Issue No. 44Week ending Sunday, November 1, 2026686 episodes · 3021 articles
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Anjney Midha

Anjney Midha appears in 4 full episodes we cover on Latent Space and TBPN. Below is what each conversation covered, with a key takeaway per article. Every quote in the articles is verbatim and timestamped to the source video.

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BusinessTBPN

Muse Wonder, Anjney Sizes Up, Neal Stephenson Joins, Social Reckoning Review, Eli Manning Live

John Coogan and Jordi Hays discuss Meta's Muse Wonder release and the critique of Aaron Sorkin's tech film 'The Social Reckoning'. They are joined by guests covering Zurich Asset Management's $100 billion Grid Trust com…

  • Jack Goldberg argues that gathering 10 people in a physical room on a Tuesday night is harder, and vastly more valuable, than getting 10 million views on an internet video. Read →
  • Jeff Holden emerged from stealth with Atomic Machines after securing $250 million to build a matter compiler. Read →
AILatent Space

The $10 Trillion Token Economy — Alex Atallah, OpenRouter & Anjney Midha, AMP

OpenRouter co-founder Alex Atallah and AMP founder and CEO Anjney Midha, a former a16z general partner, join swyx to discuss the explosive rise of multi-model routing, the developer infrastructure required beyond model…

  • Early venture capitalists dismissed OpenRouter as a thin wrapper on third-party APIs, assuming scaling laws would create a single Google-style model monopoly. Read →
  • AI research labs routinely spend billions of dollars on training checkpoints, only to face dead silence on launch day because raw weights lack basic developer endpoints. Read →
  • In early 2024, OpenRouter built and deleted "Mixture of Models" (MoM) because combining outputs produced worse answers than simply querying the single best frontier model. Read →
AILatent Space

Why AI Labs With Unlimited GPUs Still Fail — Anjney Midha, AMP

In this episode, Anjney Midha, CEO of Amp, discusses why many AI labs struggle despite abundant resources, attributing failures to a lack of culture and organizational alignment. He advocates for responsible, iterative…

  • Anjney Midha said his understanding is that up to 20% of US data centers this year are at risk of not getting the community support they need, and added that the figure may be ove… Read →
  • Anjney Midha argues that AI can deliver "orders of magnitude more precise" end-of-life predictions than human physicians, who currently offer wide error bars like "6 months to 6 y… Read →
  • Venture capitalists often box top researchers into non-leadership roles, missing their inherent capacity to be effective CEOs, according to Anjney Midha of Amp. Read →
BusinessTBPN

FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

Anjney Midha joins John Coogan and Jordi Hays to discuss his analysis of Ryan Cohen's potential eBay acquisition, highlighting the strategic value of GameStop's physical stores for AI-powered fraud prevention in high-va…

  • Anjney Midha's AMP Foundry is attacking bottlenecks in frontier progress by applying the 'bitter lesson' of AI to scientific discovery, specifically in material science. Read →
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