About this episode From the show’s notes We chat with Ronak Malde, CEO of Trajectory.ai, discussing his journey from working on AI coding agents at Windsurf (and their subsequent acquisition by Google DeepMind) to his current mission of building a platform for continual learning in enterprise AI!
Timestamps
Chapters 13 · press a time to start there 00:00 Introduction and welcome 00:36 Reflecting on the Windsurf journey and AI coding agents 03:36 The story behind the acquisition by Google DeepMind 06:52 The vision for Trajectory.ai and the importance of continual learning 09:05 Approaches to continual learning 10:37 Technical innovations and working with Harvey 13:39 Choosing base models (e.g., NeMoTron 3 Super) 16:01 Data curation strategies for online learning 18:16 Scaling Self-Distillation Policy Optimization (SDPO) 21:43 Team growth and building a research-led product company 23:39 Infrastructure for production and open-sourcing a training stack 25:33 Scaling concurrent, non-linear training jobs Show all 13 chapters 28:46 Future roadmap, enterprise goals, and the path to Fortune 500 
