How does a small team in the UAE compete with the world’s biggest AI labs?
By building open-source models that rival the best—and doing it with purpose.
In this special episode of Below the Fold, recorded live at the Dubai AI Festival, Dr. Hakim Hacid, Chief Researcher at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), shares how his team is shaping the future o ... Show More
Feb 2025
Industry Roundup #3: The Rise of Reasoning LLMs, OpenAI Operator, Project Stargate, and Gemini’s Struggle for Recognition
Welcome to DataFramed Industry Roundups! In this series of episodes, Adel & Richie sit down to discuss the latest and greatest in data & AI. In this episode, we discuss the rise of reasoning LLMs like DeepSeek R1 and the competition shaping the AI space, OpenAI’s Operator and the ... Show More
29m 46s
Sep 2023
AI Revolution: Top Lessons from OpenAI, Anthropic, CharacterAI, & More
<p>The AI Revolution is here. In this episode, you’ll learn what the most important themes that some of the world’s most prominent AI builders – from OpenAI, Anthropic, CharacterAI, Roblox, and more – are paying attention to. You’ll hear about the economics of AI, broad vs specia ... Show More
38m 1s
Apr 2023
Ep 186: Brett, Naval and more on AI & AGI
The latest on the philosophy, science and technology of AI and AGI. ChatGPT, Deep Learning, Neural Networks and Large Language Models (LLMs). What do we know? Where is it going?
1h 33m
Mar 2024
Big tech earnings and the current AI debates, with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
Host-only episode discussing NVIDIA, Meta and Google earnings, Gemini and Mistral model launches, the open-vs-closed source debate, domain specific foundation models, if we’ll see real competition in chips, and the state of AI ROI and adoption.
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42m 14s
Apr 2025
AI & the Future of Jobs, How Robotics is Transforming Manufacturing, Agentic AI
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The Transformation Ground Control podcast covers a number of topics important to digital and business transformation. This episode covers the following topics and interviews:</p>
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<li>AI & the Future of Jobs, Q&A (Darian Chwialkowski, Thir ... Show More
2h 1m
Sep 2023
AI Revolution: Disruption, Alignment, and Opportunity
<p>The AI Revolution is here. In this episode, you’ll learn what the most important themes that some of the world’s most prominent AI builders – from OpenAI, Anthropic, CharacterAI, Roblox, and more – are paying attention to. You’ll hear discussion around the real-world impact of ... Show More
31m 32s
May 2025
Industry Roundup #4: O3 & O4-mini, LLama 4’s Rocky Release & Google’s Agent Ecosystem
Welcome to DataFramed Industry Roundups! In this series of episodes, Adel & Richie sit down to discuss the latest and greatest in data & AI. In this episode, we touch upon the launch of OpenAI’s O3 and O4-mini models, Meta’s rocky release of Llama 4, Google’s new agent tooling ec ... Show More
44m 14s