Life with AI

Hosted by Filipe Lauar

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Aug 2026

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In this podcast I explain some hard concepts of AI in a way that anyone can understand. I also show how AI is influencing our lives and we don’t know.

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August 26, 202621 min

#101- How Sequoia invests with Konstantine.

Hey everyone, in this very special episode I interview Konstantine, an investor at Sequoia Capital, the largest investment fund in the world! It’s an interview in English where we talk about what Sequoia looks for when investing and what Brazilian companies need to do to catch the attention of the fund that, so far, only Nubank and Enter have managed to achieve! Link to my AI course: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠https://www.cursovidacomia.com.br/⁠ Podcast instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠https://www.instagram.com/podcast.vidacomia⁠ My Linkedin: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/filipe-lauar/⁠ Konstantine's Linkedin: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/konstantinebuhler/⁠ Sequoia's Linkedin: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/sequoia

February 5, 20261 hr 57 min

#100- Enter: Building AI from Brazil.

In this episode I interview Mateus Costa-Ribeiro, Founder and CEO of Enter. This interview was recorded in Sequoia's HQ in San Francisco and tells a little bit of Enter's history and mission! It's an incredible story and I hope you all enjoy this podcast as most as I enjoyed recording!! Mateus' Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mateus-costa-ribeiro-456475195/ Filipe's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/filipe-lauar/ Enter Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/getenter/ Enter website: https://www.getenter.ai/ Aqui está o link para a página de vendas para saber mais sobre mim e sobre o curso: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.cursovidacomia.com.br/ Aqui está o link para se inscrever: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://pay.hotmart.com/W98240617U?off=sgcxar41&bid=1770724234216

December 5, 202413 min

#99- GraphRAG.

Hello everyone, in this episode I talk about GraphRAG. This new RAG technique is very useful to better retrieve global information from your document or set of documents. It's also a subject that is growing a lot! GraphRAG paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.16130 LightRAG paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05779 Instagram of the podcast: https://www.instagram.com/podcast.lifewithai Linkedin of the podcast: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-with-ai

November 7, 202415 min

#98- On-device AI with SmolLM.

Hello guys, in this episode of the podcast I talk about on-device AI and the SmolLM blog post published by Hugging Face. I first give my thoughts on the differences between on-device and on-cluster AI with the different needs of applications we may have. Then I go through the SmolLM blog post explaining some of the details. SmolLM blog post: https://huggingface.co/blog/smollm MobileLLM paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.14905 Instagram of the podcast: https://www.instagram.com/podcast.lifewithai Linkedin of the podcast: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-with-ai

October 31, 20249 min

#97- Brazilian grammarly with Felipe from Clarice AI.

Hey guys, in the Brazilian version of the podcast I interviewed Felipe, CEO and Founder of Clarice AI, the Brazilian Grammarly. In the episode we discussed on how they created both their corrector and their style improvement algorithms. Clarice AI website: https://clarice.ai/ Instagram of the podcast: https://www.instagram.com/podcast.lifewithai Linkedin of the podcast: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-with-ai

October 24, 20249 min

#96- Maritaca AI, the brazilian LLM company.

Hey guys, in the brazilian version of the podcast I interviewed Hugo Abonizio, he is LLM engineer at Maritaca AI, the only brazilian LLM company that just released Sabia 3. Their model is specialized in Portuguese and is between gpt4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet, while being way smaller and cheaper. In the episode I try to give an idea of our conversation in the portuguese version of the podcast. Sabia 3 paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.12049 Instagram of the podcast: https://www.instagram.com/podcast.lifewithai Linkedin of the podcast: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-with-ai

September 26, 20248 min

#95- Why Chain of Thought works?

Hey guys, in this episode I try to explain my ideas on why Chain of Thought works. Of course nothing that I say is proved, the idea is really to give my intuitions on it! Instagram of the podcast: https://www.instagram.com/podcast.lifewithai Linkedin of the podcast: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-with-ai

September 19, 20247 min

#94- OpenAI o1

Hey guys, in this episode I talk about the new model of OpenAI, the OpenAI o1, the model that thinks and reflects before answering. In the episode I share my opinion and my thoughts after the first contact with the model. Instagram of the podcast: https://www.instagram.com/podcast.lifewithai Linkedin of the podcast: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-with-ai

September 12, 202416 min

#93- Different types of AI.

Hey guys, in this episode I talk about the different types of AI. I don't go deep into the models, I focus more on explaining the different types and which kind of problems they solve. As types of AI I talk about statistics, machine learning, reinforcement learning, deep learning and generative AI. Instagram of the podcast: https://www.instagram.com/podcast.lifewithai Linkedin of the podcast: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-with-ai

August 22, 202427 min

#92- Llama3 benchmarks, vision and speech.

Hey guys, this is the last episode of the Llama3 paper. In this episode, I talk about their discussion on the contamination analysis of the benchmarks, the vision and the speech parts of the model. I hope you enjoyed the series of episodes about the paper, I personally learned a lot! Instagram of the podcast: https://www.instagram.com/podcast.lifewithai Linkedin of the podcast: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-with-ai Llama 3 paper: https://scontent-cdg4-3.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.2365-6/452387774_1036916434819166_4173978747091533306_n.pdf?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=3c67a6&_nc_ohc=t6egZJ8QdI4Q7kNvgEUMsBZ&_nc_ht=scontent-cdg4-3.xx&oh=00_AYBeifNn3pUDhDb136i_WQ_jpoYwLgNExZHcNvDV-N1rRA&oe=66A804CD