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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 2, 2024PodcastA 40-person team at $35 million ARR: HeyGen made AI avatars a business, not a demoHost Nathan LabenzJoshua Xu and Benchmark’s Victor Lazarte tell Nathan Labenz how a camera-replacement product grew past 40,000 business customers — and why half the faces on this episode are fake.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 20, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA 40-Person Company With 40,000 Paying Customers Wants to Replace the Camera With AIHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilHeyGen CEO Joshua Xu tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil how avatars, localization, and a component-wise video stack are meant to knock the camera out of content production.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Jun 11, 2024PodcastScott Belsky: Models Are Commoditizing. Controls, Data, and Taste Are the MoatHost Jacob EffronAdobe’s chief product officer tells Unsupervised Learning why Project Neo leaking into Firefly, a three-second Premiere extend, and Superhuman-priced software all point to the same shift.
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.
1:29:14ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 29, 2024Podcast55% of People Have Had a Lucid Dream. Prophetic AI Wants the Rest to Have One Every NightHost Nathan LabenzProphetic AI co-founders Eric Wollberg and Wesley Berry tell Ate-a-Pi how a headband of EEG and focused ultrasound, steered by a neural transformer, is meant to light up the prefrontal cortex during REM.
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.
24:32ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 18, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersImage Generation Is Still a Loot Box. Suhail Doshi Wants to Scale PixelsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Playground AI founder tells No Priors why he skipped language models, how a noise-sampling trick fixed SDXL's muddy brightness, and what a large vision model would actually do.
1:34:11ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 17, 2024PodcastFrom forty hours in a scanner to one: reconstructing what you see from a shared brain spaceHost Nathan LabenzPaul Scotti explains how MindEye2 maps a new person's fMRI into CLIP with an hour of data, and why a linear layer plus better image generators changed the cost of reading minds.
1:01:53ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 13, 2024PodcastCompanion Apps Open Twice as Often as TikTok. a16z Only Funds Weird but WorkingHost Nathan Labenza16z consumer partners Anish Acharya and Justine Moore walk Nathan Labenz through their Abundance Agenda for AI-native consumer apps.
1:21:28ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 26, 2024PodcastThe Prompt Is a Bug: Suhail Doshi’s Bet on Control Over PixelsHost Nathan LabenzThe Mixpanel founder tells Nathan Labenz how a cloud browser, a canceled tweet, and a Thursday weight drop shaped Playground AI’s bet on images.
1:30:21ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 14, 2023PodcastA Million DALL-E Images, Distilled into Twelve Minutes of FilmHost Nathan LabenzWaymark’s Stephen Parker and Josh Rubin walk through how they turned stills from DALL-E 2 into The Frost, a narrative short, and what the next generation of video models changes.
2:32:49ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 12, 2023PodcastGPT-4 Failed a Hollow Top Hat. Hollywood's AI Deal Closed Only Half the Loopholes.Host Nathan LabenzWriter Trey Kollmer returns with a strike update, a copyright briefing, and a riddle that still fools the best model.
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.
1:03:40ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 13, 2023PodcastWho Banks the AI Wave: Startups or the Giants Already in Place?Host Nathan LabenzStability AI’s Emad Mostaque and Slow Ventures’ Sam Lessin debate whether generative AI is a reshuffler for new companies or an extender for Meta, Google, and Hollywood.
1:41:45ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 30, 2023PodcastThe Writers Aren't Luddites. They're Bargaining Over Who Holds the ModelsHost Nathan LabenzThree WGA members tell Nathan Labenz what ChatGPT can already do in a writers’ room — and which two studio nightmares the strike is trying to lock out.
1:20:55ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 24, 2023PodcastA Custom Voice Used to Cost $10,000. Ten Minutes of Audio Now Clones It.Host Nathan LabenzPlay.ht CEO Mahmoud Felfel tells Nathan Labenz how text-to-speech jumped from robotic cloud APIs to director-level voice generation — and why the company is racing to put brakes on abuse.
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.
48:52ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Feb 9, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersUsers Wanted a Better Brush. Runway Built One-Click GreenscreenHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilRunway CEO Cristobal Valenzuela on why a model is not a product, why filmmakers hacked a four-frame-per-second tool, and why 80 percent is enough when nobody dies.
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Lex Fridman· Jun 10, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersDon't Ship Autopilot: Gavin Miller on AI That Leaves Creatives in ChargeGuest Gavin Miller · Host Lex FridmanAdobe Research's head tells Lex Fridman why smart defaults, fixable errors, and intern-scale bets matter more than a fully automatic Photoshop.
1:08:37ENLex Fridman· Apr 18, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersA Bar in Montreal, Then a Night of Code: Ian Goodfellow on Why GANs WorkGuest Ian Goodfellow · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Ian Goodfellow about the 2014 invention of generative adversarial networks, adversarial examples as a security problem, and what still has to be built before machines can hold a fact the way a person does.
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Lenny's PodcastPodcastNotebookLM's Accidental Podcast Hit: A 20% Project, a Tiny Team, and a Remixable AI EditorHost Lenny RachitskyRaiza Martin explains how NotebookLM's Audio Overviews became a viral demo, how Google Labs let a tiny team ship like a startup, and where the product goes next.
53:02ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastAdobe's Firefly Bet: A Billion Beta Images, Creative Control, and Trust at ScaleHost Jacob EffronAdobe's Alexandre explains how Firefly moved from research to product, how Adobe balances creative control with generative speed, and why trust and feedback loops are central to its AI strategy.
1:03:24ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastWhy Sora Bet on People, Not Just PixelsHost Jacob EffronThe Sora team explains how a video model became a social creation network, what cameos revealed about human creativity, and why the next frontier is world simulation.
58:19ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastRunway's Chris Valenzuela on Why Taste Beats Tools in Generative MediaHost Jacob EffronChris Valenzuela, CEO of Runway, explains why generative media is still early, how taste and iteration shape the work, and what has to change before AI media becomes a new art form.Load moreShowing 24 of 55