Shows
The Data Stack ShowData Council Week: AI Isn’t Just Hype - How To Successfully Apply LLMs Today with Tristan Zajonc of ContinualHighlights from this week’s conversation include:Tristan's Background and Journey into Data (1:14)Evolution of Machine Learning and AI (3:13)Impact of Generative AI (6:33)MLOps and Challenges in Early Data Science (8:48)Success and Applications of AI Today (11:34)Continual AI Copilot Platform (18:04)Challenges in building remarkable AI assistants (19:58)Reliability and accuracy in AI responses (25:31)Regulation and adoption of AI assistants (31:30)Future of AI assistants and Continual AI (33:12)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and...2024-04-1735 min
Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek JoshiAI as an interface to the worldTristan Zajonc is the cofounder and CEO of Continual, a developer platform for generative AI applications. He previously cofounded Sense, which was a platform for data science and machine learning. It got acquired by Cloudera in 2016. He spent 3 years at Cloudera building ML software. He has a PhD from Harvard. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - AI as an interface to the world - Tech stack of the future - The founding of Continual - AI product delivery avenues (cloud, on prem, model hubs, packaged solutions) 2023-11-2745 min
The Data Stack Show101: The Future of Machine Learning with Willen Pienaar of Tecton and Tristan Zajonc of ContinualHighlights from this week’s conversation include:When is it right to use ML? (5:22)ML business models (10:21)Significant changes in delivering ML (19:07)Why ML is different (25:19)SQL becoming more important (34:39)Graduating from SQL-based to real-time (37:22)Space for a new role (45:11)State-of-the-art models (49:03)The most exciting thing in the ML space (53:59)Open source in ML (56:39)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving bett...2022-08-241h 04
The Data Stack ShowThe PRQL: Can Machine Learning Be Commoditized?In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming live stream episode featuring Willem Pienaar of Tecton and Tristan Zajonc of Continual.2022-08-1904 min
Pipeline ConversationsThe Modern Data Stack with Tristan ZajoncThis week I spoke with Tristan Zajonc, the CEO and cofounder of Continual, a company that provides an AI layer for enterprise companies or, as we'll get into in the podcast, the so-called 'modern data stack'.
He previously worked at Cloudera as a CTO for machine learning and as the head of the data science platform there, and he holds a PhD in public policy from Harvard University.
In our conversation we discussed the different levels of abstraction one can take when dealing with the MLOps problem. We spoke about all the different ways that...2022-02-1059 min
Data Engineering PodcastDeclarative Machine Learning Without The Operational Overhead Using ContinualSummary
Building, scaling, and maintaining the operational components of a machine learning workflow are all hard problems. Add the work of creating the model itself, and it’s not surprising that a majority of companies that could greatly benefit from machine learning have yet to either put it into production or see the value. Tristan Zajonc recognized the complexity that acts as a barrier to adoption and created the Continual platform in response. In this episode he shares his perspective on the benefits of declarative machine learning workflows as a means of accelerating adoption in businesses that do...2021-09-191h 11
The Data Stack Show51: Democratizing AI and ML with Tristan Zajonc of ContinualTopics in this wide-ranging conversation include: Tristan’s background with Cloudera and the need for continual operational ML and AI (3:15)How the complexity of Continual is hidden behind a simplicity of use (14:48)Focusing on data that lives within a data warehouse (18:43)Understanding features in the ML conversation (22:47)The three layers of Continual (26:11)The importance of SQL to Continual (30:19)Caching layers and the data warehouse centric approach (38:28)Betting on the warehouse being a central component of data stack architecture (43:34)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk...2021-09-0154 min