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/].
Episodes
288 episodes
From Vibe Coding to Autonomous Agents
Jackie Brosamer and Brad Axen from Block discuss codename goose (Goose), their open-s...
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51:16
How a Public-Benefit Startup Plans to Make Open Source the Default for Serious AI
Oumi Labs CEO Manos Koukoumidis lays out a vision for “unconditionally open” foundation models...
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48:45
The Highly Uncertain Future of OpenAI’s Dominance
Dan Schwarz (CEO & Co-Founder, Futuresearch) explains why his firm finds OpenAI’s $125 billion revenue projection highly implausible, cit...
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54:07
Beyond Guardrails: Defending LLMs Against Sophisticated Attacks
Jason Martin is an AI Security Researcher at HiddenLayer. This episode explores “policy puppetry,” a universal attack technique bypassing ...
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44:31
Navigating the Generative AI Maze in Business
Evangelos Simoudis is Managing Director at Synapse Partners, a firm that helps corporations apply AI and invests in startups developing data-...
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49:35
The Practical Realities of AI Development
Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks AI, dives into the practical challenges AI developers face, from UX/DX hurdles to complex systems engineeri...
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37:30
Beyond the Demo: Building AI Systems That Actually Work
Hamel Husain is the founder of Parlance Labs. He discusses how successful AI implementation requires fundamental data science skills often overlooked in current educational resources that focus too heavily on tools and frameworks....
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27:36
Vibe Coding and the Rise of AI Agents: The Future of Software Development is Here
Steve Yegge is an evangelist at Sourcegraph, a startups that is industrializing software development with AI agents. This episode explores the p...
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36:35
2025 Artificial Intelligence Index
Nestor Maslej is a Research Manager at Stanford's HAI, and editor-in-chief of the 2025
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51:44
How AI is Transforming Talent Development
Workera founder, Kian Katanforoosh, discusses how skills verification has evolved into a critical market focused on both assessment and profess...
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28:30
Prompts as Functions: The BAML Revolution in AI Engineering
David Hughes, Principal Data & AI Solution Architect at Enterprise Knowledge. Our discussion centers on BAML, a domain...
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38:49
Building the Operating System for AI Agents
Chi Wang is co-creator of AG2, and a Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind. This episode explores
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45:42
Bridging the AI Agent Prototype-to-Production Chasm
Ilan Kadar is co-founder and CEO of Plurai. This episode introduces IntellA...
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38:40
The Evolution of Reinforcement Fine-Tuning in AI
Travis Addair is Co-Founder & CTO at Predibase. In this episode, the discussion centers on transforming pre-trained foundation models...
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45:45
Beyond GPUs: Cerebras’ Wafer-Scale Engine for Lightning-Fast AI Inference
Hagay Lupesko is the SVP for AI Inference at Cerebras Systems. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter 📩
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The Future of AI: Regulation, Foundation Models & User Experience
This is our semi-regular conversation on topics in AI and Technology with Paco Nathan, the founder of Derwen, a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI. ...
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47:42
The AI Agent Rundown: 10 Things to Know Now
This episode explores the rapidly evolving world of AI agents, covering topics from GUI-based interaction and layered architectures to modular design, safety, and real-world deployment challenges.This episode relies on visuals, to vie...
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Why ‘Structure’ Is All You Need: A Deep Dive into Next-Gen AI Retrieval
Tom Smoker is the co-founder of WhyHow.ai, a startup that transforms unstructured data into structured knowledge, including knowledge graphs, en...
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32:27
Why Legal Hurdles Are the Biggest Barrier to AI Adoption
Andrew Burt is CEO of Luminos AI, a startup that provides AI and legal teams the
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38:57
Unlocking Spreadsheet Intelligence with AI
Hjalmar Gislason is founder and CEO of Grid, a startup focused on bringing spreadsheets into the AI...
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47:54
Monthly Roundup: Deregulation, Hardware, and Inference Scaling
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.
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45:41
What AI Teams Need to Know for 2025
As AI moves from buzzword status to a core business driver, 2025 will be a turning point for organizations adopting advanced machine learning and generative models. This episode explores pivotal themes—from post-training optimization and agenti...
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32:26
AI Unlocked: The Data Bottleneck
Generative AI is transforming industries, but its full potential is hampered by a critical bottleneck: data. This episode explores the challenges of processing unstructured data, the shift from SQL-centric to AI-centric systems, and the emergin...
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