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Steve Hsu · 169 episodes with transcripts

Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Join him for wide-ranging conversations with leading writers, scientists, technologists, academics, entrepreneurs, investors, and more.

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AI Boom or Bust? – #122

October 8, 2026

Steve Hsu (0:03)

This message is for some friends at Mechanize, a startup that builds environments for training and evaluating frontier LLMs. Its customers include the top AI labs, and it has contributed to the breakthrough encoding capabilities of frontier models. Mechanize is hiring. See the links in the show notes. Compensation…

Mechanize understands that my readership and my listenership on this podcast is highly selected. There is a very good chance you will be interviewed if you apply via the link in the show notes.

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