Frontier Systems
Frontier Systems is where the people building the future of AI explain what they're working on.
Frontier Systems is where the people building the future of AI explain what they're working on. Our flagship show, Office Hours, airs live on YouTube every Friday from 12–1pm PT, with Anjney Midha and Mike Abbott taking real-time questions from students and the broader community alongside a weekly special guest - researchers, operators, investors, policymakers, and founders shaping the frontier. Beyond Office Hours, we publish lectures, interviews, and deep dives on the systems, ideas, and people defining AI's frontier. Recordings are available wherever you get your podcasts.
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Latest Episodes
Prithvi Rajasekaran of Anthropic - Office Hours, Episode 5
This week on Office Hours, Anjney sits down with Prithvi Rajasekaran, a member of Anthropic's labs team and author of a recent post on harness design for long-running coding agents. The conversation ranges across the substance of his post — the...
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Reiner Pope of MatX - Office Hours, Episode 4
This week on Office Hours, Anjney Midha and Mike Abbott are joined by Reiner Pope, CEO and co-founder of MatX, who spent a decade at Google - chip design for neural nets on the TPU team, then writing the inference stack for Palm - before leavin...
Anastasios Angelopoulos of Arena - Office Hours, Episode 3
In this "Office Hours" episode, Arena co-founder and CEO Dr. Anastasios Angelopoulos discusses how a Berkeley side project became the gold-standard evaluation platform used by every frontier lab. He explains that benchmarks fundamentally cannot...
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Amanda Askell of Anthropic - Office Hours, Episode 2
In this "Office Hours" episode, Anthropic's Amanda Askell discusses her work making Claude "good"—a journey that took her from a philosophy PhD in formal ethics and decision theory to leading character and alignment work at Anthropic. She expla...
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Anjney Midha and Mike Abbott - Office Hours, Episode 1
In this inaugural "Office Hours" livestream, Anjney Midha and Mike Abbott field rapid-fire student questions covering the AI compute and infrastructure landscape. They discuss how scaling laws continue to hold in verifiable domains like coding,...
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