The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica

This is our monthly conversation on trending topics in AI and Technology with Paco Nathan, the founder of Derwen, a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI.

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Andrew Burt is co-founder of both Luminos.Law and Luminos.ai, entities building tools to help companies mitigate and manage AI risks. We dive into the critical topic of AI incident response, highligh…

Chang She is CEO and co-founder of LanceDB, an open-source database designed for multimodal AI applications, offering scalable vector search, streaming training data, and interactive exploration of l…

Ajay Kulkarni and Mike Freedman are the co-founders of Timescale, a startup that provides an enhanced version of PostgreSQL optimized for time-series analytics, AI applications, and scalable relation…

Philip Rathle, CTO of Neo4j, joins the podcast to discuss the rising popularity of graph-enhanced retrieval augmented generation (GraphRAG).  He also discusses the potential impact of the new GQL gra…

Paco Nathan is the founder of Derwen, a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI. This episode is part of our series of monthly roundups and covers: the proposed California Senate Bill 1047 for re…

Jiwoo Hong and  Noah Lee of KAIST AI are co-authors of ORPO: Monolithic Preference Optimization without Reference Model. 

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In this episode, Pete Warden introduces his company, Useful Sensors, which focuses on developing AI solutions for consumer electronics and appliances.  [This episode originally aired on Generative AI…

Ken Liu,  Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Stanford, is the author of Machine Unlearning in 2024. We explore the concept of machine unlearning, a process of removing specific data points from tra…

Joao (Joe) Moura is the  founder of crewAI, an open-source platform that simplifies the development and deployment of AI agents, allowing users to build autonomous systems for various tasks using mul…

Paco Nathan is the founder of Derwen, a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI. This episode is part of our series of monthly roundups and covers: Llama 3 and other recent LLMs, the rise of open…

Gunther Hagleither is co-founder of Waii, a startup that provides an API enabling businesses to seamlessly integrate text-to-SQL functionality into their products.

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In this episode we explore the latest developments in artificial intelligence with a focus on the 2024 Artificial Intelligence Index Report, edited by Nestor Maslej from Stanford’s Institute for Huma…

In this episode, Hagay Lupesko, Senior Director of Engineering at Databricks MosaicAI, delves into the creation and aspirations behind DBRX, an innovative open Large Language Model (LLM) designed to …

Paco Nathan is the founder of Derwen, a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI. This episode is part of our series of monthly roundups and covers: recently released large language models,  Const…

Steve Pike is a co-founder of Infield.ai, a startup building tools to help companies upgrade and maintain open source software dependencies, ensuring they stay up-to-date with the latest releases, fe…

Chetan Gupta is the Head of AI Research at Hitachi. This episode explores the applications and challenges of generative AI in industrial settings.

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Semih Salihoglu  is an Associate Professor at University of Waterloo, and co-creator of Kuzu an open source embeddable property graph database management system. This episode explores the use of larg…

Sadegh Riazi, CEO and co-founder of Pyte, a startup offering secure, encrypted data collaboration solutions, enabling partners to maximize insights without compromising privacy or data integrity. 

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Paco Nathan is the founder of Derwen, a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI. This episode explores recent developments in AI, including text-to-video models like Sora, frameworks for producti…