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The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica

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

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24:01

The AI Agent Rundown: 10 Things to Know Now

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica ·

2025/02/20

This episode explores the rapidly evolving world of AI agents, covering topics from GUI-based interaction and layered architectures to modular design, safety, and real-world deployment challenges. This episode relies on visuals, to view the visual presentation, go to the Youtube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsmBYBqQMIo Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podc...

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32:27

Why ‘Structure’ Is All You Need: A Deep Dive into...

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica ·

2025/02/13

Tom Smoker is the co-founder of WhyHow.ai, a startup that transforms unstructured data into structured knowledge, including knowledge graphs, enabling enterprises to deploy accurate and explainable AI solutions with its open-source graph tooling. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter 📩 https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Support our work by leaving a small tip 💰 https://buymeacoffee.com/gradientflow Subscribe: Apple · Spotify · Overcast · Pocket Casts · AntennaPod · Podcast Addict ·...

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38:57

Why Legal Hurdles Are the Biggest Barrier to AI Adoption

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica ·

2025/02/06

Andrew Burt is CEO of Luminos AI, a startup that provides AI and legal teams the tools they need to reduce AI liabilities and sign off on AI risks. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter 📩 https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Support our work by leaving a small tip 💰 https://buymeacoffee.com/gradientflow Subscribe: Apple · Spotify · Overcast · Pocket Casts · AntennaPod · Podcast Addict · Amazon · RSS. Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Da...

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47:54

Unlocking Spreadsheet Intelligence with AI

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica ·

2025/01/30

Hjalmar Gislason is founder and CEO of Grid, a startup focused on bringing spreadsheets into the AI-first era.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

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45:41

Monthly Roundup: Deregulation, Hardware, and...

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica ·

2025/01/23

This is our monthly conversation on topics in AI and Technology with Paco Nathan, the founder of Derwen, a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

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32:26

What AI Teams Need to Know for 2025

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica ·

2025/01/16

As AI moves from buzzword status to a core business driver, 2025 will be a turning point for organizations adopting advanced machine learning and generative models. This episode explores pivotal themes—from post-training optimization and agentic AI architectures to emerging regulations and data infrastructure.This episode relies on visuals, to view the visual presentation, go to the Youtube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFeUOZJSwFYSubscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter:&nb...

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25:11

AI Unlocked: The Data Bottleneck

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica ·

2025/01/09

Generative AI is transforming industries, but its full potential is hampered by a critical bottleneck: data. This episode explores the challenges of processing unstructured data, the shift from SQL-centric to AI-centric systems, and the emerging tools that are bridging the gap between AI models and real-world data.This episode relies on visuals, to view the visual presentation, go to the Youtube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnCA8VcCazYSubscribe to the Gradient Flow Newslette...

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27:43

The Data-Centric Shift in AI: Challenges,...

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica ·

2025/01/02

Robert Nishihara is co-founder of Anyscale and co-creator of Ray, the open source project that has emerged as the AI Compute Engine.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

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48:51

Monthly Roundup: Semiconductors, Frontier Models, and...

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica ·

2024/12/26

This is our monthly conversation on topics in AI and Technology with Paco Nathan, the founder of Derwen, a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

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36:02

Breaking the Cloud Barrier: How DBOS Transforms...

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica ·

2024/12/19

Qian Li and Peter Kraft, co-founders at DBOS, Inc., a startup that’s building a serverless platform for building highly reliable applications. We dive into DBOS, a system built on Postgres that addresses workflow management and application durability.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can b...

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47:27

The Essential Guide to AI Guardrails

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica ·

2024/12/12

Shreya Rajpal serves as CEO and co-founder of Guardrails AI , where she also co-created the popular open-source project Guardrails, a Python framework designed to help developers build reliable AI applications.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

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43:33

Beyond ETL: How Snow Leopard Connects AI, Agents, and...

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica ·

2024/12/05

Deepti Srivastava is the Founder and CEO of Snow Leopard. We dive into Snow Leopard’s innovative approach to data integration, exploring its live data access model that bypasses traditional ETL pipelines to offer real-time data retrieval directly from source systems.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many re...

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37:35

2024 Generative AI in Healthcare Survey Results

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica ·

2024/11/28

Happy Thanksgiving 🎊 In this episode David Talby (CTO of John Snow Labs) and I present the results of the 2024 Generative AI in Healthcare Survey. This episode is based on a recent webinar. To follow along with the slide presentation, check out the YouTube version of the podcast.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - wi...

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49:22

Monthly Roundup: BAML, Tencent’s Hunyuan Model, AI &...

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica ·

2024/11/21

This is our monthly conversation on topics in AI and Technology with Paco Nathan, the founder of Derwen, a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

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37:45

Building the Future of Finance: Inside AI Valuation Bots

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica ·

2024/11/14

Vasant Dhar is a Professor at the Stern School of Business and the Center for Data Science at NYU. He’s one of the creators of the Damodaran Bot, an AI-powered system designed to emulate the valuation analysis and investment insights of renowned finance professor Aswath Damodaran. This episode explores the transformative impact of AI in finance, covering applications such as generative AI, AI-powered valuation bots, systematic investing, and narrative analysis. It delves into the development ...

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45:45

Unleashing the Power of BAML in LLM Applications

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica ·

2024/11/07

Vaibhav Gupta is the CEO and co-founder of Boundary. In this episode, we explore BAML, an open source domain-specific language designed to streamline interactions with large language models (LLMs). Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

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30:09

Cracking the Code: How Enterprises Are Adopting...

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica ·

2024/10/31

In this conversation with Tim Persons, AI Leader at PwC, we explore the current landscape of generative AI adoption, examining how enterprises are navigating budget trends, moving from experimentation to full-scale deployment, and addressing cultural challenges along the way.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links t...

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52:57

Monthly Roundup: Ray Compiled Graphs, Llama 3.2 and...

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica ·

2024/10/24

This is our monthly conversation on topics in AI and Technology with Paco Nathan, the founder of Derwen, a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

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41:05

Reimagining Code: The AI-Driven Transformation of...

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica ·

2024/10/17

Matt Welsh is a technical leader at Aryn AI, an AI-powered ETL system for RAG frameworks, LLM-based applications, and vector databases. In this episode, we explore how AI is revolutionizing programming and software development. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Dat...

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51:06

The Security Debate: How Safe is Open-Source Software?

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica ·

2024/10/10

Mars Lan, Co-Founder & CTO at Metaphor1, an AI-powered social platform that enhances data governance by empowering all employees, not just data teams, to easily collaborate, search, and share insights through an intuitive, AI-driven interface. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can...

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