{"podcast":{"title":"The AI Podcast with Fexingo: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Modern AI Models","slug":"the-ai-podcast-with-fexingo-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-and-modern-ai-models-7872011","podcast_index_feed_id":7872011,"rss_url":"https://feeds.fexingo.com/business/the-ai-podcast.xml","website_url":"https://www.fexingo.com/","image_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-ai-podcast/cover.png","author":"Fexingo","episode_count":104,"summary":"Lucas and Luna dissect the week in artificial intelligence — not the hype, but the actual models, benchmarks, and deployment decisions shaping the industry. Each episode anchors on a specific paper, product launch, or policy move: from Mixture-of-Experts architecture changes to EU AI Act enforcement, from OpenAI's governance restructuring to open-weight model licensing battles. They compare LLM benchmark scores across reasoning, coding, and multilingual tasks, examine inference cost curves per million tokens, and trace how foundation model competition affects downstream startups. Lucas, a journalist covering tech policy, brings the regulatory and competitive landscape; Luna, an ML engineer turned product lead, presses on technical tradeoffs and real-world performance. Together they avoid speculation and focus on data: what the latest Nvidia GPU cluster means for training efficiency, why a particular transformer variant reduced latency by 40%, or how retrieval-augmented generation changes enterprise search ROI. The show serves engineers, product managers, and investors who need to separate signal from noise in AI. If you want to understand why one billion-parameter model beats anot…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-11T14:18:53.849941+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ai-podcast-with-fexingo-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-and-modern-ai-models-7872011"},"episode":{"title":"How AI Inference Startup Baseten Is Raising Billions","slug":"how-ai-inference-startup-baseten-is-raising-billions","published_at":"2026-06-19T07:33:32+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ai-podcast-with-fexingo-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-and-modern-ai-models-7872011/how-ai-inference-startup-baseten-is-raising-billions","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ai-podcast-with-fexingo-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-and-modern-ai-models-7872011","url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-ai-podcast/episode-0060.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-ai-podcast/episode-0060.mp3","summary":"Lucas and Luna break down the $1.5 billion fundraising round reportedly underway at AI inference startup Baseten, just months after its last mega-round. They explore why inference—the part of AI that actually runs models in production—is suddenly the hottest segment in AI infrastructure, and what that means for Nvidia, AMD, and the broader chip market. Plus, a look at the numbers: SMCI at 30 dollars and MU at 1,134 dollars, and what those extremes tell us about the AI hardware shakeout. Finally, they touch on Elastic's acquisition of DeductiveAI and the trend of AI model makers being bought up by enterprise platforms. #Baseten #AIInference #AIInfrastructure #Nvidia #AMD #SMCI #Micron #MU #Elastic #DeductiveAI #VentureCapital #AIModels #Technology #CloudComputing #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #AIPodcast #MergersAndAcquisitions Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Lucas and Luna break down the $1.5 billion fundraising round reportedly underway at AI inference startup Baseten, just months after its last mega-round. T…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":448,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-ai-podcast-with-fexingo-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-and-modern-ai-models-7872011/episodes/how-ai-inference-startup-baseten-is-raising-billions/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ai-podcast-with-fexingo-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-and-modern-ai-models-7872011/how-ai-inference-startup-baseten-is-raising-billions.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}