Looking back on three years of an AI PhD

Richard takes the hot seat for the first episode of our 2025 recap series where we spend the rest of December looking back on what this year meant to us personally and in the world of AI/ML. We cover what it's like to defend a thesis in the UK, the difficulty of training meta-learning models, choosing a well scoped research topic, how to define small models, and what's needed to make them better.

What is Pretrained?

10 years after studying at Stanford, two friends have somehow become AI experts. One builds startups, the other studies at Cambridge - together they break down LLMs and machine learning with zero BS and maximum banter.