The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica
Episodes
345 episodes
The Gap Between AI Hype and Enterprise Reality
In this episode, Ben Lorica talks with Richard Garris and Barry Dauber from Databricks...
Reading the Tea Leaves: What the World's Top AI Researchers Are Really Working On
Ben Lorica talks with Nick Vasiloglou, VP of Research at Relational AI, about
From Web Video to Real-World Robots
Ben Lorica speaks with Changan Chen, co-founder and Chief Research Officer at Rhoda AI, about what it takes to build foundation models for ro...
Why Your AI Committee Might Be Your Biggest AI Problem
In this episode, Ben Lorica and Evangelos Simoudis discuss how enterprises are structuring their internal AI efforts, highlighting the friction between top-down AI governance c...
Building Mathematical Superintelligence
Ben Lorica speaks with Tudor Achim, cofounder of Harmonic, about the fast progress of AI for mathematical reasoning and what it would ta...
Your First AI Employee Is Already Clocking In
In this episode, host Ben Lorica sits down with Kay Zhu, Co-founder & CTO of Genspark AI, to explore the rapid evolution of auto...
Are Multi-Agent Systems More Complex Than They Need to Be?
In this episode, host Ben Lorica sits down with Arun Kumar (Associate Professor at UC San Diego and Co-founder/CTO of RapidFire AI) to explore ...
Coding Agents Meet Data Science
In this episode, Ben Lorica is joined by Mikio Braun, Senior Principal Applied Scientist at Zalando, for a wide-ranging conversation about the practical realities of AI-powered coding agents. T...
World Models Are Here—But It’s Still the GPT-2 Phase
In this episode, host Ben Lorica speaks with Jeff Hawke, CTO at Odyssey, about world models — a category of AI that generates continuous, i...
The Hidden Challenges of Running AI at Scale in Production
Chen Goldberg, EVP of Engineering at CoreWeave, joins the podcast to discuss the critical infrastructure shifts required as companies...
What No One Tells You About Staying Employable in the AI Era
In this episode, host Ben Lorica is joined by Evangelos Simoudis to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping the modern workplace and what knowledge workers must do to ...
Adaptation: The Missing Layer Between Apps and Foundation Models
Ben Lorica talks with Sudip Roy (Co-founder & CTO, Adaption Labs) about why enterprise AI adoption stalls in the “last 5%...
Securing the "YOLO" Era of AI Agents
Jason Martin, Director of Adversarial Research at HiddenLayer, returns to discuss the security implications of OpenClaw, a viral open-...
Building the Open Source Alternative to AWS
In this episode, Umur Cubukcu, co-founder of Ubicloud, explains what an “open cloud” should mean in practice — starting with an open-source c...
Breaking the Memory Wall in the Age of Inference
In this episode, Sid Sheth, founder and CEO of d-matrix, discusses the company’s approach to AI inference hardware with a focus on solving the...
Is Waymo Actually Profitable? The Real Cost of the Robotaxi Revolution
Ben Lorica and Evangelos Simoudis discuss two critical technology infrastructure topics: the evolving economics of autonomous vehicles and growing local opposition to AI d...
Beyond Vibe Coding: Building Your Entire Business with AI
Ethan Ouyang, Technical Lead at Atoms, joins the podcast to discuss the rise of “vibe business”: multi-agent AI systems that can research a ma...
The Rise of the Machine Identity: Securing the AI Workforce and AI Agents
Ben Lorica talks with Jason Martin (co-founder of Permiso Security) about what it means to secure AI agents as they proliferate across enterprises. ...
Why Traditional Observability Falls Short for AI Agents
Lior Gavish, CTO and co-founder of Monte Carlo Data, joins Ben Lorica to discuss the critical transition from data observability to agent ob...
Teaching AI How to Forget
In this episode, Ben Lorica speaks with Ben Luria, CEO and co-founder of Hirundo, about the emerging necessity of
The Humanoid Hype Cycle: Separating “Shiny Objects” from Real Utility
In this episode, Ben Lorica and Evangelos Simoudis of Synapse Partners to break down the most significant developments f...
The Junior Data Engineer is Now an AI Agent
Matthew Glickman, Co-founder and CEO of Genesis Computing and former VP of Product at Snowflake, joins Ben Lorica to discuss...
The Truth About Agents in Production
In this panel discussion from the PyTorch conference, Ben Lorica speaks with Samuel Colvin (Pydantic),