Adaptation: The Missing Layer Between Apps and Foundation Models

Ben Lorica talks with Sudip Roy (Co-founder & CTO, Adaption Labs ) about why enterprise AI adoption stalls in the “last 5%” of reliability — and why waiting for the next frontier model release is usually the wrong bet. They unpack “adaptation” as something broader than post-training, including gradient-free, inference-time techniques that can sit above models to route, combine, and continuously improve behavior.

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Adaptation: The Missing Layer Between Apps and Foundation Models is an episode from The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica by Ben Lorica.

This episode is 33:12 long.

This episode was published on Mar 5, 2026.

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