AI Conversations Powered by Prosus Group . Craig Tavares, COO of Buzz High Performance Compute, shares lessons from building GPU cloud infrastructure worldwide. He stresses the role of sovereign mandates, renewable power, and modular cooling in scaling data centers, while highlighting NVIDIA partnerships and orchestration as key to sustaining AI workloads. Guest speaker: Craig Tavares - COO of Buzz HPC Host: Demetrios Brinkmann - Founder of MLOps Community ~~~~~~~~ ✌️Connect With Us ✌️ ~~~~~~~ C...
Sep 12, 2025•46 min
Trust at Scale: Security and Governance for Open Source Models // MLOps Podcast #338 with Hudson Buzby, Solutions Architect at JFrog. Appreciate JFrog for their support in bringing this blog to life. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract For better or for worse, machine learning has traditionally escaped the gaze of security and infrastructure teams, operating outside traditional DevOps practices and not al...
Sep 09, 2025•59 min
AI Conversations Powered by Prosus Group Nishikant Dhanuka talks about what it really takes to make AI agents useful—especially in e-commerce and productivity. From making them smarter with context (like user history and real-time data) to mixing chat and UI for smoother interactions, he breaks down what’s working and what’s not. He also shares why evals matter, how to test with real users, and why AI only succeeds when it actually makes life easier, not more complicated. Guest speaker: Nishikan...
Sep 05, 2025•53 min
The Era of AI Agents in Marketing // MLOps Podcast #337 with Joel Horwitz, Growth Engineer at Neoteric3D. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract We’re entering a new era in marketing—one powered by AI agents, not just analysts. The rise of tools like Clay, Karrot.ai, 6sense, and Mutiny is reshaping how go-to-market (GTM) teams operate, making room for a new kind of operator: the GTM engineer. This hybrid rol...
Sep 01, 2025•49 min
Distilling 200+ Hours of NeurIPS: What’s Next for AI // MLOps Podcast #336 with Nikolaos Vasiloglou, VP of Research ML at RelationalAI. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Nikolaos' widely shared analysis on LinkedIn highlighted key insights across agentic AI, scaling laws, LLM development, and more. Now, he’s exploring how AI itself might be trained to automate this process in the future, offering a glim...
Aug 27, 2025•58 min
AI Conversations Powered by Prosus Group Demetrios chats with Beyang Liu about Sourcegraph’s AMP, exploring how AI coding agents are reshaping development—from IDEs to natural language commands—boosting productivity, cutting costs, and redefining how developers work with code. Guest speaker: Beyang Liu - CTO of Sourcegraph Host: Demetrios Brinkmann - Founder of MLOps Community ~~~~~~~~ ✌️Connect With Us ✌️ ~~~~~~~ Catch all episodes, blogs, newsletters, and more: https://go.mlops.community/TYExp...
Aug 22, 2025•50 min
AI Conversations Powered by Prosus Group Stack Overflow is adapting to the AI era by licensing its trusted Q&A corpus, expanding into discussions and enterprise tools, and reinforcing its role as a reliable source as developer trust in AI output declines. Guest speaker: Prashanth Chandrashekar - CEO of Stack Overflow Host: Demetrios Brinkmann - Founder of MLOps Community 2025 Developer Survey: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=direct-share&utm_campai...
Aug 21, 2025•33 min
Knowledge is Eventually Consistent // MLOps Podcast #335 with Devin Stein, CEO of Dosu. Grateful to @Databricks and @hyperbolic-labs for supporting our podcast and helping us keep great conversations going. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract AI as a partner in building richer, more accessible written knowledge—so communities and teams can thrive, endure, and expand their reach. // Bio Devin is the CEO an...
Aug 17, 2025•55 min
Demetrios chats with Arpita Vats about how LLMs are shaking up recommender systems. Instead of relying on hand-crafted features and rigid user clusters, LLMs can read between the lines—spotting patterns in user behavior and content like a human would. They cover the perks (less manual setup, smarter insights) and the pain points (latency, high costs), plus how mixing models might be the sweet spot. From timing content perfectly to knowing when traditional methods still win, this episode pulls ba...
Aug 12, 2025•48 min
Agents in Production [Podcast Limited Series] Episode Nine – Training LLMs, Picking the Right Models, and GPU Headaches Paul van der Boor and Zulkuf Genc from Prosus join Demetrios to talk about what it really takes to get AI agents running in production. From building solid eval sets to juggling GPU logistics and figuring out which models are worth using (and when), they share hard-won lessons from the front lines. If you're working with LLMs at scale—or thinking about it—this one’s for you. Gu...
Aug 09, 2025•56 min
Demetrios chats with Paul van der Boor and Bruce Martens from Prosus about the real bottlenecks in AI agent development—not tools, but evaluation and feedback. They unpack when to build vs. buy, the tradeoffs of external vendors, and how internal tools like Copilot are reshaping workflows. Guest speakers: Paul van der Boor - VP AI at Prosus Group Bruce Martens - AI Engineer at Prosus Group Host: Demetrios Brinkmann - Founder of MLOps Community ~~~~~~~~ ✌️Connect With Us ✌️ ~~~~~~~ Catch all epis...
Aug 05, 2025•48 min
Building AI agents that actually get things done is harder than it looks. Demetrios, Paul, and Dmitri break down what makes agents effective—from smart planning and memory to treating tools, systems, and even people as components. They cover the "react" loop, budgeting for long tasks, sandboxing, and learning from experience. It’s a sharp, practical look at what it really takes to design useful, adaptive AI agents. Guest speakers: Paul van der Boor - VP AI at Prosus Group Dmitri Jarnikov - Senio...
Aug 01, 2025•1 hr 21 min
Building AI Agents that work is no small feat. In Agents in Production [Podcast Limited Series] - Episode Six, Paul van der Boor and Sean Kenny share how they scaled AI across 100+ companies with Toqan—a tool born from a Slack experiment and grown into a powerful productivity platform. From driving adoption and building super users to envisioning AI employees of the future, this conversation cuts through the hype and gets into what it really takes to make AI work in the enterprise. Guest speaker...
Jul 29, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Real-time Feature Generation at Lyft // MLOps Podcast #334 with Rakesh Kumar, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Lyft. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract This session delves into real-time feature generation at Lyft. Real-time feature generation is critical for Lyft where accurate up-to-the-minute marketplace data is paramount for optimal operational efficiency. We will explore how the infrastructure hand...
Jul 25, 2025•58 min
Sherwood Callaway, tech lead at 11X, joins us to talk about building digital workers—specifically Alice (an AI sales rep) and Julian (a voice agent)—that are shaking up sales outreach by automating complex, messy tasks. He looks back on his YC days at OpKit, where he first got his hands dirty with voice AI, and compares the wild ride of building voice vs. text agents. We get into the use of Langgraph Cloud, integrating observability tools like Langsmith and Arize, and keeping hallucinations in c...
Jul 22, 2025•57 min
From the Legal Trenches to Tech // MLOps Podcast #332 with Nick Coleman, Attorney/Founder of LexMed. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Nick Coleman shares his journey from high-volume Social Security disability practice to founding LexMed, a legal tech startup leveraging AI to transform how attorneys handle complex cases. He'll discuss LexMed's dual AI platforms: Hearing Echo, which automates transcript...
Jul 15, 2025•36 min
The Rise of Sovereign AI and Global AI Innovation in a World of US Protectionism // MLOps Podcast #331 with Frank Meehan, Founder and CEO of Frontier One AI. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract “The awakening of every single country is that they have to control their AI intelligence and not outsource their data" - Jensen Huang. Sovereign AI is rapidly becoming a fundamental national utility, much like def...
Jul 11, 2025•54 min
Thanks to MLflow for supporting this episode — the platform helping teams track, manage, and deploy ML and GenAI projects with ease. Try it free at mlflow.org . What if AI could build and maintain your software—like a co-worker who never forgets state? In this episode, Jiquan Ngiam chats with Demetrios about agents that actually do the work: parsing emails, updating spreadsheets, and reshaping how we design software itself. Less hype, more hands-on AI—tune in for a glimpse at the future of truly...
Jul 09, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Kai Wang joins the MLOps Community podcast LIVE to share how Uber built and scaled its ML platform, Michelangelo. From mission-critical models to tools for both beginners and experts, he walks us through Uber’s AI playbook—and teases plans to open-source parts of it. // Bio Kai Wang is the product lead of the AI platform team at Uber, overseeing Uber's internal end-to-end ML platform called Michelangelo that powers 100% Uber's business-critical ML use cases. // Related Links Uber GenAI: https://...
Jul 04, 2025•45 min
The Missing Data Stack for Physical AI // MLOps Podcast #328 with Nikolaus West, CEO of Rerun. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Nikolaus West, CEO of Rerun, breaks down the challenges and opportunities of physical AI—AI that interacts with the real world. He explains why traditional software falls short in dynamic environments and how visualization, adaptability, and better tooling are key to making ro...
Jul 01, 2025•53 min
LLMs are reshaping the future of data and AI—and ignoring them might just be career malpractice. Yoni Michael and Kostas Pardalis unpack what’s breaking, what’s emerging, and why inference is becoming the new heartbeat of the data pipeline. // Bio Kostas Pardalis Kostas is an engineer-turned-entrepreneur with a passion for building products and companies in the data space. He’s currently the co-founder of Typedef. Before that, he worked closely with the creators of Trino at Starburst Data on som...
Jun 27, 2025•1 hr 37 min
What makes a good AI benchmark? Greg Kamradt joins Demetrios to break it down—from human-easy, AI-hard puzzles to wild new games that test how fast models can truly learn. They talk about hidden datasets, compute tradeoffs, and why benchmarks might be our best bet for tracking progress toward AGI. It’s nerdy, strategic, and surprisingly philosophical. // Bio Greg has mentored thousands of developers and founders, empowering them to build AI-centric applications. By crafting tutorial-based conten...
Jun 24, 2025•49 min
Bridging the Gap Between AI and Business Data // MLOps Podcast #325 with Deepti Srivastava, Founder and CEO at Snow Leopard. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract I’m sure the MLOps community is probably aware – it's tough to make AI work in enterprises for many reasons, from data silos, data privacy and security concerns, to going from POCs to production applications. But one of the biggest challenges faci...
Jun 20, 2025•57 min
The Creator of FastAPI’s Next Chapter // MLOps Podcast #324 with Sebastián Ramírez, Developer at FastAPI Labs. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract The creator of FastAPI is back with a new chapter—FastAPI Cloud. From building one of the most loved dev tools to launching a company, Sebastián Ramírez shares how open source, developer experience, and a dash of humor are shaping the future of APIs. // Bio Seb...
Jun 17, 2025•1 hr 10 min
Willem Pienaar and Shreya Shankar discuss the challenge of evaluating agents in production where "ground truth" is ambiguous and subjective user feedback isn't enough to improve performance. The discussion breaks down the three "gulfs" of human-AI interaction—Specification, Generalization, and Comprehension—and their impact on agent success. Willem and Shreya cover the necessity of moving the human "out of the loop" for feedback, creating faster learning cycles through implicit signals rather th...
Jun 13, 2025•47 min
Tricks to Fine Tuning // MLOps Podcast #318 with Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Research Scientist at Databricks . Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Prithviraj Ammanabrolu drops by to break down Tao fine-tuning—a clever way to train models without labeled data. Using reinforcement learning and synthetic data, Tao teaches models to evaluate and improve themselves. Raj explains how this works, where it shines (t...
Jun 11, 2025•54 min
Packaging MLOps Tech Neatly for Engineers and Non-engineers // MLOps Podcast #322 with Jukka Remes, Senior Lecturer (SW dev & AI), AI Architect at Haaga-Helia UAS, Founder & CTO at 8wave AI. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract AI is already complex—adding the need for deep engineering expertise to use MLOps tools only makes it harder, especially for SMEs and research teams with limited resources. ...
Jun 10, 2025•56 min
Tecton Founder and CEO Mike Del Balso talks about what ML/AI use cases are core components generating Millions in revenue. Demetrios and Mike go through the maturity curve that predictive Machine Learning use cases have gone through over the past 5 years, and why a feature store is a primary component of an ML stack. // Bio Mike Del Balso is the CEO and co-founder of Tecton, where he’s building the industry’s first feature platform for real-time ML. Before Tecton, Mike co-created the Uber Miche...
Jun 06, 2025•49 min
Raza Habib, the CEO of the LLM Eval platform Humanloop , talks to us about how to make your AI products more accurate and reliable by shortening the feedback loop of your evals. Quickly iterating on prompts and testing what works, along with some of his favorite Dario from Anthropic AI Quotes. // Bio Raza is the CEO and Co-founder at Humanloop. He has a PhD in Machine Learning from UCL, was the founding engineer of Monolith AI, and has built speech systems at Google. For the last 4 years, he has...
Jun 03, 2025•53 min
Getting AI Apps Past the Demo // MLOps Podcast #319 with Vaibhav Gupta, CEO of BoundaryML. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract It's been two years, and we still seem to see AI disproportionately more in demos than production features. Why? And how can we apply engineering practices we've all learned in the past decades to our advantage here? // Bio Vaibhav is one of the creators of BAML and a YC alum. He ...
May 30, 2025•50 min
