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Lex Fridman· Feb 28, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThe First Guitar Solo Rick Beato Learned Was "Hey Joe"Guest Rick Beato · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with music educator Rick Beato about the guitarists who shaped him, how ears are trained, and whether AI can make a song worth hearing.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 11, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersElevenLabs Hit $300 Million ARR by Building Voice Before Anyone Believed It Was the InterfaceHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilIn Poland, watching a foreign film is a special kind of pain: one narrator, every character, a flat delivery from start to finish.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2:04:58ENLex Fridman· Apr 29, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWe're Not Homo Sapiens Anymore, Grimes Says. Call Us Homo TechnoGuest Grimes · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman rarely records after midnight. This episode is the exception: Grimes, eight hours late, on music, memes, motherhood, and why consciousness might be sacred even if humans are not.
1:28:46ENLex Fridman· Jan 4, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Speech Company That Gets Paid to Label Its Own Training DataGuest Dan Kokotov · Host Lex FridmanRev VP of engineering Dan Kokotov tells Lex Fridman why a $1.25-a-minute human transcript, a 14% machine word-error rate, and a two-sided freelancer market are the same flywheel.
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.
17:21ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersHow Alexa Learned to Hear From Across the Room: Rohit Prasad on Far-Field Speech and IntentGuest Rohit Prasad · Host Lex FridmanAlexa's head scientist recalls the early days of the Echo, when far-field speech recognition seemed unsolvable and there were no customers to collect data from.