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Conviction · Technology

No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups

At this moment of inflection in technology, co-hosts Elad Gil and Sarah Guo talk to the world's leading AI engineers, researchers and founders about the biggest questions: How far away is AGI? What markets are at risk for disruption? How will commerce, culture, and society change? What’s happening in state-of-the-art in research? “No Priors” is your guide to the AI revolution. Email feedback to [email protected]. Sarah Guo is a startup investor and the founder of Conviction, an investment firm purpose-built to serve intelligent software, or "Software 3.0" companies. She spent nearly a decade incubating and investing at venture firm Greylock Partners. Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur and a startup investor. He was co-founder of Color Health, Mixer Labs (which was acquired by Twitter). He has invested in over 40 companies now worth $1B or more each, and is also author of the High Growth Handbook.

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

09 Nov 2023
32m
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This podcast episode examines the impact of open source AI models on Natural Language Processing (NLP) performance. It emphasizes the importance of model size and token count in achieving better results. The episode also touches upon the significance of model performance and cost in AI deployment, as well as the releva...

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

02 Nov 2023
41m
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This podcast episode discusses OpenAI's journey in AI research and their mission to achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). It explores OpenAI's focus on neural networks, breakthroughs in computer vision, and their evolution from a nonprofit to a for-profit company. The episode also highlights the advancements i...

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

26 Oct 2023
36m
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This podcast episode delves into the realm of cybersecurity, exploring various topics such as protecting sensitive information in email accounts, utilizing generative AI in security applications, addressing the risks of advanced language models and automation, navigating the challenges of cybersecurity in the age of AI...

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

23 Oct 2023
32m
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This podcast episode discusses the journey and future of Generative AI at Google, covering topics such as the evolution of its internal use cases to external products, the importance of data, AI storage, privacy, and security, and the growing trend of multi-modality in AI. The discussion also explores the adoption of A...

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

12 Oct 2023
43m
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This podcast episode details the journey of Brian Halligan, from sales leader at PTC to the founder of HubSpot. It explores the rise of inbound marketing, the evolution of HubSpot from a marketing app to a CRM platform, and the impact of AI on marketing and sales. The discussion also covers leadership transitions, the ...

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Model Quality, Fine Tuning & Meta Sponsoring Open Source Ecosystem

09 Oct 2023
23m
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This podcast episode explores various aspects of AI enhancement, including model customization, scalability, and fine-tuning. It discusses the importance of open-source AI models and their potential applications, as well as the significance of retrieval augmented generation (RAG) approaches for information retrieval. T...

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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

28 Sep 2023
37m
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This podcast episode delves into various aspects of synthetic biology, DNA code, neural networks, protein engineering, AI in biology, drug discovery, biosecurity, and alternative architectures for AI, highlighting similarities and challenges between biology and computer science.

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

21 Sep 2023
29m
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This intriguing podcast delves into the exciting world of software development, exploring the transformative potential of AI-powered coding tools and the groundbreaking advancements in the field. Industry experts provide valuable insights into the disruptive role of AI in revolutionizing coding and discuss the future p...

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

15 Sep 2023
42m
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This podcast episode delves into the convergence of blockchain technology and AI, the potential impact on fields like biotech cancer research and Web3's role in addressing misinformation and identity verification. It explores the challenges in realizing decentralized AI training but highlights the possibilities of dece...

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

07 Sep 2023
30m
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This podcast episode covers a range of topics including the partnership between Cerebras Systems and G42 to build one of the largest AI supercomputers, the development of specialized AI supercomputers, linguistic models, inclusivity in language models, the challenges of starting a chip company, specialization in the se...

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

31 Aug 2023
38m
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Vercel, a web infrastructure company, focuses on providing tools for deploying modern and interactive websites. The company seeks to empower developers by facilitating AI integration in their applications. Innovations include the Edge Functions feature for improved performance, AI native products, and a template market...

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

24 Aug 2023
35m
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This podcast episode digs deep into the history, challenges, opportunities, and applications of deep learning, particularly focusing on transformers, large language models, and the use of deep learning in biology. Experts discuss the need for efficiency, elasticity, and test time search in AI models, as well as the pot...

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

17 Aug 2023
47m
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This podcast episode features Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, discussing the democratization of learning and the potential of personalized learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to transform education. Khan Academy began with educational YouTube videos and has since grown to a platform with 150 million learne...

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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?

10 Aug 2023
24m
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This podcast episode explores the challenges faced by the AI industry due to the shortage of GPUs. It discusses the impact of the current GPU bottleneck and provides insights into the future of AI adoption, applications, and agents. The episode also covers different approaches to developing technology and predicts tren...

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

03 Aug 2023
43m
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This podcast episode explores the journey of Lukas Biewald from his early days of research in machine learning at Stanford to his current role as the co-founder and CEO of Weights and Biases. The discussion revolves around key themes such as the evolution of ML tools, the impact of large language models, the integratio...

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How Palantir’s AI Bet is Revolutionizing Defense and Beyond, with CTO Shyam Sankar

27 Jul 2023
39m
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This podcast episode introduces Shyam Sankar, CTO of Palantir, and his journey at the company. It discusses Palantir's three key platforms: Gotham, Foundry, and Apollo, and their roles in data integration, AI modeling, and decision-making. The episode also explores the integration of LLMs with ontologies, the potential...

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The Timeline for Realistic 4-D: Devi Parikh from Meta on Research Hurdles for Generative AI in Video and Multimodality

20 Jul 2023
39m
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This podcast episode features Devi Parikh, a research director in generative AI at META and an associate professor at Georgia Tech. Devi discusses her journey in machine learning and computer vision, her work on generative AI, the potential applications of generative AI in content creation, the challenges and opportuni...

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Bringing AI to the Data Cloud, with Snowflake's CEO Frank Slootman

29 Jun 2023
51m
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This podcast episode features insightful conversations with leaders in technology, data, and business. Topics explored include the importance of location, industry, company, and people in career success; the journey of a CEO from startup to success; urgency and leadership; innovations and use cases of Snowflake; the ev...

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What's for Dinner? AI-Driven Commerce with Instacart CEO Fidji Simo

22 Jun 2023
40m
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This podcast episode features an engaging conversation with Fidji Simo, CEO of Instacart, and Sarah Friedman, Instacart's CEO during the COVID-19 pandemic, unpacking their transformative impact on the grocery industry. They delve into leadership challenges, strategic implementations of generative AI in business operati...

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What happens to Observability If Code is AI-Generated? The Potential for AI in DevOps, with Datadog Co-founder/CEO Olivier Pomel

15 Jun 2023
44m
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This podcast episode explores the journey and success of Datadog, an industry-leading observability and security platform for cloud applications, with Olivier Pomel, its co-founder and CEO. Pomel emphasizes the significance of fostering collaboration among DevOps teams and highlights the company's commitment to innovat...

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