{"podcast":{"title":"Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI","slug":"gradient-dissent","podcast_index_feed_id":1020509,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/gradient-dissent/","website_url":"https://wandb.ai/site/resources/podcast","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/25fd1181-b46e-459b-85a5-d397eec4cdcf/JDLDW81K-wlJoAWL7ZnxLdTp.jpg","author":"Lukas Biewald","episode_count":136,"summary":"Join Lukas Biewald on Gradient Dissent, an AI-focused podcast brought to you by Weights & Biases. Dive into fascinating conversations with industry giants from NVIDIA, Meta, Google, Lyft, OpenAI, and more. Explore the cutting-edge of AI and learn the intricacies of bringing models into production.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gradient-dissent"},"episode":{"title":"Uber, Nissan, and Mercedes Chose This Self-Driving Startup | Alex Kendall, Wayve","slug":"uber-nissan-and-mercedes-chose-this-self-driving-startup-alex-kendall-wayve","published_at":"2026-04-15T10:52:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gradient-dissent/uber-nissan-and-mercedes-chose-this-self-driving-startup-alex-kendall-wayve","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gradient-dissent","url":"https://wandb.ai/site/resources/podcast","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/4eb5f283-6abf-49f3-abf2-39e5ef84e293.mp3","summary":"\"Every vehicle is capable of driverless operation. That's clearly the steady state of where we're going.\" Wayve started in a rented house in Cambridge with $1.5M, a car in the garage, and an aim to integrate end-to-end AI into driving. A decade later it's driven across 506 cities without a single HD map and is worth over $8.6 billion. In this episode, CEO Alex Kendall joins Lukas Biewald to talk about how he built the AI driver Uber, Nvidia, Mercedes, and Nissan all backed, and why putting self-driving AI into 100 million cars a year is a far bigger bet than 10,000 robotaxis. Waymo and Tesla both come up. He doesn't shy away. Connect with us here: Alex Kendall Lukas Biewald Wayve Weights and Biases","meta_description":"\"Every vehicle is capable of driverless operation. That's clearly the steady state of where we're going.\" Wayve started in a rented house in Cambridge wit…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2749,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/gradient-dissent/episodes/uber-nissan-and-mercedes-chose-this-self-driving-startup-alex-kendall-wayve/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gradient-dissent/uber-nissan-and-mercedes-chose-this-self-driving-startup-alex-kendall-wayve.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}