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Fresh From the Labs
by Pioneer Square Labs
Fresh From the Labs is your front-row seat to the future of AI — straight from the builders shaping it. Hosted by the product team at Pioneer Square Labs, a Seattle-based venture studio, each episode dives into the week's most exciting AI breakthroughs, tools, and trends. No hype, just hands-on insight from the people actually prototyping, experimenting, and pushing boundaries with the latest tech. Whether you're building with AI or just trying to keep up, this podcast is your lab-tested shortcut to what matters most.
Episodes
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Farewells and Freshies
In this final episode of Fresh From the Labs, Shilpa, Kevin, and Jared reflect on their journey at Pioneer Square Labs, share personal updates, and discuss insights gained from their experiences. Jared provides valuable perspectives on the challenges and responsibilities of using AI in coding,...
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Engineer to Entrepreneur: Jared's Journey & Halloween Hijinks
In this episode of Fresh From the Labs, the team says farewell to engineer-turned-founder Jared as he sets off to co -found a startup. But don't worry, he will still be hosting FFTL from the other side. We delve (kl-note: another AI giveaway! 😅) into the rise of AI-generated resumes and the...
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Haiku Hullabaloo & Atlas Antics: Browser Breakthroughs and Vibe Coding Vibes
In this episode we dive into the latest AI news with a playful twist. Anthropic’s new Haiku model hits the scene, promising lightning‑fast responses and powerful capabilities. We unpack what makes Haiku special and how it stacks up. Then we explore Atlas, the emerging AI platform shaking up the...
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DevDay Debrief with OpenAI's Brian Fioca
Welcome back to a super special episode of Fresh from the Labs! The team is joined by PSL alum Brian Fioca, now a Solutions Architect at OpenAI, for a deep dive into the latest from Dev Day and the strategies shaping the AI frontier. The conversation kicks off with AgentKit, OpenAI's new visual...
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Sora's Surge & Meta's Misery: Sonnet's Squeeze, Vibe Coding's Pro Moment, and ChatGPT's Pulse
This week on Fresh from the Labs, the team dives into OpenAI's Sora 2. More than just an AI video model, it's a full-fledged social network. Kevin shares his shockingly good first experience creating a personalized avatar and generating a video of himself in a 90s rock band, highlighting the...
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Parallel Parking & Pricing Puzzles: The Autonomous Moment, AI Unit Economics, and Guardrailing Growth
This week on Fresh From the Labs, the team kicks things off with the resurgence of autonomous driving. With Waymo cars now spotted on the streets of Seattle and Amazon's toaster-like Zoox shuttles rolling out in Vegas, is the long-promised self-driving revolution finally here? We discuss the...
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Codex, Cognition and 996 Culture
This week on Fresh from the Labs, Shilpa, Kevin, and Jared dive into the powerful new Codex CLI release. Based on GPT-5 but custom-trained for real-world agentic use cases, this release confirms their prediction that major labs are now building "first-party agents," moving the key primitive up…
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Bananas and Bubbles: Nano Banana's Debut, The Agent Wars, and AI's Valuation Problem
This week on Fresh From the Labs, Shilpa, Kevin, and Jared are back to break down the latest in AI. The conversation kicks off with a look at Google's delightfully named new image editing tool, Nano Banana. Kevin shares his hands-on experience, highlighting its impressive ability to flawlessly…
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Rust, Rollouts & Reality Checks: GPT-5’s Bumpy Debut, Agentic Browsers, and 95% Pilot Flops
This week on Fresh from the Labs, Shilpa, Kevin, and Jared kick things off with a conversion: Kevin has officially joined the Rust cult (beard pending). From there, we dive into three big themes shaping how builders actually ship with AI right now: GPT-5 in the wild. A launch that felt…bumpy. We...
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GPT-5 Emergency Podcast! GPT‑5 First Impressions, Opus 4.1’s Reality Check, and Windsurf’s Culture Clash
(created with GPT-5...) We hit record three hours after OpenAI’s GPT‑5 live stream, with a shoutout to former PSL engineer Brian Fioca on stage, and dive straight into the big takeaway: daily‑driver frontier at a non‑frontier price. Benchmarks look great, but vibes and real‑world performance…
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Windsurf Whiplash: Google’s Talent Grab, Cognition’s Clean-Up, and AI’s Math Gold
In this episode, Shilpa, Kevin, and Jared unpack the turbulent sequence of events around Windsurf, first the reported collapse of an anticipated OpenAI deal amid Microsoft data-access sensitivities, then Google’s selective leadership and IP licensing move, and finally Cognition’s rapid-fire...
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Kimi K2: An Open-Weight Titan, The AI Browser Race, and Debating Developer Productivity
This week on Fresh From the Labs, Shilpa, Kevin, and Jared dive into a fresh wave of AI model and product drops. First, they unpack the arrival of Kimi K2, a massive trillion-parameter open-weight model from Moonshot AI that shows compelling performance on coding benchmarks and could be run...
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Cursor, CLI, and Context: Cursor Meetup Takeaways, Rise of the CLI, and The Future of Local AI
This week on Fresh From the Labs, Shilpa, Kevin, and Jared recount their recent experience at the PSL Cursor Meetup event, diving into the excitement, challenges , and fascinating community engagement. They unpack the audience feedback that revealed surprising preferences in the AI tool debate,...
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The 2025 Freshies: Mid-Year AI Awards, Biggest Surprises, and H2 Predictions
Welcome to the first-ever Freshies! In this special mid-year awards episode of Fresh From the Labs, Shilpa, Kevin, and Jared celebrate (and debate) the most impactful developments in AI so far this year. The team hands out awards across several exciting categories, including "Best New Model," the...
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Big Bucks From Zuck: OpenAI's Pricing Surprise, Meta's Scale-Mary, and Apple's AI Apathy
This week on Fresh From the Labs, Shilpa, Kevin, and Jared unpack a whirlwind of major AI developments. The conversation kicks off with OpenAI's significant price drop and the release of O3 Pro, exploring how increased accessibility could reshape the market and what this means for startups. We…
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AI Editor Wars: Windsurf vs. Cursor, Anthropic's Power Play, and The "Gladys" Experiment
This week on Fresh From the Labs, Shilpa, Kevin, and Jared dive into the swirling drama and strategic plays shaping the AI landscape. First up, the Windsurf and Anthropic saga: with rumors of an OpenAI acquisition of Windsurf, Anthropic has reportedly given Windsurf just five days to remove all...
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AI's Wild Week: Sonnet 4 Triumphs, The Future of Entry-Level Jobs , and AI That Calls the Cops
This week on Fresh From the Labs, it's a rapid-fire rundown of a jam-packed week in AI releases! Shilpa, Jared, and Kevin share their candid first impressions on a slew of new models and tools. We kick off with OpenAI's Codex web app and Google's Jules, both aiming to be AI coding assistants...
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Code, Care & Customer Support: Klarna’s U-Turn, Healthbench Hype, and OpenAI’s Coding Agent
This week on Fresh from the Labs, Shilpa, Kevin, and Jared dive into three headline-grabbing stories, and what they mean for builders right now: Klarna’s customer-support U-turn. The team dissects the "replace 700 agents with AI" experiment, why a two-humans-per-bot fallback isn’t a failure, and...
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Voice, Verticals & Venture featuring OpenAI's Brian Fioca: Fine Tuning, Startup Differentiation, and Gemini 2.5 First Impressions
This week on Fresh From the Labs, Shilpa, Kevin, and Jared are joined by a special guest: Brian Fioca, a former PSL team member now working as a Solutions Architect at OpenAI! Brian shares his insights from the trenches, helping startups leverage OpenAI's APIs for "intelligence as a service." The...
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Beyond the Benchmarks: o3 Reality Check, AI Companies, and The Leaderboard Problem
This week on Fresh From the Labs, we're looking past the leaderboards and hype to explore the real-world challenges and limitations of today's AI. Can AI actually run a company? We dive into recent CMU research that put AI agents to the test, revealing significant struggles with common sense…
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From Research to Renaissance: o3 Impressions, Changing AI Habits, and AI's Transformative Decade
Welcome back to Fresh From the Labs! Shilpa, Jared, and Kevin dive into another week of AI exploration at Pioneer Square Labs. The conversation kicks off with a deep dive into OpenAI's newly released o3 model. Kevin shares his initial impressions after putting it through its paces, highlighting…
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Agent Intelligence: Llama 4 Unpacked, AI Agent Experiments, and The Future of Voice
Dive deep into the latest advancements shaking up the AI landscape! In this episode, we unpack the significant release of Meta's Llama 4, exploring its capabilities and the internal dynamics at Meta that drive such innovation. Join the conversation as we tackle the persistent challenges of...
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April 9, 2025
Welcome back to "Fresh from the Labs," where the Pioneer Square Labs team (Shilpa, Jared, Kevin) is joined by special guest Brian Fioca (formerly PSL, now heading to OpenAI) to discuss their latest AI experiments and observations. Following up on their previous discussion about "vibe coding," the...
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From Toy to Tool: Image Gen, Local Models, and Vibe Coding
In this first episode of Fresh From the Labs, we (Shilpa, Jared, and Kevin from the product team at Pioneer Square Labs) kick things off by sharing why we’re starting this podcast: to give you a window into the AI experiments we're running day to day, and to think out loud with fellow builders.…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Fresh From the Labs is your front-row seat to the future of AI — straight from the builders shaping it. Hosted by the product team at Pioneer Square Labs, a Seattle-based venture studio, each episode dives into the week's most exciting AI breakthroughs, tools, and trends. No hype, just hands-on insight from the people actually prototyping, experimenting, and pushing boundaries with the latest tech. Whether you're building with AI or just trying to keep up, this podcast is your lab-tested shortcut to what matters most.
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