Orchestrate all the Things

As it turns out, the answer to the question of how to make the best of AI hardware may not be solely, or even primarily, related to hardware

Today's episode features Determined AI CEO and Founder, Evan Sparks. Sparks is a PhD veteran of Berkeley's AmpLab with a long track record of accurate predictions in the chip market.

We talk about an interoperability layer for disparate hardware stacks, ONNX and TVM -- two ways to solve similar problems, AI constraints and energy efficiency, and Infusing knowledge in models

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Vectors are foundational for machine learning applications. Pinecone, a specialized cloud database for vectors, has secured significant investment from the people who brought Snowflake to the world. Could this be the next big thing?

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AI chips, MLOps, and ethics. Knowledge, and Graphs. COVID-19 as a mixed bag for technological progress and adoption

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Blockchain's DeFi-ning moment. Cloud, Kubernetes, and GraphQL. Open source is winning, open source creators are losing. A reality check on key technological drivers for the new decade.

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Gary Marcus is one of the more prominent, and controversial, figures in AI

In this in-depth conversation, we cover everything from his background and early work in cognitive psychology as a way to understand the human mind, to his critique on Deep Learning, a holistic proposal for robust AI, the role of background knowledge, and knowledge graphs in particular, and the future of AI

Python, the most popular language for data science and machine learning, gets a huge boost from Dask, an open source framework for running it in a distributed way on top of GPUs.

Saturn Cloud, a startup offering Dask as service, is now a Snowflake partner, making Dask available to the masses.

We discuss all about Dask and Saturn Cloud with co-founder Sebastian Metti.

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You might not know it by reading this news, but Blaize is an AI chip company. Blaize is now boldly going where none of its ilk has gone before, releasing a software development product. And that's not the only reason AI Studio is interesting.

We discuss with Blaize CEO Dinakar Munagala and VP R&D Dmitry Zakharchenko to explore AI Studio, its potential and philosophy, and where it fits in Blaize's strategy.

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A flexible API is key to database accessibility and developer friendliness today. Apache Cassandra was lacking in that department, and DataStax is trying to address this with the release of a new API layer called Stargate. 

A discussion with Ed Anuff, formerly of Apogee and Google Cloud, and currently DataStax Chief Product Officer, on the rationale behind Stargate, its architecture and operation, how it compares to GraphQL, and a roadmap for the future.

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Fluree is a hitherto under the radar graph database that uses blockchain to support data lineage and verification.

Learn all about Fluree, its origins and milestones, use cases, data integration and integrity, open source, and more

Featuring Brian Platz, Fluree co-founder and co-CEO. 

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From fit for purpose development to pie in the sky research, this is what AI looks like in 2020.

A discussion on all things AI, with authors of the State of AI 2020 Report, Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth.

Benaich and Hogarth work on the intersection of industry, research, investment and policy, with extensive background and various currently held positions such as venture capital investor and researcher. This gives them a unique vantage point on all things AI.

Their report, which is published for the 3rd year in a row, is their way of sharing their insights with the AI ecosystem at large.

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