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Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI — 136 episodes

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Uber, Nissan, and Mercedes Chose This Self-Driving Startup | Alex Kendall, Wayve

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Why Netflix, Uber, and Spotify Never Lag: The Database Nobody Talks About | Aaron Katz

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The $64M Bet on an AI That Has to Be Right | Carina Hong, CEO of Axiom

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What a $42B Software Co. Really Spends on AI Tools

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Inside the $41B AI Cloud Challenging Big Tech | CoreWeave SVP

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Why Physical AI Needed a Completely New Data Stack

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The Engineering Behind the World’s Most Advanced Video AI

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The CEO Behind the Fastest-Growing AI Inference Company | Tuhin Srivastava

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The Startup Powering The Data Behind AGI

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Arvind Jain on Building Glean and the Future of Enterprise AI

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How DeepL Built a Translation Powerhouse with AI with CEO Jarek Kutylowski

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GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on Copilot and the Future of Software Development

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From Pharma to AGI Hype, and Developing AI in Finance: Martin Shkreli’s Journey

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Inside Cursor: The future of AI coding with Co-founder Sualeh Asif

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Inside the Dark Web, AI and Cybersecurity with Christopher Ahlberg CEO of Recorded Future

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AI, autonomy, and the future of naval warfare with Captain Jon Haase, United States Navy

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The rise of AI agents

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R1, OpenAI’s o3, and the ARC-AGI Benchmark: Insights from Mike Knoop

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DeepSeek, Stargate and AI's $600 Billion Question with Sequoia's David Cahn

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Building the future of collaborative AI development with Akshay Agrawal

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Evaluating LLMs with Chatbot Arena and Joseph E. Gonzalez

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AI’s breakthrough in weather forecasting with Brightband’s Julian Green

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What’s the path to AGI? A conversation with Turing Co-founder and CEO Jonathan Siddharth

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Vercel’s CEO & Founder Guillermo Rauch on the impact of AI on Web Development and Front End Engineering

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Snowflake’s CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy on 700+ LLM enterprise use cases

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Elevating ML Infrastructure with Modal Labs CEO Erik Bernhardsson

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From No-Code to AI-Powered Apps with Airtable’s Howie Liu

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Launching the Fastest AI Inference Solution with Cerebras Systems CEO Andrew Feldman

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Reinventing AI Agents with Imbue CEO Kanjun Qiu

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From startup to $1.2B with Lambda’s Stephen Balaban

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Harnessing AI for legal practice with CoCounsel’s Jake Heller

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Transforming Search with Perplexity AI’s CTO Denis Yarats

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AI in electronics: Quilter’s journey in PCB design

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The Future of AI in Coding with Codeium CEO Varun Mohan

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Shaping AI Benchmarks with Together AI Co-Founder Percy Liang

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Accelerating drug discovery with AI: Insights from Isomorphic Labs

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Redefining AI Hardware for Enterprise with SambaNova’s Rodrigo Liang

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Navigating the Vector Database Landscape with Pinecone's Edo Liberty

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Transforming Data into Business Solutions with Salesforce AI CEO, Clara Shih

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Upgrading Your Health: Navigating AI's Future In Healthcare with John Halamka of Mayo Clinic Platform

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Shaping the World of Robotics with Chelsea Finn

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The Power of AI in Search with You.com's Richard Socher

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AI’s Future: Investment & Impact with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil

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Revolutionizing AI Data Management with Jerry Liu, CEO of LlamaIndex

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Bridging AI and Science: The Impact of Machine Learning on Material Innovation with Joe Spisak of Meta

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Unlocking the Power of Language Models in Enterprise: A Deep Dive with Chris Van Pelt

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Providing Greater Access to LLMs with Brandon Duderstadt, Co-Founder and CEO of Nomic AI

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Exploring PyTorch and Open-Source Communities with Soumith Chintala, VP/Fellow of Meta, Co-Creator of PyTorch

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Advanced AI Accelerators and Processors with Andrew Feldman of Cerebras Systems

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Enabling LLM-Powered Applications with Harrison Chase of LangChain

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Deploying Autonomous Mobile Robots with Jean Marc Alkazzi at idealworks

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How EleutherAI Trains and Releases LLMs: Interview with Stella Biderman

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Scaling LLMs and Accelerating Adoption with Aidan Gomez at Cohere

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Neural Network Pruning and Training with Jonathan Frankle at MosaicML

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Jasper AI's Dave Rogenmoser & Saad Ansari on Growing & Maintaining an LLM-Based Company

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Shreya Shankar — Operationalizing Machine Learning

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Sarah Catanzaro — Remembering the Lessons of the Last AI Renaissance

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Cristóbal Valenzuela — The Next Generation of Content Creation and AI

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Jeremy Howard — The Simple but Profound Insight Behind Diffusion

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Jerome Pesenti — Large Language Models, PyTorch, and Meta

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D. Sculley — Technical Debt, Trade-offs, and Kaggle

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Emad Mostaque — Stable Diffusion, Stability AI, and What’s Next

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Jehan Wickramasuriya — AI in High-Stress Scenarios

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Will Falcon — Making Lightning the Apple of ML

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Aaron Colak — ML and NLP in Experience Management

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Jordan Fisher — Skipping the Line with Autonomous Checkout

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Drago Anguelov — Robustness, Safety, and Scalability at Waymo

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James Cham — Investing in the Intersection of Business and Technology

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Boris Dayma — The Story Behind DALL·E mini, the Viral Phenomenon

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Tristan Handy — The Work Behind the Data Work

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Johannes Otterbach — Unlocking ML for Traditional Companies

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Mircea Neagovici — Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and ML

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Jensen Huang — NVIDIA’s CEO on the Next Generation of AI and MLOps

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Peter & Boris — Fine-tuning OpenAI's GPT-3

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Ion Stoica — Spark, Ray, and Enterprise Open Source

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Stephan Fabel — Efficient Supercomputing with NVIDIA's Base Command Platform

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Chris Padwick — Smart Machines for More Sustainable Farming

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Kathryn Hume — Financial Models, ML, and 17th-Century Philosophy

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Sean & Greg — Biology and ML for Drug Discovery

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Chris, Shawn, and Lukas — The Weights & Biases Journey

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Pete Warden — Practical Applications of TinyML

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Pieter Abbeel — Robotics, Startups, and Robotics Startups

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Chris Albon — ML Models and Infrastructure at Wikimedia

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Emily M. Bender — Language Models and Linguistics

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Jeff Hammerbacher — From data science to biomedicine

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Josh Bloom — The Link Between Astronomy and ML

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Xavier Amatriain — Building AI-powered Primary Care

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Spence Green — Enterprise-scale Machine Translation

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Roger & DJ — The Rise of Big Data and CA's COVID-19 Response

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Amelia & Filip — How Pandora Deploys ML Models into Production

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Luis Ceze — Accelerating Machine Learning Systems

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Matthew Davis — Bringing Genetic Insights to Everyone

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Clément Delangue — The Power of the Open Source Community

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Wojciech Zaremba — What Could Make AI Conscious?

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Phil Brown — How IPUs are Advancing Machine Intelligence

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Alyssa Simpson Rochwerger — Responsible ML in the Real World

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Sean Taylor — Business Decision Problems

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Polly Fordyce — Microfluidic Platforms and Machine Learning

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Adrien Gaidon — Advancing ML Research in Autonomous Vehicles

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Nimrod Shabtay — Deployment and Monitoring at Nanit

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Chris Mattmann — ML Applications on Earth, Mars, and Beyond

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Vladlen Koltun — The Power of Simulation and Abstraction

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Dominik Moritz — Building Intuitive Data Visualization Tools

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Cade Metz — The Stories Behind the Rise of AI

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Dave Selinger — AI and the Next Generation of Security Systems

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Tim & Heinrich — Democraticizing Reinforcement Learning Research

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Daphne Koller — Digital Biology and the Next Epoch of Science

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Piero Molino — The Secret Behind Building Successful Open Source Projects

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Rosanne Liu — Conducting Fundamental ML Research as a Nonprofit

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Sean Gourley — NLP, National Defense, and Establishing Ground Truth

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Peter Wang — Anaconda, Python, and Scientific Computing

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Chris Anderson — Robocars, Drones, and WIRED Magazine

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Adrien Treuille — Building Blazingly Fast Tools That People Love

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Peter Norvig – Singularity Is in the Eye of the Beholder

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Robert Nishihara — The State of Distributed Computing in ML

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Ines & Sofie — Building Industrial-Strength NLP Pipelines

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Daeil Kim — The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Synthetic Data

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Joaquin Candela — Definitions of Fairness

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Richard Socher — The Challenges of Making ML Work in the Real World

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Zack Chase Lipton — The Medical Machine Learning Landscape

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Anthony Goldbloom — How to Win Kaggle Competitions

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Suzana Ilić — Cultivating Machine Learning Communities

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Jeremy Howard — The Story of fast.ai and Why Python Is Not the Future of ML

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Anantha Kancherla — Building Level 5 Autonomous Vehicles

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Bharath Ramsundar — Deep Learning for Molecules and Medicine Discovery

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Chip Huyen — ML Research and Production Pipelines

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Peter Skomoroch — Product Management for AI

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Josh Tobin — Productionizing ML Models

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Hamel Husain — Building Machine Learning Tools

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Peter Welinder — Deep Reinforcement Learning and Robotics

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Vicki Boykis — Machine Learning Across Industries

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Angela & Danielle — Designing ML Models for Millions of Consumer Robots

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Jack Clark — Building Trustworthy AI Systems

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Rachael Tatman — Conversational AI and Linguistics

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Nicolas Koumchatzky — Machine Learning in Production for Self-Driving Cars

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Brandon Rohrer — Machine Learning in Production for Robots