Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

The rise of AI agents

R1, OpenAI’s o3, and the ARC-AGI Benchmark: Insights from Mike Knoop

DeepSeek, Stargate and AI's $600 Billion Question with Sequoia's David Cahn

Building the future of collaborative AI development with Akshay Agrawal

Evaluating LLMs with Chatbot Arena and Joseph E. Gonzalez

AI’s breakthrough in weather forecasting with Brightband’s Julian Green

What’s the path to AGI? A conversation with Turing Co-founder and CEO Jonathan Siddharth

Vercel’s CEO & Founder Guillermo Rauch on the impact of AI on Web Development and Front End Engineering

Snowflake’s CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy on 700+ LLM enterprise use cases

In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Lukas Biewald interviews Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake, about his career, leadership style, and Snowflake's AI strategy. Ramaswamy discusses his journey from an IC engineer to executive roles at Google and Snowflake, emphasizing his love for combining technology, teams, and cu...

Elevating ML Infrastructure with Modal Labs CEO Erik Bernhardsson

From No-Code to AI-Powered Apps with Airtable’s Howie Liu

Launching the Fastest AI Inference Solution with Cerebras Systems CEO Andrew Feldman

Reinventing AI Agents with Imbue CEO Kanjun Qiu

From startup to $1.2B with Lambda's Stephen Balaban

Harnessing AI for legal practice with CoCounsel’s Jake Heller

Transforming Search with Perplexity AI’s CTO Denis Yarats

AI in electronics: Quilter’s journey in PCB design

The Future of AI in Coding with Codeium CEO Varun Mohan

Shaping AI Benchmarks with Together AI Co-Founder Percy Liang

Benchmarking large language models requires a holistic approach that extends beyond simple accuracy metrics to include bias, robustness, and calibration. Percy Liang, an associate professor at Stanford and co-founder of TogetherAI, developed the Holistic Evaluation of Language Models (HELM) to provide a standardized, r...

Accelerating drug discovery with AI: Insights from Isomorphic Labs