Episodes

  • 883: Blackwell GPUs Are Now Available at Your Desk, with Sama Bali and Logan Lawler

    883: Blackwell GPUs Are Now Available at Your Desk, with Sama Bali and Logan Lawler
    Apr 29 2025
    Returning after the “Super Bowl of AI”, NVIDIA GTC, Sama Bali and Logan Lawler talk to Jon Krohn about their respective work at tech giants NVIDIA and Dell. Sama and Logan discuss the next-gen Blackwell GPUs to their collaboration with Dell in launching Pro-Max PCs specially designed to take on heavy computational workloads as well as the incredible performance of GB 10 and GB 300 workstations, and the widening accessibility of AI developer tools and models. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/883 This episode is brought to you by ODSC, the Open Data Science Conference, by Adverity, the conversational analytics platform and by the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: (07:29) About Dell’s Pro Max PCs (14:01) Why having a Blackwell GPU from Nvidia is a great option for those new to training and deploying AI models (36:47) When it makes sense for a data scientist to switch from a Unix to a Windows based system (46:33) Logan’s and Sama’s predictions for AI
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • 882: 40x Hotter Than the Sun: The ASML Machines That Make AI Chips

    882: 40x Hotter Than the Sun: The ASML Machines That Make AI Chips
    Apr 25 2025
    This week’s five-minute Friday heads to the Netherlands to find out more about Dutch company ASML, the brains behind the lithography machines that build AI chips. Jon Krohn walks through how ASML came to dominate the market, where they’re headed next, and how ASML’s complex machines shape AI chips as well as the very future of AI. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/882 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.
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    10 mins
  • 881: Beyond GPUs: The Power of Custom AI Accelerators, with Emily Webber

    881: Beyond GPUs: The Power of Custom AI Accelerators, with Emily Webber
    Apr 22 2025
    Emily Webber speaks to Jon Krohn about her work at Amazon Web Services, from its Annapurna Labs-developed Nitro System, a foundational technology that can enhance securities and performance in the cloud and how Trainium2 became AWS’ most powerful AI chip with four times the compute of Trainium. Hear the specs of AWS’s chips and when to use them. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/881 This episode is brought to you by ODSC, the Open Data Science Conference. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: (08:36) Emily’s work on AWS’ SageMaker and Trainium (23:54) How AWS Neuron lets builders tailor their approach to using frameworks (29:07) Why using an accelerator is better than using a GPU (35:29) The key differences between AWS Trainium and AWS Trainium2 (52:45) How to select between AWS Trainium and AWS Trainium2
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • 880: Manus, DeepSeek and China’s AI Boom

    880: Manus, DeepSeek and China’s AI Boom
    Apr 18 2025
    First developed in China, Manus AI and DeepSeek have made great waves on an international scale. Sought-after for their cost-effectiveness compared to US-made tech, Manus AI and DeepSeek are quickly becoming dominant technologies inside the country. In this five-minute Friday, Jon Krohn asks: Do these technologies warrant the huge amount of resources spent on them by multiple industries in China, and what makes hype become a mainstay? Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/880 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.
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    10 mins
  • 879: Serverless, Parallel, and AI-Assisted: The Future of Data Science is Here, with Zerve’s Dr. Greg Michaelson

    879: Serverless, Parallel, and AI-Assisted: The Future of Data Science is Here, with Zerve’s Dr. Greg Michaelson
    Apr 15 2025
    Greg Michaelson speaks to Jon Krohn about the latest developments at Zerve, an operating system for developing and delivering data and AI products, including a revolutionary feature allowing users to run multiple parts of a program’s code at once and without extra costs. You’ll also hear why LLMs might spell trouble for SaaS companies, Greg’s ‘good-cop, bad-cop’ routine that improves LLM responses, and how RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) can be deployed to create even more powerful AI applications. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/879 This episode is brought to you by Trainium2, the latest AI chip from AWS and by the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: (04:00) Zerve’s latest features (35:26) How Zerve’s built-in API builder and GPU manager lowers barriers to entry (40:54) How to get started with Zerve (41:49) Will LLMs make SaaS companies redundant? (52:29) How to create fairer and more transparent AI systems (56:07) The future of software developer workflows
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • 878: In Case You Missed It in March 2025

    878: In Case You Missed It in March 2025
    Apr 11 2025
    AI stacks, AGI, training neural networks, and AI authenticity: Jon Krohn rounds up his interviews from March with this episode of “In Case You Missed It”. In his favorite clips from the month, he speaks to Andriy Burkov (Episode 867), Natalie Monbiot (Episode 873), Richmond Alake (Episode 871) and Varun Godbole (Episode 869). Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/878 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.
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    31 mins
  • 877: The Neural Processing Units Bringing AI to PCs, with Shirish Gupta

    877: The Neural Processing Units Bringing AI to PCs, with Shirish Gupta
    Apr 8 2025
    NPUs, AIPC, and Dell’s growing suite of AI products: Shirish Gupta speaks to Jon Krohn about neural processing units and what makes them a go-to tool for AI inference workloads, reasons to move your workloads from the cloud and to your local devices, what the mnemonic AIPC stands for and why it will soon be on everyone’s lips, and he offers a special intro to Dell’s new Pro-AI Studio Toolkit. Hear about several real-world AIPC applications run by Dell’s clients, from detecting manufacturing defects to improving efficiencies for first responders, massively supporting actual life-or-death situations. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/877 This episode is brought to you by ODSC, the Open Data Science Conference. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: (03:28) What neural processing units (NPUs) are (23:53) About Dell Pro AI Studio (35:03) Use cases for Dell Pro AI Studio (45:16) How AI development workflows and applications will change (49:01) About Dell’s AI factory ecosystem
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • 876: Hugging Face’s smolagents: Agentic AI in Python Made Easy

    876: Hugging Face’s smolagents: Agentic AI in Python Made Easy
    Apr 4 2025
    Small, simple, accessible: Hugging Face makes a huge contribution to the agentic AI wave with its smolagents. Jon Krohn explores how this small-but-mighty new Python library can act as the best personal assistant you never had. Hear about its features and use cases in this five-minute Friday. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/876 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.
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    15 mins