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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 show@no-priors.com.
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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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 show@no-priors.com.
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.

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

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

    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 episode of No Priors, Sarah, Elad, and Tuhin discuss why efficient code solutions are more desirable than no code, the most surprising use cases for Baseten, and why all of their jobs are very defensible from AI. 

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    Benchmarking fast Mistral 7B inference


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    Show Notes: 
    (0:00) Introduction
    (1:19) Capabilities of efficient code enabled development
    (4:11) Difference in training inference workloads
    (6:12) AI product acceleration
    (8:48) Leading on inference benchmarks at Baseten
    (12:08) Optimizations for different types of models
    (16:11) Internal vs open source models
    (19:01) timeline for enterprise scale
    (21:53) Rethinking investment in compute spend
    (27:50) Defensibility in AI industries
    (31:30) Hardware and the chip shortage
    (35:47) Speed is the way to win in this industry
    (38:26) Wrap

    • 38 min
    Designing the Future: Dylan Field on AI, Collaboration, and Independence

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

    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 independent Figma, how AI can augment design and speed up the iteration loop, and how Figma is expanding beyond design with products that help the entire product team’s workflow.

    Show Links:

    https://www.figma.com/

    Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger


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    Show Notes: 
    (0:00) Introduction
    (2:01) No more Adobe acquisition 
    (4:20) What’s next for Figma
    (7:16) FigJam, digital collaboration, and expanding beyond design
    (10:50) Figma DevMode
    (13:06) Incorporating AI at Figma
    (15:03) How AI will change design
    (19:19) Creativity augmentation and the iterative loop
    (22:44) Automating repetitive design tasks
    (25:35) The future of AI UI
    (29:44) Investing philosophy
    (31:28) Leadership evolution

    • 36 min
    Big tech earnings and the current AI debates, with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil

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

    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.

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    Mistral

    NVIDIA

    AMD


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     Show Notes: 
    (0:00) Introduction
    (0:27) Model news and product launches
    (5:01) Google enters the competitive space with Gemini 1.5
    (8:23) Biology and robotics using LLMs
    (10:22) Agent-centric companies
    (14:22) NVIDIA earnings
    (17:29) ROI in AI
    (20:43) Impact from AI
    (25:45) Building effective AI tools in house
    (29:09) What would it take to compete with NVIDIA
    (33:23) The architectural approach to compute
    (35:42) the roadblocks to chip production in the US
    (38:30) The virtuous tech cycles in AI

    • 42 min
    Competition makes for better chip design with AMD CTO Mark Papermaster

    Competition makes for better chip design with AMD CTO Mark Papermaster

    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. 

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    Show Notes: 
    (0:00) Introduction and Mark’s background
    (2:35) AMD background and current markets
    (4:40) AMD shifting to AI space
    (8:54) AI applications coming out of AMD
    (10:57) Software investment
    (15:15) The benefits of open-source stacks
    (16:58) Evolving GPU market
    (20:21) Constraints on GPU production
    (24:11) Innovations in chip technology
    (27:57) Chip supply chain
    (30:18) Future of innovative hardware products
    (35:42) What’s next for AMD

    • 39 min
    Improving search with RAG architecture with Pinecone CEO Edo Liberty

    Improving search with RAG architecture with Pinecone CEO Edo Liberty

    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 their data and query it for the most accurate responses. 

    In this episode, they talk about how Pinecone’s Canopy product is making search more accurate by using larger data sets in a way that is more efficient and cost effective—which was almost impossible before there were serverless options. They also get into how RAG architecture uniformly increases accuracy across the board, how these models can increase “operational sanity” in the dataset  for their customers, and hybrid search models that are using keywords and embeds. 

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    Show Notes: 
    (0:00) Introduction to Edo and Pinecone
    (2:01) Use cases for Pinecone and RAG models
    (6:02) Corporate internal uses for syntax search
    (10:13) Removing the limits of RAG with Canopy
    (14:02) Hybrid search
    (16:51) Why keep Pinecone closed source
    (22:29) Infinite context
    (23:11) Embeddings and data leakage
    (25:35) Fine tuning the data set
    (27:33) What’s next for Pinecone 
    (28:58) Separating reasoning and knowledge in AI

    • 31 min
    RAG is the key for smarter productivity tools with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao

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

    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. They also get into how using RAG models means better retrieval, longer memory, and the user can be less organized and how Notion is leading the charge in this era of SaaS bundling products.

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    Show Notes: 
    (0:00) Introduction
    (2:09) AI and Computing literacy
    (5:39) Building the Notion AI team
    (8:43) Notion as an application company
    (12:09) Prioritizing AI investment
    (14:53) The rapid evolution cycle of AI development
    (17:46) Notion Q&A
    (20:00) Workflow and AI for calendars
    (22:43) Moving past the need for organization
    (24:36) History of SaaS doesn’t repeat, it rhymes
    (30:14) Design at Notion
    (34:26) Notion office design
    (36:52) How RAG will change the future
    (38:30) Building our the software in the Notionscape

    • 42 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
82 Ratings

82 Ratings

PeteSteg ,

Staying on the cutting edge of AI

Gilad and Sarah are on the pulse of AI. This is a great show if you are pushing the edge in AI with your business and need to stay up-to-date. An example: a fabulous “best cuts” show highlighting the best from 2023’s episodes. It’s great to find an efficient way to keep up!

Marcus517 ,

Good company marketing w a bit of analysis

The episodes play like a vendor Presentstion. Here’s what my company is about, what our product does, how we see it improving. There’s a little bit of a broader view on implications but always it’s about what my company is doing.

For some, this is probably what they want. But I’ve sat thru so many vendor presentations, it’s just not for me anymore.

dogstechcoffee ,

The people to learn from

Huge fan of the podcast and Sarah’s work. Short, succinct, and direct - love the lack of filler. Thanks!!

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