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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 podcast is a production of Gradient Flow [https://gradientflow.com/].
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- Why AI Agents Need a New Data Stack · 54 dkDeepti Srivastava, founder and CEO of Snow Leopard, joins us to discuss why AI agents need access to live enterprise data and why traditional approaches to data integration may…
- Your Agent Ran One Command. It Did a Dozen Things. · 48 dkBen Lorica talks with Chetan Conikee, founder of Modiqo and creator of Olki, about why existing tools often fall short when it comes to understanding what AI agents actually do…
- The AI Boom Is Impressive. Can It Last? · 50 dkBen Lorica and investor Evangelos Simoudis discuss the opportunities and risks revealed in Anthropic’s S-1, from explosive revenue growth and improving economics to mounting…
- When AI Writes the Code, Who Proves It Works? · 46 dkBen Lorica speaks with Leo de Moura, creator of Lean, VP and Distinguished Scientist at AWS, and Chief Architect of the Lean Focused Research Organization, about how AI is making…
- Let Domain Experts Build the Agents · 54 dkAkshay Sharma, ML Engineer at Lyft, and Nick Ung, Staff Applied Scientist at Lyft, explain how their team is building a platform that lets domain experts create customer-facing…
- AI Is Coming for Tasks Before It Comes for Jobs · 57 dkMIT FutureTech director Neil Thompson joins Ben Lorica to discuss how AI is reshaping work, the economy, and the future of automation. Drawing on recent research, Thompson…
- Why Build Your Own AI Model When Frontier Models Already Exist? · 49 dkIn this episode, we talk with Joel Hron, CTO of Thomson Reuters, about the company’s decision to develop its own frontier AI model, Thomson, using open-weight models and decades…
- Why AI Makes Games Worse—and How to Make Them Better · 58 dkPiero Molino, CEO and co-founder of Studio Atelico, joins Ben Lorica to discuss what happens when AI becomes a core game mechanic rather than a cost-cutting tool. Subscribe to…
- What Comes After Transformers? · 47 dkBen Lorica speaks with Zuzanna Stamirowska, CEO of Pathway, about the company’s push beyond transformers toward models that reason in latent space, learn from experience, and…
- Inside OpenAI's First Chip · 35 dkRichard Ho, VP of Hardware at OpenAI, explains how the team built Jalapeño, its first custom AI accelerator, and why controlling more of the hardware stack could lower inference…
- Navier-Stokes and AI generated work: If You Can't Explain It, Did You Really Do It? · 56 dkBen Lorica is joined by Evangelos Simoudis for a wide-ranging discussion on how AI is reshaping knowledge work: from the Navier-Stokes controversy and the need to protect…
- The Missing Data for Spatial Intelligence · 44 dkBen Lorica talks with David Fattal, founder and CTO of Leia Inc., about why stereo data could become an important ingredient for AI systems that need to understand the physical…
- Your AI Agent Is Costing You More Than You Think · 30 dkBen Lorica talks with Abi Aryan, AI engineer, author of LLMOps: Managing Large Language Models in Production, about how deploying generative AI is turning into a distributed…
- Reasoning Doesn't Start With Language · 40 dkBen Lorica speaks with Andrew Dai, co-founder and CEO of Elorian AI, about why today’s frontier models still struggle with complex visual reasoning and why simply scaling…
- An Agent Is Just an LLM in a For-Loop · 35 dkMaarten Grootendorst, a developer relations engineer at Google DeepMind and co-author of Hands-On Large Language Models and An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents, joins Ben Lorica to…
- The Bloomberg Terminal for AI Compute · 45 dkSteve Hou, Head of Research at Silicon Data, joins Ben Lorica to unpack the data behind the AI compute market: GPU rental indices, forward curves, and token expenditure trends…
- Can China Do to Robotaxis What It Did to Solar? · 55 dkBen Lorica talks with Evangelos Simoudis about three forces reshaping AI: why recent “rogue agent” incidents may be more about permissions, identity, and governance than runaway…
- Why Video Is AI's Next Great Frontier · 40 dkYoon Kim, President and Chief Strategy Officer of TwelveLabs, explains why understanding video takes more than bolting a language model onto a stream of frames. He walks through…
- Your AI Safety Tests Are Lying to You · 26 dkAndrew Burt, CEO and co-founder of Luminos, joins Ben Lorica to unpack Luminos’s new report, A Practical Guide to Agentic and Gen AI Risk Evals. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow…
- Enterprise AI Is Moving Slower Than You Think · 37 dkBen Lorica speaks with Denise Teng, partner at Gradient Ventures, about the real state of enterprise AI adoption, why security and data privacy still slow deployment, and why…
- Why Observability May Be AI’s Next Frontier · 51 dkAmeet Talwalkar, Carnegie Mellon ML professor and Chief Scientist at Datadog, joins Ben Lorica to trace time series foundation models from skepticism to Datadog’s Toto V1 and V2…
- AI Is Producing More Code, but Is It Producing More Value? · 56 dkBen Lorica sits down with Evangelos Simoudis to unpack why open-weights models are closing the gap with frontier labs and pushing enterprises toward “corporate AI sovereignty.”…
- Stop Renting Generic Intelligence for Your Business · 54 dkManos Koukoumidis, CEO of Oumi, returns to the podcast to make the case that most enterprises are wildly inefficient, using bloated generic AI models for tasks that demand…
- The Data Layer Enterprise AI Has Been Missing · 51 dkAndrew Moore, CEO of Lovelace, former head of Google Cloud AI, and former dean of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science, joins the podcast to discuss YottaGraph, a…
- The Hidden Failure Modes of AI Agents · 52 dkBen Lorica speaks with Helen Gu, CEO of InsightFinder AI and professor at North Carolina State University, about why reliability is becoming a central challenge for enterprise…
- The Data Stack Wasn't Built for AI — Here's What Comes Next · 40 dkBen Lorica talks with Chang She, co-founder and CEO of LanceDB, about the limitations of traditional analytical data tools like Pandas and Parquet when applied to AI workloads…
- The SaaSpocalypse Is Coming — But Don't Count Out the Incumbents · 41 dkBen Lorica is joined by Evangelos Simoudis for a wide-ranging check-in on how AI is reshaping mobility, enterprise software, and corporate strategy. Subscribe to the Gradient…
- AI Agents Are Implemented, Not Adopted · 46 dkBen Lorica speaks with Hamza Tahir, co-founder of Kitaru, about what it takes to move AI agents from demos to production. They discuss the difference between workflows and…
- Why Your AI Agent Isn't Ready to Ship (And How to Know When It Is) · 43 dkIn this episode, host Ben Lorica sits down with Zhou Yu, associate professor of computer science at Columbia University and co-founder of Arklex AI. Subscribe to the Gradient…
- Why Foundation Models Haven’t Replaced Classical Machine Learning · 52 dkIn this episode, Ben Lorica sits down with Doris Xin and Moustafa Abdelbaky, co-founders of Disarray, to discuss why classical machine learning models remain essential despite…
- When "Garbage In, Garbage Out" Gets It Wrong · 43 dkBen Lorica speaks with Terrence Lee-St. John, founder of Enli and lead author of From Garbage to Gold: A Data Architectural Theory of Predictive Robustness. Subscribe to the…
- As Code Generation Speeds Up, Who Tests the Output? · 44 dkIn this episode, Ben Lorica talks with Evan Marshall, CTO of Ito AI, about why software testing and QA are becoming the critical bottleneck in the age of coding agents. Subscribe…
- The Gap Between AI Hype and Enterprise Reality · 56 dkIn this episode, Ben Lorica talks with Richard Garris and Barry Dauber from Databricks, about what enterprises are actually struggling with as they move AI from demo to…
- Reading the Tea Leaves: What the World's Top AI Researchers Are Really Working On · 57 dkBen Lorica talks with Nick Vasiloglou, VP of Research at Relational AI, about Nick’s deep dive into NeurIPS 2025 and what people in industry should actually pay attention to…
- From Web Video to Real-World Robots · 31 dkBen Lorica speaks with Changan Chen, co-founder and Chief Research Officer at Rhoda AI, about what it takes to build foundation models for robots that can operate in the real…
- Why Your AI Committee Might Be Your Biggest AI Problem · 28 dkIn this episode, Ben Lorica and Evangelos Simoudis discuss how enterprises are structuring their internal AI efforts, highlighting the friction between top-down AI governance…
- Building Mathematical Superintelligence · 33 dkBen Lorica speaks with Tudor Achim, cofounder of Harmonic, about the fast progress of AI for mathematical reasoning and what it would take to build “mathematical…
- Your First AI Employee Is Already Clocking In · 46 dkIn this episode, host Ben Lorica sits down with Kay Zhu, Co-founder & CTO of Genspark AI, to explore the rapid evolution of autonomous AI agents and the concept of hiring your…
- Are Multi-Agent Systems More Complex Than They Need to Be? · 52 dkIn this episode, host Ben Lorica sits down with Arun Kumar (Associate Professor at UC San Diego and Co-founder/CTO of RapidFire AI) to explore the rapidly evolving discipline of…
- Coding Agents Meet Data Science · 42 dkIn this episode, Ben Lorica is joined by Mikio Braun, Senior Principal Applied Scientist at Zalando, for a wide-ranging conversation about the practical realities of AI-powered…
- World Models Are Here—But It’s Still the GPT-2 Phase · 44 dkIn this episode, host Ben Lorica speaks with Jeff Hawke, CTO at Odyssey, about world models — a category of AI that generates continuous, interactive simulations from images or…
- The Hidden Challenges of Running AI at Scale in Production · 32 dkChen Goldberg, EVP of Engineering at CoreWeave, joins the podcast to discuss the critical infrastructure shifts required as companies move AI from pilot to production. Subscribe…
- What No One Tells You About Staying Employable in the AI Era · 43 dkIn this episode, host Ben Lorica is joined by Evangelos Simoudis to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping the modern workplace and what knowledge workers must do to…
- Adaptation: The Missing Layer Between Apps and Foundation Models · 33 dkBen 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…
- Securing the "YOLO" Era of AI Agents · 52 dkJason Martin, Director of Adversarial Research at HiddenLayer, returns to discuss the security implications of OpenClaw, a viral open-source AI personal assistant that was…
- Building the Open Source Alternative to AWS · 50 dkIn this episode, Umur Cubukcu, co-founder of Ubicloud, explains what an “open cloud” should mean in practice — starting with an open-source control plane and extending to…
- Breaking the Memory Wall in the Age of Inference · 46 dkIn this episode, Sid Sheth, founder and CEO of d-matrix, discusses the company’s approach to AI inference hardware with a focus on solving the memory bottleneck problem…
- Is Waymo Actually Profitable? The Real Cost of the Robotaxi Revolution · 34 dkBen Lorica and Evangelos Simoudis discuss two critical technology infrastructure topics: the evolving economics of autonomous vehicles and growing local opposition to AI data…
- Beyond Vibe Coding: Building Your Entire Business with AI · 33 dkEthan Ouyang, Technical Lead at Atoms, joins the podcast to discuss the rise of “vibe business”: multi-agent AI systems that can research a market, design a product, build and…
- The Rise of the Machine Identity: Securing the AI Workforce and AI Agents · 43 dkBen Lorica talks with Jason Martin (co-founder of Permiso Security) about what it means to secure AI agents as they proliferate across enterprises. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow…
