Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

1026: OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra

In Episode #1026, Jon Krohn breaks down GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s new flagship that its president has floated as a possible marker of AGI. Jon covers what the model is, what

1025: Word Gravity: How Transformers Bend Space, with Dr. Luis Serrano

In Episode #1025, Dr. Luis Serrano (Founder of Serrano Academy) joins Jon Krohn to explain the paper he co-authored on the curved spacetime of transformer architectures,

1024: In Case You Missed It in August 2026

In ICYMI Episode #1024, Jon Krohn tracks the gap between AI investment and AI return, from the technology side to the people side. Hear from Pete Johnson, Jerry Yurchisin

1023: Agentic AI Skills That Matter Now, with Aishwarya Srinivasan

In Episode #1023, Aishwarya Srinivasan (Co-Founder of The Gen Academy) joins Jon Krohn to work out where a competitive moat comes from once anything you can build in ten

1022: CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, Skills, Hooks and Subagents: A Field Guide to Steering AI Agents

In Episode #1022, Jon Krohn tackles the art of steering AI agents, deciding where your instructions should live so they get followed reliably without bloating every reque

1021: How dbt Won Analytics Engineering, with dbt Lab’s CEO Tristan Handy

In Episode #1021, Tristan Handy (Founder and CEO of dbt Labs) joins Jon Krohn to explain how a study of about a hundred companies in 2016 became analytics engineering, an

1020: How to Choose Model Size and Effort Level: The Two Critical Dials

In Episode #1020, Jon Krohn unpacks the two dials that increasingly decide what you get out of a large language model: which model size you pick and how much effort you t

1019: Anyone Can Write Code Now, So What Gets You Hired? (With Priyanka Vergadia)

In Episode #1019, Priyanka Vergadia (founder of The Cloud Girl, former Senior Director of AI Transformation at Microsoft and Head of North America Developer Relations at

1018: Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max: Open-Weight Model Surpasses Most American Frontier Labs

In Episode #1018, Jon Krohn breaks down Qwen3.8-Max, Alibaba’s enormous new flagship, a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that, if its promised weights ship

1017: Vector Search, Agentic Memory and Effective RAG, with MongoDB’s Pete Johnson

In Episode #1017, Pete Johnson (Field CTO of AI at MongoDB) joins Jon Krohn to explain why four out of five organizations have AI steering committees and success metrics,

1016: In Case You Missed It in July 2026

In this month's episode of ICYMI, Jon Krohn traces a line from algorithmic harm to the human skills that still hold their value. Hear from Dr. Cathy O'Neil, Ben Todd, Ste

1015: Mathematical Optimization in the Agentic AI Era, with Gurobi's Jerry Yurchisin

In Episode #1015, Jerry Yurchisin (manager of decision intelligence strategy at Gurobi Optimization) joins Jon Krohn to explain the AI technology that makes breaking a co

1014: OpenAI Agent Breaches Hugging Face: All You Must Know incl. How to Protect Yourself

In Episode #1014, Jon Krohn breaks down a security incident that reads like science fiction: during an internal evaluation, an autonomous OpenAI agent broke out of its sa

1013: Weapons of Math Destruction, Ten Years On, with Dr. Cathy O’Neil

In Episode #1013, Dr. Cathy O'Neil (Harvard math PhD, former Wall Street quant and author of the mega-bestseller Weapons of Math Destruction) joins Jon Krohn to explain w

1012: The Open-Weight 2.8-Trillion Parameter Competing at the Frontier

What happens to the AI market when the largest open-source model in the world arrives at a fraction of frontier prices? In this week’s episode, host Jon Krohn digs into K

1011: The Math Still Matters: Deep Skills in the Age of AI, with Dr. Catherine Williams

Dr. Catherine Williams, Chief Data Officer at the nonprofit Candid, was solving black-hole equations with pen and paper before she ever wrote a line of code. She earned a

1010: Fable 5 as Advisor: Anthropic's Two-Model Pattern for Smarter, Cheaper Agents

In Episode #1010, Jon Krohn digs into “the advisor strategy”, a clever pattern that pairs a fast, cheap executor model with a frontier-class advisor it can consult mid-ta

1009: How AI Is Quietly Saving Lives, with Steve Mock

In Episode #1009, Steve Mock (investor at Blumberg Capital, five-time entrepreneur and creator of aisavedme.org), joins Jon Krohn to explore the quiet layer of everyday A

1008: The AI-Native Startup Playbook

In Episode #1008, Jon Krohn digs into Anthropic's 35-page Founder's Playbook and pulls out the practical guidance for each of its four startup stages: Idea, MVP, Launch a

1007: How to Find Solid Career Ground in the AI Era, with 80,000 Hours Founder Ben Todd

Benjamin Todd, co-founder and President of 80,000 Hours and author of the new Penguin Random House book 80,000 Hours: How to Have a Fulfilling Career That Does Good, join