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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 25, 2026PodcastAI Safety's Real Shortage Is Founders, Not IdeasHost Nathan LabenzHalcyon's Mike McCormick on launching about 30 AI safety, cyber, and biosecurity organizations in three years — and why experienced leaders, not more Google Docs, are the bottleneck.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 18, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersDiffusion 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.
1:25:13ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 16, 2026PodcastA $500 Lamp Cut TB Transmission 90 Percent. Almost Nobody Buys OneHost Nathan LabenzAerolamp's Misha Gurevich and Vivian Belenky walk Patrick McKenzie through far-UVC at 222 nanometers: the lab science, the safety case, and why the bottleneck is awareness rather than physics.
1:01:27ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 2, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersTwo 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.
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Sequoia Capital· Mar 17, 2026PodcastThe $500-per-Kilogram Line: Why Starcloud Thinks Data Centers Belong in SpaceStarcloud founder Philip Johnston walks through the physics, launch economics, and business model of putting AI compute in orbit.
30:47ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jan 29, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersEmbryos 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.
1:02:19ENSequoia Capital· Dec 10, 2025PodcastA Top Video Model's Half-Life Is 30 Days. fal Runs 600 AnywayThe fal founders tell Sequoia why generative video is a compute-bound problem that language-model shops keep underestimating, and why they will not let any customer marry a single model.
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Lex Fridman· Nov 17, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersOne Second of Fuel: David Kirtley on Fusion Power by 2028Guest David Kirtley · Host Lex FridmanThe Helion Energy CEO walks Lex Fridman from 1958 theta pinches to a Microsoft contract that wants first electrons on the grid in 2028.
31:57ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Oct 15, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersPeak 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.
1:01:49ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 25, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersTwo 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.
44:49ENNo 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.
1:49:29ENLex Fridman· Aug 13, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersChina Is Not Run by One Person. It Is a Mayor EconomyGuest Keyu Jin · Host Lex FridmanEconomist Keyu Jin on local GDP races, DeepSeek, tariffs, Jack Ma, and why Western collapse forecasts keep missing the country they describe.
1:56:16ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 22, 2025PodcastSB 813 Would Hand AI Safety Checks to Licensed Private Firms — If Government Can Watch the WatchersHost Nathan LabenzGillian Hadfield and Andrew Freedman want California to set AI safety outcomes, license competing certifiers, and give companies a rebuttable presumption in court if they pass.
1:22:31ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 25, 2025PodcastTwo Hours a Day, 99th Percentile: How Alpha School Made 2-Sigma RealHost Nathan LabenzMacKenzie Price explains how Alpha School uses adaptive apps—not chatbots—to finish core academics in two hours a day and still beat the growth models.
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.
1:32:29ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 9, 2025Podcast17 Edits, Then 3 Prompts: Lovable Builds the Same App TwiceHost Nathan LabenzAnton Osika and Isaak Sundeman live-build a shopping comparison tool and argue that opinionated defaults—not open-ended agents—are how non-coders actually ship software.
52:06ENSequoia Capital· Jan 21, 2025PodcastLinkedIn spent five years on graph neural nets. She wants any company to see value in four weeksKumo co-founder Hema Raghavan argues that the graph was always sitting in your warehouse tables — and that a SQL-like predict clause is how ordinary companies finally get to use it.
23:37ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jan 9, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersA 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.
26:08ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Oct 3, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersFewer 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.
39:45ENSequoia Capital· Sep 24, 2024PodcastHarmonic’s Bet: Teach AI Math Directly, and the Riemann Hypothesis Falls by 2029Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev and Harmonic co-founder Tudor Achim tell Sequoia why math is reasoning, why Lean is the verifier, and why they refuse to wait for mathematical skill to emerge from scale.
42:42ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 22, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersEthereum 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.
34:09ENNo 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.
1:29:14ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 29, 2024Podcast55% of People Have Had a Lucid Dream. Prophetic AI Wants the Rest to Have One Every NightHost Nathan LabenzProphetic AI co-founders Eric Wollberg and Wesley Berry tell Ate-a-Pi how a headband of EEG and focused ultrasound, steered by a neural transformer, is meant to light up the prefrontal cortex during REM.
56:56ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 25, 2024PodcastA Week of PCB Layout in an Hour: Quilter Trains Agents, Not ImitatorsHost Nathan LabenzSpaceX alum Sergiy Nesterenko tells Will Summerlin how Quilter uses reinforcement learning to compile schematics into manufacturable boards, and why cloning human layouts would cap the system at human skill.Load moreShowing 24 of 82