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Lukas Biewald

Lukas Biewald

Co-founder of Weights & Biases and Figure Eight; AI entrepreneur

Every podcast episode featuring Lukas Biewald that Attunex has found: 136 interviews and appearances across 20 shows between 2016 and 2026. Most often on Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI (116) and The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) (2). Follow Lukas in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.

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Updated 2026-10-14.

  1. Elon's Former Battery Chief: AI Data Centers Will Make Electricity Cheaper
    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…

    2026-08-18
  2. 40 Trillion Tokens a Day (Yes, More Than OpenAI) | Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    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…

    2026-08-03
  3. He's Building an AI That Can't Lie | Dan Klein
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    "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…

    2026-06-16
  4. He Raised $70M to Cure Every Disease With AI | Samuel G. Rodriques, Edison Scientific
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    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…

    2026-05-26
  5. Uber, Nissan, and Mercedes Chose This Self-Driving Startup | Alex Kendall, Wayve
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    "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…

    2026-04-15
  6. Why Netflix, Uber, and Spotify Never Lag: The Database Nobody Talks About | Aaron Katz
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    "Companies designing for agents, not humans, are going to get a lot of lift." ClickHouse started as an internal tool at Yandex. Today it's the database Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Tesla all run on.…

    2026-03-31
  7. The $64M Bet on an AI That Has to Be Right | Carina Hong, CEO of Axiom
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Formal verification already consumes years of human effort. In this episode, Lukas Biewald talks with Carina Hong, Founder & CEO of Axiom, about why verification is becoming the real bottleneck in…

    2026-02-05
  8. What a $42B Software Co. Really Spends on AI Tools
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    “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…

    2026-01-20
  9. Inside the $41B AI Cloud Challenging Big Tech | CoreWeave SVP
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    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…

    2026-01-06
  10. Why Physical AI Needed a Completely New Data Stack
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    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…

    2025-12-16
  11. Lessons From a $1.7B AI Acquisition | Lukas Biewald of Weights & Biases
    Founders and Builders

    In this episode, Lukas opens up about the real story behind W&B’s $1.7B acquisition, what it was like inside early OpenAI, why most founders move far too slowly, and the surprising truth that you’re…

    2025-12-03
  12. The Engineering Behind the World’s Most Advanced Video AI
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on 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…

    2025-12-01
  13. The CEO Behind the Fastest-Growing AI Inference Company | Tuhin Srivastava
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    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…

    2025-11-18
  14. Inside Cursor: The future of AI coding with Co-founder Sualeh Asif
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    2025-11-18
  15. From Fired CEO to Billion-Dollar Exit: How Lukas Biewald Turned Failure into the Future of AI
    The Eric Ries Show

    Lukas Biewald has been shaping the future of AI for nearly two decades. In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, we explore how his early passion for the board game Go, his hard-won lessons as a…

    2025-10-09
  16. Weights & Biases: Following the "Gradient of Admiration" to Million-Dollar Deals with Lukas Biewald
    Founder-Led Sales Stories with Pete Kazanjy - Startup Sales Expertise From Founders Who've Done It

    Join Pete in conversation with Lukas Biewald, Co-Founder of Weights & Biases, the AI developer platform recently acquired by CoreWeave. Lukas and Pete dig into the fascinating journey of how W&B…

    2025-10-07
  17. The Startup Powering The Data Behind AGI
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Lukas Biewald talks with the CEO & founder of Surge AI, the billion-dollar company quietly powering the next generation of frontier LLMs. They discuss Surge's…

    2025-09-16
  18. Arvind Jain on Building Glean and the Future of Enterprise AI
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Lukas Biewald sits down with Arvind Jain, CEO and founder of Glean. They discuss Glean's evolution from solving enterprise search to building agentic AI tools…

    2025-08-05
  19. How DeepL Built a Translation Powerhouse with AI with CEO Jarek Kutylowski
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Lukas Biewald talks with Jarek Kutylowski, CEO and founder of DeepL, an AI-powered translation company. Jarek shares DeepL’s journey from launching neural machine…

    2025-07-08
  20. Lukas Biewald | You think you're late, but you're early | Learning from Machine Learning #13
    Learning from Machine Learning

    On this episode of Learning from Machine Learning, I had the privilege of speaking with Lukas Biewald, co-founder and CEO of Weights & Biases. We traced his journey from programming games as a kid to…

    2025-07-01
  21. GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on Copilot and the Future of Software Development
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Lukas Biewald sits down with Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub, to talk about the future of software engineering in the age of AI. They discuss how GitHub Copilot was…

    2025-06-10
  22. From Pharma to AGI Hype, and Developing AI in Finance: Martin Shkreli’s Journey
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Lukas Biewald talks with Martin Shkreli — the infamous "pharma bro" turned founder — about his path from hedge fund manager and pharma CEO to convicted felon and…

    2025-05-20
  23. Inside Cursor: The future of AI coding with Co-founder Sualeh Asif
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, host Lukas Biewald talks with Sualeh Asif, the CPO and co-founder of Cursor, one of the fastest-growing and most loved AI-powered coding platforms. Sualeh shares…

    2025-04-29
  24. Inside the Dark Web, AI and Cybersecurity with Christopher Ahlberg CEO of Recorded Future
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, host Lukas Biewald talks with Christopher Ahlberg, CEO of Recorded Future, a pioneering cybersecurity company leveraging AI to provide intelligence insights.…

    2025-04-08
  25. AI, autonomy, and the future of naval warfare with Captain Jon Haase, United States Navy
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, host Lukas Biewald speaks with Captain Jon Haase, United States Navy about real-world applications of AI and autonomy in defense. From underwater mine detection…

    2025-03-25
  26. The rise of AI agents
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, host Lukas Biewald sits down with João Moura, CEO & Founder of CrewAI, one of the leading platforms enabling AI agents for enterprise applications. Joe shares…

    2025-02-25
  27. R1, OpenAI’s o3, and the ARC-AGI Benchmark: Insights from Mike Knoop
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, host Lukas Biewald sits down with Mike Knoop, Co-founder and CEO of Ndea, a cutting-edge AI research lab. Mike shares his journey from building Zapier into a…

    2025-02-04
  28. DeepSeek, Stargate and AI's $600 Billion Question with Sequoia's David Cahn
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, host Lukas Biewald sits down with David Cahn, partner at Sequoia Capital, for a compelling discussion on the dynamic world of AI investments. They dive into…

    2025-01-28
  29. Building the future of collaborative AI development with Akshay Agrawal
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Akshay Agrawal, Co-Founder of Marimo, joins host Lukas Biewald to discuss the future of collaborative AI development. They dive into how Marimo is enabling…

    2025-01-07
  30. Evaluating LLMs with Chatbot Arena and Joseph E. Gonzalez
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Joseph E. Gonzalez, EECS Professor at UC Berkeley and Co-Founder at RunLLM, joins host Lukas Biewald to explore innovative approaches to evaluating LLMs. They…

    2024-12-17
  31. AI’s breakthrough in weather forecasting with Brightband’s Julian Green
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Julian Green, Co-founder & CEO of Brightband, joins host Lukas Biewald to discuss how AI is transforming weather forecasting and climate solutions. They explore…

    2024-11-26
  32. What’s the path to AGI? A conversation with Turing Co-founder and CEO Jonathan Siddharth
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Jonathan Siddharth, CEO & Co-Founder of Turing, joins host Lukas Biewald to discuss the path to AGI. They explore how Turing built a "developer cloud" of 3.7…

    2024-11-07
  33. Vercel's CEO & Founder Guillermo Rauch on the impact of AI on Web Development and Front End Engineering
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Guillermo Rauch, CEO & Founder of Vercel, joins host Lukas Biewald for a wide ranging discussion on how AI is changing web development and front end engineering.…

    2024-10-24
  34. Snowflake’s CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy on 700+ LLM enterprise use cases
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy joins host Lukas Biewald to explore how AI is transforming enterprise data strategies. They discuss Sridhar's journey from Google…

    2024-10-10
  35. Elevating ML Infrastructure with Modal Labs CEO Erik Bernhardsson
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Erik Bernhardsson, CEO & Founder of Modal Labs, joins host Lukas Biewald to discuss the future of machine learning infrastructure. They explore how Modal is…

    2024-09-26
  36. From No-Code to AI-Powered Apps with Airtable’s Howie Liu
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Howie Lou, CEO of Airtable, joins host Lukas Biewald to dive into Airtable's transformation from a no-code app builder to a platform capable of supporting complex…

    2024-09-12
  37. Launching the Fastest AI Inference Solution with Cerebras Systems CEO Andrew Feldman
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Andrew Feldman, CEO of Cerebras Systems, joins host Lukas Biewald to discuss the latest advancements in AI inference technology. They explore Cerebras Systems'…

    2024-08-27
  38. Reinventing AI Agents with Imbue CEO Kanjun Qiu
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Kanjun Qiu, CEO and Co-founder of Imbue, joins host Lukas Biewald to discuss how AI agents are transforming code generation and software development. Discover the…

    2024-08-08
  39. From startup to $1.2B with Lambda's Stephen Balaban
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Stephen Balaban, CEO of Lambda Labs, joins host Lukas Biewald to discuss the journey of scaling Lambda Labs to an impressive $400M in revenue. They explore the…

    2024-07-25
  40. Harnessing AI for legal practice with CoCounsel’s Jake Heller
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Jake Heller, Head of Product, CoCounsel, joins host Lukas Biewald to discuss how AI is innovating legal practices and reshaping educational approaches for…

    2024-07-11
  41. Transforming Search with Perplexity AI’s CTO Denis Yarats
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Denis Yarats, CTO of Perplexity, joins host Lukas Biewald to discuss the innovative use of AI in creating high-quality, fast search engine answers. Discover how…

    2024-06-20
  42. #192 Lukas Biewald: How Weights and Biases Supercharges Machine Learning
    Eye On A.I.

    This episode is sponsored by Oracle. AI is revolutionizing industries, but needs power without breaking the bank. Enter Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI): the one-stop platform for all your AI needs,…

    2024-06-09
  43. AI in electronics: Quilter’s journey in PCB design
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Sergiy Nesterenko, CEO of Quilter, joins host Lukas Biewald to discuss the groundbreaking use of reinforcement learning in PCB design. Learn how Quilter automates…

    2024-06-06
  44. The Future of AI in Coding with Codeium CEO Varun Mohan
    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…

    2024-05-23
  45. Shaping AI Benchmarks with Together AI Co-Founder Percy Liang
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    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…

    2024-05-09
  46. Accelerating drug discovery with AI: Insights from Isomorphic Labs
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    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…

    2024-04-25
  47. Redefining AI Hardware for Enterprise with SambaNova’s Rodrigo Liang
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    🚀 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…

    2024-04-11
  48. Navigating the Vector Database Landscape with Pinecone's Edo Liberty
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    🚀 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…

    2024-03-28
  49. Transforming Data into Business Solutions with Salesforce AI CEO, Clara Shih
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    🚀 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…

    2024-03-14
  50. Upgrading Your Health: Navigating AI's Future In Healthcare with John Halamka of Mayo Clinic Platform
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In the newest episode of Gradient Dissent, we explore the intersecting worlds of AI and Healthcare with John Halamka, President of the Mayo Clinic Platform. Journey with us down John Halamka's…

    2024-02-29
  51. Shaping the World of Robotics with Chelsea Finn
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In the newest episode of Gradient Dissent, Chelsea Finn, Assistant Professor at Stanford's Computer Science Department, discusses the forefront of robotics and machine learning. Discover her…

    2024-02-15
  52. AI's Future: Investment & Impact with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Explore the Future of Investment & Impact in AI with Host Lukas Biewald and Guests Elad Gill and Sarah Guo of the No Priors podcast. Sarah is the founder of Conviction VC, an AI-centric $100 million…

    2024-01-18
  53. Bridging AI and Science: The Impact of Machine Learning on Material Innovation with Joe Spisak of Meta
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In the latest episode of Gradient Dissent, we hear from Joseph Spisak, Product Director, Generative AI @Meta, to explore the boundless impacts of AI and its expansive role in reshaping various…

    2023-12-07
  54. Unlocking the Power of Language Models in Enterprise: A Deep Dive with Chris Van Pelt
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In the premiere episode of Gradient Dissent Business, we're joined by Weights & Biases co-founder Chris Van Pelt for a deep dive into the world of large language models like GPT-3.5 and GPT-4. Chris…

    2023-11-16
  55. Weights & Biases: The Developer-First MLOps Platform with CEO Lukas Biewald
    The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck

    Today we have the pleasure of talking to Lukas Biewald, CEO of Weights and Biases for a conversation about Lukas' entrepreneurial journey building two companies in the MLOps space, the current…

    2023-08-09
  56. Eradicating Machine Learning Pain Points with Weights & Biases CEO Lukas Biewald
    No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups

    How are ML developer tools helping to advance our capabilities? Lukas Biewald, CEO of Weights & Biases, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil this week on No Priors. Lukas explores the impact of ML in various…

    2023-08-03
  57. Providing Greater Access to LLMs with Brandon Duderstadt, Co-Founder and CEO of Nomic AI
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    On this episode, we’re joined by Brandon Duderstadt, Co-Founder and CEO of Nomic AI. Both of Nomic AI’s products, Atlas and GPT4All, aim to improve the explainability and accessibility of AI. We…

    2023-07-27
  58. Exploring PyTorch and Open-Source Communities with Soumith Chintala, VP/Fellow of Meta, Co-Creator of PyTorch
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    On this episode, we’re joined by Soumith Chintala, VP/Fellow of Meta and Co-Creator of PyTorch. Soumith and his colleagues’ open-source framework impacted both the development process and the…

    2023-07-13
  59. Advanced AI Accelerators and Processors with Andrew Feldman of Cerebras Systems
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    On this episode, we’re joined by Andrew Feldman, Founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems. Andrew and the Cerebras team are responsible for building the largest-ever computer chip and the fastest…

    2023-06-22
  60. How Weights & Biases found product-market fit: Lukas Biewald on dev-focused ML ops
    Startup Field Guide by Unusual Ventures: The Product Market Fit Podcast

    Weights & Biases is a developer-focused MLOps platform last valued at over $1 billion. Their platform helps developers streamline their ML workflow from end to end. Weights & Biases currently has…

    2023-06-05
  61. Enabling LLM-Powered Applications with Harrison Chase of LangChain
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    On this episode, we’re joined by Harrison Chase, Co-Founder and CEO of LangChain. Harrison and his team at LangChain are on a mission to make the process of creating applications powered by LLMs as…

    2023-06-01
  62. Deploying Autonomous Mobile Robots with Jean Marc Alkazzi at idealworks
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    On this episode, we’re joined by Jean Marc Alkazzi, Applied AI at idealworks. Jean focuses his attention on applied AI, leveraging the use of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) to improve efficiency…

    2023-05-18
  63. Lukas Biewald of Weights and Biases: solving pain-points of AI researchers
    The Robot Brains Podcast

    Lukas Biewald of Weights and Biases joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss solving the pain-points of AI researchers and practitioners. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit…

    2023-05-03
  64. Scaling LLMs and Accelerating Adoption with Aidan Gomez at Cohere
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    On this episode, we’re joined by Aidan Gomez, Co-Founder and CEO at Cohere. Cohere develops and releases a range of innovative AI-powered tools and solutions for a variety of NLP use cases. We…

    2023-04-20
  65. Neural Network Pruning and Training with Jonathan Frankle at MosaicML
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Jonathan Frankle, Chief Scientist at MosaicML and Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, joins us on this episode. With comprehensive infrastructure and software tools,…

    2023-04-04
  66. Jasper AI's Dave Rogenmoser & Saad Ansari on Growing & Maintaining an LLM-Based Company
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    About this episodeIn this episode of Gradient Dissent, Lukas interviews Dave Rogenmoser (CEO & Co-Founder) and Saad Ansari (Director of AI) of Jasper AI, a generative AI company with a focus on text…

    2023-03-16
  67. Shreya Shankar — Operationalizing Machine Learning
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    About This Episode Shreya Shankar is a computer scientist, PhD student in databases at UC Berkeley, and co-author of "Operationalizing Machine Learning: An Interview Study", an ethnographic interview…

    2023-03-02
  68. Sarah Catanzaro — Remembering the Lessons of the Last AI Renaissance
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Sarah Catanzaro is a General Partner at Amplify Partners, and one of the leading investors in AI and ML. Her investments include RunwayML, OctoML, and Gantry. Sarah and Lukas discuss lessons learned…

    2023-02-02
  69. Cristóbal Valenzuela — The Next Generation of Content Creation and AI
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Cristóbal Valenzuela is co-founder and CEO of Runway ML, a startup that's building the future of AI-powered content creation tools. Runway's research areas include diffusion systems for image…

    2023-01-19
  70. Jeremy Howard — The Simple but Profound Insight Behind Diffusion
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Jeremy Howard is a co-founder of fast.ai, the non-profit research group behind the popular massive open online course "Practical Deep Learning for Coders", and the open source deep learning library…

    2023-01-05
  71. Jerome Pesenti — Large Language Models, PyTorch, and Meta
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Jerome Pesenti is the former VP of AI at Meta, a tech conglomerate that includes Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, and one of the most exciting places where AI research is happening today. Jerome…

    2022-12-22
  72. D. Sculley — Technical Debt, Trade-offs, and Kaggle
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    D. Sculley is CEO of Kaggle, the beloved and well-known data science and machine learning community. D. discusses his influential 2015 paper "Machine Learning: The High Interest Credit Card of…

    2022-12-01
  73. Emad Mostaque — Stable Diffusion, Stability AI, and What’s Next
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Emad Mostaque is CEO and co-founder of Stability AI, a startup and network of decentralized developer communities building open AI tools. Stability AI is the company behind Stable Diffusion, the…

    2022-11-15
  74. Will Falcon — Making Lightning the Apple of ML
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Will Falcon is the CEO and co-founder of Lightning AI, a platform that enables users to quickly build and publish ML models. In this episode, Will explains how Lightning addresses the challenges of a…

    2022-09-15
  75. Aaron Colak — ML and NLP in Experience Management
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Aaron Colak is the Leader of Core Machine Learning at Qualtrics, an experiment management company that takes large language models and applies them to real-world, B2B use cases. In this episode,…

    2022-08-26
  76. Jordan Fisher — Skipping the Line with Autonomous Checkout
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Jordan Fisher is the CEO and co-founder of Standard AI, an autonomous checkout company that’s pushing the boundaries of computer vision. In this episode, Jordan discusses “the Wild West” of the MLOps…

    2022-08-04
  77. Drago Anguelov — Robustness, Safety, and Scalability at Waymo
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Drago Anguelov is a Distinguished Scientist and Head of Research at Waymo, an autonomous driving technology company and subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. We begin by discussing Drago's work on the original…

    2022-07-14
  78. Lukas Biewald: Crowdsourcing at CrowdFlower and ML Tooling at Weights & Biases
    The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

    In episode 33 of The Gradient Podcast, Andrey Kurenkov speaks to Lukas Biewald. Lukas Biewald is a co-founder of Weights and Biases, a company that creates developer tools for machine learning. Prior…

    2022-07-07
  79. James Cham — Investing in the Intersection of Business and Technology
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    James Cham is a co-founder and partner at Bloomberg Beta, an early-stage venture firm that invests in machine learning and the future of work, the intersection between business and technology. James…

    2022-07-07
  80. Boris Dayma — The Story Behind DALL·E mini, the Viral Phenomenon
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Check out this report by Boris about DALL-E mini: https://wandb.ai/dalle-mini/dalle-mini/reports/DALL-E-mini-Generate-images-from-any-text-prompt--VmlldzoyMDE4NDAy…

    2022-06-17
  81. Tristan Handy — The Work Behind the Data Work
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Tristan Handy is CEO and founder of dbt Labs. dbt (data build tool) simplifies the data transformation workflow and helps organizations make better decisions. Lukas and Tristan dive into the history…

    2022-06-09
  82. #76 - LUKAS BIEWALD (Weights and Biases CEO)
    Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

    Check out Weights and Biases here! https://wandb.me/MLST Lukas Biewald is an entrepreneur living in San Francisco. He was the founder and CEO of Figure Eight an Internet company that collects…

    2022-06-09
  83. Johannes Otterbach — Unlocking ML for Traditional Companies
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Johannes Otterbach is VP of Machine Learning Research at Merantix Momentum, an ML consulting studio that helps their clients build AI solutions. Johannes and Lukas talk about Johannes' background in…

    2022-05-12
  84. Mircea Neagovici — Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and ML
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Mircea Neagovici is VP, AI and Research at UiPath, where his team works on task mining and other ways of combining robotic process automation (RPA) with machine learning for their B2B products.…

    2022-04-21
  85. Jensen Huang — NVIDIA’s CEO on the Next Generation of AI and MLOps
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Jensen Huang is founder and CEO of NVIDIA, whose GPUs sit at the heart of the majority of machine learning models today. Jensen shares the story behind NVIDIA's expansion from gaming to deep learning…

    2022-03-03
  86. Peter & Boris — Fine-tuning OpenAI's GPT-3
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Peter Welinder is VP of Product & Partnerships at OpenAI, where he runs product and commercialization efforts of GPT-3, Codex, GitHub Copilot, and more. Boris Dayma is Machine Learning Engineer at…

    2022-02-10
  87. How to Build Good Tools with Lukas Biewald of Weights & Biases
    Inspired with Alexa von Tobel

    What will the future of machine learning look like? According to Lukas Biewald, machine learning has the power to solve many of humanity's biggest problems. That's why he founded Weights & Biases, to…

    2022-01-26
  88. Chris Padwick — Smart Machines for More Sustainable Farming
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Chris Padwick is Director of Computer Vision Machine Learning at Blue River Technology, a subsidiary of John Deere. Their core product, See & Spray, is a weeding robot that identifies crops and weeds…

    2021-12-23
  89. Kathryn Hume — Financial Models, ML, and 17th-Century Philosophy
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Kathryn Hume is Vice President Digital Investments Technology at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). At the time of recording, she was Interim Head of Borealis AI, RBC's research institute for machine…

    2021-12-16
  90. Sean & Greg — Biology and ML for Drug Discovery
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Sean McClain is the founder and CEO, and Gregory Hannum is the VP of AI Research at Absci, a biotech company that's using deep learning to expedite drug discovery and development. Lukas, Sean, and…

    2021-12-02
  91. Chris, Shawn, and Lukas — The Weights & Biases Journey
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    You might know him as the host of Gradient Dissent, but Lukas is also the CEO of Weights & Biases, a developer-first ML tools platform! In this special episode, the three W&B co-founders — Chris…

    2021-11-05
  92. Pieter Abbeel — Robotics, Startups, and Robotics Startups
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Pieter is the Chief Scientist and Co-founder at Covariant, where his team is building universal AI for robotic manipulation. Pieter also hosts The Robot Brains Podcast, in which he explores how far…

    2021-10-07
  93. Chris Albon — ML Models and Infrastructure at Wikimedia
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode we're joined by Chris Albon, Director of Machine Learning at the Wikimedia Foundation. Lukas and Chris talk about Wikimedia's approach to content moderation, what it's like to work in…

    2021-09-23
  94. Emily M. Bender — Language Models and Linguistics
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode, Emily and Lukas dive into the problems with bigger and bigger language models, the difference between form and meaning, the limits of benchmarks, and why it's important to name the…

    2021-09-09
  95. Xavier Amatriain — Building AI-powered Primary Care
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Xavier shares his experience deploying healthcare models, augmenting primary care with AI, the challenges of "ground truth" in medicine, and robustness in ML. --- Xavier Amatriain is co-founder and…

    2021-07-30
  96. Spence Green — Enterprise-scale Machine Translation
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Spence shares his experience creating a product around human-in-the-loop machine translation, and explains how machine translation has evolved over the years. --- Spence Green is co-founder and CEO…

    2021-07-16
  97. Roger & DJ — The Rise of Big Data and CA's COVID-19 Response
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Roger and DJ share some of the history behind data science as we know it today, and reflect on their experiences working on California's COVID-19 response. --- Roger Magoulas is Senior Director of…

    2021-07-08
  98. Amelia & Filip — How Pandora Deploys ML Models into Production
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Amelia and Filip give insights into the recommender systems powering Pandora, from developing models to balancing effectiveness and efficiency in production. --- Amelia Nybakke is a Software Engineer…

    2021-07-01
  99. Luis Ceze — Accelerating Machine Learning Systems
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    From Apache TVM to OctoML, Luis gives direct insight into the world of ML hardware optimization, and where systems optimization is heading. --- Luis Ceze is co-founder and CEO of OctoML, co-author of…

    2021-06-24
  100. Clément Delangue — The Power of the Open Source Community
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Clem explains the virtuous cycles behind the creation and success of Hugging Face, and shares his thoughts on where NLP is heading. --- Clément Delangue is co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, the AI…

    2021-06-10
  101. Wojciech Zaremba — What Could Make AI Conscious?
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Wojciech joins us to talk the principles behind OpenAI, the Fermi Paradox, and the future stages of developments in AGI. --- Wojciech Zaremba is a co-founder of OpenAI, a research company dedicated…

    2021-06-03
  102. Phil Brown — How IPUs are Advancing Machine Intelligence
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Phil shares some of the approaches, like sparsity and low precision, behind the breakthrough performance of Graphcore's Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs). --- Phil Brown leads the Applications…

    2021-05-27
  103. Alyssa Simpson Rochwerger — Responsible ML in the Real World
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    From working on COVID-19 vaccine rollout to writing a book on responsible ML, Alyssa shares her thoughts on meaningful projects and the importance of teamwork. --- Alyssa Simpson Rochwerger is as a…

    2021-05-20
  104. Sean Taylor — Business Decision Problems
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Sean joins us to chat about ML models and tools at Lyft Rideshare Labs, Python vs R, time series forecasting with Prophet, and election forecasting. --- Sean Taylor is a Data Scientist at (and former…

    2021-05-13
  105. Polly Fordyce — Microfluidic Platforms and Machine Learning
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Polly explains how microfluidics allow bioengineering researchers to create high throughput data, and shares her experiences with biology and machine learning. --- Polly Fordyce is an Assistant…

    2021-04-29
  106. Vladlen Koltun — The Power of Simulation and Abstraction
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    From legged locomotion to autonomous driving, Vladlen explains how simulation and abstraction help us understand embodied intelligence. --- Vladlen Koltun is the Chief Scientist for Intelligent…

    2021-04-01
  107. Dave Selinger — AI and the Next Generation of Security Systems
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Learn why traditional home security systems tend to fail and how Dave’s love of tinkering and deep learning are helping him and the team at Deep Sentinel avoid those same pitfalls. He also discusses…

    2021-03-11
  108. Piero Molino — The Secret Behind Building Successful Open Source Projects
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Piero shares the story of how Ludwig was created, as well as the ins and outs of how Ludwig works and the future of machine learning with no code. Piero is a Staff Research Scientist in the Hazy…

    2021-02-11
  109. Sean Gourley — NLP, National Defense, and Establishing Ground Truth
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Primer CEO Sean Gourley and Lukas Biewald sit down to talk about NLP, working with vast amounts of information, and how crucially it relates to national defense.…

    2021-01-28
  110. Chris Anderson — Robocars, Drones, and WIRED Magazine
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Chris shares his journey starting from playing in R.E.M, becoming interested in physics to leading WIRED Magazine for 11 years. His robot fascination lead to starting a company that manufactures…

    2021-01-14
  111. Adrien Treuille — Building Blazingly Fast Tools That People Love
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Adrien shares his journey from making games that advance science (Eterna, Foldit) to creating a Streamlit, an open-source app framework enabling ML/Data practitioners to easily build powerful and…

    2020-12-04
  112. Peter Norvig – Singularity Is in the Eye of the Beholder
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    We're thrilled to have Peter Norvig join us to talk about the evolution of deep learning, his industry-defining book, his work at Google, and what he thinks the future holds for machine learning…

    2020-11-20
  113. Robert Nishihara — The State of Distributed Computing in ML
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    The story of Ray and what lead Robert to go from reinforcement learning researcher to creating open-source tools for machine learning and beyond Robert is currently working on Ray, a high-performance…

    2020-11-13
  114. Killer developer tools for machine learning (Practical AI #111)
    Changelog Master Feed

    Weights & Biases is coming up with some awesome developer tools for AI practitioners! In this episode, Lukas Biewald describes how these tools were a direct result of pain points that he uncovered…

    2020-11-09
  115. Killer developer tools for machine learning
    Practical AI

    Weights & Biases is coming up with some awesome developer tools for AI practitioners! In this episode, Lukas Biewald describes how these tools were a direct result of pain points that he uncovered…

    2020-11-09
  116. Daeil Kim — The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Synthetic Data
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Supercharging computer vision model performance by generating years of training data in minutes. Daeil Kim is the co-founder and CEO of AI.Reverie(https://aireverie.com/), a startup that specializes…

    2020-10-15
  117. Richard Socher — The Challenges of Making ML Work in the Real World
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Richard Socher, ex-Chief Scientist at Salesforce, joins us to talk about The AI Economist, NLP protein generation and biggest challenge in making ML work in the real world. Richard Socher was the…

    2020-09-29
  118. Deep Learning is Eating The World
    Hidden In Plain Sight

    A.I. and machine learning are poised to change the world. These tools have placed us at the precipice of the next stage in software evolution, and it’s an arms race that's not only transforming…

    2020-09-15
  119. Anthony Goldbloom — How to Win Kaggle Competitions
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Anthony Goldbloom is the founder and CEO of Kaggle. In 2011 & 2012, Forbes Magazine named Anthony as one of the 30 under 30 in technology. In 2011, Fast Company featured him as one of the innovative…

    2020-09-09
  120. Suzana Ilić — Cultivating Machine Learning Communities
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    👩‍💻Today our guest is Suzanah Ilić! Suzanah is a founder of Machine Learning Tokyo which is a nonprofit organization dedicated to democratizing Machine Learning. They are a team of ML Engineers and…

    2020-09-02
  121. Jeremy Howard — The Story of fast.ai and Why Python Is Not the Future of ML
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Jeremy Howard is a founding researcher at fast.ai, a research institute dedicated to making Deep Learning more accessible. Previously, he was the CEO and Founder at Enlitic, an advanced machine…

    2020-08-25
  122. Anantha Kancherla — Building Level 5 Autonomous Vehicles
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    As Lyft’s VP of Engineering, Software at Level 5, Autonomous Vehicle Program, Anantha Kancherla has a birds-eye view on what it takes to make self-driving cars work in the real world. He previously…

    2020-08-12
  123. Bharath Ramsundar — Deep Learning for Molecules and Medicine Discovery
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Bharath created the deepchem.io open-source project to grow the deep drug discovery open source community, co-created the moleculenet.ai benchmark suite to facilitate development of molecular…

    2020-08-05
  124. Chip Huyen — ML Research and Production Pipelines
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Chip Huyen is a writer and computer scientist currently working at a startup that focuses on machine learning production pipelines. Previously, she’s worked at NVIDIA, Netflix, and Primer. She helped…

    2020-07-29
  125. Josh Tobin — Productionizing ML Models
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Josh Tobin is a researcher working at the intersection of machine learning and robotics. His research focuses on applying deep reinforcement learning, generative models, and synthetic data to…

    2020-07-08
  126. Hamel Husain — Building Machine Learning Tools
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Hamel Husain is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Github. He has extensive experience building data analytics and predictive modeling solutions for a wide range of industries, including:…

    2020-06-24
  127. Peter Welinder — Deep Reinforcement Learning and Robotics
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Peter Welinder is a research scientist and roboticist at OpenAI. Before that, he was an engineer at Dropbox and ran the machine learning team, and before that, he co-founded Anchovi Labs a startup…

    2020-06-17
  128. Vicki Boykis — Machine Learning Across Industries
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    👩‍💻Today our guest is Vicki Boykis! Vicki is a senior consultant in machine learning and engineering and works with clients to build holistic data products used for decision-making. She's previously…

    2020-06-04
  129. The Whys and Hows of Managing Machine Learning Artifacts with Lukas Biewald - #373
    The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)

    Today we’re joined by Lukas Biewald, founder and CEO of Weights & Biases, to discuss their new tool Artifacts, an end to end pipeline tracker. In our conversation, we explore Artifacts’ place in the…

    2020-05-07
  130. Angela & Danielle — Designing ML Models for Millions of Consumer Robots
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    👩‍💻👩‍💻On this episode of Gradient Dissent our guests are Angela Bassa and Danielle Dean! Angela is an expert in building and leading data teams. An MIT-trained and Edelman-award-winning…

    2020-05-06
  131. Jack Clark — Building Trustworthy AI Systems
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Jack Clark is the Strategy and Communications Director at OpenAI and formerly worked as the world’s only neural network reporter at Bloomberg. Lukas and Jack discuss AI policy, ethics, and the…

    2020-04-22
  132. Rachael Tatman — Conversational AI and Linguistics
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    🏅 See how W&B is your secret weapon to make it onto the Kaggle leaderboards - https://www.wandb.com/kaggle 👩‍💻Rachael Tatman is a developer advocate for Rasa, where she helps developers build and…

    2020-04-07
  133. Nicolas Koumchatzky — Machine Learning in Production for Self-Driving Cars
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    👨🏻‍💻Nicolas Koumchatzky is the Director of AI infrastructure at NVIDIA, where he's responsible for MagLev, the production-grade machine learning platform by NVIDIA. His team supports diverse ML use…

    2020-03-21
  134. Managing Deep Learning Experiments with Lukas Biewald - TWIML Talk #295
    The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)

    Today we're joined by Lukas Biewald, CEO and Co-Founder of Weights & Biases. Lukas founded the company after seeing a need for reproducibility in deep learning experiments. In this episode, we…

    2019-08-29
  135. Weights & Biases raises $5M to build development tools for machine learning
    TechCrunch Startup NewsMentioned

    Machine learning is one of those buzzwords that nearly every tech company likes to throw around nowadays — but according to Lukas Biewald, it represents a genuinely new approach to programming.…

    2018-06-01
  136. 11 - AI, Real or False Please Explain - Lukas Biewald of Crowdflower & OpenAI
    Modest Conversations - The Information

    Lukas and I discuss AI, vision problems, and what is real vs. overstated about the near future of machine intelligence.

    2017-05-21
  137. Insights on the Symbiotic Relationship Between Data Science and Industry
    The AI in Business Podcast

    When it comes to data science and machine learning, what are the related skills that are getting people jobs and what are the industries that are supplying those in-demand jobs? These are two…

    2016-06-19