A fully autonomous machine learning engineering agent. A benchmark that matters. And a question that cuts deeper than the hype: when a machine does the work, what happens to the learning part? The race to automate software engineering is expanding to new territory: machine learning. Neo is a fully autonomous machine learning engineering agent that handles the entire pipeline from problem statement to deployed model. Built by Gaurav and Saurabh Vij, Neo topped the MLE-Bench leaderboard and compre...
Apr 16, 2026•59 min•Season 7Ep. 4
Everyone's talking about AI. Few people actually understand it, and even fewer are asking the right questions about what it means to live and work alongside it. In this episode, we sit down with Michel Bauwens, founder of the P2P Foundation and one of the sharpest thinkers on civilisation, technology, and collective intelligence. We talk about what AI actually is - and isn't - why the hype creates real risks and damage, and what it looks like to use these tools without giving away your agency or...
Mar 18, 2026•29 min•Season 7Ep. 3
What if the chaos around us isn't collapse, but transformation? Michel Bauwens has spent decades mapping the edges of change. From peer-to-peer networks to the commons, from medieval guilds to distributed autonomous organizations, he's been tracking something most people miss: the seeds of a new civilization, already growing underneath the noise. In this conversation, we explore how the internet didn't just connect computers - it created an entirely new plane of human organization. One where peo...
Feb 25, 2026•50 min•Season 7Ep. 2
Software engineering is being transformed by AI faster than any other domain. Unpacking how this transformation is playing out may offer a glimpse into the future Greg Foster's journey into software engineering began in an unlikely place: a Nevada high school where he couldn't land a job at Starbucks. Instead of serving coffee, he taught himself software development. Foster developed what he calls "a lifelong obsession with the craft of software engineering". That obsession evolved from building...
Jan 29, 2026•57 min•Season 7Ep. 1
What does it mean to be pragmatic about AI adoption, while staying true to the values and mission driving people and organizations? When Elisa Lindinger decided to talk about AI, her intention was to say what she had to say once, and then move on with her life without having anyone ask about AI ever again. The plan backfired heavily, but somehow, that turned into a good thing. Lindinger is the Co-founder of SUPERRR, an independent non-profit organization. SUPERRR was created to serve the thesis ...
Oct 02, 2025•48 min•Season 6Ep. 8
Whether we like it or not, and despite tales of its powers being greatly exaggerated, the AI genie is out of the box. What does that mean, and what can we do about it? In another twist of abysmal AI politics , OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just admitted that we are in an AI bubble, and AGI is losing relevance . You may find this baffling or hilarious, or you may be wondering where does that leave the AI influencer types. But despite the absurdity, AI and the associated narrative have gotten way too impo...
Aug 19, 2025•41 min•Season 6Ep. 7
Can AI work reliably at scale? Will everything be outsourced to AI? Will AI replace CEOs? Why is everyone riding the AI bandwagon, and where is it headed? These are the type of questions you would ask someone with long-standing experience in AI, engineering, business and beyond. Georg Zoeller is that someone: a seasoned software and business engineer experienced in frontier technology in the gaming industry and Facebook. Zoeller has been using AI in his work dating back to the 2010's, to the poi...
Jul 16, 2025•49 min•Season 6Ep. 6
How a rocket scientist turned entrepreneur created the "ChatGPT for Earth data" using transformers and satellite imagery. Bruno Sánchez is a rocket scientist with a somewhat deviant trajectory. An astrophysicist by training, he used the tools of his trade - mathematics and science - at the broadest possible scale: the universe. At some point, however, his focus switched to using those same tools for more down to earth goals. Sánchez had a stint at the World Bank, where as a member of interdiscip...
Jun 11, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 6Ep. 5
In business, they say it takes ten years to become an overnight success. In technology, they say it takes ten years to build a file system. ScyllaDB is in the technology business, offering a distributed NoSQL database that is monstrously fast and scalable. It turns out that it also takes ten years or more to build a successful database. This is something that Felipe Mendes and Guilherme Nogueira know well. Mendes and Nogueira are Technical Directors at ScyllaDB, working directly on the product a...
May 05, 2025•51 min•Season 6Ep. 4
As enterprise systems shift from deterministic software to probabilistic AI, forward-thinking organizations leverage proactive quality assessment to maximize value, minimize risk and ensure regulatory compliance In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, ensuring the quality of both traditional software and AI systems has become more critical than ever. Organizations are increasingly relying on complex digital systems to drive innovation and maintain competitive advantage, yet many str...
Apr 09, 2025•47 min•Season 6Ep. 3
Organizations are facing a critical challenge to AI adoption: how to leverage their domain-specific knowledge to use AI in a way that delivers trustworthy results. Knowledge graphs provide the missing "truth layer" that transforms probabilistic AI outputs into real world business acceleration. Knowledge graphs are powering products for the likes of Amazon and Samsung. The Knowledge graph market is expected to grow to $6.93 Billion by 2030, at a CAGR of 36.6%. Gartner has been advocating for the ...
Mar 11, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Season 6Ep. 2
It’s early 2025, and we may already be witnessing a redefining moment for AI as we’ve come to know it in the last couple of years. Is the canon of “more GPUs is all you need” about to change? Truth is, when we arranged a conversation on AI chips with Chris Kachris, neither the Stargate Project nor DeepSeek R1 had burst onto the AI scene. Even though we did not consciously anticipate these developments, we knew AI chips is a topic that deserves attention, and Kachris is an insider. Join us as we ...
Jan 29, 2025•57 min•Season 6Ep. 1
You.com showcases the state of AI today The story of you.com is multi-faceted and telling in many ways. You.com was founded in 2020 by Richard Socher, one of the leading NLP (Natural Language Processing) researchers in the world, to offer a better search experience to users and compete with Google. With a startup exit and a Chief Data Scientist stint at Salesforce, Socher got the experience, network and backing he needed to pursue his long-time ambition of taking on Google. That's something few ...
Sep 04, 2024•29 min•Season 5Ep. 7
"Data Rules" is a book about data, but not just about big data crunching. A book about the relationship of data with economic institutions and society, but also about the interplay with data technologies by which data are being generated and processed. A book that is critical, but not ideological. This is how Jannis Kallinikos describes "Data Rules: Reinventing the Market Economy", a book co-authored by himself and Cristina Alaimo and recently published by The MIT Press . Jannis Kallinikos is Fu...
Jul 01, 2024•1 hr•Season 5Ep. 6
What is a universal semantic layer, and how is it different from a semantic layer? Are there actual semantics involved? Who uses that, how, and what for? When Cube Co-founder Artyom Keydunov started hacking away a Slack chatbot back in 2017, he probably didn't have answers to those questions. All he wanted to do was find a way to access data using a text interface, and Slack seemed like a good place to do that. Keydunov had plenty of time to experiment, validate, and develop Cube, as well as get...
May 16, 2024•41 min•Season 5Ep. 5
From better together to full native integration, Neo4j is creating an ecosystem around all major cloud platforms to provide graph-powered features for Generative AI and beyond. As Neo4j just announced its partneship with Microsoft, we met with Chief Product Officer Sudhir Hasbe to talk about: What this partnership means for users and how it works How graph-powered generative AI aligns with cloud platform AI strategies Similarities and differences across them How Neo4j's strategy is shaping up, a...
Mar 27, 2024•26 min•Season 5Ep. 4
If we look at the current status quo in AI as a case of demand and supply, what can we do to close the gap between the exponentially growing demand on the side of AI models and the linearly growing supply on the side of AI hardware? This formulation was the premise on which Yonatan Geifman co-founded Deci in 2019. Today, with the generative AI explosion in full bloom, demand is growing faster than ever, and Deci is a part of this by contributing a number of open source models. Join us as we expl...
Mar 06, 2024•51 min•Season 5Ep. 3
There’s more to AI chips than NVIDIA: AMD, Intel, chiplets, upstarts, analog AI, optical computing, and AI chips designed by AI. The interest and investment in AI is skyrocketing, and generative AI is fueling it. Over one-third of CxOs have reportedly already embraced GenAI in their operations, with nearly half preparing to invest in it. What’s powering it all - AI chips - used to receive less attention. Up to the moment OpenAI’s Sam Altman claimed he wants to raise up to $7 trillion for a “wild...
Feb 13, 2024•56 min•Season 5Ep. 2
For many organizations today, data management comes down to handing over their data to one of the "Big 5" data vendors: Amazon, Microsoft Azure and Google, plus Snowflake and Databricks. But analysts David Vellante and George Gilbert believe that the needs of modern data applications coupled with the evolution of open storage management may lead to the emergence of a "sixth data platform". The sixth data platform hypothesis is that open data formats may enable interoperability, leading the trans...
Jan 11, 2024•54 min•Season 5Ep. 1
What is a skills-based economy and how is LinkedIn moving from vision to implementation? As LinkedIn Director of Engineering Sofus Macskássy shares, there's AI, taxonomy, and ontology involved in building the Skills Graph that powers the transition. We discuss the process of extracting skills from text, building a skills graph, and leveraging it for various product lines within LinkedIn. We cover aspects related to explicit and implicit skill provenance, credibility, depth and interoperability. ...
Dec 13, 2023•29 min•Season 4Ep. 12
Amazon Neptune, the managed graph database service by AWS, makes analytics faster and more agile while introducing a vision aiming to simplify graph databases. It's not every day that you hear product leads questioning the utility of their own products. Brad Beebe, the general manager of Amazon Neptune, was all serious when he said that most customers don't actually want a graph database. However, that statement needs contextualization. If Bebee had meant that in the literal sense, the team hims...
Nov 29, 2023•50 min•Season 4Ep. 11
“Graph database growth is going strong through the Trough of Disillusionment.” And “Graph Analytics go big and real-time.” These were two of the headlines of the Spring 2023 update of the Year of the Graph newsletter. In combination, they seem like an appropriate summary of the reasoning behind a new entry in the graph database market: Aerospike Graph, which Aerospike officially unveiled in June 2023. We caught up with the company’s Chief Product Officer Lenley Hensarling to discuss this long jo...
Nov 06, 2023•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 10
LinkedIn is a case study in terms of how its newsfeed has evolved over the years. LinkedIn's feed has come a long way since the early days of assembling the machine learning infrastructure that powers it. Recently, a major update to this infrastructure was released. We caught up with the people behind it to discuss how the principle of being people-centric translates to technical terms and implementation. Article published on Orchestrate all the Things
Oct 16, 2023•37 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Would you leave a Google Staff Research Engineer role just because you want your TV to automatically pause when you get up to get a cup of tea? Actually, how is that even relevant, you might ask. Let's see what Pete Warden, former Google Staff Research Engineer and now CEO and Founder of Useful Sensors, has to say about that. Although naturally much of what he did was based off things others were already working on, Warden is sometimes credited as having kickstarted the TinyML subdomain of machi...
Sep 21, 2023•42 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Neo4j recently announced new product features in collaboration with Google, as well as a new Chief Product Officer coming from Google: Sudhir Hasbe. We caught up to discuss what the future holds for Neo4j as well as the broader graph database space. Article published on Orchestrate all the Things.
Jul 06, 2023•49 min•Season 4Ep. 7
In an era of dried-up funding and Data Lakehouse vendor supremacy, Redpanda is going against the grain. The company just secured a $100 million Series C funding round to execute on an unconventional strategy. Redpanda Founder and CEO Alex Gallego explains how things work for the company. Article published on Orchestrate all the Things...
Jun 27, 2023•30 min•Season 4Ep. 6
The EU Parliament just voted to bring the EU AI Act regulation into effect. If GDPR is anything to go by, that's a big deal. Here's what and how it's likely to effect, its blind spots, what happens next, and how you can prepare for it based on what we know. Article published on Orchestrate all the Things
Jun 19, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 4Ep. 5
From a consumer-oriented application, Foursquare has evolved to a data and product provider for enterprises. The next steps in its evolution will be powered by the Foursquare Graph If the name Foursquare rings a bell, it means you were around in the 2010s. Your only resort to plausible deniability would be if you are a data professional - although that's not an either/or proposition. In the 2010s, Foursquare was a consumer-oriented mobile application. The premise was simple: people would check i...
May 11, 2023•32 min•Season 4Ep. 4
On AI-generated content, writing, new, old, and broken media, platforms, models, audiences, and body parts. An update from the host on launching the Orchestrate All The Things Newsletter , and some insights on Technology, Data, Media, AI, Writing, and Content. A new type of podcast episode: AI-generated article narrations. Article published on Orchestrate All The Things....
Apr 24, 2023•5 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Is incremental change a bad thing? The answer, as with most things in life, is "it depends". In the world of technology specifically, the balance between innovation and tried and true concepts and solutions seems to have tipped in favor of the former. Or at least, that's the impression reading the headlines gives. Good thing there's more to life than headlines. The ScyllaDB team is one of those who work with their garage doors up and are not necessarily after making headlines. They believe that ...
Mar 18, 2023•52 min•Season 4Ep. 2
