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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Scaling Legal AI and Building Next-Generation Law Firms with Harvey Co-Founder and President Gabe Pereyra

Dec 5, 2025 · 44m

In just over three years, Harvey has not only scaled to nearly one thousand customers, including Walmart, PwC, and other giants of the Fortune 500, but fundamen…

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Sunday Robotics: Scaling the Home Robot Revolution with Co-Founders Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi

Nov 19, 2025 · 39m

The robotics industry is on the cusp of its own “GPT” moment, catalyzed by transformative research advances. Enter Memo, the first general-intelligence personal…

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How AI Will Accelerate Breakthroughs in Biotechnology with Benchling CEO Sajith Wickramasekara

Nov 13, 2025 · 48m

Bringing new drugs to market is a costly, time-consuming endeavor. On top of that, most medicines fail at some point in the research and development phase. Sara…

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Meet Snowflake Intelligence: A Personalized Enterprise Intelligence Agent with Sridhar Ramaswamy

Nov 6, 2025 · 42m

Snowflake is moving beyond the data warehouse. Its new Snowflake Intelligence is an agentic platform for every employee, not just data teams. Sarah Guo sits dow…

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The Best of 2025 (So Far) with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil

Oct 31, 2025 · 18m

2025 has thus far been a year of great leaps and advances in AI technology. And Sarah and Elad have spoken with some of the most enterprising founders and scien…

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Reinventing the Developer Terminal with Warp Co-Founder and CEO Zach Lloyd

Oct 23, 2025 · 27m

For decades, the developer terminal has remained largely unchanged. But for Warp CEO and co-founder Zach Lloyd, reinventing this core tool is the key to unlocki…

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Unlocking the Road to Energy Abundance with Base Power CEO and Co-Founder Zach Dell

Oct 15, 2025 · 31m

With demand from AI for energy already exploding, our electric grid is facing a crisis. Base Power CEO and co-founder Zach Dell is ready to re-architect its fut…

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Humans&: Bridging IQ and EQ in Machine Learning with Eric Zelikman

Oct 9, 2025 · 36m

The AI industry is obsessed with making models smarter. But what if they’re building the wrong kind of intelligence? In launching his new venture, humans&amp…

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The Impact of AI, from Business Models to Cybersecurity, with Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora

Oct 4, 2025 · 58m

Between the future of search, the biggest threats in cybersecurity, and the jobs and platforms of tomorrow, Nikesh Arora sees one common thread connecting and t…

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Reinventing K-12 Education Using AI with Alpha School Principal Joe Liemandt

Sep 25, 2025 · 1h 1m

What if kids could master their academics in just two hours a day and spend the rest of their time developing real-world skills they’re passionate about? Joe Li…

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AI Agents Talking to AI Agents: Reinventing Commerce with Decagon CEO Jesse Zhang

Sep 18, 2025 · 31m

The traditional call center may soon be a thing of the past. Jessie Zhang is building AI agents designed to replace monotonous human labor and transform how con…

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Jared Kushner: BrainCo, Affinity Partners, and the Geopolitics of AI

Sep 15, 2025 · 58m

From negotiating with world leaders to partnering with top entrepreneurs, businessman and investor Jared Kushner has traveled the unique path of bringing privat…

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A New Operating System for Physicians with OpenEvidence Founder Daniel Nadler

Sep 5, 2025 · 44m

How does a new technology get adopted by 40% of American doctors in just 18 months? In an era where the golden age of biotechnology has also created a dark age…

Reshaping America’s Economy for the Superintelligence Century with Jacob Helberg

Aug 28, 2025 · 40m

AI doomers say that the technology will be the ultimate job-killer. But Jacob Helberg wants people to see AI as a tech that will boost, not replace, human worke…

How Agentic AI is Transforming The Startup Landscape with Andrew Ng

Aug 21, 2025 · 42m

Andrew Ng has always been at the bleeding edge of fast-evolving AI technologies, founding companies and projects like Google Brain, AI Fund, and DeepLearning.AI…

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Chips, Neoclouds, and the Quest for AI Dominance with SemiAnalysis Founder and CEO Dylan Patel

Aug 14, 2025 · 47m

What would it take to challenge Nvidia? SemiAnalysis Founder and CEO Dylan Patel joins Sarah Guo to answer this and other topical questions around the current s…

The Shifting Value of Content in the AI Age with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince

Aug 7, 2025 · 45m

Cloudflare has spent nearly fifteen years making the Internet faster, more reliable, and more secure. So now that AI systems are changing the way we interact wi…

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America’s Plan to Dominate the Full AI Stack with Sriram Krishnan

Jul 31, 2025 · 36m

Sriram Krishnan was never interested in policy. But after seeing a gap in AI knowledge at senior levels of government, he decided to lend his expertise to the t…

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The Power of Quality Human Data with SurgeAI Founder and CEO Edwin Chen

Jul 24, 2025 · 32m

In the generative AI revolution, quality data is a valuable commodity. But not all data is created equally. Sarah Guo and Elad Gil sit down with SurgeAI founder…

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Asimov: Building An Omniscient RL Oracle with ReflectionAI’s Misha Laskin

Jul 17, 2025 · 1h 2m

Superintelligence, at least in an academic sense, has already been achieved. But Misha Laskin thinks that the next step towards artificial superintelligence, or…