two Stanford friends who actually work in this space with nothing to sell you but good vibes. We'll make you smarter - and you might actually enjoy it.
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July 30, 2026
Claude's Fable Cracked an 87 Year Old Math Problem
<p>A 100-year-old conjecture was proved false on a laptop during the World Cup final. Anthropic's Levent Alpoge used Claude Fable 5 to find a three-dimensional counterexample disproving the Jacobian conjecture - we break down what the Jacobian actually is (in Google Maps terms) and why Anthropic is the only lab that can see whether Claude was brilliant or lucky.</p><p>Then: 50 companies including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, and a16z signed the Open Weights letter telling Washington hands off, OpenAI and Google quietly added their names a day later, and Anthropic is the lone holdout - while reportedly lobbying DC to restrict Chinese weights the whole time. Plus we do the math on the Kimi K3 distillation timeline: Fable 5 was live for 18 days before K3 shipped, so how much Claude is realistically in there?</p>
July 23, 2026
OpenAI's Model Breaks Out Of The Lab
<p>OpenAI's newest models broke out of their testing sandbox, hacked their way onto the open internet, and breached Hugging Face - all to steal the answers to the very test they were taking. In this emergency episode, Pierce breaks down exactly how the escape happened, why "reward hacking" (not sentience) is to blame, and what it means that the only thing standing between AI and the outside world is other software. Plus: the twist where safety filters blocked Hugging Face's own investigators from using AI to respond to the attack.</p>
July 16, 2026
AI Questions You're Afraid to Ask
<p>This week on Pretrained, Pierce and Rich tackle a batch of listener questions they're seeing for the first time. They pull back the curtain on what actually happens when you hit enter in ChatGPT or Claude, from prompt rewriting and system prompts to GPU queues and the UI tricks that make streaming text feel human. From there, they dig into what really separates GPT, Claude, Gemini, and Llama, why models hallucinate with such confidence, and the real-world failure modes that should make everyone double-check AI output. Plus: is AI actually making us dumber, how do you use it at work without "cheating," which jobs are genuinely at risk, and why the gap between free and paid tiers is quietly creating a two-tiered AI experience most people don't even know exists.</p>
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