Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Varun Mohan, Co-Founder & CEO of Codeium, joins host Lukas Biewald to discuss the transformative power of AI in coding.  They explore how Codeium evolved from GPU virtualization to a widely used AI coding tool and tackled the technical challenges and future prospects of...
In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Together AI co-founder and Stanford Associate Professor Percy Liang joins host, Lukas Biewald, to discuss advancements in AI benchmarking and the pivotal role that open-source plays in AI development. He shares his development of HELM—a robust framework for evaluating language models. The discussion highlights...
In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Isomorphic Labs Chief AI Officer Max Jaderberg, and Chief Technology Officer Sergei Yakneen join our host Lukas Biewald to discuss the advancements in biotech and drug discovery being unlocked with machine learning. With backgrounds in advanced AI research at DeepMind, Max and Sergei offer...
🚀 Discover the cutting-edge AI hardware development for enterprises in this episode of Gradient Dissent, featuring Rodrigo Liang, CEO of SambaNova Systems.  Rodrigo Liang’s journey from Oracle to founding SambaNova is a tale of innovation and determination. In this episode, Rodrigo discusses the importance of specialized hardware in unlocking AI’s...
🚀 This episode of Gradient Dissent welcomes Edo Liberty, the mind behind Pinecone’s revolutionary vector database technology. As a former leader at Amazon AI Labs and Yahoo’s New York lab, Edo Liberty’s extensive background in AI research and development showcases the complexities behind vector databases and their essential role in...
🚀 In this episode of Gradient Dissent, we explore the revolutionary impact of AI across industries with Clara Shih, CEO of Salesforce AI and Founder of Hearsay Systems.  Dive into Salesforce AI’s cutting-edge approach to customer service through AI, the importance of a trust-first strategy, and the future of AI...