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Competition makes for better chip design with AMD CTO Mark Papermaster
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Improving search with RAG architecture with Pinecone CEO Edo Liberty
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
RAG is the key for smarter productivity tools with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Notion is a productivity app that has invested heavily in AI to create products that enable workers to access information instantly without having to ...
Build AI products at on-AI companies with Emily Glassberg Sands from Stripe
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Gl...
The Copilot for Ecommerce with Shopify VP of Core Product Glen Coates
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Building an ecommerce business is hard – it requires merchants to have a wealth of skills: technical, logistics, marketing, pricing, vendor manageme...
Building the factories of the future with Covariant CEO Peter Chen
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Building adaptive AI models that can learn and complete tasks in the physical world requires precision but these AI robots could completely change man...
Coding in Collaboration with AI with Sourcegraph CTO Beyang Liu
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
A No Priors clip show: the best of 2023
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 w...
The case for AI optimism
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 slow...
How AI can help small businesses
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 we...
AI is the new enterprise UI with Clara Shih, CEO Salesforce AI
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
AI is the new UI for enterprise customers, according to Clara Shih, the CEO of Salesforce AI. Salesforce released Einstein, now called Einstein GPT, i...
Open AI leadership shuffle, new diffusion models, and starting the cult of Q*
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
AI Agents That Reason and Code with Imbue Co-Founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 r...
Mistral 7B and the Open Source Revolution With Arthur Mensch, CEO Mistral AI
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 recentl...
What is Digital Life? with OpenAI Co-Founder & Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Each iteration of ChatGPT has demonstrated remarkable step function capabilities. But what’s next? Ilya Sutskever, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at O...
AI Threats & Opportunities in Cyber Security With Material Security Co-Founder Ryan Noon
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cyber Security is going to change significantly in the era of AI, according to Ryan Noon, cofounder of Material Security, a security company that make...
What Google Cloud Can Teach Enterprises Developing & Rolling Out AI Tools, With Kawal Gandhi
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
From App to Suite to Platform, with HubSpot's Co-Founder Brian Halligan
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Model Quality, Fine Tuning & Meta Sponsoring Open Source Ecosystem
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 p...
If DNA is Code, Can AI Help Write It? Scaling Cell Programming and Synthetic Biology, with Ginkgo Bioworks Co-founder and CEO Jason Kelly
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
How Replit’s AI Tools are Changing Software Development with Co-founder and CEO Amjad Masad
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Replit’s develop-to-deploy platform and new AI tool, Ghostwriter, are breaking down the barriers to entry for beginner programmers. Replit’s CEO...
The Intersection of AI and Blockchain, with Transformers author and NEAR founder Illia Polosukhin
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
More than 25 million users are using NEAR-powered applications. Co-founder of NEAR protocol and Transformers author Illia Polosukhin joins hosts Sarah...
The World’s Largest AI Processor with Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
AI Superpowers for Frontend Developers, with Vercel Founder/CEO Guillermo Rauch
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Everything digital is increasingly intermediated through web user experiences, and now AI development can be frontend-first, too. Just ask Guillermo R...
AI-Powered Biological Software with Jakob Uszkoreit, CEO of Inceptive
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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...
The AI Tutor For Every Child and the Next Frontier of Education, From Khan Academy’s Creator Sal Khan
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Listener Q&A: 2024 Tech Market Predictions, Long Term Implications of Today’s GPU Crunch, and Will AI Agents Bring Us Happiness?
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil answer listener questions on the state of technology and artificial intelligence. Sarah and Elad al...
Eradicating Machine Learning Pain Points with Weights & Biases CEO Lukas Biewald
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 P...
How Palantir’s AI Bet is Revolutionizing Defense and Beyond, with CTO Shyam Sankar
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Can frontiers as high-stakes as next-generation, AI-enabled defense depend on something as mundane as data integration? Can "large language models" wo...
The Timeline for Realistic 4-D: Devi Parikh from Meta on Research Hurdles for Generative AI in Video and Multimodality
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Video dominates modern media consumption, but video creation is still expensive and difficult. AI-generated and edited video is a holy grail of democr...
Bringing AI to the Data Cloud, with Snowflake's CEO Frank Slootman
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 b...
What's for Dinner? AI-Driven Commerce with Instacart CEO Fidji Simo
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fidji Simo, the CEO of Instacart and co-founder of Metrodora Institute, a medical center and research institute for neuroimmune axis disorders, share...
What happens to Observability If Code is AI-Generated? The Potential for AI in DevOps, with Datadog Co-founder/CEO Olivier Pomel
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Olivier Pomel, co-founder and CEO of Datadog, the leading observability company, discusses the company’s founding story, early product sequencing, p...
Listener Q&A: AI Misconceptions, The Reality of Regulation, Infinite Context, Incumbent AI Execution and Startup Ideas
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on No Priors, Sarah and Elad do another hangout to answer listener questions. Topics include debunking common misconceptions about AI and it...
AI & Defense Technology with Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today on No Priors, we discuss defense technology, AI, drones, and autonomous vehicles (think giant submarine drones!) with Brian Schimpf, the co-foun...
Going Full Send on AI, and the (Positive) Impact of AI on Jobs, with Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Sarah and Elad speak with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott about his unlikely journey from rural Virginia to becoming the driving force behi...
The AI Will See You Now: Exploring Biomedical AI and Google’s Med-PaLM2 With Karan Singhal
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What if AI could revolutionize healthcare with advanced language learning models? Sarah and Elad welcome Karan Singhal, Staff Software Engineer at Goo...
Will Everyone Have a Personal AI? With Mustafa Suleyman, Founder of DeepMind and Inflection
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Personalizing AI Models with Kelvin Guu, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google Brain
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 m...
Listener Q&A: AI Investment Hype, Foundation Models, Regulation, Opportunity Areas, and More
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 A...
The Computing Platform Underlying AI, with Jensen Huang, Founder & CEO of NVIDIA
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
So much of the AI conversation today revolves around models and new applications. But this AI revolution would not be possible without one thing – G...
Your AI Friends Have Awoken, With Noam Shazeer
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Noam Shazeer played a key role in developing key foundations of modern AI - including co-inventing Transformers at Google, as well as pioneering AI ch...
The Future is Small Models, with Matei Zaharia, CTO of Databricks
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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-follo...
What’s Beyond GitHub Copilot? With Copilot's Chief Architect and founder of Minion.AI Alex Graveley
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone talks about the future impact of AI, but there’s already an AI product that has revolutionized a profession. Alex Graveley was the principa...
How do we go from search engines to answer engines? With Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
What is the future of search? With Neeva’s Sridhar Ramaswamy
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 launch...
What is the role of academia in modern AI research? With Stanford Professor Dr. Percy Liang
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
How AI can make drug discovery fail less, with Daphne Koller from Insitro
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Life-saving therapeutics continue to grow more costly to discover. At the same time, recent advances in using machine learning for the life sciences a...
Why the Future of Machine Learning is Open Source with Huggingface’s Clem Delangue
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Founder Stories: What’s behind the largest commercial autonomous system on earth? With Zipline’s Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special bonus episode from our Founder Stories series, where entrepreneurs share the story of their startup journey. A delivery with Zipline...
How can we make sure that everyone has access to AI? Can small models outperform large models? With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
AI-generated images have been everywhere over the past year, but one company has fueled an explosive developer ecosystem around large image models: St...
What does AI-powered content creation look like? with Runway ML’s Cristobal Valenzuela
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For a long time, AI-generated images and video felt like a fun toy. Cool, but not something that would bring value to professional content creators. B...
The bot Cicero can collaborate, scheme and build trust with humans. What does this mean for the next frontier of AI? With Noam Brown, Research Scientist at Meta
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
AGI can beat top players in chess, poker, and, now, Diplomacy. In November 2022, a bot named Cicero demonstrated mastery in this game, which requires ...
This is “No Priors”
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
AI is transforming our future, but what does that really mean? In ten years, will humans be forced to please our AGI overlords or will we have unlocke...