Tech Disruptors

“OpenAI has only two AI accelerator compute vendors in production today, Cerebras and Nvidia,” Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman says. Four days after Cerebras went public, Feldman joined Bloomberg Intelligence’s Kunjan Sobhani to discuss the company’s next chapter and the rapidly shifting AI infrastructure landscape. Feldman breaks down the OpenAI deal, the strategic AWS partnership around disaggregated inference and why Cerebras believes fast inference is becoming the industry’s defining battleground. He explains how Cerebras evolved from building the world’s largest chip to operating one of the fastest inference platforms, why disaggregated inference could reshape hyperscale AI deployments and how the company is navigating power, memory and data-center constraints. The episode also explores the competitive landscape beyond GPUs and Feldman’s broader perspective on the next phase of AI compute.

Younger users of dating apps want “lower pressure” and “more authentic ways of connecting,” and Tinder’s new products aimed at meeting those needs appear to be aiding Match Group’s turnaround, CFO Steve Bailey says. Bailey joins Bloomberg Intelligence’s Nicole D’Souza on this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast to discuss how dating-app behavior is changing after the pandemic, why Gen Z women are central to Tinder’s strategy, and how AI, product updates and helping users connect in real life could reshape growth.

“The more microservices that you have, the more agent-ready you are because you can at least start taking these components, and convert them into agent infrastructure,” says Asa Kalavade, vice president of AWS Transform to Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana. The pair discuss how agentic AI is accelerating legacy modernization across mainframe, NET, VMware and other enterprise workloads. Kalavade explains how AWS Transform combines deterministic methods with AI to understand old systems, generate modern code and shrink projects that once took years into far shorter timelines, while also making applications more cloud- and agent-ready. She notes that in just one year, AWS Transform has helped customers save more than 1.6 million hours of manual effort and analyze 4.5 billion lines of code as they migrate and modernize applications in the cloud.

Quantum computing is approaching an inflection point, with dozens of companies racing to be the first to achieve widespread commercialization. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, QuEra Computing Chief Commercial Officer Yuval Boger joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Jake Silverman to discuss why neutral atom quantum computing could prove the most successful among a variety of approaches and unlock scalable, lower-cost quantum systems. They also explore what quantum computing is, technological hurdles that exist today and the applications where quantum is likely to have the largest impact — potentially in just a few years — including drug discovery, logistics and AI.

As companies shift from one-way customer notifications to AI-powered, personalized conversations at scale, developers need advanced communications infrastructure to build omnichannel digital messages. Twilio — which powers B2C SMS, two-factor authentication, customer alerts and reminders alongside other digital interactions — has positioned itself as critical infrastructure for the AI era. Growth is accelerating and new products are poised to offer an added lift to revenue. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, CEO Khozema Shipchandler joins Bloomberg Intelligence senior telecom analyst John Butler to discuss Twilio’s turnaround, its new Conversations suite, digital messaging tools, and the rising importance of identity, governance and observability amid the rise of AI agents. They also explore voice and self-serve trends, carrier fees, competition and investment priorities.