Latent Space podcast
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People recommend it for in-depth interviews with AI industry guests and for keeping up with the engineering behind large language models.
People recommend it for in-depth interviews with AI industry guests and for keeping up with the engineering behind large language models.
15 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 15
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 8 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 15 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 8 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Deep dives with AI industry guests
“thank you for listening!! team works hard on it. Jeff was an absolute bucket list GOAT to have on the show”
Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “OpenAI Should Build Slack” “OT latent space podcast is great, most recently interview with jeff dean. Worth a listen”
Comment from 14 Feb 2026 in “OpenAI Should Build Slack” “Minimal fluff, great guest list and very relevant.”
Comment from 8 Jul 2026 in “Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2026 [So Far]” - Comment from 29 Dec 2025 in “Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?”
- Comment from 15 Oct 2026 in “We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers”
Keeps up with fast-moving LLM engineering
“Absolutely essential for keeping up with the breakneck speed of LLMs and the actual engineering behind them.”
Comment from 26 Feb 2026 in “What podcasts are you listening to?” “Between /r/LocalLlama and the ThursdAI and Latent Space newsletters, I'm at most only a few days away”
Comment from 9 Apr 2026 in “EFF is leaving X” Good episodes worth a listen
“OT latent space podcast is great, most recently interview with jeff dean. Worth a listen”
Comment from 14 Feb 2026 in “OpenAI Should Build Slack” “it’s worth a watch even with the click baiti thumbnail and title”
Comment from 9 May 2026 in “A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro” “have all had some good episodes this year”
Comment from 28 Dec 2025 in “Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?” - Comment from 26 Feb 2026 in “What podcasts are you listening to?”
Minimal fluff, relevant to practitioners
“Absolutely essential for keeping up with the breakneck speed of LLMs and the actual engineering behind them.”
Comment from 26 Feb 2026 in “What podcasts are you listening to?” “Minimal fluff, great guest list and very relevant.”
Comment from 8 Jul 2026 in “Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2026 [So Far]”
Other podcasts people recommend
The four most recommended other podcasts, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dwarkesh Podcast | 29 | 8 | 78% | 9 | — | Approved |
| Oxide and Friends | 26 | 3 | 90% | 10 | — | Approved |
| Acquired podcast | 25 | 0 | 100% | 11 | — | Approved |
| Behind the Bastards podcast | 18 | 1 | 95% | 11 | — | Approved |
| Latent Space podcastThis page | 15 | 0 | 100% | 8 | — | Approved |
What people said
11 of the 16 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Listen to Diogo's episode on Latent Space.”
“Minimal fluff, great guest list and very relevant.”
“it’s worth a watch even with the click baiti thumbnail and title”
“Between /r/LocalLlama and the ThursdAI and Latent Space newsletters, I'm at most only a few days away”
“Absolutely essential for keeping up with the breakneck speed of LLMs and the actual engineering behind them.”
“Latent Space gets a lot of play from me.”
“thank you for listening!! team works hard on it. Jeff was an absolute bucket list GOAT to have on the show”
“OT latent space podcast is great, most recently interview with jeff dean. Worth a listen”
“I really enjoyed meeting them and was impressed by the sheer ambition of the AI for Science effort at OAI”
“for deep dives with different AI industry guests”
“have all had some good episodes this year”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.