Supporting exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond.
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Supporting exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond.
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May 28, 2026
Ep. 60: Ronak Malde, Trajectory CEO and Former DeepMind Researcher
<p>Ronak Malde is the CEO of Trajectory (trajectory.ai), where he's working on bringing continual learning to enterprises. Before Trajectory, he worked on research at DeepMind and trained the SWE-1 model at Windsurf.Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that gives industry/academic leaders a platform to share their experiences, a small fellows program that builds a tight-knit community of exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.Timestamps:00:00 Why RL Doesnt Scale00:40 Founder Story Trajectory01:16 Continual Learning Vision02:33 Product Signal As Reward03:47 Roadmap Three Stages05:02 Self Distillation Explained07:17 Building The SDK09:21 Customer Onboarding Example11:43 Control Plane Improvements12:50 Competition And Infrastructure15:03 Research Meets Product17:35 Self Serve Vs Services19:55 Leaving Labs To Found24:10 Hiring And Team Culture27:45 Scaling To Enterprises</p>
May 28, 2026
Ep. 59: Alex Shan, Judgment Labs CEO
<p>Alex Shan is the CEO of Judgment Labs (judgmentlabs.ai), where he's working on building agent behavior monitoring infrastructure. Before Judgment, he worked at Juniper Networks and Stanford AI Lab.</p><p><br></p><p>Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that gives industry/academic leaders a platform to share their experiences, a small fellows program that builds a tight-knit community of exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.Timestamps:00:00 Mission and Evals Focus00:30 Founder Background02:55 Childhood Co-Founders04:49 Stanford to Industry Pivot07:32 Juniper Agents Experience08:55 Founding Judgment Labs11:14 Why Existing Tools Fail13:23 Deep Agent Observability Model15:56 JudgeEval Open Core Strategy18:56 Evals Advice and Pitfalls23:24 Production Grounded Evals24:12 Rubric Discovery Signals25:06 Benchmarks That Evolve26:24 Legal Redlines Case Study27:22 From Edits To Rubrics30:40 Monitoring First Strategy32:09 Self Improving Agent Loop34:12 Competitive Differentiation36:13 Deep Context Evals42:43 Future Data Intelligence45:19 Closing Thoughts</p>
May 28, 2026
Ep. 58: Andrew Dai, Elorian CEO and Former DeepMind Research Director
<p>Andrew Dai is the co-founder and CEO of Elorian, a new visual reasoning research and product lab. Before Elorian, Andrew was a research director at DeepMind, where he was the Gemini data area co-lead, PaLM 2 pre-training lead, and GLaM MoE LLM co-lead.Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that gives industry/academic leaders a platform to share their experiences, a small fellows program that builds a tight-knit community of exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.Timestamps:00:00 Introduction00:16 Google Brain Origins01:22 From GPT Roots to Gemini02:20 Why Build Elorian03:57 Anthropic vs Gemini Vision04:48 Measuring Multimodal Quality06:08 Defining Visual AGI07:57 Building the Multimodal Lab09:41 Reasoning in Visual Space11:46 What Makes Models Better15:57 Research Milestones and Benchmarks18:09 How to Think Architecturally21:55 Go To Market and Verticals27:13 Where Accuracy Matters Most29:15 Defending Against Churn30:40 Think Big Closing Thoughts</p>
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