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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 5, 2025PodcastA 10B Model Trained Across Three Continents — and an H200 for $1.49 an HourHost Nathan LabenzPrime Intellect's founders lay out a four-step plan to turn spare global GPUs into collectively owned intelligence, and argue that reinforcement learning just made their job easier.
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Lex Fridman· Feb 2, 2025PodcastDeepSeek's $5 million training claim and the five-year bet on computeHost Lex FridmanDylan Patel and Nathan Lambert walk Lex Fridman through DeepSeek-V3 and R1, export controls, TSMC, megaclusters, and who actually makes money in the AI race.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Jan 21, 2025PodcastA 50,000-GPU cap and a 1,700-chip loopholeHost Jacob EffronSemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel walks through the AI diffusion rule, China’s compute squeeze, and how xAI stood up a 100,000-GPU cluster in a closed Memphis appliance factory.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jan 9, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersA Hundred GPUs in Seconds: Why Modal Threw Out Docker and KubernetesHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilErik Bernhardsson tells Elad Gil that AI inference is too bursty for year-long GPU contracts, and that the cloud should feel as fast as a laptop.
27:07ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 26, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersAfter adding $100 billion a month, Jensen Huang says NVIDIA is selling the data centerHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil clip their favorite 2024 No Priors conversations into a year-end reel of NVIDIA, Karpathy, Sierra, Sora, Waymo, Figma, and Scale.
2:11:15ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 25, 2024PodcastA 50% Chance of Extinction — and a $50 GPT-4 for EveryoneHost Nathan LabenzEmad Mostaque tells Nathan Labenz why he puts p(doom) at even odds, why a five-watt model changes the energy debate, and how the Intelligent Internet would fund universal basic AI with a Bitcoin-like token.
55:50ENUnsupervised 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.
42:21ENNo 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.
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.
44:30ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Oct 24, 2024Podcast · 2 speakers100,000 Rides a Week, Six Times Fewer Airbag Crashes: Waymo’s Co-CEO on Eighteen Years of Full AutonomyHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilDmitri Dolgov tells No Priors how a dozen Googlers, ten 100-mile routes, and a 2013 refusal to settle for driver assist became a rider-only service with an insurer-audited safety record.
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 20, 2024PodcastThe 40% data-center save started with an email that ended in a question markPhaidra founder Jim Gao tells Sequoia how an AlphaGo-inspired bet at Google became reinforcement learning that runs billion-dollar plants.
39:18ENSequoia 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.
31:04ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 4, 2024PodcastThe Risk Is Not China Copying. It Is America Refusing to Use the ToolsHost Nathan LabenzAt the 2024 Hill & Valley Forum, Alex Wang, Jack Clark, and Andrew Ng tell Senator Cory Booker that Chinese labs are inventing, open-source models are already strong, and the Pentagon’s real AI failure is under-adoption.
39:00ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 22, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersJPMorgan Has 150 Petabytes. GPT-4 Trained on Less Than One.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilScale AI founder Alexandr Wang tells No Priors why easy internet data is exhausted, why expert-plus-model teams still win, and why the path to AGI looks more like curing cancer than inventing a vaccine.
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.
1:52:18ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 6, 2024PodcastTwo Weeks, Thirty Compiles: How Adam Majmudar Wrote a GPU From ScratchHost Nathan LabenzA Cognitive Revolution walkthrough of TinyGPU, from SIMD kernels and memory latency to an open-source chip flow that runs on a laptop.
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.
42:14ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Mar 7, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersMeta’s $197 Billion Day Was a Partial Answer to AI’s $200 Billion QuestionHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil walk through Gemini, Mistral, NVIDIA’s upgrade cycle, Klarna’s support bot, and why the real AI spend still sits with the hyperscalers.
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.
39:36ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 14, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Most Underestimated AI Buyer Is the Shop on the CornerHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFormer Square CEO Alyssa Henry tells No Priors that generative AI is unlocking work small merchants always needed and never paid anyone to do.
1:19:52ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 18, 2023Podcast1,000 H100s Take 115 Days; 22,000 Take FiveHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz and Trey Kollmer walk through cluster math that turns GPT-4-scale training into a weekly experiment, then four papers on search-augmented models, recursive code improvers, spatial maps inside Llama 2, and what networks do when they have no idea.Load moreShowing 24 of 114