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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 13, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersComputers Beat Humans at Chess 30 Years Ago. Chess.com Still Has 250 Million PlayersHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilChess.com CEO Erik Allebest tells Sarah Guo how a $56,000 domain became a $200 million business, and why superhuman AI made chess more popular, not obsolete.
36:58ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Oct 9, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersSTaR's Author Wants Models With EQ, Not Just More IQHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilEric Zelikman, the Stanford and xAI researcher behind STaR and Quiet-STaR, launches humans& on the bet that three years of IQ scaling left models emotionally unintelligent.
1:01:49ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 25, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersTwo Academic Hours a Day, and 96 Percent of Kids Say They Love SchoolHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilTrilogy founder Joe Liemandt, now principal of Alpha School, tells No Priors how an AI tutor, a two-hour bargain with fifth graders, and a sports-coach ethos are meant to scale to a billion children.
32:15ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 8, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersThe Hardest Part of Learning Is Getting Yourself to StartHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilDuolingo CEO Luis von Ahn tells Sarah Guo how two-minute lessons, streaks, an 83 percent accuracy target, and large language models turned language study into a consumer product.
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.
35:14ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Mar 20, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersRobots Have No Wikipedia. Chelsea Finn Is Starting With Three Buildings.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilPhysical Intelligence’s cofounder tells No Priors why a generalist robot model has to be trained across embodiments, why open-sourcing hardware is a bet against the problem going unsolved, and why humanoids are a little overrated.
29:28ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 2, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersDevin Will Not Replace Engineers. It Will Multiply Them, Says Cognition’s Scott WuHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe IOI champion behind Devin explains why an AI software engineer that you can watch over the shoulder creates more human engineers, not fewer.
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.
36:31ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Mar 14, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersFigma's One-Way Door Swung Open — With a Billion-Dollar ConsolationHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAfter regulators killed the Adobe deal, Dylan Field tells No Priors how Figma kept building, where AI belongs in design, and why the company was never meant to be only a design tool.
47:42ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 17, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersSal Khan Thinks Every Child Can Finally Have a TutorHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Khan Academy founder tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil how a family tutoring side project became an AI teaching assistant, and why he believes education is on the cusp of its biggest positive shift.
39:50ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 20, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersWhy AI Video Is Still a Four-Second CorgiHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilMeta research director Devi Parikh explains why text-to-video has stalled on short animated images, and what it will take to get past that plateau.
51:55ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 11, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersNine orders of magnitude later, he shipped a companion, not an oracleHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilDeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman tells No Priors why Inflection’s first product is a personal AI that sits in your corner, and why the missing piece is a router, not a bigger model.
1:00:36ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Feb 2, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersForty games of Diplomacy, and nobody spotted the bot: Noam Brown’s 100,000x lessonHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilMeta’s Noam Brown tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil how Cicero negotiated in English for 40 games on a tiny web community — and why thinking at decision time beat three years of scaling.
47:13ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsPodcast · 2 speakersReid Hoffman's Case Against Doomerism: AI as the Steam Engine of the MindHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe LinkedIn and PayPal co-founder explains why he sees AI as a human amplifier, what white-collar workers should do now, how Inflection's Pi was conceived, and why you can't regulate before you innovate.
51:39ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsPodcast · 2 speakersA Tutor for Every Child: Sal Khan on How AI Could Transform EducationHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilKhan Academy's founder traces his path from tutoring his cousins to building Khanmigo, and explains how GPT-4, classroom change, universities and future skills fit together.
29:03ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsPodcast · 2 speakersNotion's Simon Last on Rewriting the AI Harness Every Six Months and Managing a Swarm of AgentsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Notion co-founder traces the product's path from a writing assistant to custom background agents, and describes how coding agents changed the way he builds.