Pretrained

Fable is back, baby. Rich and Pierce break down the whiplash saga of Claude Fable 5 and Mythos and ask the bigger question: should the government be able to pull the plug on a frontier model overnight? From the rumored Amazon leak that spooked Washington to the case for an "FDA for LLMs" and what the UK's AI Safety Institute gets right, they debate who should really be checking under the hood. Then it's off to the pitch: how AI is reshaping the World Cup, from semi-automated offside calls that strip refs of judgment (and maybe the soul of the game) to the tiny island of Curaçao using AI-powered diaspora scouting to become the smallest nation ever to qualify.

What is Pretrained?

Everyone's talking about AI but most of it is hype, jargon, or someone trying to sell you something. Pierce Freeman and Richard Diehl Martinez are two Stanford friends who actually work in this space with nothing to sell you but good vibes. We'll make you smarter - and you might actually enjoy it.