# Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT

An episode of [Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1674008350), 2 Oct 2026, 1 h 41 min.

Audio: https://podcasts.beehiiv.com/3967c1f2-cb97-4eb0-a5c0-21a1d2579408/01a15fdf-0e93-7e1a-880d-d73752a1f915/01a15fdf-71b9-7ea8-9ad6-434eeceb3cfa/01a15fdf-7b78-7fc5-8c2d-8fd2adb037e6.mp3

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