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Frontier Systems is where the people building the future of AI explain what they're working on. Our flagship show airs live every Friday from 12–1pm PT, with Anjney Midha and Mike Abbott taking real-time questions from the community alongside a weekly special guest - researchers, operators, investors, policymakers, and founders shaping the frontier.
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S1E5 Prithvi Rajasekaran of Anthropic - Office Hours, Episode 5
This week, Anjney sits down with Prithvi Rajasekaran, a member of Anthropic's labs team and author of a recent post on harness design for long-running coding agents. The conversation ranges across…
S1E4 Reiner Pope of MatX - Office Hours, Episode 4
This week, Anjney Midha and Mike Abbott are joined by Reiner Pope, CEO and co-founder of MatX, who spent a decade at Google - chip design for neural nets on the TPU team, then writing the inference…
S1E3 Anastasios Angelopoulos of Arena - Office Hours, Episode 3
This week, Arena co-founder and CEO Dr. Anastasios Angelopoulos discusses how a Berkeley side project became the gold-standard evaluation platform used by every frontier lab. He explains that…
S1E2 Amanda Askell of Anthropic - Office Hours, Episode 2
This week, Anthropic's Amanda Askell discusses her work making Claude "good"—a journey that took her from a philosophy PhD in formal ethics and decision theory to leading character and alignment work…
S1E1 Anjney Midha and Mike Abbott - Office Hours, Episode 1
In this inaugural livestream, Anjney Midha and Mike Abbott field rapid-fire questions covering the AI compute and infrastructure landscape. They discuss how scaling laws continue to hold in…
S1E6 Ben Horowitz from a16z on Venture Capital Systems, Network Effects, and Culture in the AI Era
Anjney Midha welcomes Ben Horowitz, rewinding to the 2009 founding of Andreessen Horowitz as a venture capital “systems” innovation. Horowitz explains building a better product for entrepreneurs,…
Scott Nolan from General Matter on Energy Bottlenecks
In a CS 153 Frontier Systems lecture, the class zooms out from AI model labs to examine energy and electricity as upstream bottlenecks to compute and data center growth, intensified since ChatGPT’s…
S1E5 Nikhyl Singhal from Skip on Product Management in the AI Era
In a CS 153 guest lecture, Professor Mike Abbott shifts from technical topics to product, tracing how software moved from PRD-driven project management to founder-led consumer product building, and…
S1E4 Amit Jain from Luma AI on Unified Intelligence Systems
In week three of CS 153, the instructor hosts Amit Jain from Luma to discuss “Unified Intelligence Systems” as a follow-up to a prior lecture on visual intelligence. Jain recounts his Apple work on…
S1E3 Andreas Blattmann from Black Forest Labs on Frontier Visual Intelligence Systems
In this CS 153 “Frontier Systems” session, Anjney Midha welcomes Andreas Blattmann, co-founder of Black Forest Labs and co-creator of Stable Diffusion, for a discussion on the visual intelligence…
S1E2 Mati Staniszewski from ElevenLabs on The Future of Voice Systems
In week two of CS 153 ("AI Coachella"), Anjney Midha interviews Mati Staniszewski, founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, tracing the company’s origins from an early Discord text-to-speech bot to a…
S1E2 CS 153 '26: Frontier Systems - Mati Staniszewski, ElevenLabs
Guest lecture from ElevenLabs CEO and Co-Founder Mati Staniszewski.
S1E1 CS 153 '26: Frontier Systems - Anjney Midha, AMP PBC
Kickoff to CS 153 Spring 2026 Frontier Systems.
S1E1 Anjney Midha from AMP PBC on Frontier Systems
Anjney Midha opens the quarter of Stanford’s CS 153 Frontier Systems by framing the course as a speaker-led “AI Coachella,” emphasizing relationships, fun, and “obsessing over what you love” as a…
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Frontier Systems has published 5 episodes since April 2026, covering topics in Technology.
Frontier Systems is currently active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 58m.
