Podcast Episodes

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-driven AI applications. This episode explores the current …

Published on 4 months ago

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 engineering. Discover key trends like the convergence of open-source and p…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

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 h…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

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 paradigm shift in software development with the rise of …

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

2025 Artificial Intelligence Index

Nestor Maslej is a Research Manager at Stanford's HAI, and editor-in-chief of the 2025 AI Index Report.

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Published on 5 months ago

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 professional development. 

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Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

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-specific language that transforms prompts into structured functions with defined…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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 AG2, an open-source “agent OS” that provides infrastructure for developers to build sophi…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Bridging the AI Agent Prototype-to-Production Chasm

Ilan Kadar is co-founder and CEO of Plurai. This episode introduces IntellAgent, an open-source platform designed to address these challenges through synthetic data generation, knowledge graph constr…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

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 into domain-specific assets through advanced customization techni…

Published on 6 months ago