The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica

In this conversation with Tim Persons , AI Leader at PwC , we explore the current landscape of generative AI adoption, examining how enterprises are navigating budget trends, moving from experimentation to full-scale deployment, and addressing cultural challenges along the way. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • P...

This is our monthly conversation on topics in AI and Technology with Paco Nathan , the founder of Derwen , a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS . Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be foun...

Matt Welsh is a technical leader at Aryn AI , an AI-powered ETL system for RAG frameworks, LLM-based applications, and vector databases. In this episode, we explore how AI is revolutionizing programming and software development.  Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazo...

Mars Lan , Co-Founder & CTO at Metaphor 1, an AI-powered social platform that enhances data governance by empowering all employees, not just data teams, to easily collaborate, search, and share insights through an intuitive, AI-driven interface.  Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • P...

Yishay Carmiel is the CEO of Meaning , a startup building real-time generative AI systems focused on voice applications. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS . Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Data Exchange web site .

Aurimas Griciūnas is the  Chief Product Officer of Neptune. AI, a startup building experiment tracking tools for foundation model training.  Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS . Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Data...

This is our monthly conversation on topics in AI and Technology with Paco Nathan , the founder of Derwen , a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS . Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be foun...

Petros Zerfos and Hima Patel of IBM Research are part of the team behind Data Prep Kit , an open-source toolkit that helps process and prepare raw text and code data at scale for use in large language model applications. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS...

Dr. Andrew Ng is a globally recognized AI leader, founder of DeepLearning. AI and Landing AI, General Partner at AI Fund, Chairman and Co-Founder of Coursera, and Adjunct Professor at Stanford University. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS . Detailed show...

Jay Dawani is CEO and founder of Lemurian Labs , a pioneering startup building a software stack for developing advanced AI systems, focusing on pushing the boundaries of computational capabilities and model performance. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS ....

This is our monthly conversation on topics in AI and Technology with Paco Nathan , the founder of Derwen , a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS . Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be foun...

Evangelos Simoudis is Managing Director at Synapse Partners , a firm that assists corporations in implementing AI solutions, and invests in startups developing applications that exploit data using AI. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS . Detailed show note...

Shuveb Hussain is co-founder of Unstract , a no-code platform that uses large language models to extract structured data from unstructured documents, allowing users to build API endpoints and ETL pipelines to automate document processing workflows.  Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Po...

Alfred Spector’s distinguished career includes groundbreaking work in networked computing systems and leadership roles in research at IBM, Google, and Two Sigma Investments. He is currently a visiting scholar at MIT. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS . De...

This is our monthly conversation on trending topics in AI and Technology with Paco Nathan , the founder of Derwen , a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS . Detailed show notes - with links to many references - ca...

Andrew Burt is co-founder of both Luminos. Law and Luminos.ai, entities building tools to help companies mitigate and manage AI risks. We dive into the critical topic of AI incident response , highlighting its unique challenges compared to traditional software incidents. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket C...

Chang She is CEO and co-founder of LanceDB , an open-source database designed for multimodal AI applications, offering scalable vector search, streaming training data, and interactive exploration of large AI datasets. In this episode we discuss Lance , an open-source columnar data format that tackles the unique challenges posed by modern AI and machine learning workloads. Subscribe to the Gradient...

Ajay Kulkarni and Mike Freedman are the co-founders of Timescale , a startup that provides an enhanced version of PostgreSQL optimized for time-series analytics, AI applications, and scalable relational workloads.  Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS . Deta...

Philip Rathle , CTO of Neo4j , joins the podcast to discuss the rising popularity of graph-enhanced retrieval augmented generation (GraphRAG).  He also discusses the potential impact of the new GQL graph query language standard. [ Link to the demo that Philip showed.] Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Cast...

Paco Nathan is the founder of Derwen , a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI. This episode is part of our series of monthly roundups and covers: the proposed California Senate Bill 1047 for regulating AI models, including its feasibility and potential unintended consequences. We also discuss the rising popularity of graph retrieval augmented generation (GraphRAG) techniques to mitigate hal...

Jiwoo Hong and  Noah Lee of KAIST AI are co-authors of ORPO: Monolithic Preference Optimization without Reference Model .  Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS . Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site .

In this episode, Pete Warden introduces his company, Useful Sensors , which focuses on developing AI solutions for consumer electronics and appliances.  [This episode originally aired on Generative AI in the Real World , a podcast series I’m hosting for O’Reilly.] Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts •...

Ken Liu ,  Ph. D. student in Computer Science at Stanford, is the author of Machine Unlearning in 2024 . We explore the concept of machine unlearning, a process of removing specific data points from trained AI models. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS . D...

Joao (Joe) Moura is the  founder of crewAI , an open-source platform that simplifies the development and deployment of AI agents, allowing users to build autonomous systems for various tasks using multiple large language models. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon...

Paco Nathan is the founder of Derwen , a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI. This episode is part of our series of monthly roundups and covers: Llama 3 and other recent LLMs, the rise of open foundation models, the evolution of AI agents, and the importance of data engineering. We also explore the limitations of leaderboards in evaluating AI models and touch upon the ethical and societal...