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Sequoia Capital· Mar 11, 2025PodcastHarvey Built Legal AI for the Work the Next Model Still Cannot DoCEO Winston Weinberg on citations, process data, and the unscalable tactics that won over century-old law firms.
32:46ENSequoia Capital· Feb 25, 2025PodcastDon't draw the flowchart: OpenAI's Deep Research team on training agents end to endIsa Fulford and Josh Tobin explain why Deep Research was trained with reinforcement learning on hard browsing tasks instead of a human-written graph of model calls.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Feb 19, 2025PodcastThe Cheaper Intelligence Gets, the More of It We'll BuyHost Jacob EffronAmazon AGI Lab head David Luan on what DeepSeek actually meant, why next-token prediction is not enough, and why agents are still stuck on reliability.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 12, 2025PodcastA Perfect Score Is 32,000 Units: Only Claude Built a Cooperative SocietyHost Nathan LabenzThe same donor game, run for ten generations, can bank 32,000 resource units if everyone cooperates—and three frontier models miss that ceiling by an order of magnitude.
57:11ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Jan 30, 2025PodcastA Million Tokens Cannot Write a Good JokeHost Jacob EffronPrinceton's Arvind Narayanan on why agent evals mislead, inference scaling hits a wall, and AI looks more like the internet than an overnight revolution.
52:30ENSequoia Capital· Jan 28, 2025PodcastMove 37 looked like a bug. LLMs still need their AlphaZero momentIoannis Antonoglou, from AlphaGo to Reflection AI, on self-play, reliability, and why compute can still buy intelligence.
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No 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.
1:46:41ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 21, 2024PodcastFrontier Models Hit the 10th–40th Percentile on Real AI R&DHost Nathan LabenzNeev Parikh of METR walks Nathan Labenz through REBench, a seven-task test of whether agents can do machine learning research—and what happened when one of them decided not to train.
1:07:32ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Dec 18, 2024Podcasto1 Is a New Generation — and the Day AGI Arrives Will Feel BoringHost Jacob EffronOpenAI’s former chief research officer Bob McGrew on why o1 is a 100x leap, why agents stall on reliability, and why AGI may land as office tedium rather than a single dramatic moment.
48:18ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Dec 6, 2024PodcastNoam Brown: There's No Hard Wall—Just Eight Orders of Magnitude of HeadroomHost Jacob EffronA ChatGPT query costs about a penny. The problems society cares about most, he says, are worth a million dollars.
1:55:53ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 5, 2024PodcastAI Beats Humans at Reading Papers. It Still Cannot Count Atoms.Host Nathan LabenzAndrew White, Head of Science at Future House, maps what language models can already do in chemistry and biology—and the bottlenecks they do not dissolve.
1:27:33ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 3, 2024PodcastA 70B Model Booked Dinner 20% of the Time. MultiOn Took It to 95% in a DayHost Nathan LabenzMultiOn CEO Div Garg returns to The Cognitive Revolution to recap 18 months of agent hype, the AgentQ stack, and why 2025 might still be the year of vertical agents.
1:03:07ENSequoia Capital· Nov 26, 2024PodcastReasoning Hasn't Budged in Two Years. Dust Still Saved a Customer 8,000 HoursDust co-founders Gabriel Hubert and Stanislas Polu on multi-model agents, refusing to buy GPUs before product-market fit, and the jump from calculator tools to stochastic ones.
38:28ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Oct 8, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersHalf of Production AI Is RAG. Fine-Tuning Almost Disappeared.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilBraintrust CEO Ankur Goyal tells No Priors what Notion, Zapier, and Vercel actually ship — and which hyped techniques they quietly dropped.
1:09:09ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 2, 2024Podcast30 Percent on SWE-bench: Cosine Taught Genie How Engineers Actually ThinkHost Nathan LabenzAlistair Pullen tells Latent Space how Cosine reconstructed human problem-solving, fine-tuned on billions of tokens, and took the top score on software engineering’s hardest public test.
48:31ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 19, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA 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.
2:03:55ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 18, 2024PodcastThe 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.
1:12:31ENSequoia Capital· Aug 27, 2024PodcastA Bare Model Closes 35% of Airline Changes. Sierra's Agents Clear 70% of Real Tickets.Clay Bavor on why putting a raw LLM in front of customers does not math, and how AgentOS, supervisor agents, and outcome pricing change the arithmetic.
1:07:05ENSequoia Capital· Jul 16, 2024PodcastAlphaGo Combined Learning and Search. Language Models Only Did the First Half.Reflection AI's Misha Laskin tells Sequoia why prompted coding agents stall in the teens, and why the missing piece is still a ground-truth reward.
1:16:22ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 9, 2024PodcastHe Spent 20 Hours Crafting a Prompt. DSPy Beat Him AnywayHost Nathan LabenzSander Schulhoff walks through The Prompt Report — a 78-page survey of what actually works when you prompt large language models.
59:11ENSequoia Capital· Jun 25, 2024PodcastDon't Train a Model. Factory's Founders Say Go Dig for GoldMatan Grinberg and Eno Reyes tell Sequoia's Training Data why they sell a fleet of job-specific droids on top of other people's models — and how that stack just took SWE-bench from 14% to 19%.
1:37:07ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 22, 2024PodcastA Text-Only AI Outdiagnosed GPs. Google Still Won't Ship It.Host Nathan LabenzGoogle researchers Vivek Natarajan and Khaled Saab walk Nathan Labenz through five medical-AI papers, from radiology reports to an AI doctor that still has to earn trust.
49:50ENSequoia Capital· Jun 18, 2024PodcastUnconstrained agents captivated Twitter. Custom ones are what ship.LangChain founder Harrison Chase tells Sequoia’s Training Data what an agent actually is, why AutoGPT stalled, and which cognitive architectures reach production.
29:28ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 2, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersDevin Will Not Replace Engineers. It Will Multiply Them, Says Cognition’s Scott WuHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe IOI champion behind Devin explains why an AI software engineer that you can watch over the shoulder creates more human engineers, not fewer.Load moreShowing 24 of 139