Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

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What a $42B Software Co. Really Spends on AI Tools

“I don't worry about being replaced by AI. I worry about being replaced by someone who's really good at using AI.”Atlassian has 10,000+ engineers currently split-testing the world’s top AI coding tools, from GitHub Copilot and Cursor to Claude Code. In this episode, Co-Founder & ...  Show more

Inside the $41B AI Cloud Challenging Big Tech | CoreWeave SVP

The future of AI training is shaped by one constraint: keeping GPUs fed.In this episode, Lukas Biewald talks with CoreWeave SVP Corey Sanders about why general-purpose clouds start to break down under large-scale AI workloads.According to Corey, the industry is shifting toward a ...  Show more

Why Physical AI Needed a Completely New Data Stack

The future of AI is physical. In this episode, Lukas Biewald talks to Nikolaus West, CEO of Rerun, about why the breakthrough required to get AI out of the lab and into the messy real world is blocked by poor data tooling. Nikolaus explains how Rerun solved this by adopting an En ...  Show more

The Engineering Behind the World’s Most Advanced Video AI

Is video AI a viable path toward AGI? Runway ML founder Cristóbal Valenzuela joins Lukas Biewald just after Gen 4.5 reached the #1 position on the Video Arena Leaderboard, according to community voting on Artificial Analysis. Lukas examines how a focused research team at Runway o ...  Show more

The CEO Behind the Fastest-Growing AI Inference Company | Tuhin Srivastava

In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Lukas Biewald talks with Tuhin Srivastava, CEO and founder of Baseten, one of the fastest-growing companies in the AI inference ecosystem. Tuhin shares the real story behind Baseten’s rise and how the market finally aligned with the infrast ...

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