# Welch Labs: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-10-29, Welch Labs has 912,000 subscribers, 78,214,692 total views, and 159 videos. It ranks #81,622 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Welch Labs](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for Welch Labs is “Kaiming He presenting the most cited paper of the century.”, a Short published Oct 27, 2026.
- These are Welch Labs’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Aug 29, 2024 and Oct 27, 2026 (17 long-form videos and 31 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 82,664. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “AI can't cross this line and we don't know why.” (2,522,356 views, Sep 13, 2024). Least viewed: “Help us pick t-shirt designs!” (7,488 views, Jul 14, 2026).
- Median length: 30:32 for 17 long-form videos; 1:01 for 31 Shorts.
- In this sample, Welch Labs’s consecutive uploads were a median of 6 days apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 65 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 29, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Kaiming He presenting the most cited paper of the century.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/IQisOqWNmNs/) | 2026-10-27 | Short | 17,571 | 0:58 | - |
| [The most cited paper of the century.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/pYQR82vPn5c/) | 2026-10-25 | Short | 42,785 | 1:26 | 1.28x |
| [The next Welch Labs book is ready for preorder!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/jSomeIzc7sU/) | 2026-10-23 | Short | 13,006 | 1:17 | - |
| [How LLMs became robot brains](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/V7yQEV4NSso/) | 2026-10-22 | Short | 26,895 | 2:13 | - |
| [My book pick for this quarter is…](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/Tdz7dEmR1wA/) | 2026-09-15 | Short | 26,837 | 1:21 | - |
| [What do you want to know about world models?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/Z6-mLGHfg7w/) | 2026-09-14 | Short | 22,931 | 0:47 | - |
| [Death to the em dash.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/MHfTfrRcsFc/) | 2026-09-13 | Short | 78,791 | 0:55 | 1.54x |
| [How the world’s smartest robot brain works – Physical Intelligence Pi0 VLA](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/zfZE4hZ8efE/) | 2026-09-12 | Short | 48,830 | 1:31 | - |
| [The most significant moment in modern robotics.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/7BbL2leRv3w/) | 2026-09-11 | Short | 52,423 | 1:22 | 1.04x |
| [The most cited paper of the century is a brilliant hack](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/QgH9sr7G13Q/) | 2026-09-01 | Long-form | 1,847,638 | 35:19 | 5.88x |
| [Can LLMs make significant new discoveries?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/phU8kF-8K7c/) | 2026-07-22 | Short | 80,262 | 1:10 | 1.7x |
| [Posters now available in 36 countries! welchlabs.com/store](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/Zca61pE5hnk/) | 2026-07-16 | Short | 9,581 | 0:56 | - |
| [Help us pick t-shirt designs!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/T5ck0Y46iAY/) | 2026-07-14 | Short | 7,488 | 1:28 | - |
| [Computer vision models no longer need labels.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/MHqeadiJ590/) | 2026-07-08 | Short | 82,706 | 0:47 | 1.99x |
| [Do AI models really need to be generative?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/wDE_9DUUBoA/) | 2026-07-03 | Short | 42,603 | 1:55 | 1.11x |
| [Come help us design our next book! welchlabs.com/jobs](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/Sap-cJ3oyGc/) | 2026-06-30 | Short | 12,720 | 0:25 | - |
| [Imaginary Numbers are Real.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/30X4KfOcqj8/) | 2026-06-26 | Short | 193,155 | 1:51 | 2.93x |
| [I made a $20,000 mistake.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/vbScYtKALdY/) | 2026-06-25 | Short | 49,493 | 2:10 | 1.61x |
| [I made a $20,000 mistake. welchlabs.com/store](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/SPsK4P6UKts/) | 2026-06-23 | Short | 82,316 | 0:58 | 2.75x |
| [The Birth of ChatGPT](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/7qHc3wVuuIk/) | 2026-06-19 | Short | 33,971 | 2:07 | 1.49x |
| [The Intelligence Cake](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/tZcUWXjRznw/) | 2026-06-18 | Short | 14,863 | 1:43 | - |
| [Yann LeCun saw the revolution coming](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/tk61gzIhZ-c/) | 2026-06-16 | Short | 27,818 | 1:41 | - |
| [Yann LeCun's $1B Bet Against LLMs \[Part 1\]](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/vmz5TJbTjdg/) | 2026-06-16 | Short | 82,621 | 1:39 | - |
| [Yann LeCun's $1B Bet Against LLMs \[Part 2\]](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/v_jDvpEGTIg/) | 2026-05-30 | Long-form | 255,368 | 40:57 | 0.81x |
| [Yann LeCun's $1B Bet Against LLMs \[Part 1\]](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/kYkIdXwW2AE/) | 2026-05-02 | Long-form | 1,275,502 | 37:25 | 3.52x |
| [Inside the World's Smartest Robot Brain \[VLA\]](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/2mrGMMmrVNE/) | 2026-04-04 | Long-form | 209,746 | 35:02 | 0.58x |
| [Should KiwiCo do a perceptron kit!?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/kkfYVyIjD-E/) | 2026-02-27 | Short | 15,617 | 0:56 | - |
| [Can humans make AI any better?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/2hcsmtkSzIw/) | 2026-01-31 | Long-form | 304,256 | 23:39 | 0.84x |
| [The most complex model we actually understand](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/D8GOeCFFby4/) | 2025-12-20 | Long-form | 899,285 | 35:29 | 1.66x |
| [What the Books Get Wrong about AI \[Double Descent\]](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/z64a7USuGX0/) | 2025-10-19 | Long-form | 322,637 | 34:06 | 0.84x |
| [These Numbers Can Make AI Dangerous \[Subliminal Learning\]](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/NUAb6zHXqdI/) | 2025-09-04 | Long-form | 191,683 | 33:04 | - |
| [Why Deep Learning Works Unreasonably Well \[How Models Learn Part 3\]](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/qx7hirqgfuU/) | 2025-08-10 | Long-form | 400,938 | 34:09 | 0.53x |
| [The F=ma of Artificial Intelligence \[Backpropagation, How Models Learn Part 2\]](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/VkHfRKewkWw/) | 2025-06-11 | Long-form | 259,787 | 30:32 | - |
| [The Misconception that Almost Stopped AI \[How Models Learn Part 1\]](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/NrO20Jb-hy0/) | 2025-05-09 | Long-form | 682,035 | 22:57 | 0.75x |
| [How DeepSeek Rewrote the Transformer \[MLA\]](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/0VLAoVGf_74/) | 2025-03-05 | Long-form | 1,009,702 | 18:09 | 1.12x |
| [ChatGPT is made from 100 million of these \[The Perceptron\]](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/l-9ALe3U-Fg/) | 2025-02-01 | Long-form | 824,279 | 24:01 | 1.13x |
| [The Dark Matter of AI \[Mechanistic Interpretability\]](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/UGO_Ehywuxc/) | 2024-12-23 | Long-form | 312,529 | 24:09 | 0.62x |
| [What is the i really doing in Schrödinger's equation?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/uVKMY-WTrVo/) | 2024-11-23 | Long-form | 983,351 | 25:06 | 1.76x |
| [Kepler’s Impossible Equation](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/hBkmyJ3TE0g/) | 2024-10-15 | Long-form | 365,916 | 22:42 | 0.65x |
| [Imaginary Numbers and Astronomy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/BuljHijAK4o/) | 2024-09-23 | Short | 860,691 | 0:45 | 4.7x |
| [How Kepler handled his impossible equation.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/-auPuUxNWSc/) | 2024-09-22 | Short | 156,640 | 0:41 | - |
| [Quick! Can you solve for E?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/qoogokA-dsU/) | 2024-09-21 | Short | 354,176 | 0:43 | 2.58x |
| [Kepler’s Impossible Equation](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/vN7D2hmUJvI/) | 2024-09-20 | Short | 1,356,767 | 0:51 | 23.83x |
| [Neural Scaling Laws full video out now!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/oEIItp4mWxg/) | 2024-09-13 | Short | 34,407 | 0:59 | - |
| [AI can't cross this line and we don't know why.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/5eqRuVp65eY/) | 2024-09-13 | Long-form | 2,522,356 | 24:07 | 2.01x |
| [LLMs cheating on benchmarks?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/kRVrwjiflrU/) | 2024-09-04 | Short | 49,103 | 0:55 | - |
| [Neural Network is a Ridiculous Name.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/clqzN2lA6Io/) | 2024-08-30 | Short | 210,468 | 1:01 | 6.65x |
| [How AI models see the world.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@welchlabs/videos/-2lCOj2ESEk/) | 2024-08-29 | Short | 25,992 | 1:00 | - |

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