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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 1, 2026PodcastUber Burned a Year of Tokens in 13 Weeks. Retrieval Is How Agents WinHost Nathan LabenzMongoDB Field CTO of AI Pete Johnson argues that agent performance now hinges on retrieval quality, not on stuffing million-token context windows.
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Sequoia Capital· Jun 24, 2026PodcastAn 80GB Wikipedia Cache Versus a 100GB Model That Holds the InternetEngram’s founders argue that stuffing a company into the context window is the expensive kind of memory—and that baking it into the weights can cut token use by two orders of magnitude.
2:38:48ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 26, 2026PodcastA thousand searches for five cents, and a high score that did not require cheatingHost Nathan LabenzOn a Cognitive Revolution morning show, Ceramic’s Anna Patterson collides cheap search with GPT-5.5’s clean Vending-Bench run, Zvi’s case for model welfare, and analog chips that cut matrix-multiply energy about thirtyfold.
1:40:51ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 14, 2026PodcastReasoning Models Just Made the Other 80–90% of Enterprise Data UsableHost Nathan LabenzSnowflake VP of AI Baris Gultekin on text-to-SQL, RAG, agent design, and why inference has to run next to governed data.
1:41:34ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Nov 20, 2025PodcastChat Is the Universal Interface—and Often the Worst OneHost Nathan LabenzAtlassian's head of AI on fighting slop with taste, knowledge, and workflow, and why chat is a terminal, not a product.
1:55:12ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Nov 8, 2025Podcast28,000 Documents, a 3B Model, 22 People: The Technical Ledger of Catholic AIHost Nathan LabenzLongbeard CEO Matthew Harvey Sanders tells The Cognitive Revolution how a mission-driven team is aligning models to the Catholic magisterium — and why fine-tuning was not enough.
1:37:25ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 5, 2025PodcastFin Climbed From 35% to 65% Resolution. Intercom Says the Models Only Did a Few PointsHost Nathan LabenzEoghan McCabe and Fergal Reid on production A/B tests, 99-cent outcome pricing, and why GPT-4 was already smart enough for most customer service.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 5, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersHow OpenEvidence Became the Clinical OS for 40% of U.S. DoctorsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFounder Daniel Nadler tells No Priors how a free search tool for physicians, not an answer engine for patients, took high-stakes clinical knowledge in 18 months.
1:25:12ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 27, 2025PodcastHe Hasn’t Typed a Line of Code in Months. Here’s How Augment Reads a Million-Line RepoHost Nathan LabenzGuy Gur-Ari, co-founder and chief scientist at Augment, tells Nathan Labenz how coding agents actually work inside messy enterprise codebases.
44:26ENSequoia Capital· Feb 13, 2025PodcastAn AI Application Is Still an ApplicationMongoDB's Sahir Azam tells Sequoia why vector search is a new primitive for unstructured data, not a replacement for transactions, and why retrieval quality is the last mile that gets AI into conservative enterprises.
56:07ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 29, 2025PodcastBox Holds 100 Billion Files. Its CEO Says Enterprises Only Move for a 10xHost Nathan LabenzAaron Levie tells Nathan Labenz why AI excitement in the enterprise already outruns the early cloud — and why 98% reliability, seat-based SaaS, and incremental savings still will not ship.
1:29:00ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 11, 2024Podcast14,000 people applied. Thirty-three got in. The jobs are at Homeland Security.Host Nathan LabenzMichael Boyce, director of the DHS AI Corps, tells Nathan Labenz how the largest civilian AI team in the U.S. government is being built — and what it is already shipping.
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.
1:03:07ENSequoia 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.
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.
55:16ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 31, 2024PodcastGemini’s API Grew 14× in Six Months. Google’s PMs Explain the Catch-Up.Host Nathan LabenzLogan Kilpatrick and Shrestha Basu Mallick walk through search grounding, Gemini Flash’s price-latency quadrant, and why a near-tied leaderboard still leaves Google third in most developers’ queues.
44:48ENSequoia Capital· Oct 29, 2024PodcastEnterprise Google Failed for Twenty Years. A Search Veteran Finally Made It Work.Glean CEO Arvind Jain on why company search is harder than the public web, why RAG lives or dies on retrieval, and what work looks like when every employee has an AI assistant.
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.
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.
1:51:00ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 21, 2024PodcastStart With Ten Gold Examples: A Three-Step Playbook for AI AutomationHost Nathan LabenzThe day after OpenAI opened GPT-4o fine-tuning, Nathan Labenz unpacks a three-year method for choosing work, extracting tacit judgment, and raising model performance.
1:21:53ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 19, 2024PodcastHippoRAG Matches Iterative Retrieval at One-Tenth the Online CostHost Nathan LabenzA hippocampus-inspired knowledge graph lets multi-hop questions skip the brute-force document crawl.
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Lex Fridman· Jun 19, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe journey begins after the answer: Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on search and curiosityGuest Aravind Srinivas · Host Lex FridmanIn 2022, Perplexity's first hire asked about health insurance — and four PhDs could not get a clear answer from Google.
36:20ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 6, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA Hundred Million Tokens in Context Would Cost $10 Million. Tengyu Ma Runs the RAG MathHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Stanford professor and Voyage AI founder argues that retrieval, not a giant context window, is how enterprises should manage private knowledge.
1:27:01ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 8, 2024PodcastThree Million Emails, Ten LLM Calls, Six Models: Shortwave's RAG PlaybookHost Nathan LabenzFirebase founder Andrew Lee walks Nathan Labenz through the retrieval stack that turned a Gmail inbox into a working AI assistant.Load moreShowing 24 of 54