Listen as two leading researchers at the cutting edge of computational biology explore breakthrough GPU accelerations that are changing how we understand life's molecular machinery.
Chris Dallago, Research Lead at NVIDIA and Visiting Professor at Duke University, and Martin Steinegger, Associate Professor at Seoul National University and co-author of the N ... Show More
Mar 4
Powering the AI Inference Wave with EPRI's Ben Sooter - Ep. 292
AI is reshaping electricity demand. What does increased demand, and the shape of that demand, mean for the electric grid? Ben Sooter, Director of R&D at EPRI joins the podcast to explain why most of an AI model’s lifetime energy use comes from inference rather than training, and ... Show More
32m 20s
Feb 27
AI Agents and the Future of Global Trade with Alibaba’s Kuo Zhang - Ep. 291
Alibaba.com president Kuo Zhang discusses how AI agents like Accio are reshaping global trade. He shares insights on automating complex B2B sourcing, compressing weeks of work into minutes, lowering barriers for solo entrepreneurs and SMEs, and what AI-native commerce will mean f ... Show More
33m 13s
Apr 2025
Breaking Down AI's Role in Genomics and Polygenic Risk Prediction - with Dan Elton of the National Human Genome Research Institute
<p>Today's guest is Dan Elton, a Staff Scientist at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dan returns to the program to explore how AI is advancing genetic research, from protein engineering to gene editing and risk predi ... Show More
20m 3s
Nov 2025
How AI Will Accelerate Breakthroughs in Biotechnology with Benchling CEO Sajith Wickramasekara
Bringing new drugs to market is a costly, time-consuming endeavor. On top of that, most medicines fail at some point in the research and development phase. Sarah Guo is joined by Sajith Wickramasekara, co-founder and CEO of Benchling, a company that has not only become the centra ... Show More
48m 13s
Aug 2024
812: The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated, Open-Ended Scientific Discovery
In this episode of Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn investigates published findings from the startup Sakana AI and its paper’s co-authors from the University of Oxford, the University of British Columbia and the Vector Institute in Toronto. These authors explore the potential of The ... Show More
11m 41s
Feb 2025
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI
This week I welcome on the show two of the most important technologists ever, in any field.Jeff Dean is Google's Chief Scientist, and through 25 years at the company, has worked on basically the most transformative systems in modern computing: from MapReduce, BigTable, Tensorflow ... Show More
2h 14m
Jul 2025
Inside Google's AI Lab: Drug Discovery, World AI Model & AlphaEvolve
Want the ultimate guide to Google's Gemini? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/evt Episode 68: How is Google DeepMind pushing the boundaries of AI to tackle drug discovery, robotics, and even autonomous AI agents? Matt Wolfe (https://x.com/mreflow) sits down with DeepMind CEO ... Show More
17m 29s
Dec 2024
Adam Brown — Bubble universes, space elevators, & AdS/CFT
<p>Adam Brown is a founder and lead of BlueShift with is cracking maths and reasoning at Google DeepMind and a theoretical physicist at Stanford.</p><p>We discuss: destroying the light cone with vacuum decay, holographic principle, mining black holes, & what it would take to trai ... Show More
2h 43m