Shayan Mohanty is the CEO of Watchful, a modern and interactive solution that places the control of data labeling back in the hands of data scientists, machine learning practitioners, and subject matter experts. This podcast focuses on a data management system (written in Rust) they built to support the level of automation and interactivity required to support Watchful.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter:  https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

Frank Liu is Director of Operations & ML Architect at Zilliz, the company behind Milvus,  an open source vector database. We discuss their recent VLDB paper (“A Cloud Native Vector Database Management System”) that describes recent updates to Milvus, as well as vector databases and vector search in general.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter:  https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

Ira Cohen is co-founder, Chief Data Scientist at Anodot, a startup that uses time series tools to monitor  business data in real time, so organizations can proactively resolve revenue, cost, and customer experience issues before they impact business performance. We recently wrote a well-received post that provided a detailed overview on the state of technologies for collecting, storing, and unlocking time series. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter:  https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

Roy Schwartz is Professor of Natural Language Processing at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. We discussed a recent survey paper that Roy co-wrote that presented a broad overview of existing methods to improve NLP efficiency through the lens of traditional NLP pipelines. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter:  https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

On this Thanksgiving holiday weekend in the U.S., we revisit a Twitter Spaces conversation I had withAndrew Burt, Managing Partner at BNH1, the first law firm focused on AI risks.Bob Friday, Chief AI Officer at Juniper Networks.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter:  https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

Hung Bui is the CEO of VinAI, a premier Artificial Intelligence research-based company developing world-class products and services. Hung assembled the VinAI team just over three years ago and they are now among the Top 20 Global Companies in AI Research in 2022. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter:  https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

Bob van Luijt, is CEO of SeMI Technologies, the company behind the popular vector search engine Weaviate.   Bob describes their key features and core components, popular use cases, and he also provides an overview of Weaviate’s near-term roadmap. We also discuss how vector search engines compare with existing data management systems.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter:  https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

Federico Garza and Max Mergenthaler Canseco are both CTOs and co-founders of Nixtla, a startup building developer-friendly software that helps data scientists deploy predictive pipelines.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter:  https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

Christopher Nguyen is CEO and cofounder of Aitomatic, a startup that uses a knowledge-first approach to build and deploy machine learning solutions, with a focus on industrial applications (manufacturing and other physical settings).Join us at K1st World, a fantastic symposium and networking event slated for November 16 & 17. Use the discount code GRADIENTFLOW60 to attend in person or online.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter:  https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

Ram Sriharsha is VP of Engineering and R&D at Pinecone, a startup that offers a fully managed vector database (not just an index). We discuss Pinecone’s new proprietary storage engine, which was first described around the time we recorded this conversation.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter:  https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.