Best Intelligent Edge Analytics Podcasts (2025)

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Why Vision Language Models Ignore What They See with Munawar Hayat - #758 57:40

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In this episode, we’re joined by Munawar Hayat, researcher at Qualcomm AI Research, to discuss a series of papers presented at NeurIPS 2025 focusing on multimodal and generative AI. We dive into the persistent challenge of object hallucination in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), why models often discard visual information in favor of pre-trained lang…

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The Future of AI with Illia Polosukhin: The Man Who Put the T in GPT 54:46

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In this episode, Illia Polosukhin joins Henrik and Jeremy to trace the origins of transformers and how practical constraints inside Google led to a breakthrough that reshaped modern AI. He explains why recurrent models were hitting limits, how parallel attention opened the door to scale, and why he believed a major jump in capability was imminent l…

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Teaser: What We Learned From the Man Who Put the T in GPT 11:14

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In this teaser, Jeremy and Henrik reflect on their conversation with Illia Polosukhin, co-author of the “Attention Is All You Need” paper and founder of Near Protocol. They dig into Illia’s early expectations for ChatGPT, why “owning your AI” isn’t just a catchphrase, and how blockchain could help protect the information we rely on. They also explo…

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Scaling Agentic Inference Across Heterogeneous Compute with Zain Asgar - #757 48:44

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In this episode, Zain Asgar, co-founder and CEO of Gimlet Labs, joins us to discuss the heterogeneous AI inference across diverse hardware. Zain argues that the current industry standard of running all AI workloads on high-end GPUs is unsustainable for agents, which consume significantly more tokens than traditional LLM applications. We explore Gim…

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AI’s Next Frontier: World Models Explained by Christian Keller 45:04

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In this episode, Christian Keller joins Henrik and Jeremy to explain how world models are shaping the next stage of generative AI. He talks through how AI learns using different types of inputs, and why video adds a sense of continuity, change, and cause and effect that text alone does not provide. Christian shares vivid analogies and clear example…

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Teaser: Inside Our Debrief of “AI’s Next Frontier with Christian Keller” 7:49

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In this teaser, Jeremy and Henrik break down their immediate takeaways from their conversation with Christian Keller, including model fidelity, hallucinations, and the surprising ways AI is already reshaping everyday workflows. Full episode drops tomorrow. For more prompts, tips, and AI tools. Check out our website: https://www.beyondtheprompt.ai/ …

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Proactive Agents for the Web with Devi Parikh - #756 56:04

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Today, we're joined by Devi Parikh, co-founder and co-CEO of Yutori, to discuss browser use models and a future where we interact with the web through proactive, autonomous agents. We explore the technical challenges of creating reliable web agents, the advantages of visually-grounded models that operate on screenshots rather than the browser’s mor…

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AI Orchestration for Smart Cities and the Enterprise with Robin Braun and Luke Norris - #755 54:46

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Today, we're joined by Robin Braun, VP of AI business development for hybrid cloud at HPE, and Luke Norris, co-founder and CEO of Kamiwaza, to discuss how AI systems can be used to automate complex workflows and unlock value from legacy enterprise data. Robin and Luke detail high-impact use cases from HPE and Kamiwaza’s collaboration on an “Agentic…

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How Science Suggests You Change Your Organization - with Prosci’s Tim Creasey and Paul Gonzalez 53:46

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Generative AI is moving fast, but most organizations aren’t. Tim Creasey and Paul Gonzalez have spent their careers studying why. As leaders at Prosci, they’ve worked with thousands of teams navigating complex change, and in this episode they share what their research says about the human side of transformation. They discuss why traditional tactics…

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Building an AI Mathematician with Carina Hong - #754 55:52

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In this episode, Carina Hong, founder and CEO of Axiom, joins us to discuss her work building an "AI Mathematician." Carina explains why this is a pivotal moment for AI in mathematics, citing a convergence of three key areas: the advanced reasoning capabilities of modern LLMs, the rise of formal proof languages like Lean, and breakthroughs in code …

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Episode 62 - The Hidden Warehouse Risk That Could Cost You Your Job 18:43

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Answering YES to the question today are Ingmar Schoemacher, Director of Enterprise Sales Europe for Powerfleet, and Colin D’Arcy-Burt, Product Manager at Impact Handling. In this episode, we talk about: The hidden risks in warehouse safety Why behavioural change is essential And how AI and technology enable safety Please enjoy my conversation with …

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High-Efficiency Diffusion Models for On-Device Image Generation and Editing with Hung Bui - #753 52:23

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In this episode, Hung Bui, Technology Vice President at Qualcomm, joins us to explore the latest high-efficiency techniques for running generative AI, particularly diffusion models, on-device. We dive deep into the technical challenges of deploying these models, which are powerful but computationally expensive due to their iterative sampling proces…

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You Can’t Vibe Code a 100-Ton Truck: Inside Applied Intuition’s Approach to Safety-Critical AI 55:54

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Applied Intuition builds the kind of AI you don’t see, but can’t live without. Co-founders Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig share how their $15 billion company powers vehicle intelligence across cars, trucks, tanks, mining equipment, and defense systems operating in some of the most demanding conditions on earth. They explain why combining AI with saf…

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Vibe Coding's Uncanny Valley with Alexandre Pesant - #752 1:12:36

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Today, we're joined by Alexandre Pesant, AI lead at Lovable, who joins us to discuss the evolution and practice of vibe coding. Alex shares his take on how AI is enabling a shift in software development from typing characters to expressing intent, creating a new layer of abstraction similar to how high-level code compiles to machine code. We explor…

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Knowledge RAG: Bridging Semantic Gaps with Hybrid Retrieval and Query Rewriting 14:22

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Send us a text The challenge of semantic gaps in RAG systems, where embeddings often miss crucial connections—like linking a "PTO" query to policy language on "prorated annual leave". It details Knowledge RAG design principles for higher accuracy and user satisfaction, emphasizing proven 2025 techniques. These techniques include using LLMs for quer…

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How IBM Used AI to Cut 40% of HR Operating Costs and Reinvest in the Company 53:08

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As Head of IBM Consulting, Mohamad Ali led one of the most ambitious enterprise AI transformations to date. By making IBM its own “Client Zero,” his team tested every AI solution internally before bringing it to market. The effort began with massive hackathons involving 150,000 employees, turning curiosity into capability and belief at scale. Moham…

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Dataflow Computing for AI Inference with Kunle Olukotun - #751 57:37

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In this episode, we're joined by Kunle Olukotun, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University and co-founder and chief technologist at Sambanova Systems, to discuss reconfigurable dataflow architectures for AI inference. Kunle explains the core idea of building computers that are dynamically configured to match th…

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Episode 61 - Automation in the Warehouse: AI, Robotics, and the Changing Workforce 34:49

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Answering YES to the question today are René Schrama, Chief Commercial Officer at Peak Technologies, and Phil Sambrook, EMEA Transport and Logistics Vertical Lead at Zebra Technologies. In this episode, we talk about: The Role of AI and Automation in the warehouse The Changing Workforce and “Age-Friendly” Automation and the Need for Process Evoluti…

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Recurrence and Attention for Long-Context Transformers with Jacob Buckman - #750 57:23

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Today, we're joined by Jacob Buckman, co-founder and CEO of Manifest AI to discuss achieving long context in transformers. We discuss the bottlenecks of scaling context length and recent techniques to overcome them, including windowed attention, grouped query attention, and latent space attention. We explore the idea of weight-state balance and the…

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How Do You Strategize in the AI Era? - with Martin Reeves, Head of BCG’s Think Tank 1:06:01

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Martin Reeves has spent decades advising CEOs on how to think about strategy. As head of BCG’s Henderson Institute, he has built a career challenging leaders to balance efficiency with imagination and to prepare for the next disruptive shift. In this conversation, Martin tells Henrik and Jeremy why AI alone will not give companies an edge and might…

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The Decentralized Future of Private AI with Illia Polosukhin - #749 1:05:03

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In this episode, Illia Polosukhin, a co-author of the seminal "Attention Is All You Need" paper and co-founder of Near AI, joins us to discuss his vision for building private, decentralized, and user-owned AI. Illia shares his unique journey from developing the Transformer architecture at Google to building the NEAR Protocol blockchain to solve glo…

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Business Owners: Build Your Own Context For AI 11:44

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Context Is the Missing Ingredient in Your Small Business AI Strategy | Data Fuel 🔔 Subscribe for breakdowns of AI, data, and small business automation. Everyone’s talking prompts—but context is the real game-changer for AI. In this episode of Data Fuel, Roman Villard unpacks what “context” actually means for AI in small businesses, how Big Tech is …

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Inside Nano Banana 🍌 and the Future of Vision-Language Models with Oliver Wang - #748 1:03:39

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Today, we’re joined by Oliver Wang, principal scientist at Google DeepMind and tech lead for Gemini 2.5 Flash Image—better known by its code name, “Nano Banana.” We dive into the development and capabilities of this newly released frontier vision-language model, beginning with the broader shift from specialized image generators to general-purpose m…

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Is It Time to Rethink LLM Pre-Training? with Aditi Raghunathan - #747 58:26

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Today, we're joined by Aditi Raghunathan, assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, to discuss the limitations of LLMs and how we can build more adaptable and creative models. We dig into her ICML 2025 Outstanding Paper Award winner, “Roll the dice & look before you leap: Going beyond the creative limits of next-token prediction,” which ex…

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The AI Playbook Every Leader Needs: A Chat With Adam Brotman & Andy Sack 1:04:59

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Adam Brotman and Andy Sack sit down with Henrik and Jeremy to unpack their book AI First and the framework they have developed for leaders. They argue that AI is not just another technology wave but a leadership reset that demands new playbooks, new structures and new ways of thinking. They explain why AI should be seen as an augmentation of human …

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Building an Immune System for AI Generated Software with Animesh Koratana - #746 1:05:11

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Today, we're joined by Animesh Koratana, founder and CEO of PlayerZero to discuss his team’s approach to making agentic and AI-assisted coding tools production-ready at scale. Animesh explains how rapid advances in AI-assisted coding have created an “asymmetry” where the speed of code output outpaces the maturity of processes for maintenance and su…

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Episode 60 - People, Process, Platforms: The New Supply Chain Playbook 35:42

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Answering YES to the question today are Abe Eshkenazi, CEO of the Association for Supply Chain Management, and Bart de Muynck, Industry Expert and Conference Chair at ChainGE In this episode, we talk about: The talent gap in supply chain The need for a shift in mindset and culture to adapt to a tech-driven world And the importance of sharing both d…

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Autoformalization and Verifiable Superintelligence with Christian Szegedy - #745 1:11:48

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In this episode, Christian Szegedy, Chief Scientist at Morph Labs, joins us to discuss how the application of formal mathematics and reasoning enables the creation of more robust and safer AI systems. A pioneer behind concepts like the Inception architecture and adversarial examples, Christian now focuses on autoformalization—the AI-driven process …

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How Entrepreneurs Can Compete in the Age of AI: Henrik Werdelin & Nicholas Thorne on Their New Book Me, My Customer and AI 49:33

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In a shift from the usual format, Henrik Werdelin steps into the guest seat—alongside Nicholas Thorne—for a live conversation with Jeremy Utley about their new book Me, My Customer, and AI. They explore what it takes for entrepreneurs to compete in the age of AI — from redefining resourcefulness to thinking like founders, even inside a job. The dis…

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Multimodal AI Models on Apple Silicon with MLX with Prince Canuma - #744 1:10:20

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Today, we're joined by Prince Canuma, an ML engineer and open-source developer focused on optimizing AI inference on Apple Silicon devices. Prince shares his journey to becoming one of the most prolific contributors to Apple’s MLX ecosystem, having published over 1,000 models and libraries that make open, multimodal AI accessible and performant on …

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Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models with Jack Parker-Holder and Shlomi Fruchter - #743 1:01:01

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Today, we're joined by Jack Parker-Holder and Shlomi Fruchter, researchers at Google DeepMind, to discuss the recent release of Genie 3, a model capable of generating “playable” virtual worlds. We dig into the evolution of the Genie project and review the current model’s scaled-up capabilities, including creating real-time, interactive, and high-re…

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Inside Zapier’s Code Red: How CEO Wade Foster Hit Pause to Reinvent for AI 1:03:23

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Wade Foster, co-founder and CEO of Zapier, joins Henrik and Jeremy to talk about how AI is changing the company from the inside out. He shares the moment Zapier declared a “code red” on AI and the steps they took to turn urgency into action — encouraging more experiments, removing tolerance for inaction, and celebrating wins along the way. Wade dis…

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Closing the Loop Between AI Training and Inference with Lin Qiao - #742 1:01:11

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In this episode, we're joined by Lin Qiao, CEO and co-founder of Fireworks AI. Drawing on key lessons from her time building PyTorch, Lin shares her perspective on the modern generative AI development lifecycle. She explains why aligning training and inference systems is essential for creating a seamless, fast-moving production pipeline, preventing…

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Can AI Replace Me? Evan Ratliff on Letting an AI Clone Live His Life 58:11

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In this episode, Evan Ratliff, journalist and creator of the podcast Shell Game, shares the wild and personal story behind his experiment in AI voice cloning. What began as curiosity turned into a six-month dive into building an AI version of himself—one that could answer phone calls, conduct interviews, and even fool friends and family. From scamm…

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Context Engineering for Productive AI Agents with Filip Kozera - #741 46:01

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In this episode, Filip Kozera, founder and CEO of Wordware, explains his approach to building agentic workflows where natural language serves as the new programming interface. Filip breaks down the architecture of these "background agents," explaining how they use a reflection loop and tool-calling to execute complex tasks. He discusses the current…

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Episode 59 - Why Sustainability is the New Competitive Edge in Logistics 32:42

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Answering YES to the question today is Stephane Tomczak, Founder of DELIVER. In this episode, we talk about: Why sustainability is essential What innovations and strategies are impacting sustainability in retail and logistics And how retailers, solution providers and logistics companies can work together to bring down their carbon footprint Please …

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Infrastructure Scaling and Compound AI Systems with Jared Quincy Davis - #740 1:13:02

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In this episode, Jared Quincy Davis, founder and CEO at Foundry, introduces the concept of "compound AI systems," which allows users to create powerful, efficient applications by composing multiple, often diverse, AI models and services. We discuss how these "networks of networks" can push the Pareto frontier, delivering results that are simultaneo…

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How the Chief Creative Officer of an Award-Winning Ad Agency Prompts the Perfect Pitch 42:13

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In this episode, Jeff Benjamin, Global CCO of Tombras, shares how AI helps him get unstuck, build confidence, and push bold ideas forward—even when self-doubt creeps in. From romcom scripts to Arby’s pitches, he shows how AI acts as a sparring partner: sharpening thinking, stress-testing ideas, and keeping momentum alive. We get into what separates…

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Building Voice AI Agents That Don’t Suck with Kwindla Kramer - #739 1:13:02

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In this episode, Kwindla Kramer, co-founder and CEO of Daily and creator of the open source Pipecat framework, joins us to discuss the architecture and challenges of building real-time, production-ready conversational voice AI. Kwin breaks down the full stack for voice agents—from the models and APIs to the critical orchestration layer that manages…

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Distilling Transformers and Diffusion Models for Robust Edge Use Cases with Fatih Porikli - #738 1:00:29

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Today, we're joined by Fatih Porikli, senior director of technology at Qualcomm AI Research for an in-depth look at several of Qualcomm's accepted papers and demos featured at this year’s CVPR conference. We start with “DiMA: Distilling Multi-modal Large Language Models for Autonomous Driving,” an end-to-end autonomous driving system that incorpora…

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Chief of Staff for the Masses: How Meta’s Joshua To Designs Wearables with AI 1:00:37

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In this episode, Joshua To, VP of Product Design at Meta, shares how AI is reshaping how—and where—we interact with technology. He walks us through Meta’s evolving approach to AR and wearables, why notifications are still the killer use case, and how AI is becoming the “brain behind empathy.” We dig into what it means to build interfaces that under…

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Episode 58 - Will Robots Replace Us? Exploring the Edges of Automation 44:24

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Answering YES to the question today are Herbert ten Have, Serial Tech Entrepreneur in AI, Robotics, and Computer Vision, and Peter Skov, Founder and CEO of Innoscale. In this episode, we talk about: The evolution of warehouse automation The challenges of brownfield versus greenfield implementations The role of AI and robotics And the importance of …

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Building the Internet of Agents with Vijoy Pandey - #737 56:13

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Today, we're joined by Vijoy Pandey, SVP and general manager at Outshift by Cisco to discuss a foundational challenge for the enterprise: how do we make specialized agents from different vendors collaborate effectively? As companies like Salesforce, Workday, and Microsoft all develop their own agentic systems, integrating them creates a complex, pr…

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The AI Implementation Audit: What Section’s CEO Learned in 18 Months 1:08:27

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In this episode, Greg Shove, CEO of Section and founder of Machine and Partners, joins us for a "where are they now" follow-up—and doesn’t hold back. Greg walks through the rise of Pro AI, his new AI-powered coach, and why traditional upskilling is already obsolete. We explore the overlooked friction points in AI adoption, from cultural taboos (“it…

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Episode 57 - Customer Loyalty in Logistics 30:51

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Answering YES to the question today is Martijn Smeets. Co-Founder of CargoClub. In this episode, we talk about: Challenges in customer loyalty in freight forwarding What we can learn from airline loyalty programs How sustainability can be used as a strategic loyalty driver Please enjoy my conversation with Martijn Smeets This podcast was powered by…

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LLMs for Equities Feature Forecasting at Two Sigma with Ben Wellington - #736 59:31

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Today, we're joined by Ben Wellington, deputy head of feature forecasting at Two Sigma. We dig into the team’s end-to-end approach to leveraging AI in equities feature forecasting, covering how they identify and create features, collect and quantify historical data, and build predictive models to forecast market behavior and asset prices for tradin…

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Episode 56 - Data and AI: Real-time Intelligence and Predictive Analytics in the Warehouse 30:17

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Answering YES to the question today are Judy Gordon, Head of Partnerships for AI-enabled inventory monitoring at GatherAI and Simon Fleming, Director of Pre-Sales and Innovation at Peak Technologies. In this episode, we talk about How AI is revolutionising the warehouse How it enhances jobs and doesn’t replace them How technology can boost inventor…

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Zero-Shot Auto-Labeling: The End of Annotation for Computer Vision with Jason Corso - #735 56:45

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Today, we're joined by Jason Corso, co-founder of Voxel51 and professor at the University of Michigan, to explore automated labeling in computer vision. Jason introduces FiftyOne, an open-source platform for visualizing datasets, analyzing models, and improving data quality. We focus on Voxel51’s recent research report, “Zero-shot auto-labeling riv…

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Rebuilding from Inside: How John Waldmann Led an AI Shift Without Breaking His Team 52:29

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In this episode, John Waldmann, CEO of Homebase, shares how the 10-year-old SaaS company blew up its roadmap and rebuilt around AI—from culture to code. He walks us through the shift from 20-page PRDs to lightning-fast demos, reclaiming product leadership, and pushing teams into their “oh shit” moment with AI. We explore the leadership reckoning, c…

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Grokking, Generalization Collapse, and the Dynamics of Training Deep Neural Networks with Charles Martin - #734 1:25:21

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Today, we're joined by Charles Martin, founder of Calculation Consulting, to discuss Weight Watcher, an open-source tool for analyzing and improving Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) based on principles from theoretical physics. We explore the foundations of the Heavy-Tailed Self-Regularization (HTSR) theory that underpins it, which combines random matri…