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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Episodes 183 total

S1 E102

Building Hard Tech in Hard Markets: Kyle Vogt on Cruise, Twitch, and The Bot Company

Feb 20, 2025 · 38m

Kyle Vogt joins Sarah and Elad on this week’s episode of No Priors. A serial entrepreneur, Kyle co-founded Twitch, transforming live streaming, and later Cruise…

S1 E101

How Harvey AI is Changing the Legal Industry with Winston Weinberg

Feb 14, 2025 · 49m

This week on No Priors, Sarah sits down with Harvey cofounder and CEO Winston Weinberg. Harvey is one of the leading application layer AI companies, building do…

S1 E100

DeepSeek, Deep Research, and 2025 Predictions with Sarah and Elad

Feb 7, 2025 · 22m

This week on No Priors, Sarah and Elad celebrate the 100th episode! They dive into the biggest AI stories of 2025, breaking down DeepSeek—truth vs. hype, the ra…

S1 E99

Rick Caruso on LA’s Wildfires, Policy Failures, and the Path Forward

Jan 30, 2025 · 27m

This week on No Priors, Elad sits down with Rick Caruso, LA real estate developer and runner-up in the 2022 mayoral race. With experience serving under three LA…

S1 E98

What Can We Do About Wildfires? With Convective Capital’s Bill Clerico

Jan 23, 2025 · 37m

This week on No Priors, Sarah and Elad sit down with Bill Clerico, founder of Convective Capital, an early stage venture fund focused on technology-driven solut…

S1 E97

How AI Agents Are Transforming Customer Support, with Decagon’s Jesse Zhang

Jan 16, 2025 · 30m

Today on No Priors, co-founder and CEO of Decagon, Jesse Zhang, joins Elad to discuss the future of agentic customer support. Decagon provides AI-powered custom…

S1 E96

Erik Bernhardsson on Creating Tools That Make AI Feel Effortless

Jan 9, 2025 · 23m

Today on No Priors, Elad chats with Erik Bernhardsson, founder and CEO of Modal Labs, a platform simplifying ML workflows by providing a serverless infrastructu…

S1 E95

The Best of 2024 with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil

Dec 26, 2024 · 27m

2024 has been a year of transformative technological progress, marked by conversations that have reshaped our understanding of AI's evolution and what lies ahea…

S1 E94

Revolutionizing Customer Success with Agency’s Elias Torres

Dec 19, 2024 · 31m

Today on No Priors, Sarah sits down with Elias Torres, CEO and founder of Agency, an AI agent for customer success teams. Elias shares his journey from growing…

S1 E93

How Diamond Cooling Could Power the Future of AI, with Akash Systems

Dec 12, 2024 · 42m

In this episode of No Priors, Sarah sits down with Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell, founders of Akash Systems, a company pioneering diamond-based cooling technolo…

S1 E92

Bolt’s Eric Simons on Enabling Everyone to Generate Websites with AI

Dec 5, 2024 · 38m

In this episode of No Priors, Sarah talks with Eric Simons, co-founder and CEO of StackBlitz. The company has experienced explosive growth since the launch 2 mo…

S1 E91

Model Plateaus and Enterprise AI Adoption with Cohere's Aidan Gomez

Nov 21, 2024 · 44m

In this episode of No Priors, Sarah is joined by Aidan Gomez, cofounder and CEO of Cohere. Aidan reflects on his journey to co-authoring the groundbreaking 2017…

S1 E87

AI and the Future of Math, with DeepMind’s AlphaProof Team

Nov 14, 2024 · 39m

In this week’s episode of No Priors, Sarah and Elad sit down with the Google DeepMind team behind AlphaProof, Laurent Sartran, Rishi Mehta, and Thomas Hubert. A…

S1 E86

NVIDIA's Jensen Huang on AI Chip Design, Scaling Data Centers, and his 10-Year Bets

Nov 7, 2024 · 36m

In this week’s episode of No Priors, Sarah and Elad sit down with Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, for the second time to reflect on the company’s extraordinary gro…

S1 E85

Forecasting the Future with Kalshi: America’s First Regulated Prediction Market

Oct 31, 2024 · 35m

In this week’s episode of No Priors, Sarah sits down with Tarek Mansour, CEO of Kalshi—the first CFTC-regulated prediction market exchange in the U.S. They dive…

S1 E87

Waymo’s Journey to Full Autonomy: AI Breakthroughs, Safety, and Scaling

Oct 24, 2024 · 44m

In this episode of No Priors, Dmitri Dolgov, Co-CEO of Waymo, joins Sarah and Elad to explore the evolution and advancements of Waymo's self-driving technology…

S3 E86

Gaming, Nobel Prizes and At-Risk Businesses in the AI Era

Oct 17, 2024 · 29m

In this episode of No Priors, Sarah and Elad explore how AI is transforming consumer apps and entertainment, with a focus on potential integrations in gaming an…

S1 E85

Launching AI products with Braintrust’s CEO Ankur Goyal

Oct 8, 2024 · 38m

Today on No Priors, Elad is joined by Ankur Goyal, founder and CEO of Braintrust. Braintrust enables companies like Notion, Airtable, Instacart, Zapier, and Ver…

S1 E79

The Sheriff of Silicon Valley: Lina Khan’s FTC agenda for M&A, AI Acquisitions, and Non-Competes

Oct 3, 2024 · 26m

Lina Khan’s FTC has been the most active in decades, notably challenging tech giants and adopting a more hands-on approach to regulating the digital age. On tod…

S1 E83

Using AI to evaluate employee performance with Rippling’s COO Matt MacInnis

Sep 25, 2024 · 31m

In this episode of No Priors, Sarah and Elad sit down with Matt MacInnis, COO of Rippling, to discuss the company’s unique product strategy and the advantages o…