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No 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.
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Lex Fridman· May 6, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersEvery Cycle Matters: The Volunteers Who Decode Almost All Internet VideoGuest FFmpeg · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Kunhya about FFmpeg, VLC, handwritten assembly, and the unpaid crew behind YouTube, Netflix, and a rover on Mars.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 4, 2026PodcastFrontier vision models score 12.5%: Joseph Nelson on the real waterline of computer visionHost Nathan LabenzThe Roboflow CEO tells Nathan Labenz why vision still lags language, how to distill SAM 3 into an edge model for Wimbledon, and why the United States has almost never led open-source vision.
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Sequoia Capital· Dec 16, 2025PodcastHow a Weekend Webcam Came to See 90 Billion Miles a YearSamsara CEO Sanjit Biswas on edge inference, messy road data, and why physical AI only counts once it is installed.
1:02:19ENSequoia Capital· Dec 10, 2025PodcastA Top Video Model's Half-Life Is 30 Days. fal Runs 600 AnywayThe fal founders tell Sequoia why generative video is a compute-bound problem that language-model shops keep underestimating, and why they will not let any customer marry a single model.
1:00:26ENSequoia Capital· Nov 6, 2025PodcastSeven Million Videos a Day, and Most Return Visits Are Spent CreatingOpenAI's Sora 2 leads walk through diffusion transformers, physics that rebounds off the backboard, and a feed designed against mindless scrolling.
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.
53:51ENSequoia Capital· Jun 3, 2025PodcastVeo 3 Took First Place by Beating Veo 2. Google Labs Says Chapter Two Just StartedThree Google Labs leads walk through generative cameras, background computer-use agents, and notebooks that adapt knowledge for an audience of one.
3:53:49ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 3, 2025PodcastWith One-Twelfth the Data, an Open-Source Vision Model Beat GPT-4oHost Nathan LabenzWill Hardman of Veratai walks Nathan Labenz through two years of vision-language models, from ViT and CLIP to InternVL, BLINK, and Transfusion.
46:35ENSequoia Capital· Nov 13, 2024PodcastThey trained a real-time video model in 20 hours and skipped the game engineDecart CEO Dean Leitersdorf tells Sequoia how Oasis runs live on H100s, why ChatGPT is a fallen wall rather than a pain point, and why the next trillion-dollar company may be a generated experience.
54:45ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 9, 2024PodcastA Few Megabytes of Doom and a Few Gigabytes of Model: Why Runway Bets on GeneralizationHost Nathan LabenzCTO Anastasis Germanidis tells The Cognitive Revolution why video is a fuller record of the world than text, why physics shows up without being programmed in, and how a small lab competes with unlimited compute.
46:47ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 3, 2024PodcastEditing Video Like a Document: How Descript Puts AI in the Copilot SeatHost Nathan LabenzDescript CEO Andrew Mason on Underlord, why the timeline had to die, and what a ten-times-more-expensive editor would look like.
1:03:22ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 2, 2024PodcastA 40-person team at $35 million ARR: HeyGen made AI avatars a business, not a demoHost Nathan LabenzJoshua Xu and Benchmark’s Victor Lazarte tell Nathan Labenz how a camera-replacement product grew past 40,000 business customers — and why half the faces on this episode are fake.
31:24ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 25, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersSora's Leads: A Minute of HD Video Is Just the GPT-1 of Video ModelsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAditya Ramesh, Tim Brooks, and Bill Peebles tell No Priors why text-to-video sits on the path to AGI, why they started from scratch instead of extending an image generator, and why they still have no product date.
1:55:10ENLex Fridman· Mar 18, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersSam Altman Expects the Road to AGI to Be a Power StruggleGuest Sam Altman · Host Lex FridmanOn a Friday afternoon in November 2023, OpenAI's board fired its CEO. Four and a half days later he was back, still refusing super-voting control.
1:21:28ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 26, 2024PodcastThe Prompt Is a Bug: Suhail Doshi’s Bet on Control Over PixelsHost Nathan LabenzThe Mixpanel founder tells Nathan Labenz how a cloud browser, a canceled tweet, and a Thursday weight drop shaped Playground AI’s bet on images.
1:36:39ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Nov 9, 2023PodcastOpenAI’s $5 Million Bet: A 60-Person Team Wants GPT-4V to Give Cars Common SenseHost Nathan LabenzGhost Autonomy cofounder John Hayes tells Cognitive Revolution why a multimodal model on the driving path could reset self-driving after two decades of DARPA-era stacks.
1:30:21ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 14, 2023PodcastA Million DALL-E Images, Distilled into Twelve Minutes of FilmHost Nathan LabenzWaymark’s Stephen Parker and Josh Rubin walk through how they turned stills from DALL-E 2 into The Frost, a narrative short, and what the next generation of video models changes.
39:50ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 20, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersWhy AI Video Is Still a Four-Second CorgiHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilMeta research director Devi Parikh explains why text-to-video has stalled on short animated images, and what it will take to get past that plateau.
1:18:18ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 20, 2023PodcastFifteen Thousand Brain Numbers Were Enough to Reconstruct What Someone SawHost Nathan LabenzTanishq Mathew Abraham walks through MindEye, the fMRI-to-image system that maps a handful of voxel values onto CLIP and diffusion models.
1:01:17ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 9, 2023PodcastThe $300 million Gates refused, and the $10 billion that went to OpenAIHost Nathan LabenzRobert Scoble and Ben Tossell talk with Nathan Labenz about AI scouting, Apple's still-sleeping neural engines, and whether incumbents or AI-first startups will win.
1:21:20ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 9, 2023PodcastFreeze the eyes and the brain. Train only the optic nerve.Host Nathan LabenzJunnan Li and Dongxu Li tell Nathan Labenz how BLIP cleaned noisy web captions, and how BLIP-2 connected a frozen vision model to a frozen language model in under ten days on one A100.
48:52ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Feb 9, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersUsers Wanted a Better Brush. Runway Built One-Click GreenscreenHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilRunway CEO Cristobal Valenzuela on why a model is not a product, why filmmakers hacked a four-frame-per-second tool, and why 80 percent is enough when nobody dies.
2:36:21ENLex Fridman· Sep 21, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersA Smile Is Not Happiness: Rana el Kaliouby on Emotion AI and the Empathy CrisisGuest Rana el Kaliouby · Host Lex FridmanThe Affectiva founder and Smart Eye deputy CEO talks with Lex Fridman about teaching machines to read faces, sensing drivers inside the cabin, and why she is proudest of the people her company grew.Load moreShowing 24 of 42