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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S1 E82

Transforming Customer Service through Company Agents, with Sierra’s Bret Taylor

Sep 19, 2024 · 48m

Bret Taylor, Cofounder of Sierra, Chairman of the board at OpenAI, and former co-CEO of Salesforce and CTO of Facebook, joins Sarah and Elad in this week’s epis…

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Future of LLM Markets, Consolidation, and Small Models with Sarah and Elad

Sep 12, 2024 · 26m

In this episode of No Priors, Sarah and Elad go deep into what's on everyone’s mind. They break down new partnerships and consolidation in the LLM market, speci…

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The Road to Autonomous Intelligence with Andrej Karpathy

Sep 5, 2024 · 44m

Andrej Karpathy joins Sarah and Elad in this week of No Priors. Andrej, who was a founding team member of OpenAI and former Senior Director of AI at Tesla, need…

S1 E79

Building toward a bright post-AGI future with Eric Steinberger from Magic.dev

Aug 30, 2024 · 37m

Today on No Priors, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil are joined by Eric Steinberger, the co-founder and CEO of Magic.dev. His team is developing a software engineer co-pi…

S1 E78

Cloud Strategy in the AI Era with Matt Garman, CEO of AWS

Aug 29, 2024 · 42m

In this episode of No Priors, hosts Sarah and Elad are joined by Matt Garman, the CEO of Amazon Web Services. They talk about the evolution of Amazon Web Servic…

S1 E77

The marketplace for AI compute with Jared Quincy Davis from Foundry

Aug 22, 2024 · 43m

In this episode of No Priors, hosts Sarah and Elad are joined by Jared Quincy Davis, former DeepMind researcher and the Founder and CEO of Foundry, a new AI clo…

S1 E76

How AI can help build smarter systems for every team with Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh of Ramp

Aug 15, 2024 · 48m

In this episode of No Priors, hosts Sarah and Elad are joined by Ramp co-founders Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh of Ramp. The pair has been working to build one o…

S1 E75

Innovating Spend Management through AI with Pedro Franceschi from Brex

Aug 8, 2024 · 33m

Hunting down receipts and manually filling out invoices kills productivity. This week on No Priors, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil sit down with Pedro Franceschi, co-fo…

S1 E72

Google DeepMind's Vision for AI, Search and Gemini with Oriol Vinyals from Google DeepMind

Aug 1, 2024 · 46m

In this episode of No Priors, hosts Sarah and Elad are joined by Oriol Vinyals, VP of Research, Deep Learning Team Lead, at Google DeepMind and Technical Co-lea…

S1 E73

Low-Code in the Age of AI and Going Enterprise, with Howie Liu from Airtable

Jul 25, 2024 · 41m

This week on No Priors, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil are joined by Howie Liu, the co-founder and CEO of Airtable. Howie discusses their Cobuilder launch, the evolutio…

S1 E72

How AI is opening up new markets and impacting the startup status quo with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil

Jul 18, 2024 · 29m

This week on No Priors, we have a host-only episode. Sarah and Elad catch up to discuss how tech history may be repeating itself. Much like in the early days of…

S1 E71

The Best of 2024 (so far) with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil

Jul 11, 2024 · 25m

Believe or not, we’re almost halfway through 2024. Sarah and Elad have spent the first of this year talking with some of the most innovative minds in the AI ind…

S1 E70

State Space Models and Real-time Intelligence with Karan Goel and Albert Gu from Cartesia

Jun 27, 2024 · 34m

This week on No Priors, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil sit down with Karan Goel and Albert Gu from Cartesia. Karan and Albert first met as Stanford AI Lab PhDs, where t…

S1 E72

Can AI replace the camera? with Joshua Xu from HeyGen

Jun 20, 2024 · 27m

 AI video generation models still have a long way to go when it comes to making compelling and complex videos but the HeyGen team are well on their way to strea…

S1 E68

How the ARC Prize is democratizing the race to AGI with Mike Knoop from Zapier

Jun 11, 2024 · 26m

The first step in achieving AGI is nailing down a concise definition and Mike Knoop, the co-founder and Head of AI at Zapier, believes François Chollet got it r…

S1 E63

The evolution and promise of RAG architecture with Tengyu Ma from Voyage AI

Jun 6, 2024 · 36m

After Tengyu Ma spent years at Stanford researching AI optimization, embedding models, and transformers, he took a break from academia to start Voyage AI which…

S1 E66

How YC fosters AI Innovation with Garry Tan

May 23, 2024 · 39m

Garry Tan is a notorious founder-turned-investor who is now running one of the most prestigious accelerators in the world, Y Combinator. As the president and CE…

S1 E65

The Data Foundry for AI with Alexandr Wang from Scale

May 22, 2024 · 39m

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 week…

S1 E64

Music consumers are becoming the creators with Suno CEO Mikey Shulman

May 16, 2024 · 30m

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 gene…

S1 E63

Context windows, computer constraints, and energy consumption with Sarah and Elad

May 9, 2024 · 29m

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…