Naveen Rao
Co-founder and CEO of Unconventional AI; founded Nervana and MosaicML
Co-founder and CEO of Unconventional AI; founded Nervana and MosaicML
Every podcast episode featuring Naveen Rao that Attunex has found: 44 interviews and appearances across 37 shows between 2016 and 2026. Most often on This Week in AI (3), Sourcery (2) and Metabolic Majlis (2). Often in conversation with Jason Calacanis and Sam Charrington. Follow Naveen in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.
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The All-In Summit returned to Los Angeles this year with one of its biggest lineups yet: Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, Gwynne Shotwell, Jared Isaacman, Brad Gerstner, Bill Gurley, Dina…
A room full of tech heavyweights turns the All-In Summit 2026 into a fast-moving referendum on AI, energy, health, and the future of power. In this condensed recap of Sourcery, host Molly O'Shea…
AI算力竞赛正从抢购GPU，转向争夺电力合同。Unconventional AI创始人Naveen Rao提出警告：若沿用当前高能耗的计算路径，行业可能在约三年内撞上能源瓶颈。 本期「AI快递」深度解析这场关于能效与计算范式的讨论：从数据搬运为何是耗电核心，到稀疏连接、存算一体与4D物理动态计算，理解这项试图逼近生物大脑能效的新硬件赌注。 原视频链接：…
Today's guest is Naveen Rao , co-founder and CEO of Unconventional AI. Naveen has built two startups before Unconventional AI, both at critical inflection points in the AI market, often early to…
(0:00) Welcome Naveen Rao (4:45) Is energy really the problem? The cost of a token, power contracts & the gap to close (10:24) Cutting out the middleman: abstractions, dynamical systems & a new kind…
Et si l’intelligence artificielle cessait de dépendre de milliards de transistors pour s’appuyer sur un principe vieux comme les métronomes ? C’est le pari d’Unconventional AI, une start-up née des…
In this episode of The GaryVee Audio Experience, I sit down with Naveen, founder of Glance, at Cannes 2026 to talk about agentic commerce — the first time in 30 years the user interface of how people…
Daily Prompt with Archer & Iris Friday, June 26, 2026 — Daily Briefing Washington tells OpenAI to pace GPT-5.6, Anthropic accuses Alibaba of the biggest Claude copy job yet, and a Databricks alum…
The future of AI isn't about whether the model is smart enough. It's about whether we can afford to run it. We dug into the AI cost panic, the energy wall that's coming for compute, and why…
This week, JCal sits down with two builders working on opposite ends of the AI stack: Naveen Rao , co-founder and CEO of Unconventional AI (his $4.5B startup rethinking the computer from first…
This week we sit down with three founders building at the frontier of AI infrastructure, evaluation, and hardware: Chase Lochmiller (Crusoe), Naveen Rao (Unconventional AI), and Anastasios…
Unconventional AI recently emerged from stealth with $475M in seed funding at a $4.5B valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed, with participation from Sequoia, Lux Capital, DCVC, Future…
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In this episode, we explore the impact of AI-generated content on social media, focusing on a viral TikTok video about food stamps that sparked outrage and debate. Despite policies for AI disclosure,…
Naveen Rao is cofounder and CEO of Unconventional AI, an AI chip startup building analog computing systems designed specifically for intelligence. Previously, Naveen led AI at Databricks and founded…
What if computers were built to behave like brains, not just faster versions of them? In this 3-minute summary (original 30 minutes), host Matt Bornstein interviews Naveen Rao of Unconventional AI…
In the latest episode of The New Stack Agents , Naveen Rao, VP of AI at Databricks and a former neuroscientist, reflects on the evolution of AI, neural networks, and the energy constraints that…
Dans cet épisode, PPC nous embarque dans les coulisses du RAISE Summit 2025, un rendez-vous d’exception au Carrousel du Louvre, où l’intelligence artificielle s’est imposée pendant 2 jours. Pas de…
In this episode of Metabolic Majlis, we dive deep into the limits of AI in healthcare. Our conversation with Naveen unpacks how AI tools grant us access to massive amounts of information—but fall…
In this edition of the Metabolic Majlis we dive into Naveen’s remarkable journey from his early days at Duke and Stanford to pioneering ventures in computational neuroscience and AI chip innovation.…
Naveen Rao discovered artificial intelligence through science fiction in middle school, devouring the works of Asimov while his peers in Kentucky were doing whatever kids in Kentucky normally did.…
This is a replay of our first episode from April 12, featuring Databricks VP of AI Naveen Rao and a16z partner Matt Bornstein discussing enterprise LLM adoption, hardware platforms, and what it means…
Is 2024 the year scaling AI officially breaks? In Episode 29 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Anthony Annunziata, Kate Soule and Naveen Rao. First, the experts discuss whether we…
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Naveen Rao, Vice President of Artificial Intelligence at Databricks Naveen recalls his journey to become a trained neuroscientist and how his PhD studies at Brown University informed his…
In 2014, Naveen Rao left his researcher job at Qualcomm to co-found machine intelligence platform Nervana. About two and a half years later, Nervana sold to Intel for more than $400 million. After a…
This week on Generative Now, Lightspeed Partner and host Michael Mignano talks to Naveen Rao about big bets in his career, hardware to develop AI, and open source as the key to safety. Naveen Rao is…
Show notes: (0:00) Naveen’s background (5:32) Where Generative AI is today (8:00) ChatGPT-4o and Google I/O announcements were NOT fundamental shifts (9:38) Has generative AI scaling hit a wall?…
In this episode of Building With AI, host Haroon Choudery is joined by Naveen Rao, VP of GenAI at Databricks. Naveen is a serial entrepreneur who established the first AI chip company, which he sold…
The AI landscape continues to evolve at a rapid pace, and a focus on economically scalable models is gaining increased attention. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Naveen Rao, VP of…
Naveen Rao, vice president of generative AI at Databricks, joins a16z's Matt Bornstein and Derrick Harris to discuss enterprise usage of LLMs and generative AI. Naveen is particularly knowledgeable…
Armed with a PhD in computational neuroscience, Naveen Rao has built not one, but two, AI companies at the forefront of his field. In 2014, he started deep learning company Nervana Systems, which was…
My guest this month is Naveen Rao, the co-founder of MosaicML and current head of Generative AI at Databricks. Naveen's journey is unique, as it echoes the evolution of AI itself. He’s best known for…
MosaicML is the developer of open source infrastructure for training LLMs. The company was acquired by Databricks for $1.3 billion in July 2023. and has gone from 0 to over $30M in revenue this year…
We were delighted to kick off the 2nd Cerebral Valley AI Summit with Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks, and Naveen Rao, co-founder of MosaicML. Their encounter at our debut event in March led to Ghodsi…
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Naveen Rao, founder of MosaicML, to talk about the efficiency of the human brain (3:30), slashing the cost to train AI models (8:00), how…
Interest and investment in AI is soaring. What should founders know? What does the future hold? Listen to successful AI entrepreneur Naveen Rao talk with Orrick's Mark Seneca.
Data drives the information economy, but text and images provide crucial context. That's why storytelling has become so prominent in the world of AI and analytics. By harmonizing the use of relevant…
Startup MosaicML is on a mission to help the AI community enhance prediction accuracy, decrease costs, and save time by providing tools for easy training and deployment of large AI models. In this…
Naveen Rao is the cofounder and CEO of MosaicML, a platform that enables you to train and deploy large AI models on your data in your secure environment. They've raised funding from amazing investors…
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There are many speculations about the future of artificial intelligence (AI), and in this episode, we hear the opinions and predictions of a player in the inner folds of the AI space. Naveen Rao is…
Our guest today is Naveen Rao, the CEO and founder of Mosaic ML. The MosaicML Cloud makes it easy to train models of any size on any number of GPUs, helping teams achieve more accurate results faster…
We wrap up our Future of Compute series with a leading force in the field, Naveen Rao. Rao founded Nervana Systems, the first next-gen AI chip company, which he sold to Intel. He then drove Intel's…
Panel discussion with James Wang, Naveen Rao & Dylan Patel about Tesla's AI Day, Dojo chip ambitions and robotaxis. We start with an overview of neural nets, and Tesla's FSD program/approach vs other…
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Naveen Rao, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Artificial Intelligence Products Group at Intel.…
In this episode, I talk to Naveen Rao, VP and GM of Intel’s AI Products Group, and Scott Apeland, director of Intel’s Developer Network. It's been a few months since we last spoke to Naveen, so he…
I talked about Intel’s acquisition of Nervana Systems on the podcast when it happened almost a year ago, so I was super excited to have an opportunity to sit down with Nervana co-founder Naveen Rao,…
"Artificial intelligence (AI) can be seen as a progression in our scalability of labor." This quote comes from this week's guest, Naveen Rao, who received his PhD in Neuroscience from Brown before…