#327 Baris Gultekin: The Next Phase of AI - Agents That Understand Your Company's Data
Eye On A.I.19 Maalis

#327 Baris Gultekin: The Next Phase of AI - Agents That Understand Your Company's Data

This episode is sponsored by Modulate. Most voice AI focuses on transcription. Velma takes it further by actually understanding conversations, analyzing tone, timing, stress, and intent using its Ensemble Listening Model architecture.

Explore the live preview: https://preview.modulate.ai/

Baris Gultekin, Head of AI at Snowflake, breaks down how enterprise AI is actually being built, deployed, and scaled today. From running AI directly inside governed data environments to enabling natural language access across entire organizations, this conversation explores the shift from experimentation to real-world impact.

You'll learn why Snowflake's core philosophy centers around bringing AI to the data, how data agents are transforming decision-making across teams, and what it takes to build trustworthy AI systems with governance, guardrails, and high-quality retrieval at the core.

Baris also shares how leading companies are already saving thousands of hours through AI-driven automation, why culture and leadership determine AI success, and what the future looks like as agents move from pilots to full-scale production.

If you want to understand where enterprise AI is actually headed and what separates hype from real execution, this episode breaks it down.

(00:00) The Evolution of Snowflake AI

(01:40) Baris Gultekin: Background & AI Mission

(02:59) Why AI Must Run Next to Data

(04:29) Inside Snowflake's AI Infrastructure

(09:08) Model Choice vs Product Layer Strategy

(12:16) Building Trust: Governance, Guardrails & Quality

(16:01) How Enterprise Agents Are Built & Orchestrated

(20:10) AI Adoption Across the Entire Organization

(24:39) Reasoning vs Retrieval: What Matters More

(27:43) Real Use Case: Faster Decision-Making with AI

(31:44) AI as a Co-Pilot for Leaders

(36:52) Preparing Data for AI at Scale

(38:46) What the AI Data Cloud Really Means

Tämä jakso on lisätty Podme-palveluun avoimen RSS-syötteen kautta eikä se ole Podmen omaa tuotantoa. Siksi jakso saattaa sisältää mainontaa.

Jaksot(352)

More Customers Chose the AI Agent Than Anyone Expected | Tom Chen, Aircall

More Customers Chose the AI Agent Than Anyone Expected | Tom Chen, Aircall

Every time you hit a phone tree or a chatbot with canned answers, you're experiencing the gap between what AI can already do and what most companies are still delivering. Craig Smith sits down with To...

4 Kesä 56min

Why the Future of AI Isn't Just Bigger Models. It's Models That Evolve | Risto Miikkulainen of Cognizant

Why the Future of AI Isn't Just Bigger Models. It's Models That Evolve | Risto Miikkulainen of Cognizant

Most AI systems follow a gradient, a mathematical slope that tells them exactly how to improve, step by step, toward a known goal. Neuroevolution doesn't follow any gradient. Instead, it runs hundreds...

2 Kesä 1h 4min

How AI Is Reinventing Elder Care | Chia-Lin Simmons of LogicMark

How AI Is Reinventing Elder Care | Chia-Lin Simmons of LogicMark

One in four people over 65 will experience a fall, and for most of them, the technology designed to help is a device that hasn't meaningfully changed since the 1980s. Chia-Lin Simmons, CEO of LogicMar...

1 Kesä 53min

The App of the Future Is Voice — Not a Screen. Mitel's CTO Luiz Domingos Explains Why.

The App of the Future Is Voice — Not a Screen. Mitel's CTO Luiz Domingos Explains Why.

Luiz Domingos has spent 25 years watching enterprise communications evolve, from IP telephony to cloud to AI, and his assessment of where things stand now is unusually concrete. Companies have moved p...

28 Touko 54min

Is ChatGPT Conscious? A Pioneer of AI Explains | Dr. Terry Sejnowski

Is ChatGPT Conscious? A Pioneer of AI Explains | Dr. Terry Sejnowski

A fly with 100,000 neurons can fly, find food, and reproduce. A $100 million supercomputer cannot. Dr. Terry Sejnowski used that observation to silence a room full of MIT AI researchers in the 1980s, ...

28 Touko 56min

Your Child's Data Profile Starts Before They're Born | Eamonn Maguire of Proton

Your Child's Data Profile Starts Before They're Born | Eamonn Maguire of Proton

Your child's data profile doesn't start when they get their first phone. It starts before they're born, the moment a parent emails a gynecologist or visits a fertility clinic website. That's the core ...

28 Touko 55min

Training AI Models Without a Billion-Dollar Data Center | Steffen Cruz of Macrocosmos

Training AI Models Without a Billion-Dollar Data Center | Steffen Cruz of Macrocosmos

Training a frontier AI model today requires hundreds of thousands of GPUs, months of compute time, and a budget that only a handful of companies on earth can afford. Steffen Cruz, co-founder and CTO o...

25 Touko 47min

The Single Biggest Barrier to AI Adoption Isn't the Technology — It's This | Errol Gardner of EY

The Single Biggest Barrier to AI Adoption Isn't the Technology — It's This | Errol Gardner of EY

Errol Gardner has spent 35 years advising the world's largest organizations through major technology transitions, and his assessment of where enterprise agentic AI actually stands is one of the most g...

22 Touko 54min