Best Kevin Albrecht Podcasts (2024)

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OpenAI’s Sora team thinks we’ve only seen the "GPT-1 of video models" 31:24

1d ago31:24

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AI-generated videos are not just leveled-up image generators. But rather, they could be a big step forward on the path to AGI. This week on No Priors, the team from Sora is here to discuss OpenAI’s recently announced generative video model, which can take a text prompt and create realistic, visually coherent, high-definition clips that are up to a …

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The Future of AI Artistry with Suhail Doshi from Playground AI 24:31

8d ago24:31

24:31

Multimodal models are making it possible to create AI art and augment creativity across artistic mediums. This week on No Priors, Sarah and Elad talk with Suhail Doshi, the founder of Playground AI, an image generator and editor. Playground AI has been open-sourcing foundation diffusion models, most recently releasing Playground V2.5. In this episo…

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Hyperscaler strategy in AI, the application landscape heats up, and what we know now about agents with Sarah and Elad 26:12

15d ago26:12

26:12

This week on a host-only episode of No Priors, Sarah and Elad discuss the AI wave as compared to the internet wave, the current state of AI investing, the foundation model landscape, voice and video AI, advances in agentic systems, prosumer applications, and the Microsoft/Inflection deal. Have a question for our next host-only episode or feedback f…

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The argument for humanoid AI robots with Brett Adcock from Figure 38:13

22d ago38:13

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Humans are always doing work that is dull or dangerous. Brett Adcock, the founder and CEO of Figure AI, wants to build a fleet of robots that can do everything from work in a factory or warehouse to folding your laundry in the home. Today on No Priors, Sarah got the chance to talk with Brett about how a company that is only 21 months old has alread…

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Open sourcing AI app development with Harrison Chase from LangChain 27:32

29d ago27:32

27:32

Companies are employing AI agents and co-pilots to help their teams increase efficiency and accuracy, but developing apps that are trained properly can require a skill set many enterprise teams don’t have. This week on No Priors, Sarah and Elad are joined by Harrison Chase, the CEO and co-founder of LangChain, an open-source framework and developer…

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Ep. 12: Emerging Technologies, API Standardization, and the Future of LTL Shipping with OD’s Barry Craver and NMFTA’s Paul Dugent 21:51

1M ago21:51

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Automation and digitization are rapidly transforming the LTL industry, enabling greater transparency and visibility. Seamless technology fosters improved planning, pricing, service, and relationships among carriers and shippers. Host Jonathan Betz speaks with Barry Craver, VP of Technology at Old Dominion, who served OD on the business side for twe…

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Cryptography Tier List 19:28

1M ago19:28

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(NSFW) Three AI-generated guests rank cryptography things into a tier list. Play along at home and make your own tier list: https://tiermaker.com/create/cryptography-15683166 This episode is definitely not safe for work and definitely a parody. Do not base your decision in the 2024 election off of this podcast episode. No campaigns have endorsed th…

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Speed will win the AI computing battle with Tuhin Srivastava from Baseten 38:32

1M ago38:32

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At a time when users are being asked to wait unthinkable seconds for AI products to generate art and answers, speed is what will win the battle heating up in AI computing. At least according to today’s guest, Tuhin Srivastava, the CEO and co-founder of Baseten which gives customers scalable AI infrastructures starting with interference. In this epi…

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Designing the Future: Dylan Field on AI, Collaboration, and Independence 36:32

1M ago36:32

36:32

Figma has had a banner year and the formidable team isn’t slowing down—even after regulatory issues blocked the merger with Adobe. Today on No Priors, Sarah and Elad are joined by Dylan Field the CEO and founder of Figma, the design collaboration tool that is closing the gap between imagination and reality. They discuss what’s next for an independe…

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Big tech earnings and the current AI debates, with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil 42:14

2M ago42:14

42:14

Host-only episode discussing NVIDIA, Meta and Google earnings, Gemini and Mistral model launches, the open-vs-closed source debate, domain specific foundation models, if we’ll see real competition in chips, and the state of AI ROI and adoption. Don’t miss our episodes with: Mistral NVIDIA AMD Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to s…

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Post-Quantum iMessage with Douglas Stebila 55:34

2M ago55:34

55:34

Apple iMessage is getting a big upgrade! Not only are they rolling out ratcheting, but they’re going post-quantum, AND they’re doing post-quantum ratcheting! Douglas Stebila joined us to talk about his security analysis of the new PQ3 protocol update and not indulge our wild Apple speculations: Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2…

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Competition makes for better chip design with AMD CTO Mark Papermaster 39:08

2M ago39:08

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Compute is the fuel for the AI revolution, and customers want more chip vendors. AMD CTO Mark Papermaster joins Sarah and Elad on No Priors to discuss AMD’s strategy, their newest GPUs, where inference workloads will live, the chip software stack, how they are thinking about supply chain issues, and what we can expect from AMD in 2024. Sign up for …

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Improving search with RAG architecture with Pinecone CEO Edo Liberty 31:28

2M ago31:28

31:28

Accurate, customizable search is one of the most immediate AI use cases for companies and general users. Today on No Priors, Elad and Sarah are joined by Pinecone CEO, Edo Liberty, to talk about how RAG architecture is improving syntax search and making LLMs more available. By using a RAG model Pinecone makes it possible for companies to vectorize …

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RAG is the key for smarter productivity tools with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao 42:07

2M ago42:07

42:07

Notion is a productivity app that has invested heavily in AI to create products that enable workers to access information instantly without having to search through their own countless notes. Today on No Priors, Sarah and Elad are joined by Ivan Zhao, the co-founder and CEO of Notion, to talk about Notions Q&A interface and calendar applications. T…

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Build AI products at on-AI companies with Emily Glassberg Sands from Stripe 39:24

3M ago39:24

39:24

Many companies that are building AI products for their users are not primarily AI companies. Today on No Priors, Sarah and Elad are joined by Emily Glassberg Sands who is the Head of Information at Stripe. They talk about how Stripe prioritizes AI projects and builds these tools from the inside out. Stripe was an early adopter of utilizing LLMs to …

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The Copilot for Ecommerce with Shopify VP of Core Product Glen Coates 39:08

3M ago39:08

39:08

Building an ecommerce business is hard – it requires merchants to have a wealth of skills: technical, logistics, marketing, pricing, vendor management, finance and analytics. That’s why Shopify is releasing new AI features that help merchants tackle things like product descriptions, marketing suggestions and search. Today on No Priors, Glen Coates,…

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High-assurance Post-Quantum Crypto with Franziskus Kiefer and Karthik Bhargavan 56:13

3M ago56:13

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We welcome Franziskus and Karthik from Cryspen to discuss their new high-assurance implementation of ML-KEM (the final form of Kyber), discussing how formal methods can both help provide correctness guarantees, security assurances, and performance wins for your crypto code! Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2024/01/29/high-assura…

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Building the factories of the future with Covariant CEO Peter Chen 40:57

3M ago40:57

40:57

Building adaptive AI models that can learn and complete tasks in the physical world requires precision but these AI robots could completely change manufacturing and logistics processes. Peter Chen, the co-founder and CEO of Covariant, leads the team that is building robots that will increase manufacturing efficiency, safety, and create warehouses o…

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Coding in Collaboration with AI with Sourcegraph CTO Beyang Liu 46:42

3M ago46:42

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Coding in collaboration with AI can reduce human toil in the software development process and lead to more accurate and less tedious work for coding teams. This week on No Priors, Sarah talked with Beyang Liu, the cofounder and CTO of Sourcegraph, which builds tools that help developers innovate faster. Their most recent launch was an AI coding ass…

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A No Priors clip show: the best of 2023 19:21

4M ago19:21

19:21

We’re looking back on 2023 and sharing a handful of our favorite conversations. Last year was full of insightful conversations that shaped the way we think about the most innovative movements in the AI space. Want to hear more? Check out the full episodes here: What is Digital Life? with OpenAI Co-Founder & Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever How AI can…

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Ep. 11: How Can Shippers Use Data to Guide Their Decision-Making? With OD CEO Marty Freeman and Mastio’s Kevin Huntsman 20:31

4M ago20:31

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The findings from Mastio’s annual study of LTL carriers help shippers evaluate carriers based on many important attributes. Shippers need to choose the right partner when selecting a carrier. Shippers want to ensure that their freight will make it to their customers on time and damage-free. What tools are available to help shippers choose the right…

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Encrypting Facebook Messenger with Jon Millican and Timothy Buck 59:35

4M ago59:35

59:35

Facebook Messenger has finally been end-to-end encrypted, a couple of years after Mark Zuckerberg announced it! Plus Instagram DMs are trialing ephemeral E2EE DMs too! We invited on Jon Millican and Timothy Buck from Meta to discuss this major cross-platform endeavor, and how David Bowie fits into their personal Labyrinth. Transcript: https://secur…

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The case for AI optimism 47:13

4M ago47:13

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AI doomerism and calls to regulate the emerging technology is at a fever pitch but today’s guest, Reid Hoffman is a vocal AI optimist who views slowing down innovation as anti-humanistic. Reid needs no introduction, he’s the co-founder of PayPal, Linkedin, and most recently Inflection AI which is building empathetic AI companions. He is also a boar…

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How AI can help small businesses 39:35

4M ago39:35

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AI tools are helping small business owners manage their businesses, so they can stay focused on the aspects of their business they love to do. This week on No Priors, Sarah and Elad are joined by Alyssa Henry, an executive at some of the most impactful companies from Microsoft to Amazon. Most recently she was the CEO of Square. She led Square’s tea…

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AI is the new enterprise UI with Clara Shih, CEO Salesforce AI 27:14

5M ago27:14

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AI is the new UI for enterprise customers, according to Clara Shih, the CEO of Salesforce AI. Salesforce released Einstein, now called Einstein GPT, in 2016, making it an early example of how beneficial AI can be when embedded in enterprise software. This week on No Priors, Sarah and Elad talked with Clara about what the evolution of AI in enterpri…

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Open AI leadership shuffle, new diffusion models, and starting the cult of Q* 26:01

5M ago26:01

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OpenAI’s leadership has taken us all on a rollercoaster so it’s great timing for another host-only episode. This week Sarah and Elad get into what has been going on at OpenAI and what the turbulent leadership changes tell us about the importance of good intent and good incentives when building these influential companies. They also talk about innov…

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Ep. 10: Unpacking the Freight Classification System with Expert Erin Topper 17:14

5M ago17:14

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Understanding freight classification is a critical part of the shipping process. If freight is not properly classified or wrong item numbers are used, the most accurate rates may not be applied, which can lead to an unwelcome surprise on the final bill. Understanding these classifications is critical to a business, but why is it a struggle for some…

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AI Agents That Reason and Code with Imbue Co-Founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht 32:48

5M ago32:48

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The future of tech is 25-person companies powered by AI agents that help us accomplish our larger goals. Imbue is working on building AI agents that reason, code and generally make our lives easier. Sarah Guo and Elad Gil sit down with co-founders Kanjun Qiu (CEO) and Josh Albrecht (CTO) to discuss how they define reasoning, the spectrum of special…

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Attacking Lattice-based Cryptography with Martin Albrecht 57:20

6M ago57:20

57:20

Returning champion Martin Albrecht joins us to help explain how we measure the security of lattice-based cryptosystems like Kyber and Dilithium against attackers. QRAM, BKZ, LLL, oh my! Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2023/11/13/lattice-attacks/ Links: - https://pq-crystals.org/kyber/index.shtml - https://pq-crystals.org/dilith…

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Mistral 7B and the Open Source Revolution With Arthur Mensch, CEO Mistral AI 32:57

6M ago32:57

32:57

Open Source fuels the engine of innovation, according to Arthur Mensch, CEO and co-founder of Mistral AI. Mistral is a French AI company which recently made a splash with releasing Mistral 7B, the most powerful language model for its size to date, and outperforming much larger models. Sarah Guo and Elad Gil sit down with Arthur to discuss why open …

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Signal's Post-Quantum PQXDH, Same-Origin Policy, E2EE in the Browser Revisted 1:19:05

6M ago1:19:05

1:19:05

We're back! Signal rolled out a protocol change to be post-quantum resilient! Someone was caught intercepting Jabber TLS via certificate transparency! Was the same-origin policy in web browers just a dirty hack all along? Plus secure message format formalisms, and even more beating of the dead horse that is E2EE in the browser. Transcript: https://…

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Ep. 09: Holiday Shipping Season Expectations with Rutgers Business School’s Dr. Tony Bell and OD’s Steve Hartsell 17:37

6M ago17:37

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Customer expectations are growing as economic stress factors remain, giving rise to an uncertain holiday season. Retailers face their peak period during this season of shopping and shipping. This year appears to be shaping up like few others. Inflation remains a concern, interest rates continue to rise, and retailers are worried about weakened spen…

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What is Digital Life? with OpenAI Co-Founder & Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever 41:58

6M ago41:58

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Each iteration of ChatGPT has demonstrated remarkable step function capabilities. But what’s next? Ilya Sutskever, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at OpenAI, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to discuss the origins of OpenAI as a capped profit company, early emergent behaviors of GPT models, the token scarcity issue, next frontiers of AI research, his argu…

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AI Threats & Opportunities in Cyber Security With Material Security Co-Founder Ryan Noon 36:22

6M ago36:22

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Cyber Security is going to change significantly in the era of AI, according to Ryan Noon, cofounder of Material Security, a security company that makes cloud-based Google and Microsoft email a safe place for sensitive data. Elad Gil and Ryan talk about how Material Security started to use LLMs, potential security threats from AI hacks, and the role…

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What Google Cloud Can Teach Enterprises Developing & Rolling Out AI Tools, With Kawal Gandhi 32:37

6M ago32:37

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As the Lead for Generative AI in the Office of the CTO for Google Cloud, Kawal Gandhi has a unique vantage point on enterprise AI rollout. Sarah Guo and Elad Gil sit down with Gandhi this week to discuss his insights on how enterprises can effectively invest in AI development, the importance of TPUs, and Google’s internal AI applications. Plus, whe…

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From App to Suite to Platform, with HubSpot's Co-Founder Brian Halligan 43:07

7M ago43:07

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Startups aren't the only companies racing to build the new world of AI. This week, Sarah Guo talks with Brian Halligan, the co-founder, longtime CEO and now executive chairperson of HubSpot, the fastest growing CRM. He talks about category creation, coining the term ‘inbound marketing,’ lessons in scaling from an app to a suite to a platform, stayi…

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'Jerry Solinas deserves a raise' with Steve Weis 57:31

7M ago57:31

57:31

We explore how the NIST curve parameter seeds were generated, as best we can, with returning champion Steve Weis! “At the point where we find an intelligible English string that generates the NIST P-curve seeds, nobody serious is going to take the seed provenance concerns seriously anymore.” Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2023…

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Model Quality, Fine Tuning & Meta Sponsoring Open Source Ecosystem 23:53

7M ago23:53

23:53

What Does it Take to Improve by 10x or 100x? This week is another host-only episode. Sarah and Elad talk about the path to better model quality, the potential for fine tuning to different use cases, retrieval systems (RAG), feedback systems (RLHF, RLAIF) and Meta’s sponsorship of the open source model ecosystem. Plus Sarah and Elad ask if we’re fin…

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If DNA is Code, Can AI Help Write It? Scaling Cell Programming and Synthetic Biology, with Ginkgo Bioworks Co-founder and CEO Jason Kelly 37:00

7M ago37:00

37:00

Ginkgo Bioworks is using DNA as code to digitize the cell programming revolution. Ginkgo is using AI and synthetic biology to keep the next pandemic at bay, and accelerate our production capabilities for medicine, food, and agriculture. Ginkgo’s co-founder and CEO Jason Kelly joins hosts Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to discuss bioengineering protein as a…

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How Replit’s AI Tools are Changing Software Development with Co-founder and CEO Amjad Masad 29:37

7M ago29:37

29:37

Replit’s develop-to-deploy platform and new AI tool, Ghostwriter, are breaking down the barriers to entry for beginner programmers. Replit’s CEO, co-founder, and head engineer Amjad Masad joins hosts Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to discuss how AI can change software engineering, the infrastructure we still need, open source foundation models, and what to…

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The Intersection of AI and Blockchain, with Transformers author and NEAR founder Illia Polosukhin 42:24

7M ago42:24

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More than 25 million users are using NEAR-powered applications. Co-founder of NEAR protocol and Transformers author Illia Polosukhin joins hosts Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to discuss the intersections of crypto and AI technology, what we should expect from AI agents, decentralized data labeling, why AI’s alignment problem is really a human problem, and…

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Cruel Summer: hybrid signatures, Downfall, Zenbleed, 2G downgrades 58:35

8M ago58:35

58:35

We're back from our summer vacation! We're covering a bunch of stuff we saw and did: Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2023/09/13/cruel-summer/ Links: - Zenbleed: https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/zenbleed.html - Downfall: https://downfall.page - Post-quantum Yubikeys: https://security.googleblog.com/2023/08/toward-quantum-resilient-sec…

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Ep. 75 feat. Jesse Cash of Erra/Ghost Atlas 1:14:52

8M ago1:14:52

1:14:52

What's up Mother Tuckers! We are back baby! You can now watch all episodes of Get Tucked! on YOUTUBE. This week we are joined by Jesse Cash of Erra/Ghost Atlas. Catch them now on tour w/ Bad Omens! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Ryan "Tuck" O'Leary & Sound Talent Media

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The World’s Largest AI Processor with Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman 30:03

8M ago30:03

30:03

The GPU supply crunch is causing desperation amongst AI teams large and small. Cerebras Systems has an answer, and it’s a chip the size of a dinner plate. Andrew Feldman, CEO and Co-founder of Cerebras and previously SeaMicro, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil this week on No Priors. They discuss why there might be an alternative to Nvidia, localized mo…

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AI Superpowers for Frontend Developers, with Vercel Founder/CEO Guillermo Rauch 38:13

8M ago38:13

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Everything digital is increasingly intermediated through web user experiences, and now AI development can be frontend-first, too. Just ask Guillermo Rauch, the founder and CEO of Vercel, the company behind Next.js. In this episode of No Priors, hosts Sarah Guo and Elad Gil speak to Guillermo about their AI SDK and AI templates, and why Vercel is fo…

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AI-Powered Biological Software with Jakob Uszkoreit, CEO of Inceptive 35:23

8M ago35:23

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"Biological Software" is the future of medicine. Jakob Uszkoreit, CEO and Co-founder of Inceptive, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil this week on No Priors, to discuss how deep learning is expanding the horizons of RNA and mRNA therapeutics. Jakob co-authored the revolutionary paper Attention is All You Need while at Google, and led early Google Transla…

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The AI Tutor For Every Child and the Next Frontier of Education, From Khan Academy’s Creator Sal Khan 47:42

8M ago47:42

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The future of education is right at your children’s fingertips. Sal Khan, CEO and Founder of Khan Academy, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil this week on No Priors. For over a decade, Sal Khan has been trying to reform education, beginning with tutoring his cousins in math. He's the father of the YouTube "chalk talk" format, and has now served tens of m…

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Listener Q&A: 2024 Tech Market Predictions, Long Term Implications of Today’s GPU Crunch, and Will AI Agents Bring Us Happiness? 24:01

9M ago24:01

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This week on the podcast, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil answer listener questions on the state of technology and artificial intelligence. Sarah and Elad also talk about the 2024 tech market, what type of companies may reach their highest valuation ever and the (former) unicorns that may go bust. Plus, how do Sarah and Elad define happiness? Hint: it’s a u…

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Eradicating Machine Learning Pain Points with Weights & Biases CEO Lukas Biewald 43:44

9M ago43:44

43:44

How are ML developer tools helping to advance our capabilities? Lukas Biewald, CEO of Weights & Biases, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil this week on No Priors. Lukas explores the impact of ML in various industries like gaming, AgTech, and fintech through his insightful perspective. He discusses the impact of LLMs, puts them in context of the evolution…

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Ep. 08: Navigating Retail Supply Chains with Former Walmart Executive Joe Metzger and OD’s Greg Plemmons 24:58

9M ago24:58

24:58

How can carriers evolve to navigate retail supply chain complexities and future consumer expectations? The pandemic caused a seismic shift in the industry and resulted in systemic changes to traditional retail supply chain strategies. What lessons did we learn and where have we landed to better meet customer demands? In this episode hear from Joe M…

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