Building Open Infrastructure for AI with Illia Polosukhin

Building Open Infrastructure for AI with Illia Polosukhin

Author: All Content Archives - Software Engineering Daily July 17, 2025 Duration: 49:12
Illia Polosukhin is a veteran AI researcher and one of the original authors of the landmark Transformer paper, Attention is All You Need, which he co-authored during his time at Google Research. He has a deep background in machine learning and natural language processing, and has spent over a decade working at the intersection of

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Crew AI with João Moura [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:09
Agentic AI is seen as a key frontier in artificial intelligence, enabling systems to autonomously act, adapt in real-time, and solve complex, multi-step problems based on objectives and context. Unlike traditional rule-b…
Chip Design in the AI Era with Thomas Andersen [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:33
Synopsys is a leading electronic design automation company specializing in silicon design and verification, as well as software integrity and security. Their tools are foundational to the creation of modern chips and emb…
OpenTofu with Cory O’Daniel and Malcolm Matalka [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 47:58
OpenTofu is an open-source alternative to Terraform, designed for managing infrastructure as code. It enables users to define, provision, and manage their cloud and on-premises resources using a declarative configuration…
Mojo and Building a CUDA Replacement with Chris Lattner [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:14
Python is the dominant language for AI and data science applications, but it lacks the performance and low-level control needed to fully leverage GPU hardware. As a result, developers often rely on NVIDIA’s CUDA framewor…
Building PostgreSQL for the Future with Heikki Linnakangas [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 42:12
PostgreSQL is an open-source database known for its robustness, extensibility, and compliance with SQL standards. Its ability to handle complex queries and maintain high data integrity has made it a top choice for both s…
Security at Coinbase with Philip Martin [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 48:31
Cryptocurrency exchanges face unique security challenges that require specialized threat assessments and planning. Coinbase is a cryptocurrency exchange based in the United States. It was founded in 2012 and has evolved…
Anthropic and the Model Context Protocol with David Soria Parra [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:30
The Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is a new open standard that connects AI assistants to arbitrary data sources and tools, such as codebases, APIs, and content repositories. Instead of building bespoke integrations for…
Polypane with Kilian Valkhof [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 46:36
Polypane is a specialized web development browser that simplifies creating and testing modern websites. A key feature is that it provides multiple screen sizes at once, with synchronized scrolling and interactions, so de…

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