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Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

Jon Krohn

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The latest machine learning, A.I., and data career topics from across both academia and industry are brought to you by host Dr. Jon Krohn on the Super Data Science Podcast. As the quantity of data on our planet doubles every couple of years and with this trend set to continue for decades to come, there's an unprecedented opportunity for you to make a meaningful impact in your lifetime. In conversation with the biggest names in the data science industry, Jon cuts through hype to fuel that professional impact.

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Whether you're curious about getting started in a data career or you're a deep technical expert, whether you'd like to understand what A.I. is or you'd like to integrate more data-driven processes into your business, we have inspiring guests and lighthearted conversation for you to enjoy.

We cover tools, techniques, and implementation tricks across data collection, databases, analytics, predictive modeling, visualization, software engineering, real-world applications, commercialization, and entrepreneurship − everything you need to crush it with data science.

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  1. 990: Inside Mythos: Anthropic's Locked-Down Frontier Model

    · 11 min

    Anthropic has built a frontier AI model so capable at finding software vulnerabilities that it has decided not to release it to the general public. In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn breaks down Claude Mythos…

  2. 989: Security for Mythos-Era Agentic Risks, with Rubrik’s Anneka Gupta and Cal Al-Dhubaib

    · 1 h 04 min

    Rubrik’s Anneka Gupta and Cal Al-Dhubaib speak to Jon Krohn about cybersecurity measures, the risks AI in business might pose for malicious attacks, and why AI should be kept “boring.” Find out how Rubrik safeguards…

  3. 988: In Case You Missed It in April 2026

    · 36 min

    In this month’s episode of In Case You Missed It, Jon Krohn talks to guests about memory and education, and how artificial intelligence is continuing to help lower the barriers to access. Hear from Matt Glickman, Traci…

  4. 987: AI Infrastructure, Ray, and Why Nonlinear Careers Win, with Linda Haviv

    · 1 h 18 min

    Linda Haviv talks to Jon Krohn about staying current on AI matters, why open-source technology is narrowing the gap in its race with proprietary models, and how being a content creator in tech is key to career growth…

  5. 986: Building Hardware is Hard but AI Agents Help, with Kishore Subramanian

    · 30 min

    CTO of Propel Software Kishore Subramanian talks to Jon Krohn about how product lifecycle management (PLM) software and quality management systems (QMS) help ensure compliance, record management, and quality assurance.…

  6. 985: The Four Types of Memory Every AI Agent Needs, with Richmond Alake

    · 1 h 04 min

    Oracle’s Director of AI Developer Experience Richmond Alake returns to the show to talk to Jon Krohn about agent memory; the network of systems, models, databases and LLMs that enable AI agents to learn and adapt over…

  7. 984: Building AI Agents Where 99.9% Accuracy Isn't Good Enough, with Raju Malhotra

    · 29 min

    Raju Malhotra, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Certinia, talks to Jon Krohn about the so-called SaaSpocalypse and how agentic AI is proving the doomsayers wrong. Listen to the episode to hear more about…

  8. 983: AI in the Classroom: How a Top Elementary School Is Doing It Right, with Principal Traci Walker Griffith

    · 1 h 13 min

    My guest today took a public school that was about to be shut down and turned it into the number one school in Boston, and AI is her latest secret weapon. In a long-overdue episode on AI for supporting children’s…

  9. 982: In Case You Missed It in March 2026

    · 44 min

    Jon Krohn rounds up March’s interviews in this ICYMI episode. Hear from AI and data science experts across the fields of education and business in this wide-ranging series of clips that take listeners from the…

  10. 981: How Data Engineers Are “10x’ing” Themselves With Agents, feat. Matt Glickman

    · 1 h 15 min

    Matt Glickman talks to Jon Krohn about co-founding the agentic-platform startup, Genesis Computing, how his experience at Goldman Sachs paved the way for developing AI agents, and where he thinks agentic AI has just as…

  11. 980: AI Making Theoretical Physics Breakthroughs

    · 9:49

    A team of theoretical physicists from Harvard, Cambridge, the Institute for Advanced Study, and Vanderbilt used OpenAI’s models not just as a tool, but as a collaborator, cracking a problem in particle physics that had…

  12. 979: Agentic Data Management and the Future of Enterprise AI, with Rohit Choudhary

    · 1 h 05 min

    For years, Jon has been quoting the stat that the world's data is roughly doubling every year. His guest today says that’s way too conservative, he’s seeing enterprise data soon growing at close to 10x per year. And…

  13. 978: A Post-Transformer Architecture Crushes Sudoku (Transformers Solve ~0%)

    · 11 min

    A game millions of people solve over morning coffee is exposing a fundamental weakness in today’s most powerful AI models. In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn breaks down Pathway’s new Sudoku Extreme benchmark,…

  14. 977: Attention, World Models and the Future of AI, with Prof. Kyunghyun Cho

    · 1 h 18 min

    What’s going to be the next big step function that blasts us forward in AI capabilities? To find out, Jon Krohn sits down with Professor Kyunghyun Cho, whose 200,000 citations and co-authorship of the first paper on…

  15. 976: NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 Super: The Perfect LLM for Multi-Agent Systems

    · 10 min

    NVIDIA just dropped Nemotron 3 Super, a 120-billion-parameter open-weight model that only activates 12 billion parameters at a time and it’s built for the agentic AI era. In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn breaks…

  16. 975: Unmetered Intelligence is Heralding the Next Renaissance, with Zack Kass

    · 1 h 13 min

    Zack Kass speaks to Jon Krohn about his bestselling, tech-positive book, The Next Renaissance, that charts the rapid progress of humanity and the benefits that artificial intelligence will bring to us, as well as why a…

  17. 974: When Will The AI Bubble Burst? How Bad Will It Be?

    · 14 min

    In this week’s Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn holds the AI bubble up to the light. He points to the deep greyzone found in AI startups like Cluely that are established on dubious ideas (Cluely’s tagline was “cheat on…

  18. 973: AI Systems Performance Engineering, with Chris Fregly

    · 1 h 12 min

    No one should be manually writing code in 2026, thinks Chris Fregly, Jon Krohn’s guest on this week’s episode. In this interview about Chris’ latest book, AI Systems Performance Engineering, he explains why it’s so…

  19. 972: In Case You Missed It in February 2026

    · 27 min

    Jon Krohn recaps the month of February in this episode of In Case You Missed It. Across four interviews with Will Falcon (Episode 965), Tom Griffiths (Episode 969), Antje Barth (Episode 963), and Praveen Murugesan…

  20. 971: 90% of The World’s Data is Private; Lin Qiao’s Fireworks AI is Unlocking It

    · 1 h 00 min

    Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks AI, talks to Jon Krohn about how she builds effective models quickly, why coding agents can perform at the level of a junior engineer, and what she attributes to the success of Fireworks AI:…

  21. 970: The “100x Engineer”: How to Be One, But Should You?

    · 15 min

    Working with code-gen models and Claude Code: In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn addresses how AI superstars like Andrej Karpathy are using AI agents in their coding work, the outlook for code-gen in 2026, and how…

  22. 969: The Laws of Thought: The Math of Minds and Machines, with Prof. Tom Griffiths

    · 1 h 11 min

    Princeton Professor Tom Griffiths talks to Jon Krohn about his new book, The Laws of Thought, which grapples with the mathematical models behind biological and artificial intelligence, and what makes the human brain so…

  23. 968: Is AI Automating Away All Coding Jobs?

    · 15 min

    Now that AI agents can develop new apps from product development to delivery, do AI developers have reason to worry about their careers? Podcast host Jon Krohn addresses the stark predictions that AI could “eliminate…

  24. 967: AI for the Physical World, with Samsara's Praveen Murugesan

    · 55 min

    VP of Engineering at Samsara Praveen Murugesan talks to Jon Krohn about processing 20 trillion data points covering 90 billion miles across private and public sectors, how the company helps truckers who operate long…

  25. 966: The Moltbook Phenomenon: OpenClaw Unleashed

    · 10 min

    Jon Krohn gives Five-Minute Friday listeners all the details about the new social network causing a stir, Moltbook. What makes Moltbook so unique is that this is the first network designed just for AI agents. It’s an…

  26. 965: From PhD Side Project to $500M ARR: Will Falcon’s PyTorch Lightning Story

    · 1 h 17 min

    CEO of Lightning AI Will Falcon speaks to podcast host and Lightning AI fellow Jon Krohn about the company’s merger with Voltage Park, and why Will has named it the “full-stack AI neo-cloud for enterprises and frontier…

  27. 964: In Case You Missed It in January 2026

    · 25 min

    In this first of the year ICYMI episode, Jon Krohn selects his favorite moments from January’s SuperDataScience interviews. Listen to why incentivizing workers is the best way to get them to disclose their use of AI…

  28. 963: Reinforcement Learning for Agents, with Amazon AGI Labs’ Antje Barth

    · 51 min

    Bestselling author and Gen AI instructor Antje Barth talks to Jon Krohn about her work at Amazon’s AGI Labs and their newest product Nova Act, as well as where we will see the most success with AI agents and how AI…

  29. 962: Wharton Prof Ethan Mollick on Why Your AI Strategy Is Already Obsolete

    · 12 min

    Bestselling author of Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI Ethan Mollick speaks to Jon Krohn about just how much US firms have to gain from a willingness to adopt and experiment with AI, as well as the reality…

  30. 961: Distributed Artificial Superintelligence, with Dr. Vijoy Pandey

    · 1 h 09 min

    Dr. Vijoy Pandey returns to the show to talk to Jon Krohn about Cisco’s work to advance medicine and mitigate the impact of climate change with distributed artificial super-intelligence. Dr. Vijoy Pandey believes in a…

  31. 960: In Case You Missed It in December 2025

    · 41 min

    For 2026’s first episode of In Case You Missed It (ICYMI), Jon Krohn selects 6 clips from December for a wide-ranging look at the current state of AI in business and beyond. Hear from Joel Beasley (Episode 945), Jeff…

  32. 959: Building Agents 101: Design Patterns, Evals and Optimization (with Sinan Ozdemir)

    · 1 h 05 min

    AI entrepreneur and bestselling author Sinan Ozdemir speaks to Jon Krohn about the practical differences between agentic AI and AI workflows, why evaluating accuracy on its own won’t tell you enough about AI models,…

  33. 958: Without Trusted Context, Agents are Stupid (featuring Salesforce’s Rahul Auradkar)

    · 24 min

    In this #sponsored Feature Friday episode, Salesforce’s Rahul Auradkar speaks to Jon Krohn about the company’s unified data engine and how its acquisition of Informatica provides the missing context layer for AI models…

  34. 957: How AI Agents Are Automating Enterprise Data Operations, with Ashwin Rajeeva

    · 1 h 00 min

    AI agents, data lakes, and managing data sprawl: Ashwin Rajeeva, cofounder and CTO of Acceldata, speaks to Jon Krohn about how the agentic data management startup raised over $100 million in venture capital to expand…

  35. 956: From Agent Demo to Enterprise Product (with Ease!) feat. Salesforce’s Tyler Carlson

    · 26 min

    #Sponsored SVP, Head of Product for Salesforce’s AppExchange & Ecosystem, Tyler Carlson, talks to Jon Krohn about taking AI agents from prototype to enterprise-grade production with the Agentforce 360 Platform. Though…

  36. 955: Nested Learning, Spatial Intelligence and the AI Trends of 2026, with Sadie St. Lawrence

    · 1 h 09 min

    Sadie St Lawrence joins Jon Krohn to discuss what to expect from the AI industry in 2026. Sadie and Jon talk through what they think will be the five biggest trends in AI, hand out awards for the best moments,…

  37. 954: Recap of 2025 and Wishing You a Wonderful 2026

    · 4:16

    Jon Krohn wraps up 2025 with his thoughts on how agentic AI has become as much a resounding success as an annoying buzzword for many in the tech industry, why such promising developments in generative AI mean that…

  38. 953: Beyond “Agent Washing”: AI Systems That Actually Deliver ROI, with Dell’s Global CTO John Roese

    · 51 min

    Dell Technologies’ John Roese talks to Jon Krohn about the phenomenon of “agent-washing”, his contribution to Dell’s incredible revenue boost in 2025, and why “knowledge layers” will be crucial to future tech. Hear…

  39. 952: How to Avoid Burnout and Get Promoted, with “The Fit Data Scientist” Penelope Lafeuille

    · 31 min

    “The Fit Data Scientist” newsletter author Pénélope Lafeuille talks to Jon Krohn about how to give your all at work, offering her top tips for a healthy body and a healthy mind. Learn why “The SuperDataScience Podcast”…

  40. 951: Context Engineering, Multiplayer AI and Effective Search, with Dropbox’s Josh Clemm

    · 1 h 00 min

    VP of Engineering at Dropbox Josh Clemm speaks to Jon Krohn about consolidating search tools across apps with the AI-powered workspace, Dropbox Dash, the new collaborative AI systems that enhance interoperability…

  41. 950: Happy Holidays from All of Us at the SuperDataScience Podcast

    · 1:59

    In this special holiday episode, the SuperDataScience Podcast team comes together to wish you happy holidays and thank you for listening throughout the year. Team members from around the world share warm greetings in…

  42. 949: Why AI Keeps Failing Society, with Stanford professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland

    · 55 min

    Alex “Sandy” Pentland, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts & Science at MIT and Fellow at Stanford, speaks to Jon Krohn about his new book, Shared Wisdom, why he attributes AI to the collapse of the Soviet Union, and why…

  43. 948: In Case You Missed It in November 2025

    · 29 min

    In this November episode of “In Case You Missed It” series, Jon Krohn selects his favorite clips from the month. Hear from Shirish Gupta and Tyler Cox (Episode 939), Vikoy Pandey (Episode 941), Marc Dupuis (Episode…

  44. 947: How to Get Hired at Top Firms like Netflix and Spotify, with Jeff Li

    · 1 h 10 min

    Jeff Li tells Jon Krohn what it's like to work at scale as a data scientist and a machine learning engineer at Netflix, Spotify and DoorDash, as well as how to get a foot in the door at these companies. Jeff also…

  45. 946: How Robotaxis Are Transforming Cities

    · 8:03

    Jon Krohn looks into the benefits of robotaxis, from safety to affordability, in this Five-Minute Friday. Hear about Waymo’s partnership with Jaguar Land Rover, the latest safety studies concerning driverless vehicles,…

  46. 945: AI is a Joke, with Joel Beasley

    · 56 min

    Is there humor in data? Joel Beasley, host of Modern CTO, tells Jon Krohn how he used AI to turn his sights to stand-up comedy. He also shares his tips on tech leadership that he learned from his popular podcast,…

  47. 944: Gemini 3 Pro: Google’s Back on Top

    · 8:21

    Google is steaming ahead with launching its top-league new Gemini 3 Pro model across their product suite, from Google Search to Vertex AI cloud services. The multinational tech company is also letting eager early…

  48. 943: Creative Machines: AI in Music and Art, with Prof. Maya Ackerman

    · 57 min

    Creative human-AI partnerships and AI-generated music: WaveAI CEO and co-founder Maya Ackerman speaks with Jon Krohn about learning to see – and accept – AI’s potential as a creative partner in a human-centric,…

  49. 942: Odds of AGI by 2040? LEAP Expert Forecasts and Workforce Implications

    · 6:13

    What’s on the horizon for AI? Jon Krohn wades through opinions from more than experts, curated by the Longitudinal Expert AI Panel (LEAP), about what we can expect from the industry. From estimates on AI-assisted…

  50. 941: Multi-Agent Human Societies, with Dr. Vijoy Pandey

    · 1 h 06 min

    Vijoy Pandey imagines a bold new society in which agents and humans make scientific discoveries and complete physical tasks together, and he tells Jon Krohn about his work at AGNTCY, Cisco’s open-source platform for…

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