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Frontier models

A guide to the best B2B podcast coverage of Frontier models - the shows and 18 episodes that go deepest, ranked by substance, not downloads.

Frontier models represent the cutting edge of AI capability, with companies like Anthropic making aggressive plays in both proprietary and open-source spaces while others grapple with cost optimization - Coinbase cut AI spend by 50% amid broader capital efficiency concerns. Beyond raw model capabilities, the real value emerges in specialized applications: smaller, trained models powering Shopify's AI strategy, agentic approaches reshaping capital markets workflows, and security teams like Prophet leveraging frontier capabilities to elevate SOC operations. The barrier to frontier model development remains high, requiring both substantial resources and domain expertise to avoid being merely a 'B+' operator without real training and deployment experience.

Best shows on Frontier models

Best episodes on Frontier models

  1. When AI Stops Assisting And Starts Acting

    AI Proving Ground Podcast · 2026-05-20

    90 / 100

    …Now, with frontier models like Mythos offering unprecedented capability, the risk is an AI system that can touch data, trigger workflows, write code, and here's the scary part, take action before anyone fully understands the blast radius.…

  2. Small Models, Massive Wins: The New Shopify AI Formula

    Beyond The Pilot: Enterprise AI in Action · 2026-06-24

    85 / 100

    …Right? What is the development that you're seeing from these recent frontier models?…

  3. Allie K. Miller: Find your "weirdos" - and let them lead

    WorkLab · 2026-06-10

    85 / 100

    …That is the number one thing that's coming up, which is just if you're in this multi-agent space, you're using frontier models.…

  4. Beyond the Simplistic Narrative that AI will Replace Software with Mahesh Rajasekharan

    SaaS Scaled · 2026-06-30

    83 / 100

    …For example, if a software application performs relatively simple workflows, in that case, the frontier models will increasingly be able to replicate those outcomes directly, and so those businesses will face significant pressure.…

  5. Open Source vs. Closed Source, Memory Chips Eat AI Profits, Comcast Restructures | Diet TBPN

    TBPN · 2026-06-29

    80 / 100

    …So maybe it like, it definitely is much cheaper than the Frontier models.…

  6. GPT-5.6 on a Government Leash: Sol, Terra, Luna and the First Frontier Model Gated Before Launch - June 29, 2026

    DX Today · 2026-06-29

    80 / 100

    …So, under that order, by August, the administration has to stand up a classified process to assess the cyber capabilities of new eye models and decide which ones qualify as so-called covered frontier models.…

  7. What's Worth Knowing In AI Right Now? (with Henry Garner)

    Developer Voices · 2026-03-26

    80 / 100

    …The current debate at the moment, which seems to be MCP versus skills and is MCP dead or not Fine tuning, is that still worthwhile? Frontier models, can you compete?…

  8. 20VC: Dario and Anthropic Declare War on Open-Source | Coinbase Slash AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40BN Valuation and Impending IPO | Bending Spoons: Smartest IPO of 2026 and the Year for SaaS Roll-Ups

    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) · 2026-07-02

    78 / 100

    …One is it sharpens the question of does the rise of open source and others actually going to impact the growth of the frontier models more than we ever predicted?…

  9. The Real Cost Of Enterprise AI

    What's Up with Tech? · 2026-06-12

    77 / 100

    …And I think with the with some of the reasoning capabilities and the frontier models, it's that much more expensive.…

  10. Episode 235: Who tf is Jevon?

    AB Testing · 2026-07-10

    76 / 100

    …Like um, there is this because the price of, because the price of the frontier models is, is surprisingly going up, not down.…

  11. Closing the AI Vulnerability Remediation Gap With Cobalt

    The Business of Cybersecurity · 2026-07-25

    74 / 100

    …peaker B: Well, I mean, if you take something like Mythos, These frontier models, as they sort of call them.…

  12. Agentic Approaches to Capital Markets

    Next in Tech · 2026-06-16

    69 / 100

  13. Episode 374 Deep Dive: Mark Jones | The Department of No Is Over - Why Cyber Has to Lead AI Adoption

    KBKAST · 2026-07-01

    63 / 100

    …And when we start talking about proper AI adoption, we're still working on a very subsidized model with all these big frontier models.…

  14. Do You Even Need That Trillion-Parameter Model?

    The Enterprise AI Show · 2026-08-05

    63 / 100

    …But I mean a lot of the models, especially the OSS models, the Chinese OSS models in particular, there's lots of accusations of just, hey, we're just distilling off the big frontier models anyway.…

  15. E103. Control AI Agent Costs with the L1-L3 Staffing Model

    MSP Cyber Roundtable · 2026-05-19

    62 / 100

    …I think we all know that it can get very expensive and some of these teaser rates on these frontier models are like completely imagined.…

  16. Albert Chun, Founder/CEO of AI Circle, on Training a Frontier Model, and Why "Everyone's B+" Without Experience

    AI for Business Leaders · 2026-04-18

    61 / 100

    …And they would advise on the most state of the art labs and frontier models you could think of.…

  17. PE Pulse: key takeaways from Q1 2026

    NextWave Private Equity · 2026-04-30

    58 / 100

    …But you know, this is really the more impactful of the two where PE is concerned, where in the US the software indices are down, call it 25%, 30% from their highs last October, as these frontier models get a lot more sophisticated and folks sort of step back to assess their impact on the business model, uh, of some of these companies.…

  18. Elevating the SOC with Prophet Security

    Security You Should Know · 2026-06-15

    55 / 100

    …I think with the age of frontier models and how fast they're moving, it's a bit of a fool's errand.…