You've heard about AI. You've used ChatGPT. But do you actually know what's happening under the hood?

Today: The 2017 Google paper that changed everything · Tokens, embeddings, and attention explained with analogies that stick · Why AI hallucination isn't a bug — it's fundamental to how these systems work · What actually changed between GPT-3, GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini.

After this episode, you'll never look at AI the same way. Part of Neel's Daily Season 1: Foundation.

The most important geopolitical story of our lifetime is playing out right now — and most coverage misses the real stakes.

Today: Why Taiwan holds the fate of global AI development · How NVIDIA chips became a geopolitical weapon · What China has actually built with DeepSeek and ERNIE · Where India sits in the middle of all this and the opportunity nobody talks about.

Part of Neel's Daily Season 1: Foundation.

Something extraordinary is happening in technology right now — and most people don't fully understand what it is yet.

Today: The three labs racing to build AI (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) and the boardroom drama behind each · Why Microsoft's bet on OpenAI is one of the smartest moves in tech history · What large language models actually are, explained without jargon · The honest picture of AI hype vs reality.

Start here. Everything else builds on this. Part of Neel's Daily Season 1: Foundation — 10 episodes to understand the world before the news starts.