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  • Building Hard Tech in Hard Markets: Kyle Vogt on Cruise, Twitch, and The Bot Company

    Building Hard Tech in Hard Markets: Kyle Vogt on Cruise, Twitch, and The Bot Company
    Feb 20 2025
    Kyle Vogt joins Sarah and Elad on this week’s episode of No Priors. A serial entrepreneur, Kyle co-founded Twitch, transforming live streaming, and later Cruise, the autonomous vehicle company acquired by GM for $1 billion. Now he’s taking on AI-powered home robotics with The Bot Company. In this episode, Kyle shares his journey building transformative tech companies, the challenges of scaling autonomous systems, and why he believes home robots are the next frontier. They also discuss the parallels between AVs and robotics, overcoming consumer skepticism, US vs. China manufacturing, and the policies needed to foster a competitive robotics industry. Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @KVogt Show Notes: 0:00 Introduction 0:29 Founding Cruise 3:12 Tesla vs. Waymo approach 4:44 Scaling autonomous vehicles 10:03 The Bot Company 16:35 Deploying robots in the home 17:56 Parallels between robots and AV markets 20:51 Personifying robots and overcoming consumer skepticism 25:00 Timeline on consumer robots 26:47 Chinese vs. US manufacturing 29:15 Fostering a competitive domestic robotics industry 34:00 Lessons from Cruise & personal philosophies
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    38 min
  • How Harvey AI is Changing the Legal Industry with Winston Weinberg

    How Harvey AI is Changing the Legal Industry with Winston Weinberg
    Feb 14 2025
    This week on No Priors, Sarah sits down with Harvey cofounder and CEO Winston Weinberg. Harvey is one of the leading application layer AI companies, building domain-specific AI for law firms, professional service providers, and the Fortune 500. They are already working with companies like Bridgewater, KKR, PWC, and O’Melveny with over $500M in funding from OpenAI, Sequoia, Kleiner, GV and Elad and Sarah. In this episode, Sarah and Winston cover AI product strategy, the future of professional services, company values, keeping up with research, and the law industry of the future. Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @WinstonWeinberg Show Notes: 0:00 Introduction 2:39 Harvey’s founding story 3:46 Capability improvement 6:39 Building teams around AI capabilities 9:17 End to end task completion 12:37 Beginning with large industry leaders 17:21 Working with users skeptical of automation 20:40 Being a lawyer today and in the future 26:02 Adapting product for other domains 26:58 Hiring philosophy at Harvey 30:39 Lessons and mistakes as a founder 32:53 Personal drive 40:21 Advice to other founders 44:35 Prediction for next ChatGPT moment
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    50 min
  • DeepSeek, Deep Research, and 2025 Predictions with Sarah and Elad

    DeepSeek, Deep Research, and 2025 Predictions with Sarah and Elad
    Feb 7 2025
    This week on No Priors, Sarah and Elad celebrate the 100th episode! They dive into the biggest AI stories of 2025, breaking down DeepSeek—truth vs. hype, the rapid consumer adoption, and the real cost of training the models. They debate model commoditization and the value of being a frontier model provider vs. building on existing work. Plus, they unpack OpenAI’s new Deep Research release and the latest on Stargate. Finally, they share bold predictions for 2025, covering robots, autonomous vehicles, local AI models, emerging data-generation strategies, and reasoning breakthroughs. Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil Show Notes: 0:00 Introduction 0:19 DeepSeek 5:38 Are models commoditizing? 8:33 DeepSeek’s consumer adoption 9:16 OpenAI’s Deep Research release 13:30 Stargate 15:04 Elad & Sarah’s Predictions for 2025
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    23 min
  • Rick Caruso on LA’s Wildfires, Policy Failures, and the Path Forward

    Rick Caruso on LA’s Wildfires, Policy Failures, and the Path Forward
    Jan 30 2025
    This week on No Priors, Elad sits down with Rick Caruso, LA real estate developer and runner-up in the 2022 mayoral race. With experience serving under three LA mayors, as well as on the police commission and the board of water and power, Rick offers a unique perspective on the systemic failures that contributed to the devastation of the January 2025 wildfires in communities like the Palisades and Altadena. He discusses the steps he took to build more resilient infrastructure in his properties and how California can rebuild smarter to better prepare for future disasters. They also explore the state’s water management, rising crime, and how to leverage California’s vast natural resources and budget to create a better future for all residents. Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @RickCarusoLA Show Notes 0:00 Introduction 0:56 Caruso’s history in business and public service 3:36 Failures in fire prevention and response 5:58 How Caruso’s properties survived 8:26 Water shortages and infrastructure failures 9:47 Arson, looting, and crime in LA 15:03 Rebuilding 20:50 Allocating California’s resources effectively 26:15 Caruso’s future plans
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    27 min
  • What Can We Do About Wildfires? With Convective Capital’s Bill Clerico

    What Can We Do About Wildfires? With Convective Capital’s Bill Clerico
    Jan 23 2025
    This week on No Priors, Sarah and Elad sit down with Bill Clerico, founder of Convective Capital, an early stage venture fund focused on technology-driven solutions for wildfire mitigation and climate resilience. The wildfires in Los Angeles have caused unprecedented property damage and immense hardship for countless individuals and families. This episode is devoted to diving into understanding what happened and what we can do in the future. Bill shares his insights into the increasing severity of wildfires, the role of policy, and how infrastructure issues, like outdated building codes and underfunded utilities, are contributing to the crisis. They discuss the latest innovations in fire-fighting technology, from advanced detection to drones, and how these tools can help mitigate future damage. Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @BillClerico Show Notes: 0:00 Introduction 1:02 Why are wildfires getting worse? 5:37 Policies and regulatory decisions 10:47 Housing: building codes and permitting 13:19 Key factors in response 16:20 Improving water supply and city infrastructure 19:10 Preventing wildfires 21:26 Underinvestment in California’s utilities 26:53 Innovative fire fighting technology 29:35 Accelerating Los Angeles’ recovery 34:29 Actions homeowners, insurance companies, and governments can take
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    38 min
  • How AI Agents Are Transforming Customer Support, with Decagon’s Jesse Zhang

    How AI Agents Are Transforming Customer Support, with Decagon’s Jesse Zhang
    Jan 16 2025
    Today on No Priors, co-founder and CEO of Decagon, Jesse Zhang, joins Elad to discuss the future of agentic customer support. Decagon provides AI-powered customer interactions for companies like Rippling, Notion, Duolingo, Classpass, Substack, Vanta, Eventbrite, and more. Jesse shares the thesis behind starting Decagon, why he sees customer support as the ideal entry point for agentic technology, and what areas of AI excite him most. They also discuss voice-based interfaces, issues with latency in current capabilities, and the connection between young math olympiad communities and today’s AI startups. Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @TheJesseZhang Show Notes: 0:00 Introduction 0:30 Starting Decagon 3:15 Business impact of adopting agents for customer support and customer ops 8:00 AI infrastructure and models for customer success agents 12:05 Voice-based capabilities and text-to-speech engines 15:00 Combatting latency 16:25 Crossover of math and AI communities 21:12 Exciting areas of AI 25:29 Strengths and weaknesses of agents
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    30 min
  • Erik Bernhardsson on Creating Tools That Make AI Feel Effortless

    Erik Bernhardsson on Creating Tools That Make AI Feel Effortless
    Jan 9 2025
    Today on No Priors, Elad chats with Erik Bernhardsson, founder and CEO of Modal Labs, a platform simplifying ML workflows by providing a serverless infrastructure designed to streamline deployment, scaling, and development for AI engineers. Erik talks about his early work on Spotify’s ML algorithms, what Modal offers today, and his vision for building an end-to-end solution for AI engineers. They dive into GPU trends, cloud vs on-premise setups, and when to train custom models vs use off-the-shelf solutions. Erik also shares his thoughts on the evolving role of AI in fields like coding, physics, and music. Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @Bernhardsson Show Notes: 0:00 Introduction 0:22 Erik's early interest in ML infra 1:22 Founding Modal Labs 4:17 State of GPU use today and what’s to come 7:14 Modal's end-to-end vision 9:00 Differentiating amongst competition 10:20 Cloud vs on-premise 12:35 Popular AI models 13:20 Gaps in AI infrastructure 14:55 Insights on vector databases 16:48 Training models vs off-the-shelf models 17:47 AI’s impact on coding and physics 22:14 AI's impact on music
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    24 min
  • The Best of 2024 with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil

    The Best of 2024 with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
    Dec 26 2024
    2024 has been a year of transformative technological progress, marked by conversations that have reshaped our understanding of AI's evolution and what lies ahead. Throughout the year, Sarah and Elad have had the privilege of speaking with some of the brightest minds in the field. As we look back on the past months, we’re excited to share highlights from some of our favorite No Priors podcast episodes. Featured guests include Jensen Huang (Nvidia), Andrej Karpathy (OpenAI, Tesla), Bret Taylor (Sierra), Aditya Ramesh, Tim Brooks, and Bill Peebles (OpenAI’s Sora Team), Dmitri Dolgov (Waymo), Dylan Field (Figma), and Alexandr Wang (Scale). Want to dive deeper? Listen to the full episodes here: NVIDIA's Jensen Huang on AI Chip Design, Scaling Data Centers, and his 10-Year Bet No Priors Ep. 89 | With NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang The Road to Autonomous Intelligence, With Andrej Karpathy from OpenAI and Tesla No Priors Ep. 80 | With Andrej Karpathy from OpenAI and Tesla Transforming Customer Service through Company Agents, with Sierra’s Bret Taylor No Priors Ep. 82 | With CEO of Sierra Bret Taylor OpenAI’s Sora team thinks we’ve only seen the "GPT-1 of video models" No Priors Ep.61 | OpenAI's Sora Leaders Aditya Ramesh, Tim Brooks and Bill Peebles Waymo’s Journey to Full Autonomy: AI Breakthroughs, Safety, and Scaling No Priors Ep. 87 | With Co-CEO of Waymo Dmitri Dolgov Designing the Future: Dylan Field on AI, Collaboration, and Independence No Priors Ep. 55 | With Figma CEO Dylan Field The Data Foundry for AI with Alexandr Wang from Scale No Priors Ep. 65 | With Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil Show Notes: 0:00 Introduction 0:15 Jensen Huang on building at data-center scale 4:00 Andrej Karpathy on the AI exo-cortex, model control, and a shift to smaller models 7:14 Bret Taylor on the agentic future of business interactions 11:17 OpenAI’s Sora team on visual models and their role in AGI 15:53 Waymo’s Dmitri Dolgov on bridging the gap to full autonomy and the challenge of 100% accuracy 19:00 Figma’s Dylan Field on the future of interfaces and new modalities 23:29 Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang on the journey to AGI 26:29 Outro
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    27 min