Inference by Turing Post

At some point in the last year, bots became your biggest website visitors. Not people. Not crawlers. Not even APIs. Bots with goals. Agents with plans. Linda Tong, CEO of Webflow, has seen it up close – and she's redesigning the web to meet them. In this episode, we talk about what it means to build agent-first websites: How to talk to bots. How to let them click buttons. And how to create experie...

At Microsoft Build, I actually sat down with Eric Boyd, Corporate Vice President leading engineering for Microsoft’s AI platform, to talk about what it really means to build AI infrastructure that companies can trust – not just to assist, but to act. We get into the messy reality of enterprise adoption, why trust is still the bottleneck, and what it will take to move from copilots to fully autonom...

In this episode, I sit down with Olga Megorskaya, CEO of Toloka, to explore what true human-AI co-agency looks like in practice. We talk about how the role of humans in AI systems has evolved from simple labeling tasks to expert judgment and co-execution with agents – and why this shift changes everything. We get into: - Why "humans as callable functions" is the wrong metaphor – and what to use in...

What it actually takes to build models that improve over time. In this episode, I sit down with Devvret Rishi, CEO and co-founder of Predibase, to talk about the shift from static models to continuous learning loops, the rise of reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT), and why the real future of enterprise AI isn’t chatty generalists – it’s focused, specialized agents that get the job done. We cover: The...

What happens when one of the architects of modern vector search asks whether AI can remember like a seasoned engineer, not a gold‑fish savant? In this episode, Edo Liberty – founder & CEO of Pinecone and one‑time Amazon scientist – joins me to discuss true memory in LLMs. We unpack the gap between raw cognitive skill and workable knowledge, why RAG still feels pre‑ChatGPT, and the breakthrough...

What happens when the biggest advocate for coding literacy starts telling people not to learn to code? In this episode, Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder at Replit, joins me to talk about his controversial shift in thinking – from teaching millions how to code to building agents that do it for you. Are we entering a post-coding world? What even is programming when you're just texting with a machine?...

In the episode 001: the incredible Sharon Zhou, co-founder and CEO of Lamini. She’s a generative AI trailblazer, a Stanford-trained protégé of Andrew Ng – who, along with Andrej Karpathy and others, is also an investor in her company Lamini. From co-creating one of Coursera’s top AI courses to making MIT’s prestigious “35 under 35” list, Sharon turns complex tech into everyday magic. She is also s...

In this episode of Inference, I sit down with Mati Staniszewski, co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, to explore the future of AI voice, real-time multilingual translation, and emotionally rich speech synthesis. We dive into what still makes dubbing hard, how Lex Fridman's podcast was localized, and what it takes to preserve tone, timing, and emotion across languages. Mati shares why speaker detectio...