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Episodes 183 total
What's for Dinner? AI-Driven Commerce with Instacart CEO Fidji Simo
Fidji Simo, the CEO of Instacart and co-founder of Metrodora Institute, a medical center and research institute for neuroimmune axis disorders, shares her perso…
What happens to Observability If Code is AI-Generated? The Potential for AI in DevOps, with Datadog Co-founder/CEO Olivier Pomel
Olivier Pomel, co-founder and CEO of Datadog, the leading observability company, discusses the company’s founding story, early product sequencing, platform stra…
Listener Q&A: AI Misconceptions, The Reality of Regulation, Infinite Context, Incumbent AI Execution and Startup Ideas
This week on No Priors, Sarah and Elad do another hangout to answer listener questions. Topics include debunking common misconceptions about AI and its implicat…
AI & Defense Technology with Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf
Today on No Priors, we discuss defense technology, AI, drones, and autonomous vehicles (think giant submarine drones!) with Brian Schimpf, the co-founder and CE…
Going Full Send on AI, and the (Positive) Impact of AI on Jobs, with Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft
In this episode, Sarah and Elad speak with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott about his unlikely journey from rural Virginia to becoming the driving force behind Microso…
The AI Will See You Now: Exploring Biomedical AI and Google’s Med-PaLM2 With Karan Singhal
What if AI could revolutionize healthcare with advanced language learning models? Sarah and Elad welcome Karan Singhal, Staff Software Engineer at Google Resear…
Will Everyone Have a Personal AI? With Mustafa Suleyman, Founder of DeepMind and Inflection
Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind and now co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI, joins Sarah and Elad to discuss how his interests in counseling, conflict…
Personalizing AI Models with Kelvin Guu, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google Brain
How do you personalize AI models? A popular school of thought in AI is to just dump all the data you need into pre-training or fine tuning. But that may be less…
Listener Q&A: AI Investment Hype, Foundation Models, Regulation, Opportunity Areas, and More
This week on No Priors, Sarah and Elad answer listener questions about tech and AI. Topics covered include the evolution of open-source models, Elon AI, regulat…
The Computing Platform Underlying AI, with Jensen Huang, Founder & CEO of NVIDIA
So much of the AI conversation today revolves around models and new applications. But this AI revolution would not be possible without one thing – GPUs, Nvidia…
Your AI Friends Have Awoken, With Noam Shazeer
Noam Shazeer played a key role in developing key foundations of modern AI - including co-inventing Transformers at Google, as well as pioneering AI chat pre-cha…
The Future is Small Models, with Matei Zaharia, CTO of Databricks
If you have 30 dollars, a few hours, and one server, then you are ready to create a ChatGPT-like model that can do what’s known as instruction-following. Databr…
What’s Beyond GitHub Copilot? With Copilot's Chief Architect and founder of Minion.AI Alex Graveley
Everyone talks about the future impact of AI, but there’s already an AI product that has revolutionized a profession. Alex Graveley was the principal engineer a…
How do we go from search engines to answer engines? With Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats
With advances in machine learning, the way we search for information online will never be the same.This week on the No Priors podcast, we dive into a startup th…
What is the future of search? With Neeva’s Sridhar Ramaswamy
For the first time in decades web search might be at risk for disruption. Bing is allied with OpenAI to integrate LLMs. Google has committed to launching new pr…
What is the role of academia in modern AI research? With Stanford Professor Dr. Percy Liang
When AI research is evolving at warp speed and takes significant capital and compute power, what is the role of academia? Dr. Percy Liang – Stanford computer sc…
How AI can make drug discovery fail less, with Daphne Koller from Insitro
Life-saving therapeutics continue to grow more costly to discover. At the same time, recent advances in using machine learning for the life sciences and medicin…
Why the Future of Machine Learning is Open Source with Huggingface’s Clem Delangue
After starting as a talking emoji companion, Hugging Face is now an organizing force for the open source AI research ecosystem. Its models are used by companies…
Founder Stories: What’s behind the largest commercial autonomous system on earth? With Zipline’s Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
This is a special bonus episode from our Founder Stories series, where entrepreneurs share the story of their startup journey.A delivery with Zipline is the clo…
How can we make sure that everyone has access to AI? Can small models outperform large models? With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
AI-generated images have been everywhere over the past year, but one company has fueled an explosive developer ecosystem around large image models: Stability AI…