The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica

Gunther Hagleither is co-founder of Waii , a startup that provides an API enabling businesses to seamlessly integrate text-to-SQL functionality into their products. 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...

In this episode we explore the latest developments in artificial intelligence with a focus on the 2024 Artificial Intelligence Index Report , edited by Nestor Maslej from Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence . Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict...

In this episode, Hagay Lupesko , Senior Director of Engineering at Databricks MosaicAI , delves into the creation and aspirations behind DBRX , an innovative open Large Language Model (LLM) designed to bridge the gap between quality and cost-effectiveness for AI applications. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Poc...

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: recently released large language models,  Constraint-Driven Innovation, highlights from GTC 2024, and Lessons from the First AI Workload Security Exploit. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: A...

Steve Pike is a co-founder of Infield.ai , a startup building tools to help companies upgrade and maintain open source software dependencies, ensuring they stay up-to-date with the latest releases, features, and security fixes. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Google • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RS...

Chetan Gupta is the Head of AI Research at Hitachi. This episode explores the applications and challenges of generative AI in industrial settings. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Google • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS . Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site .

Semih Salihoglu   is an Associate Professor at University of Waterloo, and co-creator of Kuzu an open source embeddable property graph database management system. This episode explores the use of large language models (LLMs) for generating queries across different query languages like SQL and Cypher for graphs. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscri...

Sadegh Riazi , CEO and co-founder of Pyte , a startup offering secure, encrypted data collaboration solutions, enabling partners to maximize insights without compromising privacy or data integrity.  Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Google • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS . Detailed show notes can b...

Paco Nathan is the founder of Derwen , a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI. This episode explores recent developments in AI, including text-to-video models like Sora, frameworks for productionizing AI models, analyses of systems like Google’s Gemini, techniques to improve foundation models, AMD’s software innovations for AI acceleration, and knowledge graph augmentations of language mode...

Jerry Kaplan is the author of the new book “Generative Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know” .   Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Google • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS . Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site .

This episode is our annual deep dive into the themes and trends of AI in 2024, emphasizing the democratization of AI hardware, advancements in generative AI models, and the integration of AI into various enterprise processes.  Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Google • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS...

Bryan Cantrill , CTO and Co-founder of Oxide Cloud Computer , leads a startup delivering integrated hardware and software solutions for enterprises seeking cloud computing systems with hyperscaler agility. Oxide specializes in vertically integrated, scale-ready cloud infrastructure tailored for mainstream business needs. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.co...

Evangelos Simoudis is a seasoned venture investor and a senior advisor to global corporations, and Managing Director at Synapse Partners , a company that invests in startups developing enterprise applications that exploit Big Data and AI. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Google • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • A...

Sharon Zhou and Greg Diamos are co-founders of Lamini , a startup at the forefront of enabling enterprise adoption of large language models (LLMs). We discussed Lamini’s work with AMD , which focused on closing the gap between AMD hardware capabilities and software integration in LLM applications. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • S...

Uri Gneezy is Professor of Economics and Strategy at UC San Diego, and author of our 2023 Book of the Year , “ Mixed Signals: How Incentives Really Work ”. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Google • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS . Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site .

Dmitriy Ryaboy is the VP of AI Enablement at Ginkgo Bioworks , a startup that uses machine learning and AI to develop a wide range of applications.  The conversation focuses on the intersection of AI, machine learning, and biology, particularly in the field of synthetic biology. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Spotify • Overcast •...

Jian Zhang is co-founder, CTO, VP Engineering at Nexusflow AI a startup that uses Generative AI to build tools for Cybersecurity.  This conversation revolves around the integration of various AI components, with a specific focus on cybersecurity and function calling copilots . Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Spotify • Overcast • G...

Sarmad Qadri , founder and CEO of LastMile , a startup building an AI developer platform for engineering teams. This conversation delves into key artificial intelligence and machine learning themes, focusing on injecting software engineering rigor into the development of LLM and GenAI applications. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple •...

Nir Shavit , Professor at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, is also a Founder of Neural Magic , a startup working to accelerate open-source large language models and simplify AI deployments. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Google • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS . Deta...

Chirag Yagnik is a co-founder of Arta , a company that harnesses innovations in artificial intelligence and software to develop wealth management solutions. Arta aims to democratize access to sophisticated investment tools typically only available to ultra-high net worth individuals through family offices. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe :...

Juan Sequeda (Principal Scientist & Head of AI Lab) and Dean Allemang (Principal Solutions Architect) are knowledge graph experts at data.world , a startup that offers a data catalog powered by a knowledge graph to help organizations better understand and gain value from their data. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Spotify • Ov...

Max Mergenthaler (CEO) and Azul Garza Ramirez (CTO) are co-founders of Nixtla , a startup that seeks to make cutting-edge predictive insights widely accessible.  In this episode we discuss TimeGPT , Nixtla’s new frontier model for time series forecasting. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Google • AntennaPod • P...

Waleed Kadous , Chief Scientist at Anyscale , is one of my go-to experts for best practices on building applications leveraging large language models. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Google • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS . Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site .

Kieren James-Lubin , CEO of BlockApps and the Co-Chair Technical Steering Community for the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance .  Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Google • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS . Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site .

Earlier this year, I had a conversation with Sam Ramji , Chief Strategy Officer at DataStax and host of the Open||Source||Data podcast ,  where we talked about the evolution of big data and AI technologies. I’m airing our original conversation in its entirety on this holiday weekend in the U.S.  Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Spo...