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20VC with Harry Stebbings· Oct 24, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersNaveen Rao on Energy, AI Hardware, Verification and the Future of RoboticsGuest Naveen Rao · Host Harry StebbingsThe Unconventional AI founder argues that energy efficiency will shape AI hardware, while the growing volume of model output makes verification more valuable.
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Latent Space· Oct 22, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersWhy GPU Capacity Comes in Three-Year Rectangles — Erik Bernhardsson, ModalGuest Erik Bernhardsson · Host Vibhu SapraModal’s CEO tells Latent Space why AI demand almost never looks like a three-year GPU contract, how the company pools compute across thousands of customers, and why sandboxes grew from a product they almost killed into a third of revenue.
1:19:50EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Oct 19, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersSameer Dholakia on AI Investing, Bessemer's Growth Strategy and Company CultureGuest Sameer Dholakia · Host Harry StebbingsThe Bessemer partner explains his approach to pricing fast-growing AI companies, backing founders and building teams, while discussing the risks behind his optimistic forecasts.
1:05:01EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Oct 3, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersChase Lochmiller on AI Data Centers, Energy and GPU EconomicsGuest Chase Lochmiller · Host Harry StebbingsCrusoe’s CEO discusses the constraints on AI infrastructure, the economics of GPU capacity and his company’s approach to energy and managed inference.
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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.
1:15:42EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Sep 28, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersAlex Mashrabov on Higgsfield's AI Video Business, Model Costs and GrowthGuest Alex Mashrabov · Host Harry StebbingsHiggsfield's founder explains the search for product-market fit, how he calculates annualized revenue and why creative workflows matter more than chasing model benchmarks.
1:19:54EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Sep 19, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThomas Sohmers on AI Inference, Memory and Data-Center GrowthGuest Thomas Sohmers · Host Harry StebbingsPositron’s co-founder discusses the engineering economics of inference, his views on AI infrastructure and regulation, and the risks he sees in financing and concentration.
38:14ENNo 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.
1:08:25EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Aug 10, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersAlex Atallah on OpenRouter, Model Competition and AI MarketplacesGuest Alex Atallah · Host Harry StebbingsThe OpenRouter CEO discusses inference providers, open-weight models, enterprise safety and the economics of routing.
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.
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.
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.
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Zhang Xiaojun Podcast· Feb 4, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersPan Jiayi on R1, o1, and Kimi K1.5: How Reinforcement Learning Teaches Models to ReasonGuest 潘嘉怡 · Host 张小珺Berkeley PhD candidate Pan Jiayi walks through reasoning-model reports from DeepSeek, OpenAI, and Kimi, unpacking long chains of thought, GRPO, reward design, and distillation. R1-Zero’s “aha moment” shows how reasoning strategies can emerge through reinforcement learning.
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.
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.
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.
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Lex Fridman· Oct 6, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersKeep the Programmer in the Driver's Seat: Cursor's Founders on Tab, Agents, and Zero-Entropy EditingGuest Cursor Team · Host Lex FridmanMichael Truell, Aman Sanger, Sualeh Asif, and Arvid Lunnemark tell Lex Fridman why they forked VS Code, how Tab and Apply actually work, and why most programming still needs a human iterating in real time.
37:47ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 30, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersWorking Backwards from AGI: Magic's Five-Million-Token BetHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilEric Steinberger wants a coding colleague you trust like a teammate — and a world that is still a good place thirty years after AGI.
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.
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.
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.
32:57ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Nov 9, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersA 7-billion-parameter model on a MacBook: Mistral's CEO reruns the cost of AIHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilArthur Mensch tells No Priors why Chinchilla made small models valuable, why open-sourcing Mistral 7B is not a bioweapon risk, and why guardrails belong on the application.
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 26