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Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

Join Lukas Biewald on Gradient Dissent, an AI-focused podcast brought to you by Weights & Biases. Dive into fascinating conversations with industry giants from NVIDIA, Meta, Google, Lyft, OpenAI, and more. Explore the cutting-edge of AI and learn the intricacies of bringing models into production.

Episodes

Elon's Former Battery Chief: AI Data Centers Will Make Electricity Cheaper

18 Aug 2026

1h 34m

40 Trillion Tokens a Day (Yes, More Than OpenAI) | Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks

03 Aug 2026

1h 19m

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Specialized intelligence represents a critical shift in AI development, moving away from general-purpose, black-box models toward customized, enterprise-owned solutions. Lin Qiao, founder of Fireworks, argues that proprietary data serves as a company’s primary competitive moat, necessitating continuous, specialized mod...

He's Building an AI That Can't Lie | Dan Klein

16 Jun 2026

1h 14m

He Raised $70M to Cure Every Disease With AI

26 May 2026

1h 14m

Uber, Nissan, and Mercedes Chose This Self-Driving Startup | Alex Kendall, Wayve

15 Apr 2026

45m

Why Netflix, Uber, and Spotify Never Lag: The Database Nobody Talks About | Aaron Katz

31 Mar 2026

43m

Inference has evolved from a simple commodity into a critical, high-performance domain essential for deploying custom and fine-tuned machine learning models at scale. Tuhin Srivastava, CEO of Baseten, identifies infrastructure reliability, token-per-second performance, and developer experience as the primary differenti...

The Startup Powering The Data Behind AGI

16 Sep 2025

56m

Arvind Jain on Building Glean and the Future of Enterprise AI

05 Aug 2025

43m

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Enterprise AI platforms like Glean are fundamentally reshaping how organizations access and utilize internal knowledge by acting as a centralized, secure, and intelligent interface across disparate data systems. By combining custom-trained embedding models for semantic search with powerful, out-of-the-box LLMs for reas...