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  • Why Build Your Own AI Model When Frontier Models Already Exist?

    October 8, 2026 · 49 min

    In this episode, we talk with Joel Hron, CTO of Thomson Reuters, about the company’s decision to develop its own frontier AI model, Thomson, using open-weight models and decades of proprietary content and expertise. Subscribe to the…

  • Why AI Makes Games Worse—and How to Make Them Better

    October 1, 2026 · 58 min

    Piero Molino, CEO and co-founder of Studio Atelico, joins Ben Lorica to discuss what happens when AI becomes a core game mechanic rather than a cost-cutting tool. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter 📩  https://gra…

  • What Comes After Transformers?

    September 24, 2026 · 47 min

    Ben Lorica speaks with Zuzanna Stamirowska, CEO of Pathway, about the company’s push beyond transformers toward models that reason in latent space, learn from experience, and maintain state over long time horizons. Subscribe to the…

  • Inside OpenAI's First Chip

    September 17, 2026 · 35 min

    Richard Ho, VP of Hardware at OpenAI, explains how the team built Jalapeño, its first custom AI accelerator, and why controlling more of the hardware stack could lower inference costs and improve performance.  Subscribe to the Gradient…

  • Navier-Stokes and AI generated work: If You Can't Explain It, Did You Really Do It?

    September 12, 2026 · 56 min

    Ben Lorica is joined by Evangelos Simoudis  for a wide-ranging discussion on how AI is reshaping knowledge work: from the Navier-Stokes controversy and the need to protect intellectual property to whether workers should still be expected…

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  • The Missing Data for Spatial Intelligence

    September 10, 2026 · 44 min

    Ben Lorica talks with David Fattal, founder and CTO of Leia Inc., about why stereo data could become an important ingredient for AI systems that need to understand the physical world.  Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter 📩…

  • Your AI Agent Is Costing You More Than You Think

    September 3, 2026 · 30 min

    Ben Lorica talks with Abi Aryan, AI engineer, author of LLMOps: Managing Large Language Models in Production, about how deploying generative AI is turning into a distributed systems problem.  Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter 📩…

  • Reasoning Doesn't Start With Language

    August 27, 2026 · 40 min

    Ben Lorica speaks with Andrew Dai, co-founder and CEO of Elorian AI, about why today’s frontier models still struggle with complex visual reasoning and why simply scaling language-centric architectures may not solve the problem. Subscribe…

  • An Agent Is Just an LLM in a For-Loop

    August 20, 2026 · 35 min

    Maarten Grootendorst, a developer relations engineer at Google DeepMind and co-author of Hands-On Large Language Models and An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents, joins Ben Lorica to explain the concepts developers need to understand beneath…

  • The Bloomberg Terminal for AI Compute

    August 13, 2026 · 45 min

    Steve Hou, Head of Research at Silicon Data, joins Ben Lorica to unpack the data behind the AI compute market: GPU rental indices, forward curves, and token expenditure trends that reveal a market still tightening despite talk of…

  • Can China Do to Robotaxis What It Did to Solar?

    August 8, 2026 · 55 min

    Ben Lorica talks with Evangelos Simoudis  about three forces reshaping AI: why recent “rogue agent” incidents may be more about permissions, identity, and governance than runaway intelligence; how the belief that AGI is near is helping…

  • Why Video Is AI's Next Great Frontier

    August 6, 2026 · 40 min

    Yoon Kim, President and Chief Strategy Officer of TwelveLabs, explains why understanding video takes more than bolting a language model onto a stream of frames. He walks through how TwelveLabs’ two foundation models, Marengo and Pegasus…

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About the show

A series of informal conversations with thought leaders, researchers, practitioners, and writers on a wide range of topics in technology, science, and of course big data, data science, artificial intelligence, and related applications. Anchored by Ben Lorica (@BigData), the Data Exchange also features a roundup of the most important stories from the worlds of data, machine learning and AI. Detailed show notes for each episode can be found on https://thedataexchange.media/ The Data Exchange podcast is a production of Gradient Flow [https://gradientflow.com/].