Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

Can today's power grid handle the explosive growth of AI data centers? Tesla Alum Drew Baglino, now founder & CEO of Heron Power, doesn't think so.In this episode, he joins Lukas Biewald to talk about why scaling compute requires a fundamental overhaul of grid-to-chip infrastruct ...  Show more

Should American companies be worried about Chinese open-source AI models?Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks, doesn't think so.In this episode, she joins Lukas Biewald to talk about why she believes the industry is at a turning point, one that calls for more open intelligence, not less.Th ...  Show more

"We are going to switch from the problem in AI being that nothing works to the problem being that everything works."Dan Klein has been studying language models for over two decades and is now a professor of computer science at Berkeley. His new company, Scaled Cognition, is built ...  Show more

Samuel Rodriques left physics because there were no unsolved problems left.Instead, he built an AI scientist named Kosmos to cure every disease, solve aging, and map the human brain.In this episode:The cure his AI proposed for blindnessWhy he would never touch a peptideWhether we ...  Show more

"Every vehicle is capable of driverless operation. That's clearly the steady state of where we're going."Wayve started in a rented house in Cambridge with $1.5M, a car in the garage, and an aim to integrate end-to-end AI into driving. A decade later it's driven across 506 cities ...  Show more