Radical Talks, Masterclass Edition: Jonathan Frankle on the Future of Enterprise AI

About this episode

Jonathan Frankle discusses the transition of AI from academic insights to enterprise-scale deployment with Vin Sachidananda.

Databricks Chief AI Scientist Jonathan Frankle joins Radical Partner Vin Sachidananda for a special conversation from Radical Ventures’ AI Masterclass Series. Together, they explore what it takes to move AI from academic insight to real-world, enterprise-scale deployment. Drawing on Jonathan’s experience co-founding Mosaic ML and now leading research at Databricks, the discussion covers why early efficiency gains feel “quaint,” how open-source serves as scientific proof, and why evaluation remains the missing infrastructure for enterprise AI adoption. A practical conversation for founders and technical leaders building AI systems that need to perform in production.

People in this episode

Host: Vin Sachidananda

Guest: Jonathan Frankle

Topics covered

• enterprise AI
• AI deployment
• open-source
• efficiency gains
• AI evaluation
• founders
• technical leadership

Keywords

• AI
• enterprise
• deployment
• open-source
• efficiency
• evaluation
• Mosaic ML
• Databricks

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Organizations: Databricks, Mosaic ML, Radical Ventures

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