SOTA TV

SOTA TV, a new podcast with leading minds in AI. Madison Kanna and I sat down with Graham Neubig, CMU professor and OpenHands co-founder. We talked about his new AI agents course at CMU, which AI agents will still be around in five years, why he believes human-AI teams will beat AI alone for a very long time, and how research and conferences should change as submissions explode.

He is one of the most agent-forward professors in AI, but he doesn't have a personal agent yet because of privacy concerns. Graham leads OpenHands, one of the most popular open-source coding agent platforms. It just hit 90,000 GitHub stars.

Guest: Graham Neubig, https://x.com/gneubig
Host: Lily Zhang, https://x.com/lily_gpupoor
Producer: Madison Kanna, https://x.com/Madisonkanna
OpenHands: https://github.com/All-Hands-AI/OpenHands

Chapters
0:00 Trailer
0:40 Intro
1:10 The agent tier list: which AI agents will be around in five years?
3:37 What makes an agent sticky?
5:01 Will personal and work agents merge?
6:19 Where OpenHands fits
7:56 Graham's new AI agents course at CMU
14:28 ICLR hits 62,000 submissions: reshaping the reward function for good researchers
16:34 How universities can keep up with AI
18:39 Which parts of research should we automate?
21:49 Can conferences fix the paper inflation?
25:31 Open vs closed weights

More conversations from COLM 2026 coming this week!
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