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

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🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Joelle Pineau is the chief AI officer at Cohere. Pineau joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss where the cutting edge of AI research is headed — and what it will take to move from impressive demos to reliable agents. Tune in to hear why memory, world models, and more efficient reasoning are emerging as the next big frontiers, plus what current approaches are missing. We also cover the “capability overhang” in enterprise AI, why consumer assistants still aren’t lighting the world on fire, what AI sovereignty actually means, and whether the major labs can ever pull away from each other. Hit play for a cool-headed, deeply practical look at what’s next for AI and how it gets deployed in the real world. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Where is the cutting edge of AI research leading today and how are some companies already putting it into action?
0:05.6	Let's talk about it with Cohere Chief AI Officer, Joel Pino, right after this.
0:10.9	This episode is brought to you by Qualcomm. Qualcomm is bringing intelligent computing everywhere.
0:15.5	At every technological inflection point, Qualcomm has been a trusted partner helping the world tackle its most important challenges.
0:23.2	Qualcomm's leading edge AI, high performance, low power computing, and unrivaled connectivity solutions have the power to build new ecosystems, transform industries, and improve the way we all experience the world.
0:37.6	Can AI's most valuable use be in the industrial setting?
0:41.1	I've been thinking about this question more and more after visiting IFS's Industrial X Unleashed
0:46.0	event in New York City and getting a chance to speak with IFS CEO Mark Mufford.
0:51.5	To give a clear example, Mufford told me that IFS is sending Boston Dynamics
0:56.0	Spot Robots out for inspection, bringing that data back to the IFS nerve center, which then with
1:01.7	the assistance of large language models can assign the right technician to examine areas that need
1:07.0	attending. It's a fascinating frontier of the technology, and I'm thankful to my partners
1:12.3	at IFS for opening my eyes to it. To learn more, go to IFS.com. That's IFS.com.
1:18.5	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed and nuanced conversation of the tech
1:23.7	world and beyond. Today we're going to look deep into the state of AI research, where
1:28.9	the cutting edge is leading, whether there are limitations with the current methodologies,
1:33.8	and how some companies are already putting this technology into action in a practical way.
1:38.5	We're joined by the perfect guest, Joel Pino is here. She's the chief AI scientist at Go here.
1:43.6	Joel, welcome to the show.
1:44.9	Thank you. Glad to be here. So for those that don't know, Joelle, she is a, you know,
1:51.4	a researcher who's been at this for a long time. You and I met actually maybe a month after
1:57.4	ChachyPT was released and everybody was asking whether AI was sentient. You at that time
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