Episode
Rethinking Pre-Training for Agentic AI with Aakanksha Chowdhery - #759
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) · Dec 17, 2025 · 53 min
Today, we're joined by Aakanksha Chowdhery, member of technical staff at Reflection, to explore the fundamental shifts required to build true agentic AI. While the industry has largely focused on post-training techniques to improve reasoning, Aakanksha draws on her experience leading pre-training efforts for Google’s PaLM and early Gemini models to argue that pre-training itself must be…