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No 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.
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Lex Fridman· Jul 23, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersNature Has Structure: Demis Hassabis on Learnable Reality and AGIGuest Demis Hassabis · Host Lex FridmanThe Google DeepMind CEO argues that evolution-shaped systems can be modeled by classical learning, and that interactive world models sit on the path to AGI.
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.
38:10ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 1, 2025Podcast · 2 speakerso3 should wait exactly as long as the answer takesHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOpenAI researchers Eric Mitchell and Brandon McKinzie tell No Priors why o3's leap is a chain of tools during reasoning — and why you should send the same prompt a hundred times.
40:54ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 17, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersDiscovery 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.
35:14ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Mar 20, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersRobots Have No Wikipedia. Chelsea Finn Is Starting With Three Buildings.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilPhysical Intelligence’s cofounder tells No Priors why a generalist robot model has to be trained across embodiments, why open-sourcing hardware is a bet against the problem going unsolved, and why humanoids are a little overrated.
27:07ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 26, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersAfter adding $100 billion a month, Jensen Huang says NVIDIA is selling the data centerHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil clip their favorite 2024 No Priors conversations into a year-end reel of NVIDIA, Karpathy, Sierra, Sora, Waymo, Figma, and Scale.
27:26ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 20, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA 40-Person Company With 40,000 Paying Customers Wants to Replace the Camera With AIHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilHeyGen CEO Joshua Xu tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil how avatars, localization, and a component-wise video stack are meant to knock the camera out of content production.
30:16ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 16, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersSuno's CEO Thinks a Billion People Will Make Music, Not Just Stream ItHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilMikey Shulman tells No Priors why Suno skipped speech, charges from day one, and wants the line between listener and creator to disappear.
24:32ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 18, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersImage Generation Is Still a Loot Box. Suhail Doshi Wants to Scale PixelsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Playground AI founder tells No Priors why he skipped language models, how a noise-sampling trick fixed SDXL's muddy brightness, and what a large vision model would actually do.
26:03ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 11, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersGPT-4-Class Models Will Be Cheap. The Frontier Will Still Need a Patron.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil walk through Mosaic’s Law, Microsoft’s Inflection hire, where the real money sits, and why the first AI wave looks consumer.
2:47:17ENLex Fridman· Mar 7, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersIf You Want Human-Level AI, Abandon Generative ModelsGuest Yann Lecun · Host Lex FridmanYann LeCun tells Lex Fridman why autoregressive LLMs cannot plan, remember, or understand the physical world — and why open source is the only democratic answer.
1:04:38ENLex Fridman· Sep 28, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersHundreds of Miles Apart, Zuckerberg and Fridman Sat Close Enough to See the WrinklesGuest Mark Zuckerberg · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman sat in a dark room in Austin wearing a Quest headset; Mark Zuckerberg sat in another conference room, also wearing one, and it did not feel like a video call.
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.
45:03ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Feb 16, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersEmad Mostaque’s bet: open small models, not one giant brainHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilStability AI’s founder tells No Priors why foundation models should be public infrastructure, why small models can beat giant ones, and what that means for media, medicine, and AGI.
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.
2:30:30ENLex Fridman· Jul 31, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Fallacy of the Successful First StepGuest Ishan Misra · Host Lex FridmanBerkeley's Jitendra Malik explains why computer vision still looks easy, why fully autonomous driving is not near, and what children know that today's networks do not.
1:00:11ENLex Fridman· Jun 17, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersRosalind Picard: Clippy Never Saw You Frown, and That's the Whole ProblemGuest Rosalind Picard · Host Lex FridmanThe MIT professor who named affective computing on emotion recognition, privacy, seizure-detecting wearables, and why a device you can take off is safer than a camera you cannot see.
23:54ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsPodcast · 2 speakersBeyond GPT-7: The Customization Toolkit, Meta's Open Source Bet and the Return of Consumer AIHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilIn a host-only episode, the No Priors hosts map the six levers for 10x to 100x better AI, explain fine-tuning, RAG and AI feedback, and ask why consumer social is suddenly interesting again.
15:43ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersInside RIDER: The Rugged Black Box Behind MIT's Large-Scale Driving StudyGuest MIT-AVT · Host Lex FridmanA walkthrough of the data-collection device MIT-AVT uses to record drivers and vehicles in semi-autonomous cars month after month.
43:44ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsPodcast · 2 speakersRoblox's 20-Year Bet: Building the Holodeck with Native AI ModelsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilRoblox CEO Dave Baszucki explains how 13 billion monthly hours of 3D interaction data could power smarter NPCs, virtual doppelgängers and a cloud-native future for games.