Episodes
Four years of tape. Every episode is checked claim by claim and playable.
50 episodes in 2024
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27m No Priors Ep. 95 | Best of 2024
In this 2024 retrospective episode of No Priors, hosts Sarah Guo and Elad Gil highlight foundational conversations with AI leaders including Jensen Huang, Andrej Karpathy, Bret Taylor, and A…
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31m No Priors Ep. 94 | With CEO and Founder of Agency Elias Torres
In this episode of No Priors, serial entrepreneur Elias Torres reflects on his journey from immigrant mathematician to scaling HubSpot and Drift, sharing his vision for founding Agency to tr…
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42m No Priors Ep. 93 | With Akash Systems' Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell
Akash Systems co-founders Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell join host Sarah Guo to discuss how their lab-grown diamond cooling technology solves critical AI thermal bottlenecks, accelerates semi…
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38m No Priors Ep. 92 | With StackBlitz CEO and Co-Founder Eric Simons
In this episode of No Priors, StackBlitz co-founder and CEO Eric Simons joins Sarah Guo to discuss the explosive rise of Bolt.new, an in-browser AI tool enabling users to generate and deploy…
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44m No Priors Ep. 91 | With Cohere Co-Founder and CEO Aidan Gomez
Cohere Co-Founder and CEO Aidan Gomez discusses the evolution of Transformer architectures, Cohere's enterprise-focused strategy, and the economics of training frontier models. He offers dee…
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39m No Priors Ep. 90 | With Google's DeepMind's AlphaProof Team
Google DeepMind's AlphaProof researchers discuss adapting AlphaZero's reinforcement learning framework to formal mathematical reasoning in Lean, detailing its breakthrough performance at the…
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36m No Priors Ep. 89 | With NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang discusses the transition to full-stack accelerated computing, the rise of industrial-scale AI factories, and how agentic flywheels and embodied robotics are transform…
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35m No Priors Ep. 88 | With Founder & CEO of Kalshi Tarek Mansour
In this episode of No Priors, host Sarah Guo speaks with Kalshi co-founder and CEO Tarek Mansour about creating the first federally regulated prediction market exchange in the United States.…
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44m No Priors Ep. 87 | With Co-CEO of Waymo Dmitri Dolgov
Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov joins the No Priors podcast to discuss the technological breakthroughs, multi-modal AI architecture, empirical safety frameworks, and operational strategies drivin…
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29m No Priors Ep. 86 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil
In this episode of No Priors, hosts Elad Gil and Sarah Guo discuss emerging AI utilities like Google NotebookLM, OpenAI's o1 test-time compute paradigm, the societal impacts of AI companions…
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38m No Priors Ep. 85 | CEO of Braintrust Ankur Goyal
In this episode of No Priors, host Elad Gil interviews Ankur Goyal, founder and CEO of Braintrust, to explore the evolution of enterprise AI evaluation, data infrastructure shifts, and produ…
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26m No Priors Ep. 84 | With Chair of the Federal Trade Commission Lina Khan
In this episode of No Priors, Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan discusses modernizing antitrust enforcement across digital platforms, artificial intelligence, and healthcare to preven…
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31m No Priors Ep. 83 | With Rippling COO Matt MacInnis
Rippling COO Matt MacInnis joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to discuss the mechanics of the compound startup model and introduce TalentSignal, Rippling's AI-powered performance management tool d…
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48m No Priors Ep. 82 | With CEO of Sierra Bret Taylor
In this episode of No Priors, Sierra Co-Founder and OpenAI Board Chair Bret Taylor joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to explore the architecture, business economics, and future trajectory of ente…
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26m No Priors Ep. 81 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil
In this episode of No Priors, venture capitalists Sarah Guo and Elad Gil break down the shifting macro dynamics of the AI ecosystem, analyzing foundation model consolidation, rapid multimoda…
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44m No Priors Ep. 80 | With Andrej Karpathy from OpenAI and Tesla
In this episode of No Priors, AI researcher and educator Andrej Karpathy shares in-depth technical insights on autonomous driving, humanoid robotics, foundation model architectures, and his …
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37m No Priors Ep. 79 | With Magic.dev CEO and Co-Founder Eric Steinberger
Magic co-founder and CEO Eric Steinberger discusses his company's mission to achieve AGI through code-centric models, ultra-long context windows, and autonomous software engineering colleagu…
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42m No Priors Ep. 78 | With AWS CEO Matt Garman
AWS CEO Matt Garman discusses the evolution of cloud computing, outlining AWS's architectural philosophy, custom silicon investments, and generative AI strategy. He explains how Amazon Bedro…
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42m No Priors Ep. 77 | With Foundry CEO and Founder Jared Quincy Davis
Foundry founder and CEO Jared Quincy Davis joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil on No Priors to discuss reimagining AI cloud infrastructure from first principles. He details how modern GPU hardware …
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48m No Priors Ep. 76 | With Ramp Co-Founders Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh
Ramp co-founders Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh discuss how they combine artificial intelligence, systems architecture, and consumer-grade design to modernize corporate finance and drive massi…
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33m No Priors Ep. 75 | With Co-Founder and CEO of Brex Pedro Franceschi
In this episode of No Priors, Brex co-founder and CEO Pedro Franceschi discusses the company's evolution from a startup card provider to an enterprise financial platform, detailing how Brex …
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46m No Priors Ep. 74 | With Google DeepMind VP of Research Oriol Vinyals
Google DeepMind Vice President of Research Oriol Vinyals joins hosts Sarah Guo and Elad Gil on No Priors to discuss the frontier of artificial intelligence, examining the transition to unifi…
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41m No Priors Ep. 73 | With Airtable co-founder and CEO Howie Liu
In this episode of No Priors, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil interview Airtable co-founder and CEO Howie Liu about the evolution of horizontal no-code platforms, product management design philosophi…
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29m No Priors Ep. 72 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
In this episode of No Priors, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil counter prevailing AI skepticism by analyzing the macroeconomic impact, venture incubation models, and labor market transformations drive…
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25m No Priors Ep. 71: The Best of 2024 (so far) with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
Host Sarah Guo presents a mid-year 2024 retrospective of No Priors, featuring insights from leading AI founders and researchers on fintech automation, design workflows, humanoid robotics, ge…
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34m No Priors Ep. 70 | With Cartesia Co-Founders Karan Goel & Albert Gu
In this episode of No Priors, Cartesia co-founders Karan Goel and Albert Gu discuss their pioneering work on State Space Models like S4 and Mamba, their mission to challenge Transformer domi…
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27m No Priors Ep. 69 | With HeyGen CEO and Co-Founder Joshua Xu
HeyGen co-founder and CEO Joshua Xu joins hosts Sarah Guo and Elad Gil on No Priors to discuss how AI avatar technology, modular generative pipelines, and real-time streaming video are repla…
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26m No Priors Ep. 68 | With Zapier Co-Founder and Head of AI Mike Knoop
In this episode of No Priors, Zapier co-founder Mike Knoop joins Elad Gil to discuss why LLM scaling alone cannot achieve artificial general intelligence, the motivation behind the million-d…
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36m No Priors Ep. 67 | With Voyage AI Co-Founder and CEO
In this episode of No Priors, Sarah Guo interviews Stanford professor and Voyage AI CEO Tengyu Ma about the economics, technical design, and algorithmic optimization of Retrieval-Augmented G…
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39m No Priors Ep 66 | With Y Combinator President and CEO Garry Tan
Y Combinator President and CEO Garry Tan joins Elad Gil and Sarah Guo to discuss the evolution of YC, actionable playbooks for the artificial intelligence boom, and the necessity of civic en…
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39m No Priors Ep. 65 | With Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang
In this episode of No Priors, Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to discuss the evolution of data infrastructure, the transition to expert-driven frontier da…
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30m No Priors Ep. 64 | With Suno CEO and Co-Founder Mikey Shulman
In this episode of No Priors, Suno co-founder and CEO Mikey Shulman discusses the technical architecture, product philosophy, and cultural impact of generative AI music, exploring how access…
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29m No Priors Ep. 63 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
In No Priors Episode 63, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil analyze the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence, spanning generative music breakthroughs, on-device small language models, enterprise d…
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29m No Priors Ep. 62 | With Cognition CEO and Co-Founder Scott Wu
Cognition CEO Scott Wu discusses the creation and technical design of Devin, the autonomous AI software engineer, while exploring how competitive programming principles and agentic AI are tr…
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31m No Priors Ep.61 | OpenAI's Sora Leaders Aditya Ramesh, Tim Brooks and Bill Peebles
In this episode of No Priors, OpenAI's Sora leadership team—Aditya Ramesh, Tim Brooks, and Bill Peebles—discusses the diffusion transformer architecture, emergent physics simulation, safety …
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24m No Priors Ep. 60 | With Playground AI Founder Suhail Doshi
In this episode of No Priors, Playground AI founder Suhail Doshi discusses the technical breakthroughs, product philosophies, and architectural innovations driving the evolution of generativ…
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26m No Priors Ep. 59 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil
Venture capitalists Sarah Guo and Elad Gil analyze pivotal shifts across the AI landscape, exploring hyperscaler capital dynamics, emerging specialized foundation models, agentic interface a…
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38m No Priors Ep. 58 | The argument for humanoid robots with Brett Adcock from Figure
In this episode of No Priors, Figure AI founder and CEO Brett Adcock discusses the technical, commercial, and philosophical rationale for general-purpose humanoid robots, detailing Figure's …
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27m No Priors Ep. 57 | With LangChain CEO and Co-Founder Harrison Chase
In this episode of No Priors, LangChain CEO Harrison Chase discusses the evolution of LLM application development, exploring the transition from linear chains to cyclical agent graphs, pract…
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38m No Priors Ep 56 | With Baseten CEO and Co-Founder Tuhin Srivastava
Baseten CEO and co-founder Tuhin Srivastava joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil on No Priors to discuss the technical complexities of machine learning inference, GPU hardware constraints, and the s…
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36m No Priors Ep. 55 | With Figma CEO Dylan Field
In this episode of No Priors, Figma co-founder and CEO Dylan Field discusses navigating Figma's path following the terminated Adobe merger, expanding the product suite across the entire soft…
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42m No Priors Ep. 54 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil
In this episode of No Priors, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil analyze frontier foundation model developments, the defensibility of AI hardware infrastructure, evolving agent architectures, and the ma…
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39m No Priors Ep. 53 | With AMD CTO Mark Papermaster
In this episode of No Priors, hosts Sarah Guo and Elad Gil interview AMD CTO Mark Papermaster to explore AMD's architectural transformation, the engineering behind the Instinct MI300 acceler…
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31m No Priors Ep. 52 | With Pinecone CEO Edo Liberty
Pinecone founder and CEO Edo Liberty joins hosts Sarah Guo and Elad Gil on No Priors to discuss vector database architecture, enterprise retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and why special…
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42m No Priors Ep. 51 | With Notion CEO Ivan Zhao
Notion co-founder and CEO Ivan Zhao discusses with hosts Sarah Guo and Elad Gil how generative AI, semantic retrieval, and modular building blocks are dismantling SaaS fragmentation and tran…
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39m No Priors Ep. 50 | With Stripe Head of Information Emily Glassberg Sands
In this episode of No Priors, Stripe Head of Information Emily Glassberg Sands discusses how Stripe leverages generative AI internally and across its financial product suite, while sharing i…
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38m No Priors Ep. 49 | With Shopify VP of Core Product Glen Coates
Shopify VP of Core Product Glen Coates joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil on No Priors to discuss engineering resilience, founder-driven leadership, and the architectural principles behind deployi…
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40m No Priors Ep. 48 | With Covariant CEO Peter Chen
In this episode of No Priors, Covariant co-founder and CEO Peter Chen joins Sarah Guo to discuss how embodied foundation models, real-world physical data flywheels, and reinforcement learnin…
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46m No Priors Ep. 47 | With Sourcegraph CTO Beyang Liu
Sourcegraph CTO Beyang Liu joins Sarah Guo on No Priors to discuss the architecture of retrieval-augmented coding assistants, the engineering challenges of autonomous developer agents, and w…
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19m No Priors Ep. 46 | Best of 2023 with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
This retrospective episode of No Priors compiles highlights from 2023 interviews with top artificial intelligence leaders, exploring frontier technical architectures, labor economics, safety…
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