Making artificial intelligence practical, productive & accessible to everyone. Practical AI is a show in which technology professionals, business people, students, enthusiasts, and expert guests engage in lively discussions about Artificial Intelligence and related topics (Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Neural Networks, GANs, MLOps, AIOps, LLMs & more). The focus is on productive implementations and real-world scenarios that are accessible to everyone. If you want to keep up with the lates ...
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Business Compass LLC is an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner and Well-Architected Partner. We have been recognized as APN Certification Distinction. We specialize in cloud migration, serverless solutions, AI/ML, IoT, DevOps, data and analytics, web development, media services, and Well-Architected Framework Reviews. We provide high-performance applications, scalable infrastructure, and cost-optimized deployments with expertise in Generative AI, Data Analytics, Live Streaming, Pay-Per-View, Vid ...
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"The Edge AIsle" brings you to the forefront of artificial intelligence and edge computing, powered by Hailo.ai. In this podcast, we explore how edge AI is reshaping industries from smart cities and intelligent video analytics to autonomous vehicles and retail innovation. Join industry experts and thought leaders as they share insights into how Hailo’s AI processors are transforming the way industries function, enabling real-time deep learning and AI-driven applications directly on edge devi ...
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Compare and Contrast Popular Open AI Stacks https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/compare-and-contrast-popular-open-ai-stacks/ Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing industries, but with so many open-source AI stacks available, how do you choose the right one for your project? 🤔 From TensorFlow to PyTorch, each stack offers unique features a…
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Build automated data pipeline in AWS using S3, Lambda, Glue Crawler, Glue ETL, Glue Workflow, RedShift, Aurora, DynamoDB, etc.
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2:19Build automated data pipeline in AWS using S3, Lambda, Glue Crawler, Glue ETL, Glue Workflow, RedShift, Aurora, DynamoDB, etc. https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/build-automated-data-pipeline-in-aws-using-s3-lambda-glue-crawler-glue-etl-glue-workflow-redshift-aurora-dynamodb-etc/ 🚀 Data pipelines are the unsung heroes of modern business intel…
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AI-First Development: Designing Systems with Intelligence at the Core
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11:47AI-First Development: Designing Systems with Intelligence at the Core https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/ai-first-development-designing-systems-with-intelligence-at-the-core/ Building software today means thinking differently about how intelligence fits into your applications. AI-first development flips the traditional approach by making arti…
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Top 10 AWS re:Invent 2025 Announcements Every CTO Should Know
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4:48Top 10 AWS re:Invent 2025 Announcements Every CTO Should Know https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/top-10-aws-reinvent-2025-announcements-every-cto-should-know/ AWS re:Invent 2025 delivered game-changing announcements that will reshape how enterprises approach cloud computing. CTOs and technology leaders need to understand these innovations to …
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From Cloud to Cognition: How AWS re:Invent 2025 Redefined Enterprise AI
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33:33From Cloud to Cognition: How AWS re:Invent 2025 Redefined Enterprise AI https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/from-cloud-to-cognition-how-aws-reinvent-2025-redefined-enterprise-ai/ AWS re:Invent 2025 delivered groundbreaking announcements that shifted how enterprises approach AI transformation. This video breaks down the cloud to cognition AI ev…
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AWS re:Invent 2025: What’s New for Developers, Security Teams, and CIOs
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30:41AWS re:Invent 2025: What’s New for Developers, Security Teams, and CIOs https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/aws-reinvent-2025-whats-new-for-developers-security-teams-and-cios/ AWS re:Invent 2025 delivered major announcements that will reshape how teams build, secure, and manage cloud infrastructure. This comprehensive breakdown is designed for…
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AWS AI, AWS Generative AI, AWS Agentic AI, and AWS MCP: How Modern AWS Announcements Are Shaping the Autonomous Enterprise
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4:49AWS AI, AWS Generative AI, AWS Agentic AI, and AWS MCP: How Modern AWS Announcements Are Shaping the Autonomous Enterprise https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/aws-ai-aws-generative-ai-aws-agentic-ai-and-aws-mcp-how-modern-aws-announcements-are-shaping-the-autonomous-enterprise/ Amazon’s latest AWS AI services are transforming how businesses th…
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A Complete Git Branching, Linking to AWS ECR and AWS ECS Deployment Strategy for Multi-Developer Teams
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4:36A Complete Git Branching, Linking to AWS ECR and AWS ECS Deployment Strategy for Multi-Developer Teams https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/automated-ci-cd-pipeline-a-complete-git-branching-linking-to-aws-ecr-and-aw-ecs-deployment-strategy-for-multi-developer-teams/ Building a rock-solid automated CI/CD pipeline that seamlessly connects Git bra…
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A Complete Git Branching and AWS EC2 Deployment Strategy for Multi-Developer Teams
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4:16A Complete Git Branching and AWS EC2 Deployment Strategy for Multi-Developer Teams https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/a-complete-git-branching-and-aws-ec2-deployment-strategy-for-multi-developer-teams/ Managing code across multiple developers while deploying to AWS EC2 can turn into chaos without the right strategy. Teams often struggle with …
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Deploy a Docker Container to AWS ECR + ECS (with ALB), and Connect to RDS, S3, and KMS
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4:10Deploy a Docker Container to AWS ECR + ECS (with ALB), and Connect to RDS, S3, and KMS https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/deploy-a-docker-container-to-aws-ecr-ecs-with-alb-and-connect-to-rds-s3-and-kms/ Setting up a production-ready Docker container AWS deployment across multiple AWS services can feel overwhelming, but breaking it down into c…
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Design Patterns for Backend Engineers: Decorator, Command & Adapter Demystified
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3:54Design Patterns for Backend Engineers: Decorator, Command & Adapter Demystified Design patterns aren’t academic theory—they’re reusable solutions to problems you’ve already faced, whether you realized it or not. If you’ve worked with Spring, Android, game engines, or distributed systems, you’ve encountered them in the wild. In this article, we’ll d…
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AI Isn’t a Trend Anymore—It’s the Foundation of Every Tech Shift in 2026
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5:12AI Isn’t a Trend Anymore—It’s the Foundation of Every Tech Shift in 2026 For years, Artificial Intelligence was treated like a feature. Then it became a product. Now, in 2026, AI has become infrastructure. Every major technology shift—whether it’s wearables, robotics, cybersecurity, biotech, or next-gen networks—now starts with AI at the core. Not …
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Flora and Fauna of Australia | Unique Wildlife & Natural Wonders
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2:00Discover the extraordinary flora and fauna of Australia, a land home to some of the most unique plants and animals on Earth. From ancient eucalyptus forests and colorful wildflowers to iconic wildlife like kangaroos, koalas, wombats, and the elusive platypus, Australia’s biodiversity is truly unmatched. This cinematic 4K nature documentary takes yo…
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Netflix Architecture Deep Dive: How Netflix Streams to 300M+ Users at Global Scale
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2:35Netflix Architecture Deep Dive: How Netflix Streams to 300M+ Users at Global Scale https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/netflix-architecture-deep-dive-how-netflix-streams-to-300m-users-at-global-scale/ Netflix streams 15 billion hours of content monthly to 300+ million subscribers across 190+ countries. The Netflix architecture behind this mass…
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Snapchat Architecture Deep Dive: How Snap Inc Sends 5B+ Snaps Per Day on AWS
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3:19Snapchat Architecture Deep Dive: How Snap Inc Sends 5B+ Snaps Per Day on AWS https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/snapchat-architecture-deep-dive-how-snap-inc-sends-5b-snaps-per-day-on-aws/ Snapchat processes over 5 billion snaps daily, making it one of the most demanding real-time messaging platforms on the planet. This deep dive into Snapchat…
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Spotify System Design: Capacity Planning, Databases, CDN & Scaling to 50M Users
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4:36Spotify System Design: Capacity Planning, Databases, CDN & Scaling to 50M Users https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/spotify-system-design-capacity-planning-databases-cdn-scaling-to-50m-users/ Spotify handles over 500 million active users streaming billions of songs daily—a scale that would crush most systems in minutes. This deep dive into Spo…
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Real High-Frequency Trading Systems: Algorithms, Market Data, and Execution Engines
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4:02Real High-Frequency Trading Systems: Algorithms, Market Data, and Execution Engines https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/real-high-frequency-trading-systems-algorithms-market-data-and-execution-engines/ High-frequency trading systems power millions of trades per second across global financial markets, executing complex strategies in microsecond…
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From Chatbots to Co-Workers: How AI Agents Are Reshaping Enterprise Automation in 2025 and beyond
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4:26From Chatbots to Co-Workers: How AI Agents Are Reshaping Enterprise Automation in 2025 and beyond https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/from-chatbots-to-co-workers-how-ai-agents-are-reshaping-enterprise-automation-in-2025-and-beyond/ Enterprise automation is getting a major upgrade. Simple AI chatbots that could barely answer basic questions are…
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In this Edge AIsle episode, we summarize the key insights from Hailo edge AI’s blog Bringing Generative AI to the Edge: LLM on Hailo-10H. As generative AI continues to reshape industries, Large Language Models are becoming increasingly powerful, but also increasingly demanding in terms of compute, memory, and cost. This episode explains why traditi…
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Beyond chatbots: Agents that tackle your SOPs
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45:53As AI reshapes the workplace, employees and leaders face questions about meaningful work, automation, and human impact. In this episode, Jason Beutler, CEO of RoboSource, shares how companies can rethink workflows, integrate AI in accessible ways, and empower employees without fear. The discussion covers leveraging AI to handle routine tasks (SOPs …
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Chris and Daniel talk with returning guest, Ramin Mohammadi, about how those seeking to get into AI Engineer/ Data Science jobs are expected to come in a mid level engineers (not entry level). They explore this growing gap along with what should (or could) be done in academia to focus on real world skills vs. theoretical knowledge. Featuring: Ramin…
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Technical advances in document understanding
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49:18Chris and Daniel unpack how AI-driven document processing has rapidly evolved well beyond traditional OCR with many technical advances that fly under the radar. They explore the progression from document structure models to language-vision models, all the way to the newest innovations like Deepseek-OCR. The discussion highlights the pros and cons o…
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Chris on AI, autonomous swarming, home automation and Rust!
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1:37:09This episode is a special crossover between the Practical AI podcast and The Changelog podcast. Chris was recently invited by longtime friends Jerod Santo and Adam Stacoviak, cohosts of The Changelog, to join them on the show. They discuss AI, drones, robotics, swarming technology, and the rise of high-performance edge computing with Rust. Chris po…
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Fireflies CEO, Krish Ramineni shares how the company is transforming AI-powered note-taking into a deeper layer of knowledge automation. He breaks down the technology behind real-time functionality like Live Assist, the user behavior patterns driving product evolution, and how Fireflies is innovating far beyond meetings. Krish also shares insights …
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Waymo’s VP of Research, Drago Anguelov, joins Practical AI to explore how advances in autonomy, vision models, and large-scale testing are shaping the future of driverless technology. The conversation dives into the dual challenges of building an onboard driver and testing that driver (via large scale simulation). Drago also gives us an update on w…
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Dan and Chris unpack whether today’s surge in AI deployment across enterprise workflows, manufacturing, healthcare, and scientific research signals a lasting transformation or an overhyped bubble. Drawing parallels to the dot-com era, they explore how technology integration is reshaping industries, affecting jobs, and even influencing human cogniti…
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🌐 Business Compass LLC Language ServicesEmpowering Global Communication Through AI-Driven Language Intelligence Business Compass LLC delivers next-generation Language Services that transform the way organizations communicate, understand, and interact across languages and media. Our AI-driven platform supports text, audio, and video processing—enabl…
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Dan and Chris sit down (again) with Jared Zoneraich, co-founder and CEO of PromptLayer, to discuss how prompt engineering has evolved into context engineering (and while loops with tool calls). Jared shares insights on building flexible AI applications, managing tool calls, testing and versioning prompts, and empowering both technical and non-techn…
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In this fully connected episode, Daniel and Chris explore the emerging concept of tiny recursive networks introduced by Samsung AI, contrasting them with large transformer based models. They explore how these small models tackle reasoning tasks with fewer parameters, less data, and iterative refinement, matching the giants on specific problems. The…
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Inside the Global Rare Earth Shortage: The Metals Powering Electric Cars, Phones, and the Green Revolution
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5:02Your smartphone, Tesla, and the wind turbines dotting the horizon all share something in common: they’re hungry for rare earth elements. These critical minerals supply chain bottlenecks are creating a perfect storm that’s reshaping everything from electric vehicle batteries to the future of clean energy materials. This deep dive is for business lea…
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Building a Powerful Marketplace with Stripe Connect: The Complete Guide
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5:42Creating a successful online marketplace means getting payments right from day one. Stripe Connect marketplace solutions handle the complex world of multi-party payments, letting you focus on growing your platform instead of wrestling with payment infrastructure. This guide is for marketplace founders, developers, and product managers who want to b…
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Dealing with increasingly complicated agents
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54:56As AI systems move from simple chatbots to complex agentic workflows, new security risks emerge. In this episode, Donato Capitella unpacks how increasingly complicated architectures are making agents fragile and vulnerable. These agents can be exploited through prompt injection, data exfiltration, and tool misuse. Donato shares stories from real-wo…
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The impact of AI on the workforce: A state-level case study
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44:04Daniel sits down with Chelsea Linder, VP of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at TechPoint, to explore the what AI innovation and impact look like on the ground. They discuss Chelsea's journey from the VC world into economic development/ innovation, the growth of an AI innovation network in Indiana (funded by the SBA), lessons learned from fostering …
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Longtime friend of the show Rajiv Shah returns to unpack lessons from a year of building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and reasoning models integrations. We dive into why so many AI pilots stumble, why evaluation and error analysis remain essential data science skills, and why not every enterprise challenge calls for a large langua…
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Creating a private AI assistant in Thunderbird
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53:08In this episode, Daniel and Chris are joined by Chris Aquino, software engineer at Thunderbird to hear the story of how they developed a privacy-preserving AI executive assistant. They discuss various design decisions including remote (but confidential) inference, local encryption, and model selection. Chris A. does an amazing job describing the jo…
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In this Fully Connected episode, we dig into the recent MIT report revealing that 95% of AI pilots fail before reaching production and explore what it actually takes to succeed with AI solutions. We dive into the importance of AI model integration, asking the right questions when adopting new technologies, and why simply accessing a powerful model …
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Daniel and Chris sit with Citadel AI’s Rick Kobayashi and Kenny Song and unpack AI safety and security challenges in the generative AI era. They compare Japan’s approach to AI adoption with the US’s, and explore the implications of real-world failures in AI systems, along with strategies for AI monitoring and evaluation. Featuring: Rick Kobayashi –…
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Dan and Chris break down Winning the Race: America's AI Action Plan, issued by the White House in July 2025. Structured as three "pillars" — Accelerate AI Innovation, Build American AI Infrastructure, and Lead in International AI Diplomacy and Security — our dynamic duo unpack the plan's policy goals and its associated suggestions — while also expl…
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Allegra Guinan of Lumiera helps leaders turn uncertainty about AI into confident, strategic leadership. In this conversation, she brings some actionable insights for navigating the hype and complexity of AI. The discussion covers challenges with implementing responsible AI practices, the growing importance of user experience and product thinking, a…
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Dan sits down with guests Mark Daniel Ward and Katie Sanders from The Data Mine at Purdue University to explore how higher education is evolving to meet the demands of the AI-driven workforce. They share how their program blends interdisciplinary learning, corporate partnerships, and real-world data science projects to better prepare students acros…
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Workforce dynamics in an AI-assisted world
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44:06We unpack how AI is reshaping hiring decisions, shifting job roles, and creating new expectations for professionals — from engineers to marketers. They explore the rise of AI-assisted teams, the growing compensation bubble, why continuous learning is now table stakes, and how some service providers are quietly riding the AI wave. Featuring: Chris B…
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In this episode, Chris sits down with Igor Nikitin, CEO and co-founder of Nice Technologies, to explore how AI and modern engineering practices are transforming the actuarial field and setting the stage for the future of actuarial modeling. We discuss the introduction of programming into insurance pricing workflows, and how their Python-based calc …
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In this episode of Practical AI, Chris and Daniel explore the fascinating world of agentic AI for drone and robotic swarms, which is Chris's passion and professional focus. They unpack how autonomous vehicles (UxV), drones (UaV), and other autonomous multi-agent systems can collaborate without centralized control while exhibiting complex emergent b…
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AI in the shadows: From hallucinations to blackmail
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44:50In the first episode of an "AI in the shadows" theme, Chris and Daniel explore the increasing concerning world of agentic misalignment. Starting out with a reminder about hallucinations and reasoning models, they break down how today’s models only mimic reasoning, which can lead to serious ethical considerations. They unpack a fascinating (and slig…
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In this episode, we sit down with Joey Conway to explore NVIDIA's open source AI, from the reasoning-focused Nemotron models built on top of Llama, to the blazing-fast Parakeet speech model. We chat about what makes open foundation models so valuable, how enterprises can think about deploying multi-model strategies, and why reasoning is becoming th…
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Can AI-driven autonomy reduce harm, or does it risk dehumanizing decision-making? In this “AI Hot Takes & Debates” series episode, Daniel and Chris dive deep into the ethical crossroads of AI, autonomy, and military applications. They trade perspectives on ethics, precision, responsibility, and whether machines should ever be trusted with life-or-d…
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Behind-the-Scenes: VC Funding for AI Startups
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41:48It seems like we are bombarded by news about millions of dollars pouring into AI startups, which have crazy valuations. In this episode, Chris and Dan dive deep into the highs, lows, and hard choices behind funding an AI startup. They explore early bootstrapping, the transition to venture capital, and what it’s like to trade in code commits for inv…
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An recent article in Variety was titled: "Sylvester Stallone-Backed Largo.ai Teams With Brilliant Pictures for ‘World’s First Fully AI-Automated Film Company’". Obviously this caught our attention! We sit down with Sami Arpa, CEO of Largo.ai, to unpack how films are developed, funded, and brought to life using AI. We discover how tools like script …
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Federated learning in production (part 2)
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45:25Chong Shen from Flower Labs joins us to discuss what it really takes to build production-ready federated learning systems that work across data silos. We talk about the Flower framework and it's architecture (supernodes, superlinks, etc.), and what makes it both "friendly" and ready for real enterprise environments. We also explore how the generati…
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Federated learning in production (part 1)
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44:38In this first of a two part series of episodes on federated learning, we dive into the evolving world of federated learning and distributed AI frameworks with Patrick Foley from Intel. We explore how frameworks like OpenFL and Flower are enabling secure, collaborative model training across silos, especially in sensitive fields like healthcare. The …
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