Data Brew by Databricks
Episodes
Reinforcement Fine-Tuning and the Future of Specialized AI Models
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if building a custom AI model for your business was as simple as giving feedback—no massive labeled datasets required? In this episode, we sit ...
Benchmarking Domain Intelligence | Data Brew | Episode 45
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Pallavi Koppol, Research Scientist at Databricks, explores the importance of domain-specific intelligence in large language models (L...
SWE-bench & SWE-agent | Data Brew | Episode 44
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Kilian Lieret, Research Software Engineer, and Carlos Jimenez, Computer Science PhD Candidate at Princeton University, discuss SWE-be...
Enterprise AI: Research to Product | Data Brew | Episode 43
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dipendra Kumar, Staff Research Scientist, and Alnur Ali, Staff Software Engineer at Databricks, discuss the challenges of applying AI...
Multimodal AI | Data Brew | Episode 42
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chang She, CEO and Co-founder of LanceDB, discusses the challenges of handling multimodal data and how LanceDB provides a cutting-edg...
Age of Agents | Data Brew | Episode 41
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Michele Catasta, President of Replit, explores how AI-driven agents are transforming software development by making coding more acces...
Reward Models | Data Brew | Episode 40
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Brandon Cui, Research Scientist at MosaicML and Databricks, dives into cutting-edge advancements in AI model optimization, focusing o...
Retrieval, rerankers, and RAG tips and tricks | Data Brew | Episode 39
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Andrew Drozdov, Research Scientist at Databricks, explores how Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances AI models by integrating...
The Power of Synthetic Data | Data Brew | Episode 38
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Yev Meyer, Chief Scientist at Gretel AI, explores how synthetic data transforms AI and ML by improving data access, quality, privacy,...
Secret to Production AI: Tools & Infrastructure | Data Brew | Episode 37
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Julia Neagu, CEO & co-founder of Quotient AI, explores the challenges of deploying Generative AI and LLMs, focusing on model eval...
Mixture of Memory Experts (MoME) | Data Brew | Episode 36
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Sharon Zhou, Co-Founder and CEO of Lamini AI, shares her expertise in the world of AI, focusing on fine-tuning models for improved pe...
Mixed Attention & LLM Context | Data Brew | Episode 35
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Shashank Rajput, Research Scientist at Mosaic and Databricks, explores innovative approaches in large language models (LLMs), with a ...
Kumo AI & Relational Deep Learning | Data Brew | Episode 34
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jure Leskovec, Co-founder of Kumo AI and Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, discusses Relational Deep Learning (RD...
LLMs: Internals, Hallucinations, and Applications | Data Brew | Episode 33
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our fifth season dives into large language models (LLMs), from understanding the internals to the risks of using them and everything in between. While...
Demonstrate–Search–Predict Framework | Data Brew | Episode 32
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We will dive into LLMs for our fifth season, from understanding the internals to the risks of using them and everything in between. While we’re at...
Generative AI Risks | Data Brew | Episode 31
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We will dive into LLMs for our fifth season, from understanding the internals to the risks of using them and everything in between. While we’re at...
John Snow Labs & SparkNLP | Data Brew | Episode 30
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are back and we will dive into LLMs from understanding the internals to the risks of using them and everything in between. While we’re at it, we’...
Data Brew Season 4 Episode 6: Professional Athletes
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For our fourth season, we focus on connected health and how data & AI augment and improve our daily health. While we’re at it, we’ll be enjoyi...
Data Brew Season 4 Episode 5: Public Health: Education, Access, and Policy
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For our fourth season, we focus on connected health and how data & AI augment and improve our daily health. While we’re at it, we’ll be enjoyi...
Data Brew Season 4 Episode 4: 1283 Days of Running (and Counting)
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For our fourth season, we focus on connected health and how data & AI augment and improve our daily health. While we’re at it, we’ll be enjoyi...
Data Brew Season 4 Episode 3: Last Man Standing
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For our fourth season, we focus on connected health and how data & AI augment and improve our daily health. While we’re at it, we’ll be enjoyi...
Data Brew Season 4 Episode 2: NBA Analytics
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For our fourth season, we focus on connected health and how data & AI augment and improve our daily health. While we’re at it, we’ll be enjoyi...
Data Brew Season 4 Episode 1: Reducing Injury & Increasing Retention of Industrial Athletes
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For our fourth season, we focus on connected health and how data & AI augment and improve our daily health. While we’re at it, we’ll be enjoyi...
Data Brew Season 3 Episode 6: Open Source
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For our third season, we focus on how leaders use data for change. Whether it’s building data teams or using data as a constructive catalyst, we int...
Data Brew Season 3 Episode 5: Sustainability & Sake
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For our third season, we focus on how leaders use data for change. Whether it’s building data teams or using data as a constructive catalyst, we int...
Data Brew Season 3 Episode 4: Executive Education
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For our third season, we focus on how leaders use data for change. Whether it’s building data teams or using data as a constructive catalyst, we int...
Data Brew Season 3 Episode 3: 3 T’s to Securing AI Systems: Tests, tests, and more tests
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For our third season, we focus on how leaders use data for change. Whether it’s building data teams or using data as a constructive catalyst, we int...
Data Brew Season 3 Episode 2: Data Culture Outside ‘The Valley’
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For our third season, we focus on how leaders use data for change. Whether it’s building data teams or using data as a constructive catalyst, we int...
Data Brew Season 3 Episode 1: Disrupt: Challenge your Business Assumptions
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For our third season, we focus on how leaders use data for change. Whether it’s building data teams or using data as a constructive catalyst, we int...
Data Brew Season 2 Episode 9: Data Driven Software
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For our second season of Data Brew, we will be focusing on machine learning, from research to production. We will interview folks in academia and indu...
Data Brew Season 2 Episode 8: Feature Engineering
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For our second season of Data Brew, we will be focusing on machine learning, from research to production. We will interview folks in academia and indu...
Data Brew Season 2 Episode 7: Interpretable Machine Learning
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For our second season of Data Brew, we will be focusing on machine learning, from research to production. We will interview folks in academia and indu...
Data Brew Season 2 Episode 6: AutoML
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For our second season of Data Brew, we will be focusing on machine learning, from research to production. We will interview folks in academia and indu...
Data Brew Season 2 Episode 5: ML Applications
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For our second season of Data Brew, we will be focusing on machine learning, from research to production. We will interview folks in academia and indu...
Data Brew Season 2 Episode 4: Hyperparameter and Neural Architecture Search
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For our second season of Data Brew, we will be focusing on machine learning, from research to production. We will interview folks in academia and indu...
Data Brew Season 2 Episode 3: Infrastructure for ML
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For our second season of Data Brew, we will be focusing on machine learning, from research to production. We will interview folks in academia and indu...
Data Brew Season 2 Episode 2: Data Ethics
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For our second season of Data Brew, we will be focusing on machine learning, from research to production. We will interview folks in academia and indu...
Data Brew Season 2 Episode 1: ML in Production
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For our second season, we will be focusing on machine learning, from research to production. We will interview folks in academia and industry to discu...
Data Brew Season 1 Episode 6: Journey of Big Data
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jules Damji and Tathagata Das guide us through their journey in big data and the evolution of data architecture in the past 30 years. They discuss som...
Data Brew Season 1 Episode 5: Combining Machine Learning and MLflow with your Lakehouse
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ellissa Verseput, ML Engineer at Quby, joins Denny and Brooke to discuss how Quby leverages ML to extract additional value from their data lake and ho...
Data Brew Season 1 Episode 4: BI on Data Lakes - Making it Real for Retail
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this session, we discuss the lessons learned with Lara Minor, Senior Enterprise Data Manager at Columbia Sportswear, on how her team achieved a 70%...
Data Brew Season 1 Episode 3: Demystifying Delta Lake
06 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Delta Lake is an open source storage layer that brings reliability to data lakes. Delta Lake offers ACID transactions, scalable metadata handling, and...
Data Brew Season 1 Episode 2: Welcome to Lakehouse
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Legacy approaches have failed to deliver on the promise of a single data architecture that can support every downstream use case from BI to AI. Lakeho...
Data Brew Season 1 Episode 1: From data warehousing to data lakes in 40 minutes
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our inaugural episode, we’d like to welcome data warehouse luminaries Barry Devlin, Susan O’Connell, and Donald Farmer to discuss the evolution...