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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.
42:44ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 24, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThey Paid $7.7 Billion for a Broker — and Intend to Do One Deal a YearHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSequence Holdings co-founder Michael Lee tells No Priors why owning a market leader, not selling it software, is how AI actually remakes an incumbent.
45:10ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 10, 2026Podcast · 2 speakers76% of Agentic Commerce Is Under 30 Cents — So Coinbase Is Banking the AIsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilBrian Armstrong tells Elad Gil how Coinbase became an everything exchange, why card networks cannot price agent-to-agent payments, and what his longevity company is taking into the clinic.
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.
31:39ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 20, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThe Skull Is Already the Vat: Max Hodak on Restoring SightHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilPatients blinded by macular degeneration put on laser-projector glasses, read books, and fill in Sudoku — because a chip under the retina is sending vision back into the brain.
46:08ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 13, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersComputers Beat Humans at Chess 30 Years Ago. Chess.com Still Has 250 Million PlayersHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilChess.com CEO Erik Allebest tells Sarah Guo how a $56,000 domain became a $200 million business, and why superhuman AI made chess more popular, not obsolete.
39:30ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 6, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThree Trillion-Dollar Companies in Five Years. Elad Gil Would Not Bet on a Fleet of Them NextHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOn a host-only episode of No Priors, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil separate market size from speed, argue that the best new founders are getting too meek, and treat token budgets as the next corporate power law.
34:30ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 31, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersNetic's Agents Answer the Phone When the Heat BreaksHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFounder Melisa Tokmak tells Elad Gil how a two-year-old platform became the AI operations layer for HVAC, roofing, pet care, and other essential services.
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.
41:05ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 9, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThere is no moat: Booking’s CEO on a $1 stock, agentic travel, and why AI still doesn’t move the numbersHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilGlenn Fogel cashed his 1999 bonus, joined Priceline in February 2000, and watched the Nasdaq peak a week later — then spent 25 years turning a near-delisting into a thousand-fold ride he now wants to spend on AI travel agents.
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.
57:28ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 17, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersCopying One ServiceNow App with a Language Model Costs Ten Times as MuchHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilBill McDermott tells Sarah Guo why the SaaS apocalypse fails a cost test, why models still cannot close a case, and how agents are already doing most of ServiceNow’s customer-service work.
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Lex Fridman· Mar 23, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersAGI Is Already Here. Building NVIDIA Is Not.Guest Jensen Huang · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman sits down with Jensen Huang for two and a half hours on extreme co-design, CUDA, four scaling laws, and why a $1 billion AI company is easier than a durable one.
5:10:12ENLex Fridman· Mar 11, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersYou Don't Need a CFO to Make World of WarcraftGuest Jeff Kaplan · Host Lex FridmanJeff Kaplan traces the line from 6,000 hours of EverQuest to Overwatch's six-week origin, Titan's collapse, and a 34-person studio that refuses to hand the golden goose over.
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.
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.
48:14ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Nov 13, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersA New Drug Burns $2 Billion and 10 Years. Benchling's CEO Wants AI to Cut That to ThreeHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilMost medicines fail in years seven to ten, after hundreds of millions have already gone into the clinic—and Sajith Wickramasekara thinks sending things to space may already be easier.
42:11ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Nov 6, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersSnowflake's CEO Tells Customers to Spend AI a Thousand Dollars at a TimeHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSridhar Ramaswamy talks with Sarah Guo about Snowflake Intelligence, shutting down a homegrown model, and why defensibility is built every day, not planned.
2:45:26ENLex Fridman· Oct 31, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersDan Houser on Fake Worlds You Want to Live InGuest Dan Houser · Host Lex FridmanThe Rockstar co-founder talks with Lex Fridman about GTA, Red Dead Redemption, character craft, leaving the company, and why language models will not write the last five percent.
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.
4:34:10ENLex Fridman· Sep 30, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersPavel Durov Built Telegram for a Billion People. He Still Won't Carry a Phone.Guest Pavel Durov · Host Lex FridmanIn a four-and-a-half-hour conversation with Lex Fridman, the Telegram founder traces freedom from a childhood move out of the Soviet Union to a French jail cell, a poisoning, and a 40-person engineering team.
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.Load moreShowing 24 of 228