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Zhang Xiaojun Podcast· Oct 21, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersDavid Qian on Succession, Robotics, and Finding His Own AmbitionGuest David Qian (Qian Cheng) · Host 张小珺Ecovacs CEO David Qian reflects on inheriting a founder-built company, learning to lead through mistakes, and choosing a patient path in robotics. His account treats succession as an ongoing effort to build the company for a new era, not a finish line.
2:51:18ENZhang Xiaojun Podcast· Oct 15, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersLindon Gao on Building Dyna Robotics and Finding a Path Through the FogGuest Lindon Gao · Host 张小珺Dyna Robotics CEO Lindon Gao explains why his company builds intelligence through real workflows, how hardware and research must evolve together, and how a founder can find clarity by letting go of the need to be right.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 3, 2026PodcastHumanoids Outran Usain Bolt. DeepMind Still Scores Robotics as GPT-2Host Nathan LabenzGoogle DeepMind's Gemini Robotics lead on why sprinting is easy, frying an egg is hard, and one brain should drive any body.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 3, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersArm’s 98.5% margin business just started shipping chipsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilCEO Rene Haas tells No Priors why the IP company built a physical CPU for Meta, and why CPUs still sit at the center of AI systems.
49:20ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 23, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersHalf of Ask DoorDash Orders Hit a New Restaurant. In Ten Years There Will Be More Dashers, Not Fewer.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilCo-founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang tell Sarah Guo how a conversational ordering interface moved DoorDash's hardest metric, why they built a 300-pound delivery robot in-house, and why autonomy means more human riders, not less.
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Sequoia Capital· Jul 7, 2026PodcastThe drone is 15% of Zipline: 140 million miles, zero incidentsKeller Rinaudo Cliffton and Eric Watson explain why the aircraft is the small part of an automated logistics system now cheaper than a car.
38:01ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 14, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThe Philippines Gifted America 4,000 Acres. Pax Silica Wants to Make the AI Supply Chain a BusinessHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilUS Under Secretary Jacob Helberg on a 14-country coalition, a diplomatic industrial zone in the Philippines, and why Washington is putting companies—not ministries—in the driver's seat.
58:27ENSequoia Capital· Mar 24, 2026PodcastEven a dumber AI can win science if it never leaves the labGinkgo Bioworks CEO Jason Kelly tells Sequoia why autonomous labs, not smarter models, will change how experimental science gets done.
40:56ENSequoia Capital· Mar 10, 2026PodcastFour of the Top Five Defense Primes Still Run Hardware Tests on PowerPointNominal’s cofounders argue that hardware never got the last twenty years of software infrastructure, and that physical AI will stall until test data lives in one place.
1:16:21ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jan 8, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersJensen Huang’s Year-End Case That Token Costs Can Fall a Billion-Fold Without Killing JobsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOn No Priors, NVIDIA’s CEO uses radiology, open source, and a $2 trillion R&D budget to argue that 2025’s extremes missed the stack.
1:01:38ENSequoia Capital· Jan 6, 2026Podcast13-Hour Coffee and 2x Throughput: Physical Intelligence Crosses the Deployment LineKarol Hausman and Tobi Springenberg tell Sequoia’s Training Data how a general robot brain, plus real-world RL, turned coffee, laundry, and chocolate boxes into jobs that actually run.
40:46ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 19, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersDoctors Are Rushing to AI. Robotics Will Take a Beating First.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil’s 2026 forecast for foundation models, IPOs, robotics, consumer agents, and the bets that are not about AI at all.
2:06:16ZH → EnglishZhang Xiaojun Podcast· Nov 28, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersTan Jie: Data Is the Bottleneck for General-Purpose Robot Intelligence, and a General Form Will Take TimeGuest 谭捷 · Host 张小珺Tan Jie, a robotics research scientist at Google DeepMind, looks back on his path from computer graphics to robotics, from reinforcement learning to Gemini Robotics. He argues that robot foundation models have not yet become an independent discipline, and that data scale and coverage, cross-embodiment transfer, real-time reasoning, and safety remain key to real-world applications.
39:16ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Nov 19, 2025Podcast · 2 speakers500 Gloves, 10 Million Trajectories, and a $10,000 Home RobotHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSunday Robotics co-founders Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi map the gap between a scalable imitation-learning recipe and a machine that actually does the dishes.
43:09ENSequoia Capital· Sep 9, 2025PodcastA $100 Arm and a $300 Robot: Hugging Face Wants an App Store for Physical AIThomas Wolf tells Sequoia's Training Data why LeRobot, cheap hardware, and open datasets are Hugging Face's bet that software developers can become roboticists.
1:55:02ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 30, 2025PodcastA hundred experiments a day, and the valley of death in materialsHost Nathan LabenzRadical AI’s co-founders tell Nathan Labenz how a closed loop of frontier models and a self-driving lab is meant to collapse a forty-year materials cycle into less than a decade.
48:51ENSequoia Capital· Jun 17, 2025PodcastThe Breakthroughs for AGI Are Already Done, Says OpenAI’s Former Research HeadBob McGrew tells Sequoia’s Training Data that 2025 is the year of reasoning, agents will be priced at the cost of compute, and nothing fundamental will be added to the stack by 2035.
35:47ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 5, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersFei-Fei Li’s new bet: AI is incomplete without spatial intelligenceHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe ImageNet pioneer tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil why World Labs is building 3D generative foundation models, and why language was only one piece of the puzzle.
2:29:41ZH → EnglishZhang Xiaojun Podcast· Apr 7, 2025Podcast · 4 speakersChen Jianyu: How Robot Foundation Models Can Become General-Purpose VLA SystemsGuest 陈建宇 · Host 张小珺From SayCan and RT-2 to Diffusion Policy, Tsinghua assistant professor and Epoch Robotics founder Chen Jianyu traces the path from borrowing language models to end-to-end VLA. The hard problems remain diverse data, cross-embodiment generalization, and high-frequency action control.
35:14ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Mar 20, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersRobots Have No Wikipedia. Chelsea Finn Is Starting With Three Buildings.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilPhysical Intelligence’s cofounder tells No Priors why a generalist robot model has to be trained across embodiments, why open-sourcing hardware is a bet against the problem going unsolved, and why humanoids are a little overrated.
38:14ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Feb 20, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersKyle Vogt Pitched 120 Investors for Cruise. He Will Not Sell the Home-Robot CompanyHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Twitch and Cruise co-founder tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil why Tesla won on business model, why chores should be automated, and why a tiny AI-era team is enough.
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Unsupervised 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.
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.
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.Load moreShowing 24 of 95