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In this episode of DevNTell we are joined by Alex Mirran who is the Business Development Lead at Gradient. Gradient is an AI R&D lab dedicated to building open intelligence through a fully decentralized infrastructure — OIS (Open Intelligence Stack), encompassing distributed training, serving, agentic systems, and more.
Viewers of this DevNTell will get to meet Alex, learn about Gradient and how you can get started using it today!
(00:00) Intro
(00:25) Meet Alex Mirran
(01:10) Alex's Background Gradient
(02:09) Austin AI Meetup Scene
(04:21) Crypto AI Themes
(05:19) Compute Networks Deepen
(06:59) Agent Payments Wallet Trust
(09:51) Data Provenance Incentives
(11:06) Vertical AI Productization
(12:35) What Is Gradient
(15:21) Gradient Origin Story
(17:40) Commonstack Inference Tour
(19:04) Model Routing Reliability
(20:51) UncommonRoute Cost Router
(21:44) Smart Routing Options
(22:35) Value Beyond Inference
(23:48) Echo RL Pipeline
(26:50) Keeping Up With Evals
(28:19) AI Coding Reality Check
(30:48) Hardware Drives Exponential Gains
(32:34) Open vs Closed Models
(39:42) Gradient Roadmap and Wrap
🤝 Alex Mirran, BD Lead @ Gradient - https://x.com/alex_mirran
🤝 Narb, DevNTell Host @ Developer DAO - https://x.com/narb_s
ℹ️ Website - https://gradient.network/
ℹ️ Commonstack - https://commonstack.ai/
ℹ️ Docs - https://docs.gradient.network/
ℹ️ Parallax - https://github.com/GradientHQ/parallax
ℹ️ UncommonRoute - https://github.com/CommonstackAI/UncommonRoute
ℹ️ Gradient X Account - https://x.com/gradient_HQ
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By Developer DAOIn this episode of DevNTell we are joined by Alex Mirran who is the Business Development Lead at Gradient. Gradient is an AI R&D lab dedicated to building open intelligence through a fully decentralized infrastructure — OIS (Open Intelligence Stack), encompassing distributed training, serving, agentic systems, and more.
Viewers of this DevNTell will get to meet Alex, learn about Gradient and how you can get started using it today!
(00:00) Intro
(00:25) Meet Alex Mirran
(01:10) Alex's Background Gradient
(02:09) Austin AI Meetup Scene
(04:21) Crypto AI Themes
(05:19) Compute Networks Deepen
(06:59) Agent Payments Wallet Trust
(09:51) Data Provenance Incentives
(11:06) Vertical AI Productization
(12:35) What Is Gradient
(15:21) Gradient Origin Story
(17:40) Commonstack Inference Tour
(19:04) Model Routing Reliability
(20:51) UncommonRoute Cost Router
(21:44) Smart Routing Options
(22:35) Value Beyond Inference
(23:48) Echo RL Pipeline
(26:50) Keeping Up With Evals
(28:19) AI Coding Reality Check
(30:48) Hardware Drives Exponential Gains
(32:34) Open vs Closed Models
(39:42) Gradient Roadmap and Wrap
🤝 Alex Mirran, BD Lead @ Gradient - https://x.com/alex_mirran
🤝 Narb, DevNTell Host @ Developer DAO - https://x.com/narb_s
ℹ️ Website - https://gradient.network/
ℹ️ Commonstack - https://commonstack.ai/
ℹ️ Docs - https://docs.gradient.network/
ℹ️ Parallax - https://github.com/GradientHQ/parallax
ℹ️ UncommonRoute - https://github.com/CommonstackAI/UncommonRoute
ℹ️ Gradient X Account - https://x.com/gradient_HQ
🎙️ Subscribe on Spotify - https://devdao.to/dvt-spotify
🎙️ Subscribe on Apple Podcasts - https://devdao.to/dvt-apple
☁️ Get started with D_D Cloud - https://devdao.to/dd-cloud
🗞️ Subscribe to our Newsletter - https://devdao.to/yt-newsletter
📆 Sign-up for FREE workshops & events - https://devdao.to/yt-events
🤝 Partner with Developer DAO - https://devdao.to/partner-with-us
😎 Follow us on X - https://devdao.to/yt-twitter
🎥 Sign Up to Showcase your Project DevNTell - https://devdao.to/devntell-signup