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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 1, 2025Podcast · 2 speakerso3 should wait exactly as long as the answer takesHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOpenAI researchers Eric Mitchell and Brandon McKinzie tell No Priors why o3's leap is a chain of tools during reasoning — and why you should send the same prompt a hundred times.
30:46ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 24, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersDeep Research Turned Web Browsing into a Trainable ProblemHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOpenAI researcher Isa Fulford explains why a side project on read-only synthesis became an agent, when reinforcement fine-tuning is worth it, and why models will hack the search engine you gave them.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 5, 2025PodcastThe Reasoning Curve Was Smooth All Along: Gemini 2.5's Jack Rae on Thinking, Memory, and AGIHost Nathan LabenzDeepMind's thinking-and-inference lead explains why RL-for-reasoning felt sudden, why Gemini shows raw chain of thought, and why a million-token window still is not memory.
1:56:38ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 8, 2025Podcasto3 took ARC from 20% to 87%. Nathan Labenz sketches early superintelligenceHost Nathan LabenzOn Consistently Candid, the Cognitive Revolution host argues that math and coding will be superhuman by 2026, and that a reasoning core plus specialist “intuitive physics” may already be enough.
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Sequoia 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.
2:16:17ENCognitive 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.
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.
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.
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.
39:22ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Nov 14, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA Fields Medalist Stuck for Two Hours. AlphaProof Climbed for Three Days.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe DeepMind team behind AlphaProof tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil how an AlphaZero-style agent, a Lean verifier, and test-time reinforcement learning reached IMO silver — and why the missing skill is still theory building.
45:22ENSequoia Capital· Oct 2, 2024PodcastAlphaGo Thought 30 Seconds a Move. o1 Made “Think Longer” GeneralOpenAI researchers Noam Brown, Ilge Akkaya, and Hunter Lightman on teaching language models to reason, the generator-verifier gap, and a second scaling curve at inference time.
39:45ENSequoia Capital· Sep 24, 2024PodcastHarmonic’s Bet: Teach AI Math Directly, and the Riemann Hypothesis Falls by 2029Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev and Harmonic co-founder Tudor Achim tell Sequoia why math is reasoning, why Lean is the verifier, and why they refuse to wait for mathematical skill to emerge from scale.
49:14ENSequoia Capital· Sep 17, 2024PodcastHumanoid 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.
51:15ENSequoia Capital· Sep 10, 2024PodcastAGI Has One Problem Left: Spend a Million Times More on a TokenMagic founder Eric Steinberger tells Sequoia’s Training Data why he trains his own models, why a software engineer is the MVP of AGI, and why 96% still is not a colleague.
50:33ENSequoia 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.
46:09ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 1, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersOriol Vinyals: The Days of Burning 90% of Compute on Pretraining Are NumberedHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilGoogle DeepMind’s VP of research on Gemini, long context, the coming shift from pretraining to RL, and why AGI may never have a finish line.
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.
52:45ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 13, 2024PodcastA $150 million model, $5 million six months later: Benchmark’s AI investment mathHost Nathan LabenzEric Vishria and Quilter’s Sergiy Nesterenko explain why PCB layout is not a Copilot problem, why human board data would be the wrong training set, and which AI companies look like sugar highs.
56:56ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 25, 2024PodcastA Week of PCB Layout in an Hour: Quilter Trains Agents, Not ImitatorsHost Nathan LabenzSpaceX alum Sergiy Nesterenko tells Will Summerlin how Quilter uses reinforcement learning to compile schematics into manufacturable boards, and why cloning human layouts would cap the system at human skill.
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Lex Fridman· Feb 16, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersYou Have to Run Before You Can Walk: Marc Raibert on Making Metal Look AliveGuest Marc Raibert · Host Lex FridmanThe Boston Dynamics founder tells Lex Fridman why aggressive hopping beat cautious walking, how 109 Atlas falls became a method, and why robots still need a second kind of intelligence.
1:58:43ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 7, 2024PodcastA Worm With 302 Neurons Already Makes Trade-offs. AI Is Still on the Same Ladder.Host Nathan LabenzMax Bennett maps 600 million years of brain evolution onto five breakthroughs — and asks which rungs today's models have actually reached.
2:27:58ENLex Fridman· Apr 28, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersIt took Atlas fourteen years to walk the way Playter wantedGuest Robert Playter · Host Lex FridmanBoston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter traces thirty years from a MIT basement pogo stick to Atlas, Spot, and Stretch — and why the company still designs machines that are allowed to fall.
2:29:21ENLex Fridman· Dec 6, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Poker Bot That Never Tried to Read a SoulGuest Noam Brown · Host Lex FridmanNoam Brown tells Lex Fridman how a Nash-equilibrium bot crushed heads-up no-limit Hold'em, how Pluribus did it six-handed, and why Diplomacy required an AI that could earn human trust.Load moreShowing 24 of 77