The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica
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357 episodes
Why Observability May Be AI’s Next Frontier
Ameet Talwalkar, Carnegie Mellon ML professor and Chief Scientist at Datadog, joins Ben Lorica to trace time series foundation models from sk...
AI Is Producing More Code, but Is It Producing More Value?
Ben Lorica sits down with Evangelos Simoudis to unpack why open-weights models are closing the gap with frontier labs and pushing enterprises toward “corporate AI sovereignty.”...
Stop Renting Generic Intelligence for Your Business
Manos Koukoumidis, CEO of Oumi, returns to the podcast to make the case that most enterprises are wildly inefficient, using bloated generic AI m...
The Data Layer Enterprise AI Has Been Missing
Andrew Moore, CEO of Lovelace, former head of Google Cloud AI, and former dean of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science, joi...
The Hidden Failure Modes of AI Agents
Ben Lorica speaks with Helen Gu, CEO of InsightFinder AI and professor at North Carolina State University, about why reliability...
The Data Stack Wasn't Built for AI — Here's What Comes Next
Ben Lorica talks with Chang She, co-founder and CEO of LanceDB, about the limitations of traditional analytical data tools like Pandas and ...
The SaaSpocalypse Is Coming — But Don't Count Out the Incumbents
Ben Lorica is joined by Evangelos Simoudis for a wide-ranging check-in on how AI is reshaping mobility, enterprise software, and corporate strategy.Subscribe to the G...
AI Agents Are Implemented, Not Adopted
Ben Lorica speaks with Hamza Tahir, co-founder of Kitaru, about what it takes to move AI agents from demos to production. They discuss ...
Why Your AI Agent Isn't Ready to Ship (And How to Know When It Is)
In this episode, host Ben Lorica sits down with Zhou Yu, associate professor of computer science at Columbia University and co-founder of Arklex AI
Why Foundation Models Haven’t Replaced Classical Machine Learning
In this episode, Ben Lorica sits down with Doris Xin and Moustafa Abdelbaky, co-founders of Disarray, t...
When "Garbage In, Garbage Out" Gets It Wrong
Ben Lorica speaks with Terrence Lee-St. John, founder of Enli and lead author of
As Code Generation Speeds Up, Who Tests the Output?
In this episode, Ben Lorica talks with Evan Marshall, CTO of Ito AI, about why software testing and QA are becoming the critical b...
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 ...