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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Oct 2, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersCompute Scaled a Millionfold. Bandwidth Only 40x. Fractile Wants to Fix That RatioHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilIn the summer of 2022, Walter Goodwin founded Fractile in London to build very fast inference chips for the world's largest models.
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.
57:41ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Feb 25, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersA Hundred Million Cells, Four People, Three Days: Biology's ImageNet MomentHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilVevo Therapeutics and the Arc Institute open-sourced Tahoe-100M and a 230-million-cell atlas in the same week — and argued that virtual cells, not just protein folders, are the next language model of biology.
44:16ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Nov 21, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersCohere's Aidan Gomez: The Model Curve Is Flattening, and $20 Million Now Buys GPT-4Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Attention Is All You Need co-author tells No Priors why enterprises should stop waiting for the next model and start putting today's models into production.
36:49ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Nov 7, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersJensen Huang: NVIDIA Is No Longer Building Computers. It Is Building AI FactoriesHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOn No Priors, NVIDIA’s CEO walks through hyper Moore’s law, NVLink, a 100,000-GPU cluster stood up in weeks, and why tokens are the new commodity.
44:16ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 5, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA perfect demo is ten years from a product you can pay forHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAndrej Karpathy uses Waymo's decade-long gap, Tesla's software bet, and a new AI course to argue that autonomous intelligence will stall at product and globalization, not at the first impressive clip.
42:42ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 22, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersEthereum Once Held Two Thousand GPT-3 Clusters of GPUsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFoundry CEO Jared Quincy Davis on idle H100s, why today's AI cloud is still colocation, and how compound systems move work off giant interconnected clusters.
46:09ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 1, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersOriol Vinyals: The Days of Burning 90% of Compute on Pretraining Are NumberedHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilGoogle DeepMind’s VP of research on Gemini, long context, the coming shift from pretraining to RL, and why AGI may never have a finish line.
29:09ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 9, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe Hyperscalers Are Spending $200 Billion — and the Next Bottleneck Is a Power PlantHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil walk through music models, on-device LLMs, long context, and why AI capex now sits beside oil and broadband.
31:24ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 25, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersSora's Leads: A Minute of HD Video Is Just the GPT-1 of Video ModelsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAditya Ramesh, Tim Brooks, and Bill Peebles tell No Priors why text-to-video sits on the path to AGI, why they started from scratch instead of extending an image generator, and why they still have no product date.
40:58ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jan 25, 2024Podcast · 2 speakers99% of Factory Robots Are Dumb. Covariant Wants the Smart Ones Working in Warehouses FirstHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFormer OpenAI researcher Peter Chen explains why robot foundation models have to be trained on production floors, not in labs.
32:57ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Nov 9, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersA 7-billion-parameter model on a MacBook: Mistral's CEO reruns the cost of AIHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilArthur Mensch tells No Priors why Chinchilla made small models valuable, why open-sourcing Mistral 7B is not a bioweapon risk, and why guardrails belong on the application.
41:58ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Nov 2, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersReliability is the bottleneck. Autonomy is what would make AI feel alive.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilIlya Sutskever talks with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil about AlexNet, OpenAI’s capped-profit bet, why smaller models mainly lose reliability, and the line he draws for digital life.
30:03ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 7, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersA Dinner-Plate Chip Cut Training From 60 Days to 3.5Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilCerebras CEO Andrew Feldman tells No Priors why wafer-scale silicon, not another GPU, is the answer to the compute crunch — and why most production models will stay at 13 billion parameters or below.
40:25ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 6, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersA 6-Billion-Parameter Clone of ChatGPT’s Core TrickHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilDatabricks CTO Matei Zaharia tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil how Dolly learned instruction-following on fifty times less data than GPT-3 — and why he would rather look facts up than bake them into a trillion-parameter network.
45:03ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Feb 16, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersEmad Mostaque’s bet: open small models, not one giant brainHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilStability AI’s founder tells No Priors why foundation models should be public infrastructure, why small models can beat giant ones, and what that means for media, medicine, and AGI.
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.