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Big Technology Podcast · 2026-02-04 · 52 min · 9,980 words

AI's Research Frontier: Memory, World Models, & Planning — With Joelle Pineau

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Where is the cutting edge of AI research leading today and how are some companies already putting it into action? Let's talk about it with Cohere Chief AI Officer Joelle Pino right after this. Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed and nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond. Today we're going to look deep into the state of AI research, where the cutting edge is leading, whether there are limitations with the current methodologies, and how some companies are already putting this technology into action. in a practical way.

We're joined by the perfect guest. Joelle Pino is here. She's the chief AI scientist at Coheer. Joelle, welcome to the show. Thank you.

Glad to be here. So for those that don't know Joelle, uh, she is a a you know a researcher who's been at this for a long time. You and I met uh actually maybe a month after Chat GPT was released and everybody was asking whether AI was sentient. You at that time were the head of the fundamental AI research division. at Meta.

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