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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 1, 2025PodcastChip Controls Are Meant to Buy Ten Years, Not Win the AI RaceHost Nathan LabenzEconomist Noah Smith tells Nathan Labenz that U.S. export controls are a piece of conventional deterrence against China — not a plan to kneecap DeepSeek.
2:33:39ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 27, 2025PodcastThe Attacker Goes Second: Why Nicholas Carlini Keeps Breaking AI DefensesHost Nathan LabenzA Google DeepMind security researcher on simple loss functions, 70% robust accuracy, and why the fix has to live in the system, not the model.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Feb 7, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersThe $5.5 Million Was Only the Last MileHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOn No Priors' 100th episode, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil separate DeepSeek's paper cost from the compute behind it, then walk through OpenAI's Deep Research, Stargate, and their bets for 2025.
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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.
1:48:20ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 25, 2025PodcastFrom 15% to 70% on Right-or-Wrong Scores: DeepSeek-R1 Laid Reinforcement Learning's Cards on the TableHost Nathan LabenzOn Inauguration Day 2025, DeepSeek and Moonshot dropped reasoning-model results that Nathan Labenz reads as proof the reinforcement-learning recipe is simple, public, and still climbing.
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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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Sequoia Capital· Jan 14, 2025PodcastIf Someone Builds a Better Spark Product, We Deserve to LoseIon Stoica on how Databricks turned academic open source into a data-and-AI company — and which problems he thinks will matter more tomorrow than today.
3:53:49ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 3, 2025PodcastWith One-Twelfth the Data, an Open-Source Vision Model Beat GPT-4oHost Nathan LabenzWill Hardman of Veratai walks Nathan Labenz through two years of vision-language models, from ViT and CLIP to InternVL, BLINK, and Transfusion.
1:57:00ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 28, 2024PodcastLess Than 1%: Why OpenAI's roon Thinks the Good Guys Get AGI FirstHost Nathan LabenzDoom Debates host Liron Shapira presses OpenAI technical staffer roon on extinction odds, alignment-by-default, and a plan that even he admits is balancing on razor wire.
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.
1:49:41ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Nov 21, 2024PodcastA Team of Fifteen Matched Meta’s Post-Training on Meta’s Own BaseHost Nathan LabenzNathan Lambert walks through Tulu 3: the three-stage recipe, the 1 percent versus 14 percent lesson, and why open post-training now lives or dies on data and evals.
2:24:18ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 30, 2024PodcastMMLU Stays at Chance Until Late Training. Loss Is Only an Alarm.Host Nathan LabenzZyphra’s training lead walks through Zamba 2’s hybrid architecture, the evals that actually matter, and the trade secrets small labs still have to rediscover.
26:08ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Oct 3, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersFewer Than 3% of Deals Get Investigated. Selling to the Monopolist Is What Triggers the FTC.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilChair Lina Khan tells No Priors how merger review actually works in AI markets, why open-weight models matter, and why the agency banned most non-competes.
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.
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.
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.
1:54:01ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 26, 2024PodcastA Tiny Network Grew a Salt Crystal the Training Data Never ShowedHost Nathan LabenzTim Duignan trained tens of thousands of parameters on salt water. The model invented a crystal — and a continuum solvent theory he had spent a PhD failing to write by hand.
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.
2:47:17ENLex Fridman· Mar 7, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersIf You Want Human-Level AI, Abandon Generative ModelsGuest Yann Lecun · Host Lex FridmanYann LeCun tells Lex Fridman why autoregressive LLMs cannot plan, remember, or understand the physical world — and why open source is the only democratic answer.
19:10ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jan 11, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe World's Only Capped-Profit CompanyHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilNo Priors looks back at 2023 through eight conversations on money, intelligence, jobs, and who should put the guardrails on a model.
2:16:27ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 12, 2023PodcastSuperhuman Go Has a Blind Spot. Balaji Bets on a War of the GodsHost Nathan LabenzBalaji Srinivasan tells Nathan Labenz why adversarial inputs, missing actuators, and cryptography make a single runaway AI god less likely than a contest among many that still need priests.
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.
1:14:36ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 13, 2023PodcastZulu Bypasses GPT-4, and a Hundred Examples Undo the GuardrailsHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz reads seven papers — four hopeful, three not — on whether anyone can actually keep a language model under control.
1:04:38ENLex Fridman· Sep 28, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersHundreds of Miles Apart, Zuckerberg and Fridman Sat Close Enough to See the WrinklesGuest Mark Zuckerberg · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman sat in a dark room in Austin wearing a Quest headset; Mark Zuckerberg sat in another conference room, also wearing one, and it did not feel like a video call.Load moreShowing 24 of 66