Ben Lorica

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica

A series of informal conversations with thought leaders, researchers, practitioners, and writers on a wide range of topics in technology, science, and of course big data, data science, artificial intelligence, and related applications. Anchored by Ben Lorica (@BigData), the Data Exchange also features a roundup of the most important stories from the worlds of data, machine learning and AI. Detailed show notes for each episode can be found on https://thedataexchange.media/ The Data Exchange podcast is a production of Gradient Flow [https://gradientflow.com/].

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Ben Lorica

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Technology

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thedataexchange.media

Latest episode

Jul 11, 2026

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Episodes

Orchestration for LLM and RAG applications 16.11.2023

Malte Pietsch is co-founder & CTO of Deepset , the company behind the popular open source project Haystack , an orchestration framework for LLMs. 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 .

Reflections from the First AI Conference in San Francisco 09.11.2023

In this episode, Paco Nathan and I dive into insights from the inaugural AI Conference in San Francisco (video of talks can be found here ).  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 .

Kùzu: A simple, extremely fast, and embeddable graph database 02.11.2023

Semih Salihoglu   is an Associate Professor at University of Waterloo, and co-creator of Kuzu an open source embeddable property graph database management system. 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 sit...

Navigating the Nuances of Retrieval Augmented Generation 26.10.2023

Philipp Moritz (Co-founder and CTO) and Goku Mohandas (ML and Product Lead) of Anyscale do a deep dive into retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and large language models (LLMs).  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...

The Rise of Generative AI-Powered Social Media Manipulation 19.10.2023

Bill  Marcellino is a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation, and Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga , policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. They are the principal researchers behind the new report  “The Rise of Generative AI and the Coming Era of Social Media Manipulation 3.0” .  Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Spotify...

Versioning and MLOps for Generative AI 12.10.2023

Yucheng Low , Cofounder & CEO of  XetHub , discusses the challenges of managing large-scale machine learning assets and the need for version control. 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 .

Navigating the Generative AI Landscape 05.10.2023

Christopher Nguyen is CEO and Co-founder of Aitomatic , a startup that builds virtual advisors tailored with domain-specific expertise, primarily catering to industrial AI applications.  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 T...

Trends in Data Management: From Source to BI and Generative AI 28.09.2023

Sudhir Hasbe , Chief Product Officer at Neo4j , and a longtime technical and product leader in the data management space. 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 .

AI and the Future of Speech Technologies 21.09.2023

Yishay Carmiel is the CEO of Meaning , a startup at the forefront of building real-time speech applications for enterprises . We discuss the state of AI for speech and audio, including trends in Generative AI, automatic speech recognition, diarization, restoration, voice cloning, speech synthesis and more. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe :...

The Future of Cybersecurity: Generative AI and its Implications 14.09.2023

Casey Ellis is Founder/Chair/CTO of Bugcrowd , a Crowdsourced Cybersecurity Platform. Bugcrowd recently released “Inside the Mind of a Hacker 2023” , an interesting report that provides insights into the motivations, challenges, and specializations of hackers, as well as security implications of AI. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple •...

Ivy: The One-Stop Interface for AI Model Deployment and Development 07.09.2023

Daniel Lenton is the CEO of Ivy , a suite of tools designed to accelerate AI Model Development and Model Deployment. Ivy serves as a glue that connects various frameworks and compiler infrastructures, making them compatible.  Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Google • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS...

Navigating the Risk Landscape: A Deep Dive into Generative AI 31.08.2023

Andrew Burt is the Managing Partner at Luminos. Law , the first law firm focused on helping teams manage the privacy, fairness, security, and transparency of their AI and data — including generative AI systems.  We explore the state of risk and compliance in light of generative AI. This episode further explores the challenges and risks posed by AI, and the implications of the FTC probe into OpenAI...

Software Development with AI and LLMs 24.08.2023

Michele Catasta is VP of AI at Replit , an AI-powered software development platform that allows teams to build and deploy applications on any device, without any setup required. 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 E...

A Lightweight SDK for Integrating AI Models and Plugins 17.08.2023

Alex Chao is a Product Manager at Microsoft focused on Semantic Kernel , an open-source AI and LLM orchestrator. Semantic Kernel (SK) is a lightweight SDK that makes it easy to integrate AI models and plugins into applications.  Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Google • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  R...

Using LLMs to Build AI Co-pilots for Knowledge Workers 10.08.2023

Steve Hsu wears many hats, but most recently he is co-founder of SuperFocus , a startup building LLM-backed knowledge co-pilots for enterprises. 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 .

ETL for LLMs 03.08.2023

Brian Raymond is the founder of Unstructured , a startup building open source data pre-processing and ingestion tools specifically for Large Language Models (LLMs).  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...

The Future of Graph Databases 27.07.2023

Emil Eifrem is co-founder and CEO of Neo4j , the leading graph database and graph data science software provider. We discussed a range of topics including: the current state of graph databases, graph data science and graph neural networks, vector databases, the interplay between LLMs, knowledge graphs, and graph databases. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack....

Delivering Safe and Effective LLM and NLP Applications 20.07.2023

David Talby is the CTO and Founder of John Snow Labs , the company behind two popular open source projects: Spark NLP and LangTest .  In this episode we focus on LangTest, an open-source Python library designed to help developers deliver safe and effective Natural Language Processing (NLP) models. [ Note : After we recorded this episode, NLTest was renamed to LangTest .] Subscribe to the Gradient...

Using Data and AI to Democratize Entity Resolution and Master Data Management 13.07.2023

Jeff Jonas is Founder and CEO of Senzing , a startup focused on democratizing entity resolution – making this deceptively complicated task easy for programmers to use and deploy . Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS . Detailed show notes can be found on The Data...

An Open Source Data Framework for LLMs 06.07.2023

Jerry Liu is CEO and co-founder of LlamaIndex , an open source project and startup that builds tools that enable teams to augment LLMs with their own private data.  Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS . Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web s...

Redefining AI Infrastructure: Deploying and Developing with a Next-Generation Developer Platform 29.06.2023

Tim Davis is the Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Modular , a startup focused on building tools to help simplify AI infrastructure. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS . Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site .

The Rise of Custom Foundation Models 22.06.2023

Andrew Feldman is CEO and co-founder of Cerebras, a startup that has released the fastest AI accelerator, based on the largest processor. We discussed Cerebras-GPT , a family of language models that have set new benchmarks for accuracy and compute efficiency, with sizes ranging from 111 million to 13 billion parameters. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com...

The Future of Vector Databases and the Rise of Instant Updates 15.06.2023

Louis Brandy is  VP of Engineering at Rockset , the real-time search and analytics database startup formed by the creators of the popular open source project, RocksDB . Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS . Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange w...

LLMs Are the Key to Unlocking the Next Generation of Search 08.06.2023

Amin Ahmad , the co-founder of Vectara , has played a crucial role in developing a powerful API platform specifically tailored for developers. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS . Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site .

Building and Deploying Foundation Models for Enterprises 01.06.2023

Jonas Andrulis is the Founder & CEO Aleph Alpha , a startup that provides enterprise software solutions backed with their own large language models and multimodal models Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS . Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Excha...

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