Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

🔬“We have foundation models for language, not for physics” — Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor of Computing

Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

Show Notes

A few years ago, Caltech Prof. and co-founder of Accelerated Understanding, Anima Anandkumar set out to develop the first open-source weather model with AI. Talking to experts in the field, she was met with skepticism. Weather is chaotic, physics simul...

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