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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 18, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersDiffusion Will Win Inference: Stefano Ermon Bets Parallel Tokens Beat Custom SiliconHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Stanford diffusion pioneer tells No Priors why a 50-person lab is training language models that generate many tokens at once — and why that maps to GPUs the way transformers once mapped to training.
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.
30:47ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jan 29, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersEmbryos Survive 30 Years Frozen. Until Wants Organs to Stop Racing Private JetsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilLaura Deming on reversible cryopreservation: pause an organ—and someday a patient—so a few months no longer decide who lives long enough for the next therapy.
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.
1:01:49ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 25, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersTwo Academic Hours a Day, and 96 Percent of Kids Say They Love SchoolHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilTrilogy founder Joe Liemandt, now principal of Alpha School, tells No Priors how an AI tutor, a two-hour bargain with fifth graders, and a sports-coach ethos are meant to scale to a billion children.
44:49ENNo 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.
40:54ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 17, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersDiscovery rates collapsed tenfold. KoBold still found a 5% copper depositHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilJosh Goldman explains why KoBold Metals treats mineral exploration as an information problem, pairing AI with century-old maps to hunt lithium and copper.
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.
34:09ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 27, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersFive Independent Teams Found the Same 10-to-1 Mix That Beats TransformersHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe authors of S4 and Mamba argue that mostly state-space layers plus a dash of attention is the architecture that actually works—and they are shipping it first as real-time speech.
36:22ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Oct 26, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersOne Attacker and a For Loop: Why Email Is Still the Softest Target in an AI Arms RaceHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilMaterial Security co-founder Ryan Noon on how 2016 election hacks, Google and Microsoft's email duopoly, and large language models are rewriting both sides of cybersecurity.