The Neuron: AI Explained
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The Neuron is a daily newsletter with 700,000+ readers that covers the latest AI developments, trends and research; this is our podcast, hosted by Grant Harvey and Corey Noles. We aim to create digestible, informative and authoritative takes on AI that get you up to speed and help you become an authority in your own circles. Available Wednesdays and Sundays on all podcasting platforms and YouTube.
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May 8, 2026 • 2h 3min
BONUS: The AI Starter Kit: What to Try...and What to Ignore
A practical beginner’s roadmap to where to start with AI and what to skip for now. Live demos show creative tools, project folders, and adding files so AI actually uses your context. Hands-on walkthroughs cover Copilot, multi-model comparison, no-code agents, reusable skills, and when to automate. Quick tips on prompting, troubleshooting, and avoiding common model biases.
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May 6, 2026 • 42min
Can AI Really Design New Drugs? Google DeepMind Spin-out Isomorphic Labs Explains
Michael Schaarschmidt, foundational AI research lead building large-scale models for protein structure and binding. Rebecca Paul, head of medicinal drug design applying models to medicinal chemistry. They discuss why drug discovery is slow and costly. They explain limits of “generate a molecule and ship it.” They cover structure prediction, binding models, model confidence, and hopes for targeting previously undruggable proteins.
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May 1, 2026 • 1h 24min
BONUS: OpenAI Workspace Agents 101: Build, Run, and Scale AI Workflows
A hands-on walkthrough of OpenAI’s new Workspace Agents and how they plug into team workflows. Demos cover building email-summarizers, newsletter processors, and a pizza-ordering flow. Discussion of connectors, scheduling, multi-account setups, model and cost tradeoffs, testing pitfalls, and publishing custom integrations for repeatable AI-powered processes.
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Apr 29, 2026 • 39min
How Google's New AI Turns Anyone Into a Music Producer (Flow Music Demo)
Kendall Rankin, a product leader who joined Flow Music after a startup acquisition and now leads demos at Google. They demo the producer agent’s agentic workflow, build a garage-rock song live, iterate mixes and lyrics, explore custom instruments and Spaces, show music-video generation with VEO, and discuss watermarking (SynthID) and how Flow fits into artist workflows.
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Apr 25, 2026 • 1h 40min
BONUS: GPT 5.5 LIVE - The New GPT "Spud" Model is Here; Let's Break It
They unpack what GPT-5.5 claims to improve and how the rollout and access are unfolding. Live stress tests target coding, Codex-driven game building, and messy multi-step research tasks. Creative experiments include palindrome trials, time-travel potato thought experiments, and a dystopian vending machine persuasion test. Comparative benchmarking versus other large models and token-efficiency implications are highlighted.
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Apr 17, 2026 • 1h 2min
BONUS: LIVE: Claude Opus 4.7 Just Dropped. Here's What Actually Changed.
A live deep-dive into Claude Opus 4.7’s new capabilities for coding, game development, and multimodal vision. They test high-effort agent runs, file-system memory across sessions, and Claude Code tooling on a Final Fantasy Tactics–style project. Discussion covers tokenizer and token-usage changes, long-context tradeoffs, and practical workflows for mixing models and conserving tokens.
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Apr 15, 2026 • 1h 3min
This Company Mapped the Entire World in 3D. Here's Why.
Peter Wilczynski, Chief Product Officer at Vantor and veteran builder of mapping and spatial-intelligence systems. He explains how a 3D global model was built and kept up to date. They cover turning pixels into machine-readable maps, grounding simulations in real-world data, continuous map versioning, compressed on-device maps for GPS resilience, and AR plus agent/robot uses of a zoomable digital globe.
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Apr 12, 2026 • 56min
He Got 1 Million Followers in 30 Days—Here's How AI Changed Everything
Brandon Baum, aka heybrandonb, is a filmmaker and YouTube creator who built cinematic, effects-driven work using iPhones and DIY rigs. He discusses growing to a million followers fast, shooting on iPhone with custom hardware, replacing Post-its with Adobe Firefly Boards, building AI agents to handle admin, and seeding original IP on social before taking projects to theaters.
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Apr 10, 2026 • 1h 59min
BONUS: We Built an App Live in 10 Minutes with AI (Vercel's CPO Shows How)
Tom Occhino, Chief Product Officer at Vercel and former React contributor, walks through building apps with v0, Vercel’s AI-powered development platform. He demos live text-to-app creation, explains vibe coding in practice, and shows connecting data, security defaults, and publishing workflows. The conversation covers model choices, GitHub integration, design edits, and how teams use AI-assisted development.
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Apr 8, 2026 • 47min
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI
Ioannis Antonoglou, co-founder and CTO of Reflection AI and former DeepMind researcher behind AlphaGo, explains why Reflection is releasing open-weight frontier agent models. He discusses mixture-of-experts architecture, reinforcement learning for agent capabilities, open models as sovereign alternatives, and how open weights enable developers to run, fine-tune, and build powerful agentic systems.
