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Foundation models
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

Listen & Lead: Team Articles in Your Ears
1 episode · best 86.0/100

Disambiguation
2 episodes · best 85.0/100

Jon Myer Podcast
1 episode · best 82.0/100

Energy Bytes
1 episode · best 80.0/100

What's New In Data
1 episode · best 78.0/100

The Road to Accountable AI
1 episode · best 77.0/100

SaaS Scaling Secrets
1 episode · best 76.0/100

Software Engineering Daily
1 episode · best 74.0/100
Best episodes on Foundation models
- 86 / 100
A Conversation about the Human - AI Teaming Landscape: Designing the Hybrid Workforce
Listen & Lead: Team Articles in Your Ears · 2026-05-23
…peaker B: Because the foundation models out there, they're converging.…
- 85 / 100
The End of One Model to Rule Them All: Why Enterprise AI Is Going Small, Specialized, and Multi-Model
Disambiguation · 2026-06-24
- 82 / 100
Ep#249 How leaders need to rethink their approach to AI altogether
Jon Myer Podcast · 2026-04-13
- 80 / 100
EP 79: Hussein Shel from AWS
Energy Bytes · 2026-02-13
…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?…
- 78 / 100
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
…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.…
- 77 / 100
Var Shankar: AI Governance for Smaller Organizations
The Road to Accountable AI · 2026-05-07
…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.…
- 76 / 100
The Truth About AI in the Enterprise with Ed King, CEO of Openprise
SaaS Scaling Secrets · 2026-01-27
…What do I do? And even though these, you know, foundation models have gotten, uh, more and more powerful.…
- 74 / 100
Grafana’s Approach to AI-Native Observability
Software Engineering Daily · 2026-07-02
…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.…
- 74 / 100
Why VCs Are Betting on Together AI's 800 Million Round
The Venture Capital Podcast with Fexingo · 2026-07-01
- 74 / 100
Re-Air: The End of Busywork: How AI Transforms Productivity at Scale with Alberto Rizzoli of V7
The Data Stack Show · 2026-06-17
- 72 / 100
235. European Sovereign Neocloud - Jun26
Redefining Energy · 2026-06-29
…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 - >…
- 71 / 100
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
…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.…
- 67 / 100
Beyond Experimentation: Prof. Yoav Shoham's A121’s CEO, talks on Gen AI's Future and AI21 Journey
Future of Tech · 2024-01-24
…Sometimes people use the term foundation models.…
- 66 / 100
Rob Toews, Radical Ventures Partner on Investing in Frontier AI
Venture with Grace · 2026-06-29
…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.…
- 65 / 100
When AI Does the Building: Innovation, Ideation, and the New Creative Advantage
Disambiguation · 2026-07-01
…It is essentially a combination of yes, LMS, but also foundation models that are trained on chemistry.…
- 64 / 100
TiRex-2 - a multivariate time series foundation model
Industrial AI Podcast · 2026-07-01
…This podcast is presented by NXAI, your partner for time series foundation models and physical AI.…
- 64 / 100
Ep 050 - Molly Cantillon, Founder at NOX
New to Venture · 2025-10-24
…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.…
- 61 / 100
Greg Whalen (CTO, Prove AI): Why Most AI Projects Fail Before Production
Liftoff with Keith · 2026-06-09
…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.…
- 56 / 100
197 - Agentic AI Isn’t a Moat for Analytics Products. This is
Experiencing Data w/ Brian T. O’Neill · 2026-06-24
…In fact, we're already seeing this with the foundation models in many ways.…
- 55 / 100
Co-evolving with Physical AI
Design Mind frogcast · 2026-06-04
…But today, foundation models are allowing robots to learn from data, to learn from experience.…
- 53 / 100
From Assistants to Agents: The Future of AI in Financial Services
Deciphered: The Fintech Podcast · 2025-11-24
…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.…
- 28 / 100
Episode 93: Physical AI - The Next Frontier for Agentic Systems
Agentic AI: The Future of Intelligent Systems · 2026-06-28
…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…
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.…
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.…