{"podcast":{"title":"Training Data","slug":"training-data","podcast_index_feed_id":null,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/trainingdata","website_url":"https://www.sequoiacap.com/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/8ca8a61c-08b4-11ef-97ab-9fe273d59030/image/4a16fd33b06708003827556209cd42b7.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Sequoia Capital","episode_count":104,"summary":"Join us as we train our neural nets on the theme of the century: AI. Sonya Huang, Pat Grady and more Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to ask critical questions and develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies—and their implications for technology, business and society. The content of this podcast does not constitute investment advice, an offer to provide investment advisory services, or an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy an interest in any investment fund.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T15:06:49.231983+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/training-data"},"episode":{"title":"Waymo's Dmitri Dolgov: 20 Million Rides and the Road to Full Autonomy","slug":"waymo-s-dmitri-dolgov-20-million-rides-and-the-road-to-full-autonomy","published_at":"2026-05-04T20:05:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/training-data/waymo-s-dmitri-dolgov-20-million-rides-and-the-road-to-full-autonomy","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/training-data","url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/CPUAI9639393938.mp3","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/CPUAI9639393938.mp3","summary":"Dmitri Dolgov, co-CEO of Waymo, joins Sequoia partner Konstantine Buhler at AI Ascent 2026 to talk about the 20-year arc from the DARPA Grand Challenge to fully autonomous service in eleven cities and counting. He explains how Waymo persisted through every AV hype cycle by treating safety as the non-negotiable foundation, why exponential scaling is finally here (10 of Waymo's 20 million autonomous rides have happened in the last seven months), and how the Waymo Foundation Model — a multimodal world action model that powers the driver, the simulator, and the critic — actually works under the hood. Also: why Waymo is now 13x safer than human drivers, and the moment a Waymo detected a pedestrian behind a city bus by reading the LiDAR returns of their feet.","meta_description":"Dmitri Dolgov, co-CEO of Waymo, joins Sequoia partner Konstantine Buhler at AI Ascent 2026 to talk about the 20-year arc from the DARPA Grand Challenge to…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1635,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/training-data/episodes/waymo-s-dmitri-dolgov-20-million-rides-and-the-road-to-full-autonomy/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/training-data/waymo-s-dmitri-dolgov-20-million-rides-and-the-road-to-full-autonomy.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}