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
295 episodes
How Agentic AI is Transforming Wall Street
Josh Pantony, CEO of Boosted AI, discusses Alfa, an agentic AI platform that creates persistent AI workers for finance professionals, movin...
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40:09
The Quantum Advantage Is Real—But Where's the Infrastructure?
Jennifer Prendki explains that while universal quantum computers are a decade away, specialized quantum accelerators are already tackling AI problems in finance and pharma. She ...
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45:53
From Human-Readable to Machine-Usable: The New API Stack
Sagar Batchu, CEO of Speakeasy, joins the podcast to discuss the critical shift in API development as AI agents become primary consumers....
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38:23
Why Voice Security Is Your Next Big Problem
In this episode, Yishay Carmiel and Roy Zanbel of Apollo Defend<...
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41:37
Unlocking Unstructured Data with LLMs
Shreya Shankar is a PhD student at UC Berkeley in the EECS department. This episode explores how Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing the processing of unstructured enterprise data like text documents and PDFs. It intro...
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27:46
Building Production-Grade RAG at Scale
Douwe Kiela, Founder and CEO of Contextual AI, discusses why RAG isn’t obsolete despite massive context windows, explaining how RAG 2.0 rep...
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31:24
Unlocking AI Superpowers in Your Terminal
Zach Lloyd, Founder/CEO of Warp, joins the podcast to discuss how Warp is revolutionizing the command-line terminal by integrating AI.Subscribe t...
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44:59
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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39:26
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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