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Sequoia Capital· Aug 4, 2026PodcastFrom One in a Thousand to 15 Percent: Chai Discovery Treats Drug Design as a Scaling ProblemJoshua Meier and Matthew McPartlon tell Sequoia’s Training Data why antibody design is an engineering problem, not a bespoke science, and why they sell a molecular CAD suite instead of their own drugs.
49:12ENSequoia Capital· Jul 29, 2026PodcastThe People Writing the Transformer’s Eulogy Want a Lab That Can Take Vacation Without Themo1’s reasoning lead and a Gemini pre-training lead argue the architecture, not more scale, is now the bottleneck — and that replacing it starts with automating kernel generation.
37:00ENSequoia Capital· Jan 14, 2026PodcastThe AlphaChip Team That Laid Out Four TPUs Now Wants Every Company to Be DesignlessAnna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini tell Sequoia how an RL floorplanner survived TPU-team anger, learned to draw donut-shaped macros, and became a bet that AI will design chips that then feed AI.
41:32ENSequoia Capital· Oct 28, 2025PodcastMoore's Law Is Slowing. Nvidia's CTO Still Wants 10× a YearMichael Kagan on why Nvidia's $7 billion Mellanox deal, not just more transistors, is how you turn a data center into one computer.
41:42ENSequoia Capital· Oct 22, 2024PodcastNeural Networks Are Still Waiting for Their ThermodynamicsOpenAI researcher Dan Roberts on why physicists keep migrating into AI, and why the field still lacks the equivalent of the ideal gas law.
49:14ENSequoia Capital· Sep 17, 2024PodcastHumanoid robots fell from $1.5 million to $30,000. The GPT-3 moment is still a verbNvidia’s Jim Fan tells Sequoia how three kinds of data, a humanoid bet, and a System-1 motor-control model could unlock general-purpose robots.
42:08ENSequoia Capital· Jul 30, 2024PodcastMeta Trained a 405B Teacher on 16,000 GPUs — Then Told the World to Distill ItTwo days after Llama 3.1 405B shipped, Meta's generative-AI product lead walks Sequoia through why the most expensive model in the family is free, and why he thinks the frontier itself is heading toward commodity.
1:00:28ENSequoia Capital· Jul 9, 2024PodcastScaling Laws Aren't Done. Don't Lock Yourself Into Yesterday's Architecture.Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on why the exponential is still compounding, why inference will dwarf training, and why a language model is the world's crappiest database.
55:13ENSequoia Capital· Jul 2, 2024PodcastThe Best AI Scores 39% on This Test. Zapier’s Co-Founder Put $1 Million on Beating ItFrançois Chollet designed ARC to measure skill-acquisition efficiency; five years later humans still crush it and frontier models do not.