Episode 46 · Corner Office Conversation
Adaption’s Sudip Roy on Rethinking How AI Models Are Built
8 Oct 2026 · 21 min
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AI is getting better, cheaper and increasingly specialized. At The Economic Times World Leaders Forum, Sudip Roy, Co-Founder and CTO of Adaption, joins ET’s Swathi Moorthy to discuss why the next phase of AI may be less about building ever-larger models and more about adaptation, efficiency, and solving specific enterprise problems. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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