Lex Fridman Podcast

AI systems reportedly cracked several famous open problems, and mathematicians weigh what remains for human researchers to…

Oct 26, 2026 03:42:39 164 min read 22 views

Ice-pick lobotomies and insulin comas were once hailed as breakthroughs, and their failures still shape psychiatry today.

Sep 17, 2026 03:43:50 134 min read 20 views

A former undefeated UFC champion explains how a mountain village and a strict father forged a mindset built on refusing to lose.

Aug 12, 2026 03:19:52 130 min read 15 views

Why producing a single gram of antimatter could take a billion years, and what that reveals about the limits of current physics.

May 29, 2026 03:01:51 130 min read 14 views

Why a free video tool and a volunteer codec library quietly power most of the video you watch online.

May 6, 2026 04:23:40 189 min read 16 views

A Viking raid on a remote island in 793 sent shockwaves across Britain, and the sea-going warriors who followed reshaped…

Apr 9, 2026 02:09:56 88 min read 17 views

Why NVIDIA rebuilt its chips into whole AI factories, and how CUDA on gaming GPUs became the company's biggest bet.

Mar 23, 2026 02:32:13 98 min read 22 views

A guitarist who learned his first solo by ear explains why some ears can name every note, and how training yours can change…

Mar 1, 2026 02:42:26 116 min read 17 views

An hour-long prototype grew into GitHub's fastest-growing project, raising hard questions about AI agent security.

Feb 12, 2026 03:25:50 127 min read 18 views

Chinese open-weight models are catching up fast, scaling laws still hold, but what they mean for AGI is far from settled.

Feb 1, 2026 04:39:51 220 min read 17 views

A night-long boat ride, a tense beach standoff and arrows flying from the forest: inside the fight to protect one of the…

Jan 13, 2026 03:14:26 150 min read 17 views

Some infinities are bigger than others, and that discovery reshaped mathematics from paradoxes to unprovable truths.

Dec 31, 2025 04:05:45 169 min read 13 views

A clay tablet tells a flood story older than Noah, and its blueprint for a round boat, tested in a replica.

Dec 12, 2025 02:14:13 93 min read 13 views

A sorting algorithm that keeps its own clusters without being told to, and what that suggests about where minds might hide.

Nov 30, 2025 03:27:39 162 min read 13 views

Fusion fuel can be drawn from seawater, and one reactor design aims to turn plasma energy directly into electricity.

Nov 17, 2025 02:45:21 125 min read 11 views

How open-world games learned to feel alive, from reactive cities to characters players can believe in and grow attached to.

Oct 31, 2025 02:54:01 133 min read 16 views

Most people are capable of terrible acts, and the reasons behind murder are often far more ordinary than true crime shows suggest.

Oct 14, 2025 02:48:50 132 min read 15 views

How a messaging app built on refusing to hand over private data grew into a profitable platform used by over a billion people.

Oct 1, 2025 04:42:36 155 min read 18 views

A cheap stimulant sold in German pharmacies in the late 1930s may have shaped the speed of the Blitzkrieg, according to new…

Sep 19, 2025 04:31:20 188 min read 16 views

How a Tyrannosaurus rex likely moved and hunted, and why juvenile dinosaurs may have been its easiest prey.

Sep 4, 2025 03:41:54 171 min read 15 views