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No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
At this moment of inflection in technology, co-hosts Elad Gil and Sarah Guo talk to the world's leading AI engineers, researchers and founders about the biggest questions: How far away is AGI? What markets are at risk for disruption? How will commerce, culture, and society change? What’s happening in state-of-the-art in research? “No Priors” is your guide to the AI revolution. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com. Sarah Guo is a startup investor and the founder of Conviction, an investment firm…
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- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
The Data Foundry for AI with Alexandr Wang from Scale
Alexandr Wang was 19 when he realized that gathering data will be crucial as AI becomes more prevalent, so he dropped out of MIT and started Scale AI. This…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Music consumers are becoming the creators with Suno CEO Mikey Shulman
Mikey Shulman, the CEO and co-founder of Suno, can see a future where the Venn diagram of music creators and consumers becomes one big circle. The AI music…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Context windows, computer constraints, and energy consumption with Sarah and Elad
This week on No Priors hosts, Sarah and Elad are catching up on the latest AI news. They discuss the recent developments in AI like Meta’s new AI assistant and…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Cognition’s Scott Wu on how Devin, the AI software engineer, will work for you
Scott Wu loves code. He grew up competing in the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) and is a world class coder, and now he's building an AI agent…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
OpenAI’s Sora team thinks we’ve only seen the "GPT-1 of video models"
AI-generated videos are not just leveled-up image generators. But rather, they could be a big step forward on the path to AGI. This week on No Priors, the team…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
The Future of AI Artistry with Suhail Doshi from Playground AI
Multimodal models are making it possible to create AI art and augment creativity across artistic mediums. This week on No Priors, Sarah and Elad talk with…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Hyperscaler strategy in AI, the application landscape heats up, and what we know now about agents with Sarah and Elad
This week on a host-only episode of No Priors, Sarah and Elad discuss the AI wave as compared to the internet wave, the current state of AI investing, the…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
The argument for humanoid AI robots with Brett Adcock from Figure
Humans are always doing work that is dull or dangerous. Brett Adcock, the founder and CEO of Figure AI, wants to build a fleet of robots that can do everything…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Open sourcing AI app development with Harrison Chase from LangChain
Companies are employing AI agents and co-pilots to help their teams increase efficiency and accuracy, but developing apps that are trained properly can require…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Speed will win the AI computing battle with Tuhin Srivastava from Baseten
At a time when users are being asked to wait unthinkable seconds for AI products to generate art and answers, speed is what will win the battle heating up in…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Designing the Future: Dylan Field on AI, Collaboration, and Independence
Figma has had a banner year and the formidable team isn’t slowing down—even after regulatory issues blocked the merger with Adobe. Today on No Priors, Sarah…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Big tech earnings and the current AI debates, with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
Host-only episode discussing NVIDIA, Meta and Google earnings, Gemini and Mistral model launches, the open-vs-closed source debate, domain specific foundation…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Competition makes for better chip design with AMD CTO Mark Papermaster
Compute is the fuel for the AI revolution, and customers want more chip vendors. AMD CTO Mark Papermaster joins Sarah and Elad on No Priors to discuss AMD’s…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Improving search with RAG architecture with Pinecone CEO Edo Liberty
Accurate, customizable search is one of the most immediate AI use cases for companies and general users. Today on No Priors, Elad and Sarah are joined by…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
RAG is the key for smarter productivity tools with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao
Notion is a productivity app that has invested heavily in AI to create products that enable workers to access information instantly without having to search…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Build AI products at on-AI companies with Emily Glassberg Sands from Stripe
Many companies that are building AI products for their users are not primarily AI companies. Today on No Priors, Sarah and Elad are joined by Emily Glassberg…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
The Copilot for Ecommerce with Shopify VP of Core Product Glen Coates
Building an ecommerce business is hard – it requires merchants to have a wealth of skills: technical, logistics, marketing, pricing, vendor management, finance…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Building the factories of the future with Covariant CEO Peter Chen
Building adaptive AI models that can learn and complete tasks in the physical world requires precision but these AI robots could completely change…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Coding in Collaboration with AI with Sourcegraph CTO Beyang Liu
Coding in collaboration with AI can reduce human toil in the software development process and lead to more accurate and less tedious work for coding teams…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
A No Priors clip show: the best of 2023
We’re looking back on 2023 and sharing a handful of our favorite conversations. Last year was full of insightful conversations that shaped the way we think…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
The case for AI optimism
AI doomerism and calls to regulate the emerging technology is at a fever pitch but today’s guest, Reid Hoffman is a vocal AI optimist who views slowing down…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
How AI can help small businesses
AI tools are helping small business owners manage their businesses, so they can stay focused on the aspects of their business they love to do. This week on No…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
AI is the new enterprise UI with Clara Shih, CEO Salesforce AI
AI is the new UI for enterprise customers, according to Clara Shih, the CEO of Salesforce AI. Salesforce released Einstein, now called Einstein GPT, in 2016…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Open AI leadership shuffle, new diffusion models, and starting the cult of Q*
OpenAI’s leadership has taken us all on a rollercoaster so it’s great timing for another host-only episode. This week Sarah and Elad get into what has been…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
AI Agents That Reason and Code with Imbue Co-Founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht
The future of tech is 25-person companies powered by AI agents that help us accomplish our larger goals. Imbue is working on building AI agents that reason…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Mistral 7B and the Open Source Revolution With Arthur Mensch, CEO Mistral AI
Open Source fuels the engine of innovation, according to Arthur Mensch, CEO and co-founder of Mistral AI. Mistral is a French AI company which recently made a…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
What is Digital Life? with OpenAI Co-Founder & Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever
Each iteration of ChatGPT has demonstrated remarkable step function capabilities. But what’s next? Ilya Sutskever, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at OpenAI…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
AI Threats & Opportunities in Cyber Security With Material Security Co-Founder Ryan Noon
Cyber Security is going to change significantly in the era of AI, according to Ryan Noon, cofounder of Material Security, a security company that makes…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
What Google Cloud Can Teach Enterprises Developing & Rolling Out AI Tools, With Kawal Gandhi
As the Lead for Generative AI in the Office of the CTO for Google Cloud, Kawal Gandhi has a unique vantage point on enterprise AI rollout. Sarah Guo and Elad…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
From App to Suite to Platform, with HubSpot's Co-Founder Brian Halligan
Startups aren't the only companies racing to build the new world of AI. This week, Sarah Guo talks with Brian Halligan, the co-founder, longtime CEO and now…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Model Quality, Fine Tuning & Meta Sponsoring Open Source Ecosystem
What Does it Take to Improve by 10x or 100x? This week is another host-only episode. Sarah and Elad talk about the path to better model quality, the potential…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
If DNA is Code, Can AI Help Write It? Scaling Cell Programming and Synthetic Biology, with Ginkgo Bioworks Co-founder and CEO Jason Kelly
Ginkgo Bioworks is using DNA as code to digitize the cell programming revolution. Ginkgo is using AI and synthetic biology to keep the next pandemic at bay…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
How Replit’s AI Tools are Changing Software Development with Co-founder and CEO Amjad Masad
Replit’s develop-to-deploy platform and new AI tool, Ghostwriter, are breaking down the barriers to entry for beginner programmers. Replit’s CEO, co-founder…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
The Intersection of AI and Blockchain, with Transformers author and NEAR founder Illia Polosukhin
More than 25 million users are using NEAR-powered applications. Co-founder of NEAR protocol and Transformers author Illia Polosukhin joins hosts Sarah Guo and…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
The World’s Largest AI Processor with Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman
The GPU supply crunch is causing desperation amongst AI teams large and small. Cerebras Systems has an answer, and it’s a chip the size of a dinner plate…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
AI Superpowers for Frontend Developers, with Vercel Founder/CEO Guillermo Rauch
Everything digital is increasingly intermediated through web user experiences, and now AI development can be frontend-first, too. Just ask Guillermo Rauch, the…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
AI-Powered Biological Software with Jakob Uszkoreit, CEO of Inceptive
"Biological Software" is the future of medicine. Jakob Uszkoreit, CEO and Co-founder of Inceptive, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil this week on No Priors, to…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
The AI Tutor For Every Child and the Next Frontier of Education, From Khan Academy’s Creator Sal Khan
The future of education is right at your children’s fingertips. Sal Khan, CEO and Founder of Khan Academy, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil this week on No Priors…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Listener Q&A: 2024 Tech Market Predictions, Long Term Implications of Today’s GPU Crunch, and Will AI Agents Bring Us Happiness?
This week on the podcast, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil answer listener questions on the state of technology and artificial intelligence. Sarah and Elad also talk…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Eradicating Machine Learning Pain Points with Weights & Biases CEO Lukas Biewald
How are ML developer tools helping to advance our capabilities? Lukas Biewald, CEO of Weights & Biases, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil this week on No Priors…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
How Palantir’s AI Bet is Revolutionizing Defense and Beyond, with CTO Shyam Sankar
Can frontiers as high-stakes as next-generation, AI-enabled defense depend on something as mundane as data integration? Can "large language models" work in…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
The Timeline for Realistic 4-D: Devi Parikh from Meta on Research Hurdles for Generative AI in Video and Multimodality
Video dominates modern media consumption, but video creation is still expensive and difficult. AI-generated and edited video is a holy grail of democratized…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Bringing AI to the Data Cloud, with Snowflake's CEO Frank Slootman
Frank Slootman, CEO of Snowflake Computing, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil this week on No Priors. Before scaling Snowflake to its blockbuster IPO and beyond…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
What's for Dinner? AI-Driven Commerce with Instacart CEO Fidji Simo
Fidji Simo, the CEO of Instacart and co-founder of Metrodora Institute, a medical center and research institute for neuroimmune axis disorders, shares her…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
What happens to Observability If Code is AI-Generated? The Potential for AI in DevOps, with Datadog Co-founder/CEO Olivier Pomel
Olivier Pomel, co-founder and CEO of Datadog, the leading observability company, discusses the company’s founding story, early product sequencing, platform…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Listener Q&A: AI Misconceptions, The Reality of Regulation, Infinite Context, Incumbent AI Execution and Startup Ideas
This week on No Priors, Sarah and Elad do another hangout to answer listener questions. Topics include debunking common misconceptions about AI and its…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
AI & Defense Technology with Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf
Today on No Priors, we discuss defense technology, AI, drones, and autonomous vehicles (think giant submarine drones!) with Brian Schimpf, the co-founder and…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Going Full Send on AI, and the (Positive) Impact of AI on Jobs, with Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft
In this episode, Sarah and Elad speak with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott about his unlikely journey from rural Virginia to becoming the driving force behind…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
The AI Will See You Now: Exploring Biomedical AI and Google’s Med-PaLM2 With Karan Singhal
What if AI could revolutionize healthcare with advanced language learning models? Sarah and Elad welcome Karan Singhal, Staff Software Engineer at Google…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Will Everyone Have a Personal AI? With Mustafa Suleyman, Founder of DeepMind and Inflection
Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind and now co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI, joins Sarah and Elad to discuss how his interests in counseling, conflict…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Personalizing AI Models with Kelvin Guu, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google Brain
How do you personalize AI models? A popular school of thought in AI is to just dump all the data you need into pre-training or fine tuning. But that may be…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Listener Q&A: AI Investment Hype, Foundation Models, Regulation, Opportunity Areas, and More
This week on No Priors, Sarah and Elad answer listener questions about tech and AI. Topics covered include the evolution of open-source models, Elon AI…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
The Computing Platform Underlying AI, with Jensen Huang, Founder & CEO of NVIDIA
So much of the AI conversation today revolves around models and new applications. But this AI revolution would not be possible without one thing – GPUs, Nvidia…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Your AI Friends Have Awoken, With Noam Shazeer
Noam Shazeer played a key role in developing key foundations of modern AI - including co-inventing Transformers at Google, as well as pioneering AI chat…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
The Future is Small Models, with Matei Zaharia, CTO of Databricks
If you have 30 dollars, a few hours, and one server, then you are ready to create a ChatGPT-like model that can do what’s known as instruction-following…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
What’s Beyond GitHub Copilot? With Copilot's Chief Architect and founder of Minion.AI Alex Graveley
Everyone talks about the future impact of AI, but there’s already an AI product that has revolutionized a profession. Alex Graveley was the principal engineer…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
How do we go from search engines to answer engines? With Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats
With advances in machine learning, the way we search for information online will never be the same. This week on the No Priors podcast, we dive into a startup…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
What is the future of search? With Neeva’s Sridhar Ramaswamy
For the first time in decades web search might be at risk for disruption. Bing is allied with OpenAI to integrate LLMs. Google has committed to launching new…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
What is the role of academia in modern AI research? With Stanford Professor Dr. Percy Liang
When AI research is evolving at warp speed and takes significant capital and compute power, what is the role of academia? Dr. Percy Liang – Stanford computer…
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
How AI can make drug discovery fail less, with Daphne Koller from Insitro
Life-saving therapeutics continue to grow more costly to discover. At the same time, recent advances in using machine learning for the life sciences and…