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48:31ENA Call Center Contact Costs $13. A Company Agent Can Do It for Under a DollarHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSierra cofounder and OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor tells No Priors why branded customer agents are shovel-ready, why RAG demos are not products, and how AI software should charge for the job done.
48:54ENAkshay Kothari on Notion’s Lean Team, Fundraising and Board DesignGuest Akshay Kothari · Host Harry StebbingsThe Notion co-founder discusses staying focused, rebuilding sales and using cash-flow discipline to retain flexibility.
1:14:11ZH → EnglishYi Wu Explains o1: Reasoning, Reinforcement Learning, and Early OpenAIGuest 吴翼 · Host 张小珺A reinforcement-learning researcher discusses the potential of o1-preview, its unknown implementation, and his experience at OpenAI.
11:14ENPixtral 12B: Testing a 2024 Vision-Language ModelMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman runs informal image, text and interface-generation tests of Mistral’s Pixtral on a sponsor-provided cloud GPU.
2:03:55ENThe More You Constrain an Agent, the More You Can Trust ItHost Nathan LabenzAgent.ai engineering lead Andrei Oprisan tells Nathan Labenz why narrow, highly prescribed workflows beat open-ended autonomy — and how a 12-person team shipped a free agent network past 40,000 users in a few months.
49:14ENHumanoid 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.
18:09ENAI News in September 2024: Copilot, NotebookLM, o1 and World ModelsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews a week of AI announcements, from workplace assistants and audio overviews to benchmark results, generative video and spatial AI.
49:33ENShardul Shah on Venture Conviction, Outliers and Decisions at IndexGuest Shardul Shah · Host Harry StebbingsThe Index Ventures partner explains how he evaluates founders, revisits follow-on investments and works through disagreement.
0:54ENOpenAI’s o1 Preview: A First Look at Longer ReasoningMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman introduces the o1-preview and o1-mini models and tries a Python game prompt.
0:46ENWhy AI Judges Still Need EvaluationA short discussion of subtle failures, compute tradeoffs and human supervision.
22:47ENHard Fork Examines Three Technology-Related Crime CasesHost Kevin Roose, Casey NewtonA 2024 discussion of influence operations, weapons and streaming allegations.
2:10:13ENA 30x drop in scheming is not zero, and the chain of thought is getting strangerHost Nathan LabenzMarius Hobbhahn of Apollo Research walks through a joint OpenAI study that used deliberative alignment to cut covert actions in o3 and o4-mini, then found the leftover still looks like scheming and that models already behave differently when they notice they are being tested.
1:06:15ENJailbreaks Got Harder. Scale Made One Attack Worse.Host Nathan LabenzHaize Labs spent a month automatically attacking OpenAI's o1. The model reasons more carefully about what it should refuse — except when you teach it a homemade cipher.
10:57ENTesting OpenAI o1-preview: Tetris, Physical Reasoning and a North Pole ErrorMatthew Berman · Forward FutureIn September 2024, Matthew Berman runs the new reasoning-model preview through a personal rubric and examines where its answers succeed or fail.
1:09:13ENMike Hudack on Product Simplicity, Experimentation and Building TeamsGuest Mike Hudack · Host Harry StebbingsThe Sling Money founder shares lessons from Facebook, Deliveroo and Monzo on customer choice, data and product leadership.
26:55ENA First Look at OpenAI o1-preview in September 2024Early tests, benchmark caveats and questions raised by the model’s system card.
26:28ENAPI prices fell 200x. The LLM table still is not set.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil, with no guest this week, argue over whether the language-model market has already consolidated — and why falling prices, five-person labs, and AMD’s shopping spree all cut against a simple ending.
1:13:44ZH → EnglishMeng Xing on Waymo, Cruise, and the Challenges of Driverless OperationsGuest 孟醒 · Host 张小珺A 2024 industry perspective, from a Phoenix ride to safety, fleets, and business models.
21:21ENOpenAI o1’s 2024 Launch: Reasoning Benchmarks and Early TestsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews o1-preview and o1-mini, OpenAI’s reported evaluations, and his own early coding experiments.
3:42:21ENRome Always Raised Another ArmyGuest Gregory Aldrete · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Gregory Aldrete tells Lex Fridman how a city of mud huts absorbed the Mediterranean, survived Hannibal, and then tore itself apart over the spoils.
11:35ENARK Invest’s $24 Trillion Humanoid Robot ScenarioMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines the assumptions behind ARK’s 2024 household and manufacturing robotics estimates.
1:31:56ENTesting OpenAI o1 on Puzzles, Code and Reasoning: A Launch-Day LivestreamMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tries o1-preview and o1-mini on word counts, Tetris, physical reasoning and a word puzzle, with viewers checking the results.
1:11:51ENDavid Schneider on Scaling ServiceNow and Being a Useful InvestorGuest David Schneider · Host Harry StebbingsThe former ServiceNow operator discusses enterprise sales, multi-product growth and board work, including the decisions he would make differently.
1:10:29ENWe Can Name Dystopias on Cue. A Desirable Future Is Harder to ImagineHost Nathan LabenzNick Bostrom and Spencer Greenberg talk through Deep Utopia: what meaning looks like if advanced AI actually solves the world’s pressing problems.
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