The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)
Machine learning and artificial intelligence are dramatically changing the way businesses operate and people live.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 5
- Latest publication
- Sep 1, 2026
- Audience
- Apple #138 · US
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- Jul 8, 2026
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World Models and the Future of Spatial AI with Justin Johnson - #775 (opens the original)
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In this episode, Justin Johnson, co-founder of World Labs, joins us to discuss world models and the emerging field of spatial AI. We explore why many researchers see capabilities beyond language as an important frontier for AI, and what it means to build models that can understand, generate, and simulate the environments around them. Justin explains the different approaches to world modeling, including explicit 3D representations and generative models, and why there is still no established recip
Why the Next AI Breakthrough May Come from Physics with Max Welling - #774 (opens the original)
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The conventional wisdom in AI is that the next breakthrough will come from more compute, more data, and larger models. But what if the next leap comes from somewhere else? In this episode, Max Welling—co-founder and CTO of CuspAI and professor at the University of Amsterdam—argues that physics may provide some of the ideas behind the next generation of AI systems. We begin with CuspAI’s work using generative AI to design entirely new materials for semiconductors, batteries, carbon capture, and c
Why Image Generation Needs More Than Bigger Models with Fatih Porikli - #773 (opens the original)
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Text-to-image models have become remarkably good at producing realistic images. But realism isn’t the same as correctness. Ask for several distinct people, a specific composition, or a high-resolution image generated locally, and today’s models still struggle in surprising ways. In this episode, Fatih Porikli, Vice President of Technology at Qualcomm, joins me to discuss what remains unsolved in image generation and several approaches his team presented at CVPR to address those challenges. We ex
Why Models Are AI’s Next Training Dataset with Damian Borth - #772 (opens the original)
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For more than a decade, AI has advanced by training ever-larger models on ever-larger datasets. But as high-quality training data becomes harder to find and pretraining grows increasingly expensive, researchers are looking for new ways to keep foundation models improving. In this episode, Damian Borth, professor of AI and machine learning at the University of St. Gallen, argues we’ve been overlooking an important source of knowledge: the models we’ve already trained. His group’s work on weight s
How AI Learns to Smell with Alex Wiltschko - #771 (opens the original)
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In this episode, Alex Wiltschko, founder and CEO of Osmo, joins the show to discuss his goal of giving computers a sense of smell and what it takes to build olfactory intelligence. We explore the science behind smell, from the hundreds of olfactory receptors in the human nose to the challenge of mapping the relationship between molecular structure and odor, ensuring safety regulations are met, and building foundation models for smell. Alex explains how graph neural networks and advanced embeddin
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