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Aug 31, 2023 • 38min

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

Guest Guillermo Rauch talks about Vercel's AI SDK and templates, web architectures, and the future of bots. They discuss AI's impact on web personalization, agent-based interactions, and web security. They also explore advancements in web architecture, supply chain security, and GPT-4 for programming languages.
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Aug 24, 2023 • 35min

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

Jakob Uszkoreit, co-founder of Inceptive and former Google Translate and Assistant teams lead, discusses the application of deep learning in biological design, optimizing vaccine production, and more efficient drug discovery. Topics covered include the use of attention in deep learning, exploring potential architectures, challenges in AI systems, deep learning in biological research, language pre-training, and the iterative process of data generation in AI-powered biological software.
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Aug 17, 2023 • 48min

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

Sal Khan, CEO and Founder of Khan Academy, discusses the future of education using AI, including personalizing learning experiences, assisting teachers with lesson plans, and creating an AI tutor for every child. They also explore the implications of GPT-4 on education and the importance of developing essential skills in a world with advanced AI technology.
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Aug 10, 2023 • 24min

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

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 use case for a specialized AI agent. Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.comFollow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil Show Links: Cerebras Systems signs $100 million AI supercomputer deal with UAE's G42 | Reuters  Our World in Data  Show Notes: [0:00:37] - Impact of GPU Bottleneck in the near and long term[0:10:30] - Timeline for existing incumbent enterprises to use AI in products [0:11:50] - Vertical versus broad applications for AI Agents  [0:19:33] - 2024 tech market predictions & how founders should think about valuations 
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Aug 3, 2023 • 44min

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

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 of ML engineering over the past decade and a half, and tells the backstory of Weights & Biases' success. He gives advice for aspiring AI company founders, placing emphasis on customer feedback and using insecurity as a vehicle for better customer discovery.Prior to founding Weights & Biases, Lukas attacked the problem of data collection for model training as the Founder of Figure Eight, which he sold in 2019. He holds an MS in Computer Science and a BS in Mathematics from Stanford University.Show Links:  Lukas Biewald - CEO & Co-founder - Weights & Biases | LinkedIn   Weights & Biases Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.comFollow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @l2kShow Notes: [0:00:00] - Lucas Wald's Journey in AI[0:08:16] - Startup Evolution and Machine Learning[0:18:54] - Open Source Models Implications and Adoption[0:29:54] - ML Impact in Various Industries[0:40:27] - Advice for AI Company Founders
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Jul 27, 2023 • 40min

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

Can frontiers as high-stakes as next-generation, AI-enabled defense depend on something as mundane as data integration? Can "large language models" work in such mission critical applications? In this episode of No Priors, hosts Sarah Guo and Elad Gil are joined by Shyam Sankar, the Chief Technical Officer of Palantir Technologies and inventor of their famous Forward Deployed Engineering force.Early employee and longtime leader Shyam explains the evolution of technology at Palantir, from ontology and data integration to process visualization and now AI. He describes how a company of Palantir's scale has adopted foundation models and shares customer stories. They discuss the case for open source AI models fine-tuned on private, domain-specific data, and the challenges of anchoring AI models in reality.Show Links: Shyam Sankar - Chief Technical Officer - Palantir Technologies | LinkedIn   Palantir Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.comFollow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @ssankarShow Notes: [0:00:00] - Palantir's CTO Discusses Company's Background[0:10:17] - Apollo and AIP[0:20:25] - Future of UI and Application Integration[0:28:29] - Investment in Co-Pilot Models and Education[0:31:22] - Exploring AI Implementation in Various Industries[0:38:19] - Operational and Analytical Workflows in Context
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Jul 20, 2023 • 40min

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

Video dominates modern media consumption, but video creation is still expensive and difficult. AI-generated and edited video is a holy grail of democratized creative expression. This week on No Priors, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil sit down with Devi Parikh. She is a Research Director in Generative AI at Meta and an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. Her work focuses on multimodality and AI for images, audio and video. Recently, she worked on Make a Video 3D, also called MAV3D, which creates animations from text prompts. She is also a talented AI-generated and analog artist herself.Elad, Sarah and Devi talk about what’s exciting in computer vision, what’s blocking researchers from fully immersive Generative 4-D, and AI controllability.No Priors is now on YouTube! Subscribe to the channel on YouTube and like this episode.Show Links: Devi Parikh - Google Scholar  Text-To-4D Dynamic Scene Generation named MAV3D (Make-A-Video3D) Full Research Paper Website with examples of image to 4 D generation Devi’s Substack Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.comFollow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @DeviParikhShow Notes: (0:00:06) - Democratizing Creative Expression With AI-Generated Video(0:08:31) - Challenges in Video Generation Research(0:15:57) - Challenges and Implications of Video Processing(0:20:43) - Control and Multi-Modal Inputs in Video(0:25:50) - Audio's Role in Visual Content(0:39:00) - Don't Self-Select & Devi’s tips for young researchers
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Jun 29, 2023 • 52min

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

Frank Slootman, CEO of Snowflake Computing, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil this week on No Priors. Before scaling Snowflake to its blockbuster IPO and beyond, Frank was also the CEO from early to scale for landmark enterprise companies ServiceNow and Data Domain. Frank grew up in the Netherlands and is also the author of three books: Amp It Up, Rise of the Data Cloud, and Tape Sucks.In this episode, our hosts talk with Frank about the opportunity for generative AI in the enterprise, why Snowflake isn't really a data warehousing company, their acquisitions of Neeva and Streamlit, apps within Snowflake, and how AI relates to traditional analytics and BI. He also talks about his personal journey, why it's always a good time to do performance management, and why most leaders struggle to raise the bar for performance.** No Priors is taking a summer break! The podcast will be back with new episodes in three weeks. Join us on July 20th for a conversation with Devi Parikh, Research Director in Generative AI at Meta. ** No Priors is now on YouTube! Subscribe to the channel on YouTube and like this episode.Show Links: Forbes: How CEO-For-Hire Frank Slootman Turned Snowflake Into Software’s Biggest-Ever IPO Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity Rise of the Data Cloud (Audible Audio Edition): Frank Slootman, Steve Hamm, Zach Hoffman, Snowflake: Books TAPE SUCKS: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story eBook : Slootman, Frank: Kindle Store Frank Slootman’s LinkedIn Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.comFollow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @SnowflakeDBShow Notes:[00:06] - Frank’s Insights on Career Success as a three-time CEO[12:42] - The message of his book Amp It Up[25:01] - Future of Natural Language and Data[36:29] - Data Management and Industry Transformation Future[45:13] - Managing Resources in Changing Economic Environment[50:09] - Amping Up Energy and Intensity Amid Economic Headwinds
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Jun 22, 2023 • 40min

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

Fidji Simo, the CEO of Instacart and co-founder of Metrodora Institute, a medical center and research institute for neuroimmune axis disorders, shares her personal journey from growing up in France, to leading the Facebook app, to becoming a wartime CEO. Fidji talks about the future of Instacart, their AI strategy, how the current era of AI is different from prior ML waves, and the impact of LLMs in commerce, robotics and healthcare. She also shares how she earns followership from her teams.** No Priors is taking a summer break! The podcast will be back with new episodes in three weeks. Join us on July 20th for a conversation with Devi Parikh, Research Director in Generative AI at Meta. ** No Priors is now on YouTube! Subscribe to the channel on YouTube and like this episode.Show Links: May 31, 2023: Instacart users can now plan meals using AI - Fast Company Profile May 13, 2023: Instacart CEO Fidji Simo makes groceries personal. Now she’s doing the same for women’s health December 2, 2021: Rapid Response: Re-founding Instacart, w/ first-time CEO Fidji Simo | Podcast: Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman Metrodora Institute Fidji Simo’s LinkedIn Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.comFollow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @FidjissimoShow Notes:[00:01] - Leading With Impact and Authenticity[11:48] - Implementing AI[17:28] - Future of Grocery Shopping With AI[25:38] - AI in Advertising and Commerce[32:54] - Metrodora: AI in Biotech and Healthcare[34:18] - The positive impact of AI, mitigating harm & role of regulations
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Jun 15, 2023 • 45min

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

Olivier Pomel, co-founder and CEO of Datadog, the leading observability company, discusses the company’s founding story, early product sequencing, platform strategy, and acquisitions. Olivier also shares his thoughts on their more recent expansion into security, and why he’s bullish on the potential for AI in DevOps.** No Priors is taking a summer break! The podcast will be back with new episodes in three weeks. Join us on July 20th for a conversation with Devi Parikh, Research Director in Generative AI at Meta. ** No Priors is now on YouTube! Subscribe to the channel on YouTube and like this episode.Show Links: Nov 22, 2022: Product-led Growth: Founder 1-on-1 with Datadog and Aiven - Olivier Pomel & Oskari Saarenmaa May 25, 2022: Datadog, Inc. (DDOG) CEO Olivier Pomel Presents at J.P. Morgan's 50th Annual Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference Jan 6, 2021: Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel on the cloud computing outlook Datadog’s Official Website Olivier Pomel LinkedIn Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.comFollow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @Oliveur Show Notes:[00:10] - DevOps and AI Potential[06:54] - Datadog and Generative AI[20:40] - Datadog's Acquisition and Expansion Strategy[31:46] - LLMs in Automation and Precision[42:35] - Datadog's Customer Value and Growth

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