This week on No Priors, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil sit down with Karan Goel and Albert Gu from Cartesia. Karan and Albert first met as Stanford AI Lab PhDs, where their lab invented Space Models or SSMs, a fundamental new primitive for training large-scale foundation models. In 2023, they Founded Cartesia to build real-time intelligence for every device. One yea ... Show More
Jul 9
Travel Through the Lens of AI with with Booking.com CEO Glenn Fogel
When Glenn Fogel joined Priceline in 2000, the business was worth a few hundred million dollars. One week later, the Nasdaq peaked, eventually sending its stock down to a dollar a share. But over 25 years later, Booking Holdings has scaled over 1000x into an over $100 billion dol ... Show More
41m 4s
Jun 26
Really Big Test-Time Compute in AI Changes Benchmarks, Safety and Research with OpenAI Research Scientist Noam Brown
When a new AI model drops, it’s judged based on a static benchmark grid that doesn’t account for how long the model is allowed to think. How then should we measure a model’s true capability? OpenAI research scientist Noam Brown returns to talk with Sarah Guo about his latest essa ... Show More
36m 18s
Nov 2025
939: Mixture-of-Experts and State-Space Models on Edge Devices, with Tyler Cox and Shirish Gupta
State space models (SSMs), granite models, and Mamba: Dell’s Tyler Cox and Shirish Gupta discuss with Jon Krohn why state space models can process information so efficiently, and how Dell’s AI factory helps enterprises manage custom AI workloads. Hear the latest on the Dell Pro A ... Show More
1h 6m
Oct 2024
A Big Week in Tech: NotebookLM, OpenAI’s Speech API, & Custom Audio
<p>Last week was another big week in technology. </p><p>Google’s NotebookLM introduced its Audio Overview feature, enabling users to create customizable podcasts in over 35 languages. OpenAI followed with their real-time speech-to-speech API, making voice integration easier for d ... Show More
32m 1s
Aug 2023
ElevenLabs’ Launches Voice Generating Tools and Ends Beta
In this episode, we dive deep into the launch of ElevenLabs' voice-generating tools as they transition out of beta testing and into the hands of content creators, developers, and enterprises. We talk to the team behind the innovation, explore its potential applications, and discu ... Show More
11m 47s
Oct 2025
Google’s AI Breakthrough in Cancer, Protein Powders Exposed | Marc Benioff, Eiso Kant, Dante Vaisbort, Alice Bentinck, Eric Seufert, Pim de Witte
(01:17) - Google’s AI Breakthrough in Cancer (22:44) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (30:37) - Protein Powders Exposed (35:41) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (01:36:03) - Dante Vaisbort, a University of Chicago graduate and co-founder of Albacore Inc., discusses his company's development of Gho ... Show More
3h 15m
Dec 2023
Episode 174 - Live and In Person at Voice+AI 2023
<p>Join Allen Firstenberg and guest host Noble Ackerson, at the Voice and AI 2023 conference. They discuss the growth of AI and how LLM (large language models) are affecting the tech world and delve deep into topics like LangChain, generative AI, and how to optimize AI operations ... Show More
37m 48s
Jun 2023
AI trends: a Latent Space crossover
Daniel had the chance to sit down with @swyx and Alessio from the Latent Space pod in SF to talk about current AI trends and to highlight some key learnings from past episodes. The discussion covers open access LLMs, smol models, model controls, prompt engineering, and LLMOps. Th ... Show More
59m 39s