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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Dec 16, 2024PodcastThere will not be one model. Fireworks is betting on hundreds of small expertsHost Jacob EffronPyTorch veteran Lin Qiao argues that inference is a compound system hyperscalers cannot buy their way through, and that the products with real traction still keep a human in the loop.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 12, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThey Cooled 5,000 Watts per Square Centimeter in Space. Now Diamond Goes on AI ChipsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAkash Systems founders Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell tell Sarah Guo why heat is the real limiter on AI, and how lab-grown diamond bonded to semiconductors is their answer.
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.
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Lex Fridman· Oct 6, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersKeep the Programmer in the Driver's Seat: Cursor's Founders on Tab, Agents, and Zero-Entropy EditingGuest Cursor Team · Host Lex FridmanMichael Truell, Aman Sanger, Sualeh Asif, and Arvid Lunnemark tell Lex Fridman why they forked VS Code, how Tab and Apply actually work, and why most programming still needs a human iterating in real time.
37:47ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 30, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersWorking Backwards from AGI: Magic's Five-Million-Token BetHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilEric Steinberger wants a coding colleague you trust like a teammate — and a world that is still a good place thirty years after AGI.
42:59ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 29, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersAWS Is a $100 Billion Cloud. Matt Garman Still Sees a 10x Migration AheadHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAmazon Web Services’ new CEO tells No Priors why 85 percent of workloads are still on-prem, how Bedrock was built from three bets, and why startups remain the company’s growth engine.
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.
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Sequoia Capital· Aug 13, 2024PodcastOpen and Closed Will Tie at the Same Size: PyTorch's Former Lead on Fast InferenceA six-month library swap at Meta became a five-year rebuild. Lin Qiao wants the rest of the industry to get that stack in five weeks.
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.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 4, 2024Podcast267 Papers in Seven Months: Albert Gu Explains the State Space Model RevolutionHost Nathan LabenzThe Mamba co-author walks through five years of recurrent-model work, why selective compression beats a growing KV cache, and what Mamba 2 trades away to train faster.
1:42:17ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 20, 2024PodcastThe Cheapest Inference Provider Is the Most DangerousHost Nathan LabenzFireworks AI cofounders Lin Qiao and Dmytro Ivchenko explain why subsidized GPU bills vanish, how LoRA serving can cut cost a hundredfold, and why OpenAI is the rival that actually matters.
38:33ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Mar 21, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersSpeed Is the Thing You Can Buy: Baseten’s Bet on InferenceHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilTuhin Srivastava tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil why a six-person chatbot company running a billion tokens a day should not be building its own serving stack.
39:03ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Feb 29, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersMI300 Leads Inference by 2x: AMD's CTO on Winning Chip Competition Without a Walled GardenHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilWhen Mark Papermaster became AMD's CTO in fall 2011, nearly all of the company's revenue sat on PCs and gaming, Moore's Law was slowing, and everyone knew it needed a turnaround.
1:22:43ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 9, 2024PodcastFive billion minutes of calls: why Dialpad trained its own business LLMHost Nathan LabenzDan O’Connell on real-time speech, verticalizing the stack, and why he and Nathan Labenz disagree about when AI employees show up.
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.
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.
52:48ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 25, 2023PodcastOpenAI Cut Fine-Tuning 90 Percent, and Founders Crossed Llama 2 Off the ListHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg walk through GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning, why self-hosting still loses on total cost, and what is actually working in code, school, and medicine.
1:01:26ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 25, 2023PodcastAlexNet Used Two GPUs. GPT-4 Took Twenty Thousand. The Shortage Will Be Back.Host Nathan LabenzRun:ai CTO Ronen Dar on filling idle accelerators, why H100s can be cheaper per experiment, and why Llama 2 undercuts compute governance.
1:20:49ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 25, 2023PodcastA Wafer-Scale Chip So AI Stops Waiting on AmdahlHost Nathan LabenzAndrew Feldman, CEO of Cerebras, tells Nathan Labenz why one 2.5-trillion-transistor die, sparse linear algebra, and a 16-machine supercomputer are a better shape than a GPU cluster.
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.
1:18:48ENLex FridmanPodcastData Movement, Not Math: How to Make Deep Learning Fit on Robots and PhonesHost Lex FridmanMIT professor Vivienne Sze explains why moving data dominates the energy cost of neural networks and how co-designing hardware and algorithms can cut it by orders of magnitude.
57:21ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastGemini 2.0 Flash Goes to Production: Pricing, Model Lineup and What Developers Should Build NextHost Nathan LabenzGoogle DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick walks through launch-day Gemini 2.0 releases, rate limits, model naming, and where he sees startup opportunities.
31:46ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsPodcast · 2 speakersWhy Rivian Threw Out Its First Self-Driving Stack and Built Its Own BrainHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilRivian founder RJ Scaringe explains the neural-net reset, in-house chips, software-defined architecture and the mass-market R2 bet.