Episodes 24
Avg. Duration 41m
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Since Jul 2020
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Going beyond AI headlines with the researchers, founders, and investors shaping what comes next.

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Talent Flows in AI

Jun 03, 2026 40m

Yvonne Likomanova, Senior Director of Talent at Radical Ventures, digs into what's really driving the AI talent flows. Drawing on a career that spans Stripe, Cruise, Applied Intuition, Yvonne shares…

Building-AI Native Advertising

May 06, 2026 39m

Michael Rubenstein, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Firsthand, joins Radical's Molly Welch to dig into what's broken in digital advertising — a trillion-dollar-plus industry that AI isn't just improving,…

Powering the AI Era

Apr 22, 2026 51m

Varun Sivaram, Founder & CEO of Emerald AI, joins Radical Partners Molly Welch and Rob Toews to explore what's actually holding back AI infrastructure. While the conversation around AI…

Building an AI-Native Startup

Mar 25, 2026 34m

When Ori Eldarov started Offdeal, he wasn't thinking about AI as a productivity hack. He was thinking about what it would take for a small team to compete with firms that had been doing this for…

Radical Talks, Masterclass Edition: Arsham Ghahramani on Understanding the Venture Mindset

Feb 25, 2026 43m

Arsham Ghahramani, CEO and Co-Founder of Ribbon, joins Radical Partner Sanjana Basu to unpack fundraising from the founder’s side of the table. With a PhD in AI focused on cancer research and early…

Radical Talks, Masterclass Edition: Jim Fan on The Future of Robotics and Embodied AI

Feb 11, 2026 44m

Jim Fan, Director and Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA, joins Radical Partner Molly Welch to explore what's holding back embodied AI and robotics. While large language models have advanced…

Beyond Chips: Rare Earth Magnets and the Future of AI Infrastructure

Jan 21, 2026 29m

John Maslin, CEO and Co-Founder of Vulcan Elements, joins Radical Partner Molly Welch to unpack the overlooked physical infrastructure behind AI. While chips dominate most conversations, John…

Radical Talks, Masterclass Edition: Jonathan Frankle on the Future of Enterprise AI

Jan 07, 2026 53m

Databricks Chief AI Scientist Jonathan Frankle joins Radical Partner Vin Sachidananda for a special conversation from Radical Ventures’ AI Masterclass Series. Together, they explore what it takes to…

The Collaboration that Built Modern AI

Dec 17, 2025 54m

The story of modern AI cannot be told without Geoffrey Hinton and Jeff Dean. In this special episode of Radical Talks, recorded live at NeurIPS, the longtime collaborators and friends join Radical…

Radical Talks, Masterclass Edition: Joelle Pineau on Turning AI Research into Real World Impact

Dec 03, 2025 38m

Joelle Pineau is one of the architects behind modern AI — and as Chief AI Officer at Cohere, she’s focused on turning breakthrough research into real-world impact. In this special episode of Radical…

Fei-Fei Li on Building Spatial Intelligence

Nov 19, 2025 25m

Fei-Fei Li, renowned AI researcher and CEO and Co-founder of World Labs, is pushing the field toward its next frontier: spatial intelligence. Fresh off the commercial launch of Marble — World Labs’…

Radical Talks, Masterclass Edition: WRITER CEO May Habib on Full-Stack Enterprise AI

Nov 06, 2025 35m

May Habib co-founded WRITER in 2020 after previously co-founding a localization startup, bringing her longtime passion for language technology to enterprise AI. Under her leadership as CEO, WRITER…

Purpose-Driven Innovation at Palantir

Oct 23, 2025 52m

The following post is based on the latest Radical Talks episode with host Molly Welch, Partner at Radical Ventures, and featuring Ted Mabrey, Head of Palantir Commercial. Listen to the podcast on…

RL Renaissance

Oct 09, 2025 41m

Radical Partners Molly Welch and Aaron Rosenberg are joined by General Reasoning Co-founder and CEO Ross Taylor to discuss the AI approach powering today's reasoning revolution: reinforcement…

Building the Physical World's First AI Engineer

Sep 24, 2025 25m

The AI revolution is changing nearly every industry, from software to content creation, yet one crucial area remains largely untouched: the design of physical things. While AI is great at…

Voice AI's Enterprise Revolution - How Natural Conversation is Transforming Recruiting and Beyond

Sep 10, 2025 37m

While consumer voice AI has long frustrated users with clunky interactions, enterprise voice AI has reached a turning point. The architectural improvements over the past 12-18 months have enabled…

Rob Toews on Overcoming AI's Catastrophic Forgetting

Aug 27, 2025 30m

In this week's Radical Talks podcast, Radical Partner Rob Toews joins host Molly Welch to discuss AI’s curse of catastrophic forgetting and the challenge of building systems capable of continual…

A New Season of Radical Talks

Aug 20, 2025 1m Trailer

Coming soon, Radical Talks cuts through AI hype to showcase what's truly driving innovation. Hosted by Radical Ventures partner Molly Welch, each episode features intimate conversations with…

Geoffrey Hinton in conversation with Fei-Fei Li

Oct 08, 2024 1h 38m

In honour of Geoffrey Hinton winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, we bring you an exclusive Radical AI Founders Masterclass talk between, Geoffrey Hinton and Fei-Fei Li, hosted and moderated by Jordan…

Alison Gopnik: AIs need moms

Jun 16, 2021 43m

In the same paper where Alan Turing outlined his famous criteria for determining when a computer is capable of thinking like a human being, he also shared advice on building a device that might one…

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