In this episode of No Priors, Sarah is joined by Aidan Gomez, cofounder and CEO of Cohere. Aidan reflects on his journey to co-authoring the groundbreaking 2017 paper, “Attention is All You Need,” during his internship, and shares his motivations for building Cohere, which delivers AI-powered language models and solutions for businesses. The discussion explo ... Show More
Nov 19
Sunday Robotics: Scaling the Home Robot Revolution with Co-Founders Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi
The robotics industry is on the cusp of its own “GPT” moment, catalyzed by transformative research advances. Enter Memo, the first general-intelligence personal robot, focused on taking on your chores to give back your time. Sarah Guo sits down with Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi, co-fo ... Show More
39m 10s
Nov 13
How AI Will Accelerate Breakthroughs in Biotechnology with Benchling CEO Sajith Wickramasekara
Bringing new drugs to market is a costly, time-consuming endeavor. On top of that, most medicines fail at some point in the research and development phase. Sarah Guo is joined by Sajith Wickramasekara, co-founder and CEO of Benchling, a company that has not only become the centra ... Show More
48m 13s
Nov 2024
AI Innovations: The Latest from Anthropic and OpenAI
<p>In this episode, Jamie and Jaeden discuss the latest developments in the AI industry, focusing on major players like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Perplexity. They explore Anthropic's recent price increase for their new model, the implications of Perplexity's offer to assist the New ... Show More
16m 4s
Jul 2024
Adopting Generative AI in Healthcare Organizations - with Prashant Natarajan of H2O.ai
<p>Today's guest is Prashant Natarajan, Vice President of Strategy and Products at H2O.ai. H2O.ai is a tech company whose platform, the H2O AI Cloud, enables businesses, government entities, nonprofits, and academic institutions to make, operate, and innovate with different AI ca ... Show More
33m 21s
Dec 2024
Agentic Workflow and Generative AI for Enterprises
<p dir="ltr">Vivek Kumar, Director Of CX Innovation & Strategy, Oracle Corporation, discusses the integration of generative AI into enterprise solutions, with a focus on its transformative impact on customer experience and CRM systems. He highlights Oracle's decade-long journey w ... Show More
31m 25s
Oct 2024
Why Human Data is Key to AI: Alexandr Wang from Scale AI
In this conversation with a16z general partner David George, Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang discusses the three pillars of AI—models, compute, and data—and how creating abundant data is core to the evolution of gen AI. With Scale’s work across enterprise, automotive, and ... Show More
35m 8s
Sep 18
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)
Brendan Foody is the CEO and co-founder of Mercor, the fastest-growing company in history to go from $1M to $500M in revenue (in just 17 months!). At 22, he is also the youngest American unicorn founder ever. Mercor works with 6 of the Magnificent 7 and all top 5 AI labs to help ... Show More
1h 6m
Oct 20
74: Using AI at Work to Rethink Roles, Risk, and Readiness with Zac Engler
<p>Chris Daigle sits down with <b>Zac Engler</b>, Chief AI Officer and author of <em>Turning On Machines</em>, to discuss how organizations can adopt AI responsibly and practically while preparing their teams for a transformed future of work.</p><p>Zac shares his framework for he ... Show More
52m 33s
Aug 28
How 80,000 companies build with AI: products as organisms, the death of org charts, and why agents will outnumber employees by 2026 | Asha Sharma (CVP of AI Platform at Microsoft)
Asha Sharma leads AI product strategy at Microsoft, where she works with thousands of companies building AI products and has unique visibility into what’s working (and what’s not) across more than 15,000 startups and enterprises. Before Microsoft, Asha was COO at Instacart, and V ... Show More
57m 11s
Dec 2024
AI Governance and Strategy for Long-Term Impact - with Steven Eliuk of IBM
<p>Today's guest is Steven Eliuk, VP & CTO for AI, Governance and Data, Product Software Development at IBM. Steven joins Emerj CEO and Head of Research Daniel Faggella on today's episode to explore the critical barriers organizations face in operationalizing AI. Steven shares in ... Show More
21m 53s
Oct 1
The World Reacts to Sora 2, Slop vs. Farming Debate | Reece Chowdhry, Jim Gao, Fan-Yun Sun, Carl Pei, Shehzan Maredia, Victor Riparbelli, William Fedus, Jayanth Madheswaran
(05:21) - Slop vs. Farm Debate (11:40) - Ben Thompson's Sora 2 Analysis (35:37) - The Timeline Reacts to Sora 2 (01:34:31) - The Stablecoin Duopoly is Ending (01:42:14) - Reece Chowdhry, Founding Partner of Concept Ventures, recently announced the launch of their latest $88 milli ... Show More
3h 17m