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ChannelNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsTopicAI startups & small teamsLengthOver 30 min
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 20, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThe Skull Is Already the Vat: Max Hodak on Restoring SightHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilPatients blinded by macular degeneration put on laser-projector glasses, read books, and fill in Sudoku — because a chip under the retina is sending vision back into the brain.
39:30ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 6, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThree Trillion-Dollar Companies in Five Years. Elad Gil Would Not Bet on a Fleet of Them NextHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOn a host-only episode of No Priors, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil separate market size from speed, argue that the best new founders are getting too meek, and treat token budgets as the next corporate power law.
42:57ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 1, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersInference Is the Last Market: Baseten’s 30x YearHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilCEO Tuhin Srivastava on a billion-dollar inference cloud, why the app layer survives, and a GPU crunch worse than the narrative.
40:46ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 19, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersDoctors Are Rushing to AI. Robotics Will Take a Beating First.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil’s 2026 forecast for foundation models, IPOs, robotics, consumer agents, and the bets that are not about AI at all.
41:38ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 11, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersElevenLabs Hit $300 Million ARR by Building Voice Before Anyone Believed It Was the InterfaceHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilIn Poland, watching a foreign film is a special kind of pain: one narrator, every character, a flat delivery from start to finish.
44:17ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 5, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersHarvey’s bet: make every law firm AI-first, don’t become oneHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOn the day Harvey got GPT-4 access, co-founder Winston locked himself in a room for 14 hours and rebuilt his associate workflow by hand.
39:16ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Nov 19, 2025Podcast · 2 speakers500 Gloves, 10 Million Trajectories, and a $10,000 Home RobotHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSunday Robotics co-founders Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi map the gap between a scalable imitation-learning recipe and a machine that actually does the dishes.
42:12ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 21, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersHire the AI First: Andrew Ng on Agentic Workflows and the Scarcity of JudgmentHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOn No Priors, Andrew Ng argues that agentic AI has made software cheap and fast, which moves the bottleneck to product judgment, error analysis, and the instinct to try an AI before adding headcount.
1:02:54ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 17, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersEnterprise Coding Tools Flipped the 80/20. Reflection AI Built the Other HalfHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFormer Gemini reward-model lead Misha Laskin on Asimov, why comprehension beats generation, and why there is no such thing as generalization—only pulling the test distribution into train.
49:27ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 3, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersFrom 0.1% to 20%: Chai-2 Turns Antibody Design Into Prompt EngineeringHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilChai Discovery co-founders Joshua Meier and Jack Dent tell Sarah Guo how a generative model now designs antibodies that bind on the first 24-well plate.
35:47ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 5, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersFei-Fei Li’s new bet: AI is incomplete without spatial intelligenceHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe ImageNet pioneer tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil why World Labs is building 3D generative foundation models, and why language was only one piece of the puzzle.
41:52ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 10, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersMercor Hit $100 Million ARR Teaching Models to Hire. Humans Now Write the Exams.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilBrendan Foody tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil how Mercor automated recruiting for frontier labs — and why building evals may become the world's most common knowledge job.
40:33ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Feb 27, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersModerna was only company 18. The real product is the company factoryHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilNoubar Afeyan tells No Priors how Flagship Pioneering turned starting companies into a profession, underwrites scientific uncertainty, and wants AI to run discovery the way Waymo drives.
49:36ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Feb 14, 2025Podcast · 2 speakers86 Out of 100: Harvey's Playbook for Selling AI Into LawHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilWinston Weinberg on a Reddit blind test, expanding-and-collapsing product design, and why Harvey started with century-old firms instead of the mid-market.
31:18ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 19, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersElias Torres sold a billion-dollar company and called it a failure. Agency is the redo.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Drift founder wants $1 billion in revenue with 100 people, one email address, and software that works like a text to someone who actually shows up.
38:05ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 5, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersFrom Zero to $20M ARR in Two Months: Bolt's Moat Lives in the BrowserHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilStackBlitz CEO Eric Simons tells No Priors how a five-year WebContainers bet, an open-sourced prompt, and a community of non-coders turned Bolt.new into an overnight full-stack generator.
37:47ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 30, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersWorking Backwards from AGI: Magic's Five-Million-Token BetHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilEric Steinberger wants a coding colleague you trust like a teammate — and a world that is still a good place thirty years after AGI.
39:59ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 23, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersFrom $6 million to $30 million ARR in three months: Garry Tan on YC’s AI boomHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Y Combinator president tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil why this batch looks like nothing he has seen in twenty years, and why a weak elephant is good news for startups.
30:16ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 16, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersSuno's CEO Thinks a Billion People Will Make Music, Not Just Stream ItHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilMikey Shulman tells No Priors why Suno skipped speech, charges from day one, and wants the line between listener and creator to disappear.
38:01ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 4, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersHalf of GDP Is Labor. Figure Wants Humanoids to Do the Work.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilBrett Adcock tells No Priors why a 21-month-old company raised $675 million to put general-purpose humanoid robots in factories first, then homes.
32:48ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Nov 16, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersFourteen People, $200 Million of Compute, and the Reliability Bottleneck for AgentsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilImbue co-founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht on why agents fail, why language models cannot learn general algorithms, and why they are spending a giant round on GPUs rather than headcount.
43:45ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 3, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersEight Years of No Growth, Then OpenAI and NVIDIA Became His CustomersHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilWeights & Biases CEO Lukas Biewald tells No Priors how a labeling company with no chasm to cross funded the ML developer tools that trained most of the large language models.
35:36ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 13, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersAGI as a side effect: Noam Shazeer on Transformers, Character.AI, and two-hour chatsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilIn April 2023, the Transformer co-author told No Priors how a 22-person startup turned open-ended chat into a consumer product — and treated AGI as a byproduct of making the model smarter.
39:10ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Mar 23, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersNever Cite More Than Five Links: Perplexity's Bet on Answer EnginesHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFounded in August 2022, Perplexity was barely seven months old when its CEO and CTO sat down with No Priors to explain how an answer engine takes on Google.Load moreShowing 24 of 26