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 E62

Cognition’s Scott Wu on how Devin, the AI software engineer, will work for you

May 2, 2024 · 29m

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 desig…

S1 E58

OpenAI’s Sora team thinks we’ve only seen the "GPT-1 of video models"

Apr 25, 2024 · 31m

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…

S1 E60

The Future of AI Artistry with Suhail Doshi from Playground AI

Apr 18, 2024 · 24m

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 Suhai…

S1 E56

Hyperscaler strategy in AI, the application landscape heats up, and what we know now about agents with Sarah and Elad

Apr 11, 2024 · 26m

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 found…

S1 E58

The argument for humanoid AI robots with Brett Adcock from Figure

Apr 4, 2024 · 38m

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…

S1 E57

Open sourcing AI app development with Harrison Chase from LangChain

Mar 28, 2024 · 27m

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…

S1 E56

Speed will win the AI computing battle with Tuhin Srivastava from Baseten

Mar 21, 2024 · 38m

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 AI…

S1 E55

Designing the Future: Dylan Field on AI, Collaboration, and Independence

Mar 14, 2024 · 36m

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 and…

S1 E54

Big tech earnings and the current AI debates, with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil

Mar 7, 2024 · 42m

Host-only episode discussing NVIDIA, Meta and Google earnings, Gemini and Mistral model launches, the open-vs-closed source debate, domain specific foundation m…

S1 E53

Competition makes for better chip design with AMD CTO Mark Papermaster

Feb 29, 2024 · 39m

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 str…

S1 E52

Improving search with RAG architecture with Pinecone CEO Edo Liberty

Feb 22, 2024 · 31m

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 Pineco…

S1 E51

RAG is the key for smarter productivity tools with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao

Feb 15, 2024 · 42m

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 thr…

S1 E48

Build AI products at on-AI companies with Emily Glassberg Sands from Stripe

Feb 8, 2024 · 39m

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 Sa…

S1 E49

The Copilot for Ecommerce with Shopify VP of Core Product Glen Coates

Jan 31, 2024 · 39m

Building an ecommerce business is hard – it requires merchants to have a wealth of skills: technical, logistics, marketing, pricing, vendor management, finance…

S1 E48

Building the factories of the future with Covariant CEO Peter Chen

Jan 25, 2024 · 40m

Building adaptive AI models that can learn and complete tasks in the physical world requires precision but these AI robots could completely change manufacturing…

S1 E44

Coding in Collaboration with AI with Sourcegraph CTO Beyang Liu

Jan 18, 2024 · 46m

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. This…

S1 E46

A No Priors clip show: the best of 2023

Jan 11, 2024 · 19m

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 abou…

S1 E45

The case for AI optimism

Dec 21, 2023 · 47m

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 inn…

S1 E44

How AI can help small businesses

Dec 14, 2023 · 39m

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 P…

S1 E42

AI is the new enterprise UI with Clara Shih, CEO Salesforce AI

Dec 7, 2023 · 27m

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, ma…