Elon's Former Battery Chief: AI Data Centers Will Make Electricity Cheaper
Can today's power grid handle the explosive growth of AI data centers? Tesla Alum Drew Baglino , now founder & CEO of Heron Power , doesn't...
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Gradient Dissent
Gradient Dissent is a machine learning podcast hosted by Lukas Biewald that takes you behind-the-scenes to learn how industry leaders are putting deep learning models in production at Facebo...
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40 Trillion Tokens a Day (Yes, More Than OpenAI) | Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks
Should American companies be worried about Chinese open-source AI models? Lin Qiao , CEO of Fireworks , doesn't think so. In this episode, s...
He's Building an AI That Can't Lie | Dan Klein
"We are going to switch from the problem in AI being that nothing works to the problem being that everything works." Dan Klein has been stud...
He Raised $70M to Cure Every Disease With AI | Samuel G. Rodriques, Edison Scientific
Samuel Rodriques left physics because there were no unsolved problems left. Instead, he built an AI scientist named Kosmos to cure every dis...
Uber, Nissan, and Mercedes Chose This Self-Driving Startup | Alex Kendall, Wayve
"Every vehicle is capable of driverless operation. That's clearly the steady state of where we're going." Wayve started in a rented house in...
Why Netflix, Uber, and Spotify Never Lag: The Database Nobody Talks About | Aaron Katz
"Companies designing for agents, not humans, are going to get a lot of lift." ClickHouse started as an internal tool at Yandex. Today it's t...
The $64M Bet on an AI That Has to Be Right | Carina Hong, CEO of Axiom
Formal verification already consumes years of human effort. In this episode, Lukas Biewald talks with Carina Hong, Founder & CEO of Axiom, a...
What a $42B Software Co. Really Spends on AI Tools
“I don't worry about being replaced by AI. I worry about being replaced by someone who's really good at using AI.” Atlassian has 10,000+ eng...
Inside the $41B AI Cloud Challenging Big Tech | CoreWeave SVP
The future of AI training is shaped by one constraint: keeping GPUs fed. In this episode, Lukas Biewald talks with CoreWeave SVP Corey Sande...
Why Physical AI Needed a Completely New Data Stack
The future of AI is physical. In this episode, Lukas Biewald talks to Nikolaus West, CEO of Rerun, about why the breakthrough required to ge...
The Engineering Behind the World’s Most Advanced Video AI
Is video AI a viable path toward AGI? Runway ML founder Cristóbal Valenzuela joins Lukas Biewald just after Gen 4.5 reached the #1 position...
The CEO Behind the Fastest-Growing AI Inference Company | Tuhin Srivastava
In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Lukas Biewald talks with Tuhin Srivastava, CEO and founder of Baseten, one of the fastest-growing compa...
The Startup Powering The Data Behind AGI
In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Lukas Biewald talks with the CEO & founder of Surge AI, the billion-dollar company quietly powering the...
Arvind Jain on Building Glean and the Future of Enterprise AI
In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Lukas Biewald sits down with Arvind Jain, CEO and founder of Glean. They discuss Glean's evolution from...
How DeepL Built a Translation Powerhouse with AI with CEO Jarek Kutylowski
In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Lukas Biewald talks with Jarek Kutylowski, CEO and founder of DeepL, an AI-powered translation company....
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on Copilot and the Future of Software Development
In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Lukas Biewald sits down with Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub, to talk about the future of software enginee...
From Pharma to AGI Hype, and Developing AI in Finance: Martin Shkreli’s Journey
In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Lukas Biewald talks with Martin Shkreli — the infamous "pharma bro" turned founder — about his path fro...
Inside Cursor: The future of AI coding with Co-founder Sualeh Asif
In this episode of Gradient Dissent, host Lukas Biewald talks with Sualeh Asif, the CPO and co-founder of Cursor, one of the fastest-growing...
Inside the Dark Web, AI and Cybersecurity with Christopher Ahlberg CEO of Recorded Future
In this episode of Gradient Dissent, host Lukas Biewald talks with Christopher Ahlberg, CEO of Recorded Future, a pioneering cybersecurity c...
AI, autonomy, and the future of naval warfare with Captain Jon Haase, United States Navy
In this episode of Gradient Dissent, host Lukas Biewald speaks with Captain Jon Haase, United States Navy about real-world applications of A...