AI-podden

In this episode of AI-Podden, host Ather Gattami sits down with Eva Fors, VP Nordics and Benelux at Databricks. Together, they dive into the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence in enterprise environments and what it truly takes for organizations to build a sustainable, future-ready data and AI strategy. Eva shares practical insights into how businesses are leveraging the modern data stack to move beyond AI experiments and deploy real-world applications at scale. They also explore key lessons in leadership, cultural change, and technological transformation across Europe—breaking down both the biggest roadblocks companies face and the key opportunities ahead.

In this October AI news roundup, our host Ather Gattami sits down with Anders Arpteg to unpack the latest AI releases, Sweden's growing AI infrastructure, AI for Science, and a new milestone in human–AI interaction. The conversation covers Google's latest Gemini models, including the rollout of Gemini 4 Argon and the announcement of Gemini 4 Carbon, the recent AI progress in solving important problems in Science, alongside the launch of Sferical One, a shared AI supercomputer built for some of Sweden's leading industrial companies. They also discuss Tavus's Griffin, a real-time conversational video model that the company claims is the first to pass a video Turing test. From increasingly capable models to AI systems that can see, listen, and respond in face-to-face conversations, the episode explores what these developments mean for AI's capabilities, industrial adoption, and the way people interact with machines.

In this September AI news roundup, our host Ather Gattami sits down with Anders Arpteg to unpack the biggest developments across frontier models, autonomous systems, AI efficiency and the ongoing debate around AGI. The conversation covers OpenAI's Astra model and its Navier-Stokes breakthrough, the industry-wide shift toward smaller and more cost-efficient models, and why impressive benchmark gains still do not necessarily mean we are close to artificial general intelligence. They also discuss the growing importance of workflow automation and agentic products, recent advances in autonomous driving and physical AI, and why future progress may depend less on brute-force compute and more on new algorithms, architectures and better ways of measuring intelligence.

In this special two-part Dreamforce episode, our host Ather Gattami sits down with Itai Asseo, VP at Salesforce AI Research, and Dr. Franny Hsiao, Chief AI Architect at Salesforce, to explore how Salesforce is approaching the next phase of enterprise AI. Across the two conversations, they cover Koa, Salesforce's new CRM-specific reasoning model, the role of customer data and privacy, and why businesses should choose the right-sized model for each task rather than defaulting to the largest frontier models. They also discuss dynamic AI interfaces, self-evolving enterprises, and why successful AI adoption depends as much on people, organisational change and continuous learning as it does on the technology itself.        

In this August AI news roundup, our host Ather sits with Anders Arpteg to unpack the latest developments in frontier models, physical AI, autonomous agents and the growing race for AI infrastructure. The conversation covers breakthroughs in robotics and latent-space reasoning, fierce model and pricing competition from US and Chinese players, major changes at Google, and the escalating battle for chips and compute. They also explore the limits of current AI reasoning, emerging security risks as agents become more autonomous, and why efficiency, reliability and infrastructure are becoming just as important as raw model performance.

In this July AI news roundup, our host Ather sits with Anders Arpteg to unpack the latest frontier model releases, the rapid rise of open-source competitors, and the growing importance of enterprise agent platforms. The conversation explores how innovation is shifting from raw model performance towards infrastructure, governance, efficiency and latent-space reasoning, while Chinese models, energy constraints and increasingly capable autonomous agents reshape the competitive landscape.

In this June news episode, host Ather Gattami sits down with Anders Arpteg to unpack the biggest AI developments from the past month. The discussion looks beyond frontier model hype to the infrastructure, platforms and specialised models that are starting to define real-world adoption. From GPT 5.6, Claude and China's fast-rising open models to custom chips, enterprise agents, geopolitical pressure, continual learning and AI-enabled cyberattacks, the episode explores where advantage in AI is really shifting: from model weights alone to data, orchestration, efficiency and domain expertise.

In this May news episode, our host Ather Gattami sits with Anders Arpteg to discuss how the industry accelerating on several fronts at once: coding, agentic workflows, enterprise tooling and research capability. As Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Mistral and others push new models and platforms, the competitive edge is shifting from raw model performance toward speed, integration, transparency and data sovereignty. At the same time, breakthroughs in mathematical proof, AI-assisted research and formal reasoning suggest the technology is beginning to move beyond pattern recognition toward genuinely novel insight and more autonomous problem-solving.

In this special episode of AI-Podden, our host Ather Gattami sits down with Rolf Njor Jensen, VP of Technology at Lunar to explore how AI is reshaping the future of banking. From AI-powered support agents and smarter customer onboarding, to the rise of "invisible banking", we discuss how financial services could move beyond the banking app and become part of everyday digital experiences. We also look at what it takes to use AI responsibly in one of the world's most regulated industries, including data governance, privacy, security, human oversight and the new identity models needed for agentic AI.

In this May news episode, our host Ather Gattami sits with Anders Arpteg to discuss how the industry accelerating on several fronts at once: coding, agentic workflows, enterprise tooling and research capability. As Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Mistral and others push new models and platforms, the competitive edge is shifting from raw model performance toward speed, integration, transparency and data sovereignty. At the same time, breakthroughs in mathematical proof, AI-assisted research and formal reasoning suggest the technology is beginning to move beyond pattern recognition toward genuinely novel insight and more autonomous problem-solving.