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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 31, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersNetic's Agents Answer the Phone When the Heat BreaksHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFounder Melisa Tokmak tells Elad Gil how a two-year-old platform became the AI operations layer for HVAC, roofing, pet care, and other essential services.
41:38ENNo 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.
38:43ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Mar 27, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersTwo in Five Doctors Want Out. An On-Call Cardiologist Built the Note That Lets Them StayHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAbridge CEO Shiv Rao on treating the doctor-patient conversation as healthcare's source of truth, and why the company ran straight at the hardest health systems.
30:09ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jan 16, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersBilt Saved 65 Support Seats. Decagon's Founder Says Most Agent Ideas Still Won't SellHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilJesse Zhang on why customer support is the golden agent use case, why instruction following beats o1-style reasoning, and the two filters that kill most agent startups.
34:09ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 27, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersFive 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.
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Lex 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.
1:45:58ENLex Fridman· Dec 14, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersNine of ten colleagues said far-field speech was impossibleGuest Rohit Prasad · Host Lex FridmanRohit Prasad, Amazon’s vice president and head scientist for Alexa, talks with Lex Fridman about conversational AI, the Alexa Prize, trust, and why a 20-minute chat is still years away.
14:41ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersTalking for 20 Minutes: How the Alexa Prize Turns Real Customers into a Testbed for Conversational AIGuest Rohit Prasad · Host Lex FridmanRohit Prasad, head scientist of Amazon Alexa, explains the Alexa Prize grand challenge, how it is judged and why true conversation still needs reasoning.
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.