Machine Dreams is a weekly dive into the real world of AI. Hosts Kolawole Samuel Adebayo and Leah Stern talk with the founders, researchers, investors, engineers, and stakeholders shaping the future of intelligent machines. These are unfiltered, human conversations about what’s working in AI, what isn’t, and what might reshape the world next. From databases and infrastructure to agents, regulation, the future of work, and more, Machine Dreams brings clarity to arguably the most important tech story of our time.
Machine Dreams is a weekly dive into the real world of AI. Hosts Kolawole Samuel Adebayo and Leah Stern talk with the founders, researchers, investors, engineers, and stakeholders shaping the future of intelligent machines. These are unfiltered, human conversations about what’s working in AI, what isn’t, and what might reshape the world next. From databases and infrastructure to agents, regulation, the future of work, and more, Machine Dreams brings clarity to arguably the most important tech story of our time.
The AI revolution isn’t running on magic. It’s running on databases, and most were never built for what’s coming.
In this first episode of Machine Dreams, hosts Kolawole Samuel Adebayo and Leah Stern sit down with SurrealDB cofounder Tobie Morgan Hitchcock to explore the unseen engine behind modern AI systems.
From chaotic tech stacks to multi-model queries to why AI agents need fast, unified access to data across time, relationships, and context, Tobie breaks down the bottlenecks shaping the future of intelligent machines.
Whether you’re an engineer, a founder, a policy thinker, or someone trying to understand how AI actually works behind the scenes, this conversation is a deep dive into the infrastructure the industry doesn’t often talk about, but absolutely depends on.