The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica

The AI Boom Is Impressive. Can It Last?

Ben Lorica and investor Evangelos Simoudis discuss the opportunities and risks revealed in Anthropic’s S-1, from explosive revenue growth and improving economics to mount

When AI Writes the Code, Who Proves It Works?

Ben Lorica speaks with Leo de Moura, creator of Lean, VP and Distinguished Scientist at AWS, and Chief Architect of the Lean Focused Research Organization, about how AI i

Let Domain Experts Build the Agents

Akshay Sharma, ML Engineer at Lyft, and Nick Ung, Staff Applied Scientist at Lyft, explain how their team is building a platform that lets domain experts create customer-

AI Is Coming for Tasks Before It Comes for Jobs

MIT FutureTech director Neil Thompson joins Ben Lorica to discuss how AI is reshaping work, the economy, and the future of automation. Drawing on recent research, Thompso

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

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

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

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. Subscr

What Comes After Transformers?

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,

Inside OpenAI's First Chip

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 in

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

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 protec

The Missing Data for Spatial Intelligence

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 ph

Your AI Agent Is Costing You More Than You Think

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 distribu

Reasoning Doesn't Start With Language

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

An Agent Is Just an LLM in a For-Loop

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 L

The Bloomberg Terminal for AI Compute

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 t

Can China Do to Robotaxis What It Did to Solar?

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

Why Video Is AI's Next Great Frontier

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

Your AI Safety Tests Are Lying to You

Andrew Burt, CEO and co-founder of Luminos, joins Ben Lorica to unpack Luminos’s new report, A Practical Guide to Agentic and Gen AI Risk Evals.  Subscribe to the Gradie

Enterprise AI Is Moving Slower Than You Think

Ben Lorica speaks with Denise Teng, partner at Gradient Ventures, about the real state of enterprise AI adoption, why security and data privacy still slow deployment, and

Why Observability May Be AI’s Next Frontier

Ameet Talwalkar, Carnegie Mellon ML professor and Chief Scientist at Datadog, joins Ben Lorica to trace time series foundation models from skepticism to Datadog’s Toto V1

AI Is Producing More Code, but Is It Producing More Value?

Ben Lorica sits down with Evangelos Simoudis to unpack why open-weights models are closing the gap with frontier labs and pushing enterprises toward “corporate AI soverei