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38:14ENDiffusion 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.
1:01:27ENTwo 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.
30:47ENEmbryos 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.
31:57ENPeak 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.
1:01:49ENTwo 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.
44:49ENHow 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.
40:54ENDiscovery 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.
23:37ENA Hundred GPUs in Seconds: Why Modal Threw Out Docker and KubernetesHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilErik Bernhardsson tells Elad Gil that AI inference is too bursty for year-long GPU contracts, and that the cloud should feel as fast as a laptop.
26:08ENFewer Than 3% of Deals Get Investigated. Selling to the Monopolist Is What Triggers the FTC.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilChair Lina Khan tells No Priors how merger review actually works in AI markets, why open-weight models matter, and why the agency banned most non-competes.
42:42ENEthereum 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.
34:09ENFive 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.
36:22ENOne 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.
23:57ENChips, Agents and a Reckoning: Sarah Guo and Elad Gil on the 2023 AI BoomHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe hosts answer listener questions on the GPU crunch, how soon enterprises will ship AI products, how to build agents, and what 2024 holds for tech valuations.








