# The Role Of Synthetic Data In Building Better AI Applications

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Podcast: [AI Engineering Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-engineering-podcast)
Published: 2025-02-16T15:29:40+00:00
Episode link: https://www.aiengineeringpodcast.com/gretel-syntehtic-data-for-ai-episode-46
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Summary In this episode of the AI Engineering Podcast Ali Golshan, co-founder and CEO of Gretel.ai, talks about the transformative role of synthetic data in AI systems. Ali explains how synthetic data can be purpose-built for AI use cases, emphasizing privacy, quality, and structural stability. He highlights the shift from traditional methods to using language models, which offer enhanced capabilities in understanding data's deep structure and generating high-quality datasets. The conversation explores the challenges and techniques of integrating synthetic data into AI systems, particularly in production environments, and concludes with insights into the future of synthetic data, including its application in various industries, the importance of privacy regulations, and the ongoing evolution of AI systems. Announcements Hello and welcome to the AI Engineering Podcast, your guide to the fast-moving world of building scalable and maintainable AI systems Seamless data integration into AI applications often falls short, leading many to adopt RAG methods, which come with high costs, complexity, and limited scalability. Cognee offers a better solution with its open-source semantic memory engine that automates data ingestion and storage, creating dynamic knowledge graphs from your data. Cognee enables AI agents to understand the meaning of your data, resulting in accurate responses at a lower cost. Take full control of your data in LLM apps without unnecessary overhead. Visit aiengineeringpodcast.com/cognee to learn more and elevate your AI apps and agents. Your host is Tobias Macey and today I'm interviewing Ali Golshan about the role of synthetic data in building, scaling, and improving AI systems Interview Introduction How did you get involved in machine learning? Can you…

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