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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Oct 2, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersCompute Scaled a Millionfold. Bandwidth Only 40x. Fractile Wants to Fix That RatioHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilIn the summer of 2022, Walter Goodwin founded Fractile in London to build very fast inference chips for the world's largest models.
37:07ENNo 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.
34:51ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 27, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersGoogle Paid $10 Million for a Bankrupt Airline’s Data. That’s the Moat.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilEon co-founders Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein argue that models and compute are rented commodities — the only asset enterprises can actually keep is their data.
1:01:27ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 2, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersTwo Years and Four Months to a Live Reactor: Valar Atomics Wants Energy Ten Times CheaperHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilIsaiah Taylor walks Sarah Guo through Ward 250 in Utah and argues that nuclear is a hardware-iteration problem, not a paper-design one.
45:00ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 18, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersLip-Bu Tan took the hardest job in chips to save IntelHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Cadence veteran and semiconductor investor tells No Priors how he is rebuilding Intel's culture, balance sheet, and foundry, and why he still wants a 10x from here.
30:34ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 21, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersCerebras Waited Ten Years for a Market That Finally Needed SpeedHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFounder and CEO Andrew Feldman walks No Priors through wafer-scale chips, a $20 billion OpenAI deal, and why a dinner-plate processor only mattered once AI became an everyday tool.
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.
42:57ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 1, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersInference Is the Last Market: Baseten’s 30x YearHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilCEO Tuhin Srivastava on a billion-dollar inference cloud, why the app layer survives, and a GPU crunch worse than the narrative.
44:01ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 9, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersA millionth of a penny: Jeremy Allaire on the payment rails of the agentic economyHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilCircle's CEO tells No Priors why stablecoins and a purpose-built chain, not the legacy banking stack, are the money layer for software that buys and sells on its own.
31:57ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Oct 15, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersPeak 700 GW, average 300 GW: Base Power is wiring home batteries into a power plantHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilZach Dell tells Elad Gil how a $1.3 billion raise, a Texas-only retail business, and a Tesla-and-SpaceX hiring bench are meant to cut the cost of moving an electron.
40:54ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 28, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersSeventeen Years of Flat Power, and a Plan to Bring the Factories HomeHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilJacob Helberg, the under secretary of state designate for economic growth, energy, and the environment, argues that nuclear power and AI productivity—not cheap labor—are how America reshore its supply chain.
47:18ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 14, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersThe Analyst Tracking 200 GPU Clouds Breaks Nvidia Into a Three-Headed DragonHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel on OpenAI’s open-weight model, a coming neocloud wipeout, and why a chip startup has to beat Nvidia on hardware, networking, and software at once.
36:48ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 31, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersThe Weekend DeepSeek Dropped, the White House CalledHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSriram Krishnan walks No Priors through America’s 28-page AI Action Plan, a token-share definition of winning, and why the lead over China is too small to take for granted.
42:21ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 12, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThey Cooled 5,000 Watts per Square Centimeter in Space. Now Diamond Goes on AI ChipsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAkash Systems founders Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell tell Sarah Guo why heat is the real limiter on AI, and how lab-grown diamond bonded to semiconductors is their answer.
36:49ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Nov 7, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersJensen Huang: NVIDIA Is No Longer Building Computers. It Is Building AI FactoriesHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOn No Priors, NVIDIA’s CEO walks through hyper Moore’s law, NVLink, a 100,000-GPU cluster stood up in weeks, and why tokens are the new commodity.
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.
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.
42:42ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 22, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersEthereum Once Held Two Thousand GPT-3 Clusters of GPUsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFoundry CEO Jared Quincy Davis on idle H100s, why today's AI cloud is still colocation, and how compound systems move work off giant interconnected clusters.
39:00ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 22, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersJPMorgan Has 150 Petabytes. GPT-4 Trained on Less Than One.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilScale AI founder Alexandr Wang tells No Priors why easy internet data is exhausted, why expert-plus-model teams still win, and why the path to AGI looks more like curing cancer than inventing a vaccine.
38:33ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Mar 21, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersSpeed Is the Thing You Can Buy: Baseten’s Bet on InferenceHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilTuhin Srivastava tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil why a six-person chatbot company running a billion tokens a day should not be building its own serving stack.
42:14ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Mar 7, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersMeta’s $197 Billion Day Was a Partial Answer to AI’s $200 Billion QuestionHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil walk through Gemini, Mistral, NVIDIA’s upgrade cycle, Klarna’s support bot, and why the real AI spend still sits with the hyperscalers.
39:03ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Feb 29, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersMI300 Leads Inference by 2x: AMD's CTO on Winning Chip Competition Without a Walled GardenHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilWhen Mark Papermaster became AMD's CTO in fall 2011, nearly all of the company's revenue sat on PCs and gaming, Moore's Law was slowing, and everyone knew it needed a turnaround.
39:36ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 14, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Most Underestimated AI Buyer Is the Shop on the CornerHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFormer Square CEO Alyssa Henry tells No Priors that generative AI is unlocking work small merchants always needed and never paid anyone to do.
30:03ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 7, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersA Dinner-Plate Chip Cut Training From 60 Days to 3.5Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilCerebras CEO Andrew Feldman tells No Priors why wafer-scale silicon, not another GPU, is the answer to the compute crunch — and why most production models will stay at 13 billion parameters or below.Load moreShowing 24 of 30