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A guide to the best B2B podcast coverage of Foundation models - the shows and 24 episodes that go deepest, ranked by substance, not downloads.

Foundation models are reshaping how enterprises build AI systems - from observability platforms like Grafana applying AI-native monitoring to specialized models like TiRex-2 for time series forecasting. With major funding rounds like Together AI's $800 million and investor focus from firms like Radical Ventures on frontier AI, companies are navigating critical infrastructure decisions around inference efficiency, agent architectures, and production readiness that separate successful deployments from the 90% of AI projects that fail before reaching users.

Best shows on Foundation models

Best episodes on Foundation models

  1. A Conversation about the Human - AI Teaming Landscape: Designing the Hybrid Workforce

    Listen & Lead: Team Articles in Your Ears · 2026-05-23

    86 / 100

    peaker B: Because the foundation models out there, they're converging.

  2. The End of One Model to Rule Them All: Why Enterprise AI Is Going Small, Specialized, and Multi-Model

    Disambiguation · 2026-06-24

    85 / 100
  3. Ep#249 How leaders need to rethink their approach to AI altogether

    Jon Myer Podcast · 2026-04-13

    82 / 100
  4. EP 79: Hussein Shel from AWS

    Energy Bytes · 2026-02-13

    80 / 100

    And so some of the things that we're doing around foundation models, for example, like you're both trying to do domain specific foundation model beyond just the language or, you know, internet data that it was trained on, right?

  5. From Turing to Tooling: How Businesses Really Win with AI with John K Thompson (University of Michigan)

    What's New In Data · 2025-11-12

    78 / 100

    all this technology at our fingertips, right? You can provision, you know, essentially limitless cloud uh resources in the cloud just from your browser now, uh and uh access to all these massive foundation models that have been pre-trained with you know petabytes of of uh of data, both public and maybe not so public.

  6. Var Shankar: AI Governance for Smaller Organizations

    The Road to Accountable AI · 2026-05-07

    77 / 100

    You made an interesting point about foundation models because a lot of our initial ideas about assurance are, you know, you build some machine learning solution for an application and we're gonna test it for bias or for accuracy or whatever else.

  7. The Truth About AI in the Enterprise with Ed King, CEO of Openprise

    SaaS Scaling Secrets · 2026-01-27

    76 / 100

    What do I do? And even though these, you know, foundation models have gotten, uh, more and more powerful.

  8. Grafana’s Approach to AI-Native Observability

    Software Engineering Daily · 2026-07-02

    74 / 100

    They've got a whole bunch of public information and it's this information that the foundation models from Anthropic or Google or uh, OpenAI are trained on M.

  9. Why VCs Are Betting on Together AI's 800 Million Round

    The Venture Capital Podcast with Fexingo · 2026-07-01

    74 / 100
  10. Re-Air: The End of Busywork: How AI Transforms Productivity at Scale with Alberto Rizzoli of V7

    The Data Stack Show · 2026-06-17

    74 / 100
  11. 235. European Sovereign Neocloud - Jun26

    Redefining Energy · 2026-06-29

    72 / 100

    and you also have to think how much performance do 211 00:11:29,679 - > 00:11:32,720 you need? How much parameters are really necessary? If you 212 00:11:32,799 - > 00:11:35,480 look at the biggest foundation models in the market and 213 00:11:35,600 - > 00:11:38,080 you see the parameters, I would say in OPO's four 214 00:11:38,120 - > 00:11:41,159 point zero is not necessary for ninety nine percent of 215 00:11:41,240 - >

  12. How Inference Layer Innovations Are Changing AI Efficiency and Costs | Sudip Roy Cofounder & CTO of Adaption Labs

    Startup Project: Build the future · 2026-06-19

    71 / 100

    And this was also when the field had pivoted towards foundation models which were substantially larger than the earlier generation of small machine learning models.

  13. Beyond Experimentation: Prof. Yoav Shoham's A121’s CEO, talks on Gen AI's Future and AI21 Journey

    Future of Tech · 2024-01-24

    67 / 100

    Sometimes people use the term foundation models.

  14. Rob Toews, Radical Ventures Partner on Investing in Frontier AI

    Venture with Grace · 2026-06-29

    66 / 100

    And I think the kind of the foundational software layer is the models, the foundation models and of course a ton of probably the most famous well known AI, uh, companies are at this layer like OpenAI and Anthropic.

  15. When AI Does the Building: Innovation, Ideation, and the New Creative Advantage

    Disambiguation · 2026-07-01

    65 / 100

    It is essentially a combination of yes, LMS, but also foundation models that are trained on chemistry.

  16. TiRex-2 - a multivariate time series foundation model

    Industrial AI Podcast · 2026-07-01

    64 / 100

    This podcast is presented by NXAI, your partner for time series foundation models and physical AI.

  17. Ep 050 - Molly Cantillon, Founder at NOX

    New to Venture · 2025-10-24

    64 / 100

    And so, um, that summer I was forming this thesis about, oh, well, foundation models are great, but they're really lacking the personal context.

  18. Greg Whalen (CTO, Prove AI): Why Most AI Projects Fail Before Production

    Liftoff with Keith · 2026-06-09

    61 / 100

    Um, and that's, that's largely a function because there's so many external dependencies that are changing quickly, eg, foundation models, uh, moving in step.

  19. 197 - Agentic AI Isn’t a Moat for Analytics Products. This is

    Experiencing Data w/ Brian T. O’Neill · 2026-06-24

    56 / 100

    In fact, we're already seeing this with the foundation models in many ways.

  20. Co-evolving with Physical AI

    Design Mind frogcast · 2026-06-04

    55 / 100

    But today, foundation models are allowing robots to learn from data, to learn from experience.

  21. From Assistants to Agents: The Future of AI in Financial Services

    Deciphered: The Fintech Podcast · 2025-11-24

    53 / 100

    And what resonates is that the things you talk back at work in today's world, it's agent ecommerce, it's foundation models, it's embedded in finance.

  22. Episode 93: Physical AI - The Next Frontier for Agentic Systems

    Agentic AI: The Future of Intelligent Systems · 2026-06-28

    28 / 100

    Physical AI changes that equation because for the first time advances in foundation models, multimodal AI and agentic systems are giving machines something new The ability to perceive reason plan adapt and act In other words we are beginning to see the emergence of embodied intelligence Intelligence that does

  23. How We Hatched: Nick Skytland, Director of Gloo Developer

    The Pair Program · 2025-09-30

    And so we have this geometric mean aggregation of these questions and we look at the top foundation models out there and, and assess them about how they do in regards to even flourishing.

  24. 2 Problems with Scaling Agentic AI (281)

    The Tech Strategy Podcast · 2026-04-21

    Once you leave the laptop and the internet and you go out into the real world and you're trying to foundation models, it is so much harder.