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 p ...
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Evangelos Simoudis is Managing Director at Synapse Partners, a firm that assists corporations in implementing AI solutions, and invests in startups developing applications that exploit data using AI. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podc…
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Shuveb Hussain is co-founder of Unstract, a no-code platform that uses large language models to extract structured data from unstructured documents, allowing users to build API endpoints and ETL pipelines to automate document processing workflows. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spoti…
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Alfred Spector’s distinguished career includes groundbreaking work in networked computing systems and leadership roles in research at IBM, Google, and Two Sigma Investments. He is currently a visiting scholar at MIT. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • …
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This is our monthly conversation on trending topics in AI and Technology with Paco Nathan, the founder of Derwen, a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS. Detailed sho…
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Andrew Burt is co-founder of both Luminos.Law and Luminos.ai, entities building tools to help companies mitigate and manage AI risks. We dive into the critical topic of AI incident response, highlighting its unique challenges compared to traditional software incidents. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Su…
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Chang She is CEO and co-founder of LanceDB, an open-source database designed for multimodal AI applications, offering scalable vector search, streaming training data, and interactive exploration of large AI datasets. In this episode we discuss Lance, an open-source columnar data format that tackles the unique challenges posed by modern AI and machi…
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Ajay Kulkarni and Mike Freedman are the co-founders of Timescale, a startup that provides an enhanced version of PostgreSQL optimized for time-series analytics, AI applications, and scalable relational workloads. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • Ante…
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Philip Rathle, CTO of Neo4j, joins the podcast to discuss the rising popularity of graph-enhanced retrieval augmented generation (GraphRAG). He also discusses the potential impact of the new GQL graph query language standard. [Link to the demo that Philip showed.] Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscri…
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Paco Nathan is the founder of Derwen, a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI. This episode is part of our series of monthly roundups and covers: the proposed California Senate Bill 1047 for regulating AI models, including its feasibility and potential unintended consequences. We also discuss the rising popularity of graph retrieval augmented…
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Jiwoo Hong and Noah Lee of KAIST AI are co-authors of ORPO: Monolithic Preference Optimization without Reference Model. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS. Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange…
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In this episode, Pete Warden introduces his company, Useful Sensors, which focuses on developing AI solutions for consumer electronics and appliances. [This episode originally aired on Generative AI in the Real World, a podcast series I’m hosting for O’Reilly.] Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe:…
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Ken Liu, Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Stanford, is the author of Machine Unlearning in 2024. We explore the concept of machine unlearning, a process of removing specific data points from trained AI models. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • Ant…
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Joao (Joe) Moura is the founder of crewAI, an open-source platform that simplifies the development and deployment of AI agents, allowing users to build autonomous systems for various tasks using multiple large language models. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocke…
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Paco Nathan is the founder of Derwen, a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI. This episode is part of our series of monthly roundups and covers: Llama 3 and other recent LLMs, the rise of open foundation models, the evolution of AI agents, and the importance of data engineering. We also explore the limitations of leaderboards in evaluating A…
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Gunther Hagleither is co-founder of Waii, a startup that provides an API enabling businesses to seamlessly integrate text-to-SQL functionality into their products. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS. Detailed …
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In this episode we explore the latest developments in artificial intelligence with a focus on the 2024 Artificial Intelligence Index Report, edited by Nestor Maslej from Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast…
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In this episode, Hagay Lupesko, Senior Director of Engineering at Databricks MosaicAI, delves into the creation and aspirations behind DBRX, an innovative open Large Language Model (LLM) designed to bridge the gap between quality and cost-effectiveness for AI applications. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com…
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Paco Nathan is the founder of Derwen, a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI. This episode is part of our series of monthly roundups and covers: recently released large language models, Constraint-Driven Innovation, highlights from GTC 2024, and Lessons from the First AI Workload Security Exploit. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: h…
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Steve Pike is a co-founder of Infield.ai, a startup building tools to help companies upgrade and maintain open source software dependencies, ensuring they stay up-to-date with the latest releases, features, and security fixes. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Googl…
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Chetan Gupta is the Head of AI Research at Hitachi. This episode explores the applications and challenges of generative AI in industrial settings. 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…
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Semih Salihoglu is an Associate Professor at University of Waterloo, and co-creator of Kuzu an open source embeddable property graph database management system. This episode explores the use of large language models (LLMs) for generating queries across different query languages like SQL and Cypher for graphs. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newslett…
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Sadegh Riazi, CEO and co-founder of Pyte, a startup offering secure, encrypted data collaboration solutions, enabling partners to maximize insights without compromising privacy or data integrity. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Google • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict…
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Paco Nathan is the founder of Derwen, a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI. This episode explores recent developments in AI, including text-to-video models like Sora, frameworks for productionizing AI models, analyses of systems like Google’s Gemini, techniques to improve foundation models, AMD’s software innovations for AI acceleration, a…
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Jerry Kaplan is the author of the new book “Generative Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know”. 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.…
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This episode is our annual deep dive into the themes and trends of AI in 2024, emphasizing the democratization of AI hardware, advancements in generative AI models, and the integration of AI into various enterprise processes. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Google…
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Bryan Cantrill, CTO and Co-founder of Oxide Cloud Computer, leads a startup delivering integrated hardware and software solutions for enterprises seeking cloud computing systems with hyperscaler agility. Oxide specializes in vertically integrated, scale-ready cloud infrastructure tailored for mainstream business needs. Subscribe to the Gradient Flo…
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Evangelos Simoudis is a seasoned venture investor and a senior advisor to global corporations, and Managing Director at Synapse Partners, a company that invests in startups developing enterprise applications that exploit Big Data and AI. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overc…
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Sharon Zhou and Greg Diamos are co-founders of Lamini, a startup at the forefront of enabling enterprise adoption of large language models (LLMs). We discussed Lamini’s work with AMD, which focused on closing the gap between AMD hardware capabilities and software integration in LLM applications. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gr…
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Uri Gneezy is Professor of Economics and Strategy at UC San Diego, and author of our 2023 Book of the Year, “Mixed Signals: How Incentives Really Work”. 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…
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Dmitriy Ryaboy is the VP of AI Enablement at Ginkgo Bioworks, a startup that uses machine learning and AI to develop a wide range of applications. The conversation focuses on the intersection of AI, machine learning, and biology, particularly in the field of synthetic biology. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack…
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Jian Zhang is co-founder, CTO, VP Engineering at Nexusflow AI a startup that uses Generative AI to build tools for Cybersecurity. This conversation revolves around the integration of various AI components, with a specific focus on cybersecurity and function calling copilots. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.c…
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Sarmad Qadri, founder and CEO of LastMile, a startup building an AI developer platform for engineering teams. This conversation delves into key artificial intelligence and machine learning themes, focusing on injecting software engineering rigor into the development of LLM and GenAI applications. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://g…
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Nir Shavit, Professor at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, is also a Founder of Neural Magic, a startup working to accelerate open-source large language models and simplify AI deployments. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Google • Anten…
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Chirag Yagnik is a co-founder of Arta , a company that harnesses innovations in artificial intelligence and software to develop wealth management solutions. Arta aims to democratize access to sophisticated investment tools typically only available to ultra-high net worth individuals through family offices. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter:…
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Juan Sequeda (Principal Scientist & Head of AI Lab) and Dean Allemang (Principal Solutions Architect) are knowledge graph experts at data.world, a startup that offers a data catalog powered by a knowledge graph to help organizations better understand and gain value from their data. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.sub…
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Max Mergenthaler (CEO) and Azul Garza Ramirez (CTO) are co-founders of Nixtla, a startup that seeks to make cutting-edge predictive insights widely accessible. In this episode we discuss TimeGPT, Nixtla’s new frontier model for time series forecasting. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • …
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Waleed Kadous, Chief Scientist at Anyscale, is one of my go-to experts for best practices on building applications leveraging large language models. 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 fou…
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Kieren James-Lubin, CEO of BlockApps and the Co-Chair Technical Steering Community for the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. 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 …
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Earlier this year, I had a conversation with Sam Ramji, Chief Strategy Officer at DataStax and host of the Open||Source||Data podcast, where we talked about the evolution of big data and AI technologies. I’m airing our original conversation in its entirety on this holiday weekend in the U.S. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradie…
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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…
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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…
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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 note…
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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. …
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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…
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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…
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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 •…
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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 s…
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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: h…
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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://…
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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 •…
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