{"podcast":{"title":"Inside AI","slug":"inside-ai-7168420","podcast_index_feed_id":7168420,"rss_url":"https://feeds.async.com/5ed1350c-adaf-4a49-8cf8-3c221320cd8a.rss","website_url":"https://async.com/show/inside-ai-0KvFk6ld","image_url":"https://feeds.podcastle.ai/e7748041-24e8-4859-8e7a-27056b0ea81d/inside-ai-podcast-png.jpeg","author":"EPFL AI Center","episode_count":19,"summary":"Exploring AI with brilliant global innovators and EPFL researchers. Discover the technology that's transforming our future.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inside-ai-7168420"},"episode":{"title":"Conversation with Stef van Grieken, Cradle","slug":"conversation-with-stef-van-grieken-cradle","published_at":"2025-06-12T07:23:37+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inside-ai-7168420/conversation-with-stef-van-grieken-cradle","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inside-ai-7168420","url":"https://feeds.podcastle.ai/32b2e34d-499f-4f6b-8113-de43a7b0ab6c/Conversation%20with%20Stef%20van%20Grieken.mp3","audio_url":"https://feeds.podcastle.ai/32b2e34d-499f-4f6b-8113-de43a7b0ab6c/Conversation%20with%20Stef%20van%20Grieken.mp3","summary":"In this episode of Inside AI, Marcel sits down with Stef van Grieken, co-founder and CEO of Cradle, the company rewriting the rules of biology through generative AI. From a small Dutch village to building Google’s TPU and now the frontier of synthetic biology, Stef shares the journey that led him to ask a transformative question: What if we could design proteins the way we generate images or text? Cradle’s software is already helping design next-generation drugs, materials, and sustainable alternatives to oil- and animal-based products — even enabling interns with no biology background to outperform billion-dollar pharma solutions.","meta_description":"In this episode of Inside AI, Marcel sits down with Stef van Grieken, co-founder and CEO of Cradle, the company rewriting the rules of biology through gen…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4476,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/inside-ai-7168420/episodes/conversation-with-stef-van-grieken-cradle/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inside-ai-7168420/conversation-with-stef-van-grieken-cradle.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}