Austrian Artificial Intelligence Podcast

Manuel Pasieka hosts a quiet, careful show out of Vienna that focuses on the people building AI rather than the products they ship. Most episodes are one-on-one interviews with researchers, startup founders, and engineers working across Austria and central Europe, and Pasieka is clearly more interested in how they got where they are than in forcing them into a predictable arc. The questions are specific. He'll ask a machine learning engineer exactly which part of the training pipeline keeps them up at night, or press a founder on whether their model is actually doing what the marketing page claims. Conversations run long. Nothing feels rushed. You get the sense Pasieka is genuinely curious rather than performing curiosity for a microphone, and that changes the texture of the whole show. It's not a news podcast and it won't catch you up on what OpenAI announced last week. What it will do is introduce you to researchers you've probably never heard of who are doing interesting work on smaller budgets with tighter constraints. The accents are part of the charm. So is the honesty about what Europe gets right and where it falls behind. A solid pick if you want AI conversations without the breathless tone.