Vibes & Benchmarks

Outset Capital's weekly AI news podcast

Vibes & Benchmarks is Outset Capital's weekly AI news podcast, hosted by Ali Rohde and Josh Albrecht. Each week they break down the biggest AI news — model releases, funding, policy, and the business of AI — with the candor of practitioners who build and invest in AI.

Episodes

1. June 2026

   Vibes & Benchmarks Ep 05: Should the government own half of OpenAI?

   Vibes & Benchmarks is Outset Capital's weekly AI news podcast. On episode 5, Ali Rohde and Josh Albrecht cover the wave of trillion-dollar IPOs, OpenAI's public-wealth-fund pitch, Anthropic's Fable and its recursive self-improvement paper, the SpaceX IPO, and why everyone suddenly wants to build loops.

2. June 2026

   Vibes & Benchmarks Ep 04: Is anyone actually working less because of AI?

   Vibes & Benchmarks is Outset Capital's weekly AI news podcast. On episode 4, Ali Rohde and Josh Albrecht cover Bernie Sanders's AI ownership proposal, whether AI 'token shock' is product-market fit, enterprise budget discipline, and why no one is working less because of AI.

3. May 2026

   Vibes & Benchmarks Ep 03: Is SpaceX really worth $2 trillion?

   On episode 3 of Vibes & Benchmarks, Ali Rohde and Josh Albrecht cover the SpaceX S-1, George Hotz on AI coding, the cost-optimization phase of AI, and the Pope's surprisingly good AI take.

4. May 2026

   Vibes & Benchmarks Ep 02: Will Google outlast Anthropic and OpenAI?

   On episode 2 of Vibes & Benchmarks, Ali Rohde and Josh Albrecht cover the Codex-vs-Claude-Code switch, Google's long game, and Anthropic at a $1T valuation.