Generation AI

In this episode of the Generation AI Podcast , hosts Sean Anderson and Ofer Mendelevich sit down with Matt Abrams, a technologist, investor, advisor, speaker, and outdoor adventurer whose mission is to inspire startup founders and executives to think bigger and bolder. The conversation begins with Matt’s vision for building “a billion for trust,” and quickly expands into the pressing challenges an...

Alison Cossette is a dynamic Data Science Strategist, Educator, and Podcast Host. She is a Developer Advocate at Neo4j specializing in Graph Data Science, and brings a wealth of expertise to the field. Alison actively promotes ethical and transparent AI practices and believes in the transformative potential of responsible AI for industries and society. In this episode, we chat with Alison about th...

In this episode, we welcome Kara Peterson and Rich DiBona, founders of descrybe.ai, a justice tech startup aimed at democratizing access to the law. Kara is a marketing and business development leader with a strong emerging following in the Legal AI space and is being hosted by the National Law Review as one of the hottest legal tech companies in 2025. Rich is the tech side of descrybe.ai and come...

Ayush Garg is the founder of AnswerThis.io. He is passionate about reimagining how science is conducted. His journey started with making tools like pygetpapers and docanalysis that scaled to over 50,000 researchers and has since evolved into building AnswerThis. Ayush discusses his approach to building retrieval systems over the years, addressing issues like observability and citations. He dictate...

This month, we sat down with Tobias Lunt, another amazing presenter from this year’s Data Council Lightning Talks. Tobias is using LLMs at Development Data Lab to analyze, expose, and combat gender inequality and understand the impact of societal norms. He has a unique perspective on how academia and the public sector view data science tooling in relation to the commercial landscape. Tobias puts i...

This month, we chat with Amber Roberts, Senior Technical PMM from Arize AI . We met Amber this year at the Data Council conference, where we learned a lot about the concepts around LLM Observability during her great presentation. We wanted to dive a bit deeper on the podcast. Amber chats with us about the foundational pillars of LLM observability including traces and spans and RAG/fine-tuning, the...

This month, we tried something different and sat down with my co-host, Ofer Mendelevitch, to get his hot takes on topics like vector databases, agents, and fine-tuning. Ofer has a storied career in Big Data, machine learning, and AI. An in-demand speaker and community champion, Ofer is active in the ecosystem as the Head of Developer Advocacy @ Vectara. Don't miss this chance to get to know Of...

It's a new year, and we are back with more episodes of the Generation AI podcast. This month, we are joined by VP of Engineering Ram Sriharsha of Pinecone. Ram discusses many aspects of vector databases and LLMs, including Hybrid Search and both sparse and dense retrieval. RAM lays out his mission to make vector search less complex and easier to leverage for every organization and marching tow...

For this episode, we sit down with Lolpop creator and head of field operations at Voltron Data, Jordan Volz . Jordan is a known force in data and ML space and has advised countless organizations on how to get more models into production. With his new open-source project, Jordan aims to bring many of the cemented software development strategies to data science work, ensuring that data science outpu...

In this episode, we welcome Bob van Luijt, a technology entrepreneur, technologist, and new media artist from the Netherlands. He is the co-founder and CEO of Weaviate, an open-source vector database, and the chairman of the Creative Software Foundation. Bob is an active force in the AI and Vector Database community and has a front seat to the core shifts in the AI landscape. Bob skips the tea and...

Tri Dao is known for his groundbreaking work on Flash Attention at Stanford, enabling a fast and efficient implementation of the Attention mechanism in Transformers, opening up possibilities for much longer sequence length in GPT-4, Claude Anthropic as well as in images, video and audio. We sat down with Tri Dao to discuss the impact of his pioneering work on software/hardware co-design and some o...

Sean and Ofer sit down with Race Capital's Alfred Chuang, a Silicon Valley luminary and prolific storyteller. Alfred Chuang is a general partner at Race Capital and is also known for being the co-founder and CEO of BEA Systems, Alfred led BEA Systems to its acquisition by Oracle in 2008 for $8.6 billion. Alfred chats about his excitement around generative AI and offers predictions as to where...

Welcome to the Generation AI Podcast. Whether you are a pioneer in this emerging ecosystem of LLMs and generative AI or are struggling to keep up, this is the place for you. On this show, we dive into the practical and theoretical applications of generative AI with a mission to strip out the hype and deliver helpful dialog from those best positioned to guide us through this vast ecosystem shift. I...

Welcome to the Generation AI podcast, the place where we dive deeper down the rabbit hole around  Generative AI and its applications. As you are well aware, since the launch of ChatGPT in November of 2022, Generative AI and LLMs have saturated almost all of our feeds and airways. However, while blogs and infographics on the subject are abundant, the number of organizations that have successfully i...