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Training Data

Training Data is an interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Sonya Huang and Pat Grady, with a new episode every week.

15 moments cut from 5 episodes, 6 with an AI builder talking, mostly on training data and talent & hiring.

Also No. 5 of 17 business podcasts.

New episodes
Weekly
Latest
Oct 20, 2026
Moments cut
15
Episodes cut
5

What its moments are about

  • Training data4
  • Talent & hiring4
  • Robotics3
  • Scaling laws2
  • Reasoning & RL2
  • Data centers & energy2

Best moments from Training Data

From its most-watched episodes, best first. Each plays right here.

  1. Training Data · · 7 min

    Great enterprise sellers are aggressive, high-EQ and not technical

    Ali tested his hiring assumptions against top sellers and found PhD-style technical skill was no edge. He rebuilt his sales rubric around aggression, emotional intelligence and reading a customer's power base.

  2. Training Data · · 5 min

    Dropping human data let AlphaZero beat two years of work in hours

    “it took a few hours to like outperform the two years of work which we'd done as with human in the loop”
    Training Data30:56

  3. Training Data · · 5 min

    Hiring signals: Harvard predicts little, interviews must be scripted

    “We found that if someone is politically active as a teenager, but CZs to be in their early 20s that tends to correlate highly with someone's drive”
    Training Data14:57

  4. Training Data · · 5 min

    Goodput, not FLOPS, is how Google holds itself accountable

    “if you have failure recovery, if you have whatever it is that's interrupting your work, That's part of the issue.”
    Training Data8:48

  5. Training Data · · 4 min

    Robot training is converging on a mixed data recipe

    “some version of a million hours of human data across egocentric and different types of modalities, some tens of thousands of hours of UMI data”
    Training Data32:54

  6. Training Data · · 4 min

    Hire executives early and be extremely picky to avoid false positives

    “my playbook was, err on the side of being just extremely picky, take a decent amount of time, start early”
    Training Data25:13

The best Training Data episodes

Ranked as our lists rank shows: a point for each best minute we cut from it, one more when an AI builder is talking, and one more when it cleared our views bar.

  1. 01Databricks’ Ali Ghodsi Never Wanted to Be CEO. Now He’s Among the BestSep 17, 2026 · 3 moments
  2. 02David Silver and Lasse Espeholt of Ineffable Intelligence: A Superlearner for the Age of ExperienceOct 13, 2026 · 3 moments
  3. 03Luca Ferrari: The Operating System Behind Bending SpoonsOct 8, 2026 · 3 moments
  4. 04Google's AI Infrastructure Chief, Amin Vahdat, on the Physics & Economics of Frontier AIOct 6, 2026 · 3 moments
  5. 05Inside the Robot Data Factory: Mecka's Josh Gao on Sensorizing Humans to Train RobotsOct 20, 2026 · 3 moments

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