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Mar 18, 2026 50 min

AI Spent the Night Improving Itself

from Pretrained Hosted by Pierce Freeman & Richard Diehl Martinez

Karpathy dropped a project where an AI agent spent 12 hours improving its own training loop. Then the guys get into OpenClaw spreading to China and what it means when agentic tools land in a culture that's already way ahead on adoption. Yann LeCun raises a billion dollars to prove every other AI lab is thinking about intelligence wrong. And finally, trouble at Grok: layoffs, SpaceX fixers parachuted in, and only 2 of the original 12 founders still standing. Is XAI a real frontier lab or just a very expensive piece of the Elon cinematic universe?

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AI Spent the Night Improving Itself

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  1. 0:00 Cold Open
  2. 0:20 Intro
  3. 1:36 Karpathy's Auto Research
  4. 17:14 Open Claw Comes to China
  5. 27:12 Yan LeCun's AMI and World Models
  6. 38:53 Trouble at Grok
  7. 49:41 Outro
  8. 50:13 Post Show Banter

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