Tech Disruptors

Runway is an applied research company that’s building artificial intelligence systems for creative content like text-to-video conversion. In this Tech Disruptors podcast episode, Runway’s cofounder and CTO Anastasis Germanidis joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mandeep Singh for an in-depth discussion about generative video and how the company’s foundational models are different from other large-language ones. Germanidis also talks about training, fine tuning, inferencing and distribution and Runway’s plans to benefit from the proliferation of user- and AI-generated content.Exploring Generative AI’s Disruptive Promise: 2024 Outlook live event link - https://go.bloomberg.com/attend/invite/exploring-generative-ais-disruptive-promise-2024-outlook/

Discover how Scale AI became a disruptor in AI by addressing challenges in training models. Learn about tagging data and human expertise in training language models. Explore customer usage and security considerations in enterprise data. Discuss the leverage of proprietary data for fine-tuning LLMs. Find out about testing, evaluation, and limiting factors in model training. Explore advancements in data cleaning and ingestion.

Tom Casey, senior vice president of products and technology at Splunk joins Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Analysts Mandeep Singh and Sunil Rajgopal to discuss the company's efforts to build an enterprise security operations center (SOC). The episode was recorded after the company announced its takeover by Cisco.

“It has been said for many years that data is the fuel for AI, but I would argue that data is the brain for AI because it’s the data that decides how effective the model is,” ServiceNow’s President and COO CJ Desai says. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Desai joins Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana to discuss how ServiceNow is enhancing productivity for its customers by automating workflow for complex and mundane tasks. He also touches on the ways the company is improving processes across the industry and leveraging artificial intelligence and data to accelerate capabilities.

There’s still tremendous headroom in terms of the number of companies using workflows that leverage eSignature, and this is even more true outside of the US, DocuSign CEO Allan Thygesen explains to Bloomberg Intelligence. Thygesen joins BI senior technology analyst Anurag Rana on this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast to discuss the company’s bridge of rapid growth during the pandemic to its newer, simpler sales motion with a heavy emphasis on execution and international expansion. He also talks about how artificial intelligence is making workflows more efficient for both the customer and the company, and how DocuSign might integrate the technology more in the future.

Artificial intelligence is being increasingly applied to the metaverse and gaming. Inworld AI cofounder and Chief Product Officer Kylan Gibbs joins Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Mandeep Singh on this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast to discuss the training and inference for applying generative AI large language models to different types of media and how new tools could lead to the proliferation of gaming and virtual content.

CoreWeave is a cloud-compute provider that focuses on graphics processing units to deliver infrastructure to enterprises. In this Tech Disruptors podcast episode, the company’s cofounder and Chief Technology Officer Brian Venturo joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mandeep Singh for an in-depth discussion of how CoreWeave uses GPUs to develop generative AI models and how it differentiates itself from colocation and hyperscale entities.

Generative AI can drive a step function of change in productivity and efficiency through automation, and most organizations should expect to see about a 100x improvement, Amazon Web Services’ Vice President Matt Wood tells Bloomberg Intelligence. Woods joins BI analyst Anurag Rana on this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast to discuss AWS’ position in the space, as well as in cloud computing, which it pioneered nearly two decades ago.

Artificial intelligence is changing the landscape of cybersecurity and SentinelOne is at the intersection of the two, according to SentinelOne’s Chief Technology Officer Ric Smith. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Smith joins Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Mandeep Singh for an in-depth discussion about cybersecurity, automation and the potential for generative AI in the field — including agent vs. agentless architecture, efficacy rates, differentiation among vendors and the addressable market for workload security.

The podcast discusses running better AI models without hardware upgrades, the evolution of Scale from general API to self-driving car training, the frenzy around AI and VC activity, the platform shift in technology, changes in investing philosophy due to generative AI, competition and partnerships between cloud providers in the AI market, and the strategies of tech giants in the AI space.