MIT
private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, founded 1861
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Every podcast mention of MIT in one pod.
341 videos. Track how it's discussed, by whom, and what experts actually think.
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Videos Mentioning MIT
How Legora Went From YC to $100M ARR in 18 Months
Y Combinator
Mentioned as an institution where the speaker expected to encounter many highly educated PhDs during Y Combinator.
Can Play Change the World? | Play@TED Full Event | TED, the LEGO Group and the LEGO Foundation
TED
The institution where James Rojas studied urban planning and where Randy Williams worked at the Media Lab.
It’s Already Happening: The AI Bubble No One’s Ready For
Tom Bilyeu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose report is cited regarding the failure rate of GenAI pilots due to costs and integration issues.
The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (FarmVille, Words with Friends, & more)
Lenny's Podcast
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose team demoed a touchscreen at a TED conference that garnered Steve Jobs's attention.
The Man Who Worked At Subway, Then Solved An "Impossible" Problem
Veritasium
One of the institutions whose experts designed the courses for Brilliant's Cooji tutor.
Do I Need a “Brain Gym”?
Cal Newport
Mentioned as an institution where Cal Newport received training as a professional thinker.
Assertion-based Repair of Complex Data Structures
GoogleTalksArchive
The institution where researchers developed a method for program repair through language translation.
Hashing Searching Sketching.
GoogleTalksArchive
Lina went to MIT to do his PhD.
How Community Notes Reduce Viral Misinformation | Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter | TED
TED
A university whose researchers have studied the impact of Community Notes, finding that reposts drop significantly after notes are applied.
Teaching AI the Language of Design | Deep Dives with a16z
a16z Deep Dives
John mentions being there in the '90s and the MIT AI Lab where Muriel Cooper worked on automatically designing things with AI.
Probabilistic Dimensional Reduction with Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model
GoogleTalksArchive
Institution where the speaker's talk on GPLVM was well-received by machine learning, vision, and graphics communities.
A network for capacity building in Software Engineering Free Software In Africa
GoogleTalksArchive
Mentioned as an example of an institution that produces high-quality learning resources, though the assumption that this is the only way is questioned.
Extracting Information from Large Graphs by Computing Similarities Between Node
GoogleTalksArchive
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Vincent Blondel is doing a sabbatical year.
What Every Engineer Needs to Know About Security and Where to Learn It
GoogleTalksArchive
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a prominent university whose computer science program was reviewed for security education.
How to Use Notebooks in 2026 (The Best System)
Cal Newport
Cal Newport's alma mater where he studied applied mathematics as a theoretical computer scientist.
What Actually Makes A Startup Durable
Y Combinator
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is mentioned in reference to a founder with a PhD in nuclear physics, representing deep technical expertise.
Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity”
Y Combinator
Alexander Wang attended MIT, where he started training his first models and developed the idea for Scale.
LIVE with Mark Rober: How to Make Science Go Off | TED
TED
A university whose graduates work as toy engineers at CrunchLabs.
How to Make Work Optional - The Freedom Profile Matrix
Ali Abdaal
Mentioned as a prestigious university whose graduates can still struggle to find jobs, questioning the inherent value of the degree alone.
Man Who Owns 4% Of All Bitcoin: His Final WARNING To Everyone Who Doesn't Own It | Michael Saylor
The Diary Of A CEO
Mentioned as where Saylor studied, noting how students flocked to electrical engineering and computer science, representing a past 'S-curve'.
Daron Acemoglu on Liberalism, Automation, and the Educated Elite
Conversations with Tyler
Mentioned as an example of an institution where an educated elite makes decisions, such as tenure.
Stanford AA203 Optimal and Learning-Based Control | Spring 2026 | Lecture 9: Stochastic Dyn. Program
Stanford Online
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Dimitri Bertsekas is a professor and taught dynamic programming.
Going In Deep On Data | YC Paper Club
Y Combinator
Mentioned as a university from which PhDs were interviewed.
Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!
The Diary Of A CEO
Mentioned as the institution where engineers wrote 'The Limits to Growth' report.