No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups

No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups

by Conviction

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 [email protected]. Sarah Guo is a startup investor and the founder of Conviction, an investment firm purpose-built to serve intelligent software, or "Software 3.0" companies. She spent nearly a decade…
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The Changing Physics of Cybersecurity and Drug Development with OpenAI President Greg Brockman

Oct 15, 2026 · 39m

Technology has always been the fundamental driver of improvement for human quality of life. And with the recent rollout of advanced frontier models, like OpenAI…

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Beam: The Great American Open Model with ReflectionAI Co-Founder and CEO Misha Laskin

Oct 9, 2026 · 1h 9m

Is the future of frontier AI open or closed? ReflectionAI co-founder and CEO Misha Laskin joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to discuss the launch of Beam, the compan…

Frontier Chips for Frontier AI Labs, with Walter Goodwin, Founder/CEO of Fractile

Oct 2, 2026 · 35m

Founder and CEO of full-stack AI chip company Fractile, Walter Goodwin, joins Sarah Guo to discuss the bets he’s made on the future of the chip market as other…

Re-Founding Incumbents for the AI Era with Sequence Holdings Co-Founder and CEO Michael Lee

Sep 24, 2026 · 42m

Can AI transform legacy incumbents rather than replacing them? Sequence Holdings co-founder and CEO Michael Lee joins Sarah Guo to discuss how holding company s…

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Why Diffusion Will Win AI Inference with Inception Co-Founder and CEO Stefano Ermon

Sep 18, 2026 · 38m

As generative AI hits hardware and latency bottlenecks, Stanford professor, diffusion pioneer, and Inception co-founder and CEO Stefano Ermon is betting on a ra…

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Coinbase’s Everything Exchange: Agentic Finance, Stablecoins, and Tokenization with CEO Brian Armstrong

Sep 10, 2026 · 45m

From the tokenization of real-world assets to funding research on anti-aging therapeutics, Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong is focused on solving met…

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Redefining Chip Architecture with Arm CEO Rene Haas

Sep 3, 2026 · 37m

From data center orchestrators to AGI and robotics, CPUs remain the heart of modern computing. Arm CEO Rene Haas joins Elad Gil and Sarah Guo to explore how Arm…

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Rethinking Legacy Data Infrastructure with Eon Co-Founders Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein

Aug 27, 2026 · 34m

Google’s purchase of Spirit Airlines’ data out of bankruptcy signaled a shift in how the tech world values real-world datasets. Although compute and models get…

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From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak

Aug 20, 2026 · 31m

Max Hodak, co-founder and CEO of Science Corporation, joins Sarah Guo to discuss the future of vision, brain-computer interfaces, and the human experience. Max…

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What Chess.com Teaches US About Superhuman Capabilities, with CEO Erik Allebest

Aug 13, 2026 · 46m

In a world of infinite gaming and entertainment possibilities, how does a centuries-old game stay so popular? Chess.com co-founder and CEO Erik Allebest joins S…

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Chasing Trillion-Dollar Companies, Founder Ambition, Token Budgets, and Regulatory Capture with Sarah & Elad

Aug 6, 2026 · 39m

Is the tech industry moving too quickly, or are founders letting fear of AI labs stunt their ambitions? Sarah and Elad explore the current landscape of artifici…

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Building an Autonomous Enterprise for Real-World Services with Netic Founder Melisa Tokmak

Jul 31, 2026 · 34m

When your AC fails in a heatwave, you don’t want a busy signal; you need a solution. Netic founder and CEO Melisa Tokmak joins host Elad Gil to explain how Neti…

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Building an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang

Jul 23, 2026 · 49m

DoorDash is not just a delivery company. From its inception, co-founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang operated it as a robotics and autonomy company. Andy and Sta…

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Travel Through the Lens of AI with with Booking.com CEO Glenn Fogel

Jul 9, 2026 · 41m

When Glenn Fogel joined Priceline in 2000, the business was worth a few hundred million dollars. One week later, the Nasdaq peaked, eventually sending its stock…

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How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Taylor

Jul 2, 2026 · 1h 1m

While the rest of the nuclear industry still relies on simulations and paper designs, Valar Atomics is busy splitting atoms. In fact, they just powered an NVIDI…

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Really Big Test-Time Compute in AI Changes Benchmarks, Safety and Research with OpenAI Research Scientist Noam Brown

Jun 26, 2026 · 36m

When a new AI model drops, it’s judged based on a static benchmark grid that doesn’t account for how long the model is allowed to think. How then should we meas…

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Re-engineering the Semiconductor Supply Chain with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan

Jun 18, 2026 · 44m

At 66 years old, instead of heading towards retirement, former Cadence CEO and legendary investor Lip-Bu Tan decided to take on the hardest job in tech: turning…

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Biohub: The Future of Biology is Open-Source with Co-Founders Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, and Head of Science Alex Rives

Jun 10, 2026 · 56m

Biohub started with an ambitious goal of curing, preventing, and managing all disease by the end of the century. A decade later, thanks to the convergence of fr…

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We Need An Ecosystem in AI, And Every Company Can Win A Place In It

Jun 4, 2026 · 42m

What does it mean for a business to truly operate at the AI frontier? In a special crossover episode at Microsoft Build, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil team up with Lat…

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Building an AI Guardian for Enterprise with Onyx Security CEO Maxim Bar Kogan

May 28, 2026 · 41m

We are now closer than ever before to living in a world where AI agents are smart enough to run our power grids and manage water supplies. How do we keep them f…