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AI Engineer· Oct 25, 2026How Bridgewater Keeps Its AI Analyst Inside Permission BoundariesNikhil Benesch, Aaron Linsky · turbopufferAaron Linsky and Nikhil Benesch explain why search over an enterprise vault must honor document permissions without sacrificing recall or speed. Their solution combines vector indexing with native filtering to search hundreds of millions of vectors in roughly 120 milliseconds.
20:58ENAI Engineer· Oct 25, 2026Vinoo Ganesh on Making Financial AI Cite Every NumberVinoo Ganesh · KeplerKepler CEO Vinoo Ganesh explains why financial AI should retrieve and cite figures while deterministic software handles the math. His design makes traceability, retrieval quality, and tenant security part of the answer itself.
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Sequoia Capital· Aug 25, 2026PodcastHuman Click Data Is a Bug: Rebuilding Search for a Web of AgentsParag Agrawal, former Twitter CEO and founder of Parallel Web Systems, argues that agents will query the web a thousand times more than people, and that both search infrastructure and the ad-supported internet have to be rebuilt for that customer.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 26, 2026PodcastA thousand searches for five cents, and a high score that did not require cheatingHost Nathan LabenzOn a Cognitive Revolution morning show, Ceramic’s Anna Patterson collides cheap search with GPT-5.5’s clean Vending-Bench run, Zvi’s case for model welfare, and analog chips that cut matrix-multiply energy about thirtyfold.
31:26ENSequoia Capital· Apr 14, 2026PodcastChatGPT Opened 65 Pages to Buy a Shower HeadProfound CEO James Cadwallader argues that the internet's front door is the same, but an agent now walks through it, and marketing has to be rewritten for that visitor.
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No 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.
45:17ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 7, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersA Click From OpenAI Is 750 Times Harder Than From Google a Decade AgoHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilCloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on Content Independence Day, why traffic is a broken proxy for value, and how to price the holes in the models.
31:34ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 15, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersOne Company Now Holds as Many Documents as the Entire Early WebHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilGlean CEO Arvind Jain tells No Priors why enterprise search was a graveyard, how transformers finally made it work, and why a product that searches too well can be too dangerous to sell.
30:46ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 24, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersDeep Research Turned Web Browsing into a Trainable ProblemHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOpenAI researcher Isa Fulford explains why a side project on read-only synthesis became an agent, when reinforcement fine-tuning is worth it, and why models will hack the search engine you gave them.
32:46ENSequoia Capital· Feb 25, 2025PodcastDon't draw the flowchart: OpenAI's Deep Research team on training agents end to endIsa Fulford and Josh Tobin explain why Deep Research was trained with reinforcement learning on hard browsing tasks instead of a human-written graph of model calls.
44:48ENSequoia Capital· Oct 29, 2024PodcastEnterprise Google Failed for Twenty Years. A Search Veteran Finally Made It Work.Glean CEO Arvind Jain on why company search is harder than the public web, why RAG lives or dies on retrieval, and what work looks like when every employee has an AI assistant.
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Lex Fridman· Jun 19, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe journey begins after the answer: Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on search and curiosityGuest Aravind Srinivas · Host Lex FridmanIn 2022, Perplexity's first hire asked about health insurance — and four PhDs could not get a clear answer from Google.
1:25:10ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 15, 2024PodcastA Tenth of Google's Index, 99.9% Recall: How 20 People Built Brave SearchHost Nathan LabenzJosep M. Pujol walks Cognitive Revolution through Brave's privacy-first index, hybrid retrieval stack, and the Search API Nathan Labenz now wants his own product team to use.
1:27:01ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 8, 2024PodcastThree Million Emails, Ten LLM Calls, Six Models: Shortwave's RAG PlaybookHost Nathan LabenzFirebase founder Andrew Lee walks Nathan Labenz through the retrieval stack that turned a Gmail inbox into a working AI assistant.
1:23:09ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 3, 2024PodcastThe Right Size of an AI Task Is Whatever You Can CheckHost Nathan LabenzElicit founders Andreas Stuhlmüller and Jungwon Byun walk through how a twelve-person research assistant cut summary hallucinations from 1.5 to 0.5, ships about every week and a half, and treats task decomposition as the way to spend more compute without a black box.
1:06:54ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 5, 2024PodcastGoogle Gives You 33 Million Results. Exa Wants 54.Host Nathan LabenzWill Bryk, CEO of Exa, tells Nathan Labenz why search and research are different jobs, and why an AI librarian for the web has to be neural from the first filter.
1:32:19ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 29, 2024PodcastHis 2018 Prompting Paper Was Rejected. His Search API Now Beats GoogleHost Nathan LabenzRichard Socher traces You.com from a rejected unified NLP model to an LLM-native web index, three assistant modes, and a very low P(doom).
38:48ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jan 31, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersShopify Built a Copilot, Not an Autopilot, for Every MerchantHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilShopify VP of Core Product Glen Coates on collapsing duplicate engines, shipping AI that proposes but never commits, and teaching storefront search to understand a sweater.
46:36ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jan 18, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersAfter a decade of code search, Sourcegraph’s CTO says the coding-AI fight is outside the modelHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilBeyang Liu on Cody, why keyword search still does most of RAG, and why CS fundamentals get more valuable as AI compresses the middleware.
1:26:30ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 24, 2023PodcastMost of this data has never been in a database: Chroma's wartime CTO on RAGHost Nathan LabenzAnton Troynikov returns to The Cognitive Revolution to argue that retrieval quality is mostly the embedding, that Chroma should own the RAG loop, and that GPT still fails a basic Game of Life test of reasoning.
58:54ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 3, 2023PodcastModels Are Commodities. Perplexity's CEO Says the Index Is the MoatHost Nathan LabenzAravind Srinivas returns to Cognitive Revolution to explain how a 25-person search startup is building its own crawler, index, and models before the big platforms raise the drawbridge.
3:11:35ENLex Fridman· Jun 21, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersSearch was always a hack: Marc Andreessen on AI, truth, and the next internetGuest Marc Andreessen · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman sits down with the Mosaic co-creator and Andreessen Horowitz founder to ask whether Google Search, the browser, and open-source AI survive the decade.
39:10ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Mar 23, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersNever Cite More Than Five Links: Perplexity's Bet on Answer EnginesHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFounded in August 2022, Perplexity was barely seven months old when its CEO and CTO sat down with No Priors to explain how an answer engine takes on Google.
35:36ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Mar 16, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersFeatured snippets stalled at 7%. A Google veteran used language models to hit 70%Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilNeeva founder Sridhar Ramaswamy tells No Priors why answers always beat links, why privacy never sold the switch, and why most queries do not need the biggest model.Load moreShowing 24 of 33