Top K

Top K — the k things in AI that actually mattered, explained properly. Every week we take the handful of AI stories worth your attention and go one layer deeper than the headline. Not "a new model dropped" — what changed architecturally, what it costs to run, and what it means for the code you write on Monday. Two engineers. No hype, no takes we can't defend, no reading press releases out loud. Also here: deep dives on how this stuff actually works, build logs, and whatever we're currently confused about. For you if you ship software with LLMs and want to stop treating the model as a black box. New episode every Monday. Topics: LLMs, inference and serving, AI agents, MCP, RAG, fine-tuning, evals, open weights, AI infrastructure, ML engineering.

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  AI Safety Has a Hole: Splitting One Bad Question Into Ten Good Ones | Top K Ep. 2

  Sep 25, 202647 minS0

  <p>A safety-trained AI will refuse to help build a bomb — unless you ask it as ten separate,<br />innocent-looking questions and assemble the answer yourself. This week: a 0.5-second decision<br />model, a transformer that "loops" its own thinking, Google's maze-replay search trick, why<br />playing a railway board game made an AI better at finance, proof that AI agents barely need<br />tools, Claude Code going fully parallel in the cloud, and one frozen model driving robots,<br />cars, drones and game characters.</p><p>00:00 Intro<br />02:16 Jev — a decision model instead of a text generator<br />06:26 Recurrent Loop...

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  OpenAI's 10,000-Agent Math "Proof" Wasn't What It Claimed | Top K Ep. 1

  Sep 16, 202658 minS1

  <p>OpenAI ran 10,000 AI agents for 88 hours to "prove" a famous unsolved math problem — but<br />that's not exactly what happened. This week: a cheaper DeepSeek, Claude's split personality,<br />GPT-6's first "Critical" risk rating, Shopify's self-improving AI loop, an agent that can't<br />leak your password, a model that learned to cheat, and whether we're in an AI bubble.<br /><br />00:00 Intro<br />01:50 DeepSeek V4.1-Flash — a 4x cheaper, smarter model<br />14:37 Claude Fable & Mythos 5.1 — same model, two safety tiers<br />17:29 GPT-6 Astra — OpenAI's first "Critical" risk model<br />29:35 OpenAI's 10,000-agent Navier-Stokes "proof"<br />41:44 Shopify's self-improving AI pipeline<br />44...

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