The best AI podcasts in 2026, ranked.
The AI podcasts we follow every week, from builders and researchers to the investors funding them. Each one is ranked by how often its episodes fed our newsletters over the last 12 weeks.
Best AI Podcasts, 2026
- 1
No Priors
Hosted by Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
10 of 10 episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4 · 5.0 write-ups per episode
Recent takeaway: Hyperscaler ASICs like Google TPU, Meta MTIA, Microsoft Maia, and OpenAI Jalapeno rarely offer differentiated computational performance over Nvidia or AMD. Read the write-up
- 2
Dwarkesh Podcast
Hosted by Dwarkesh Patel
6 of 6 episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4 · 4.5 write-ups per episode
Recent takeaway: Small Spanish forces collapsed massive Aztec and Inca empires within a few years by capturing their supreme leaders, instantly paralyzing their central command chains. Read the write-up
- 3
20VC with Harry Stebbings
Hosted by Harry Stebbings
16 of 21 episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4 · 4.8 write-ups per episode
Recent takeaway: Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller disputes the popular claim that modern AI data centers drain local reservoirs, pointing to closed-loop liquid cooling designs. Read the write-up
- 4
How I AI
Hosted by Claire Vo
11 of 14 episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4 · 4.9 write-ups per episode
Recent takeaway: OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Spaces at DevDay 2026 as a shared environment for documents, slides, and HTML artifacts where humans and software agents work together. Read the write-up
- 5
Practical AI
Hosted by Daniel Whitenack and Chris Benson
3 of 3 episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4 · 4.7 write-ups per episode
Recent takeaway: Physical AI refers strictly to models deployed on physical devices that perturb the physical state of the environment to produce tangible, material results. Read the write-up
- 6
Latent Space
Hosted by swyx and Alessio Fanelli
14 of 22 episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4 · 4.6 write-ups per episode
Recent takeaway: Google possesses massive TPU capacity, yet internal teams like DeepMind have less dedicated R&D compute than OpenAI and Anthropic. Read the write-up
- 7
Lenny's Podcast
Hosted by Lenny Rachitsky
12 of 22 episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4 · 4.8 write-ups per episode
Recent takeaway: Feature lists mislead teams because consumers hire products to solve hyper-specific emotional and physical problems. Read the write-up
- 8
TBPN
Hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays
20 of 42 episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4 · 4.6 write-ups per episode
Recent takeaway: MongoDB expanded its growth trajectory by shifting to Atlas, its managed cloud service that bills customers directly for consumption rather than selling static licenses. Read the write-up
- 9
All-In Podcast
Hosted by Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks and David Friedberg
12 of 23 episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4 · 4.5 write-ups per episode
Recent takeaway: Institutional LPs reject celebrity-led funds because backing famous talent creates direct career risk for the investment officer if the fund fails. Read the write-up
How we rank
We write up every episode of the shows we cover. Over the 12 weeks to Oct 4, that came to 298 episodes from 30 shows, and we published 24 newsletters (The Throughline and The Carry). A show ranks higher when more of its episodes had ideas that made one of those newsletters.
The score is the share of a show's episodes that made a newsletter, adjusted so a show with only a few episodes needs a higher share to rank high (3 of 3 counts for less than 10 of 10). A show needs at least two episodes in the window to be ranked. The order updates every time the site rebuilds, and the window moves forward each Sunday. Nobody pays to be on this list, and it only includes shows we cover.
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What are the best AI podcasts in 2026?
By our data, the top of the list is No Priors, Dwarkesh Podcast and 20VC with Harry Stebbings. The ranking counts how often each show's episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4.
How is this list ranked?
By the share of each show's episodes whose ideas made The Throughline or The Carry, adjusted so a show with only a few episodes needs a higher share to rank high.