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 E42

Open AI leadership shuffle, new diffusion models, and starting the cult of Q*

Nov 30, 2023 · 26m

OpenAI’s leadership has taken us all on a rollercoaster so it’s great timing for another host-only episode. This week Sarah and Elad get into what has been goin…

S1 E41

AI Agents That Reason and Code with Imbue Co-Founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht

Nov 16, 2023 · 32m

The future of tech is 25-person companies powered by AI agents that help us accomplish our larger goals. Imbue is working on building AI agents that reason, cod…

S1 E40

Mistral 7B and the Open Source Revolution With Arthur Mensch, CEO Mistral AI

Nov 9, 2023 · 32m

Open Source fuels the engine of innovation, according to Arthur Mensch, CEO and co-founder of Mistral AI. Mistral is a French AI company which recently made a s…

S1 E39

What is Digital Life? with OpenAI Co-Founder & Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever

Nov 2, 2023 · 41m

Each iteration of ChatGPT has demonstrated remarkable step function capabilities. But what’s next? Ilya Sutskever, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at OpenAI, j…

S1 E36

AI Threats & Opportunities in Cyber Security With Material Security Co-Founder Ryan Noon

Oct 26, 2023 · 36m

Cyber Security is going to change significantly in the era of AI, according to Ryan Noon, cofounder of Material Security, a security company that makes cloud-ba…

S1 E37

What Google Cloud Can Teach Enterprises Developing & Rolling Out AI Tools, With Kawal Gandhi

Oct 23, 2023 · 32m

As the Lead for Generative AI in the Office of the CTO for Google Cloud, Kawal Gandhi has a unique vantage point on enterprise AI rollout. Sarah Guo and Elad Gi…

S1 E36

From App to Suite to Platform, with HubSpot's Co-Founder Brian Halligan

Oct 12, 2023 · 43m

Startups aren't the only companies racing to build the new world of AI. This week, Sarah Guo talks with Brian Halligan, the co-founder, longtime CEO and now exe…

S1 E37

Model Quality, Fine Tuning & Meta Sponsoring Open Source Ecosystem

Oct 9, 2023 · 23m

What Does it Take to Improve by 10x or 100x? This week is another host-only episode. Sarah and Elad talk about the path to better model quality, the potential f…

S1 E34

If DNA is Code, Can AI Help Write It? Scaling Cell Programming and Synthetic Biology, with Ginkgo Bioworks Co-founder and CEO Jason Kelly

Sep 28, 2023 · 37m

Ginkgo Bioworks is using DNA as code to digitize the cell programming revolution. Ginkgo is using AI and synthetic biology to keep the next pandemic at bay, and…

S1 E27

How Replit’s AI Tools are Changing Software Development with Co-founder and CEO Amjad Masad

Sep 21, 2023 · 29m

Replit’s develop-to-deploy platform and new AI tool, Ghostwriter, are breaking down the barriers to entry for beginner programmers. Replit’s CEO, co-founder, an…

S1 E132

The Intersection of AI and Blockchain, with Transformers author and NEAR founder Illia Polosukhin

Sep 15, 2023 · 42m

More than 25 million users are using NEAR-powered applications. Co-founder of NEAR protocol and Transformers author Illia Polosukhin joins hosts Sarah Guo and E…

S1 E31

The World’s Largest AI Processor with Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman

Sep 7, 2023 · 30m

The GPU supply crunch is causing desperation amongst AI teams large and small. Cerebras Systems has an answer, and it’s a chip the size of a dinner plate. Andre…

S1 E30

AI Superpowers for Frontend Developers, with Vercel Founder/CEO Guillermo Rauch

Aug 31, 2023 · 38m

Everything digital is increasingly intermediated through web user experiences, and now AI development can be frontend-first, too. Just ask Guillermo Rauch, the…

S1 E29

AI-Powered Biological Software with Jakob Uszkoreit, CEO of Inceptive

Aug 24, 2023 · 35m

"Biological Software" is the future of medicine. Jakob Uszkoreit, CEO and Co-founder of Inceptive, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil this week on No Priors, to discu…

S1 E28

The AI Tutor For Every Child and the Next Frontier of Education, From Khan Academy’s Creator Sal Khan

Aug 17, 2023 · 47m

The future of education is right at your children’s fingertips. Sal Khan, CEO and Founder of Khan Academy, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil this week on No Priors…

S1 E27

Listener Q&A: 2024 Tech Market Predictions, Long Term Implications of Today’s GPU Crunch, and Will AI Agents Bring Us Happiness?

Aug 10, 2023 · 24m

This week on the podcast, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil answer listener questions on the state of technology and artificial intelligence. Sarah and Elad also talk abou…

S1 E26

Eradicating Machine Learning Pain Points with Weights & Biases CEO Lukas Biewald

Aug 3, 2023 · 43m

How are ML developer tools helping to advance our capabilities? Lukas Biewald, CEO of Weights & Biases, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil this week on No Priors…

S1 E25

How Palantir’s AI Bet is Revolutionizing Defense and Beyond, with CTO Shyam Sankar

Jul 27, 2023 · 39m

Can frontiers as high-stakes as next-generation, AI-enabled defense depend on something as mundane as data integration? Can "large language models" work in such…

S1 E24

The Timeline for Realistic 4-D: Devi Parikh from Meta on Research Hurdles for Generative AI in Video and Multimodality

Jul 20, 2023 · 39m

Video dominates modern media consumption, but video creation is still expensive and difficult. AI-generated and edited video is a holy grail of democratized cre…

S1 E23

Bringing AI to the Data Cloud, with Snowflake's CEO Frank Slootman

Jun 29, 2023 · 51m

Frank Slootman, CEO of Snowflake Computing, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil this week on No Priors. Before scaling Snowflake to its blockbuster IPO and beyond, Fra…