Today, we're joined by Maohao Shen, PhD student at MIT to discuss his paper, “Satori: Reinforcement Learning with Chain-of-Action-Thought Enhances LLM Reasoning via Autoregressive Search.” We dig into how Satori leverages reinforcement learning to improve language model reasoning—enabling model self-reflection, self-correction, and exploration of alternative ... Show More
Aug 19
Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models with Jack Parker-Holder and Shlomi Fruchter - #743
Today, we're joined by Jack Parker-Holder and Shlomi Fruchter, researchers at Google DeepMind, to discuss the recent release of Genie 3, a model capable of generating “playable” virtual worlds. We dig into the evolution of the Genie project and review the current model’s scaled-u ... Show More
1h 1m
Aug 12
Closing the Loop Between AI Training and Inference with Lin Qiao - #742
In this episode, we're joined by Lin Qiao, CEO and co-founder of Fireworks AI. Drawing on key lessons from her time building PyTorch, Lin shares her perspective on the modern generative AI development lifecycle. She explains why aligning training and inference systems is essentia ... Show More
1h 1m
Jul 29
Context Engineering for Productive AI Agents with Filip Kozera - #741
In this episode, Filip Kozera, founder and CEO of Wordware, explains his approach to building agentic workflows where natural language serves as the new programming interface. Filip breaks down the architecture of these "background agents," explaining how they use a reflection lo ... Show More
46m 1s
Nov 2024
How to Improve at Learning Using Neuroscience & AI | Dr. Terry Sejnowski
In this episode, my guest is Dr. Terry Sejnowski, Ph.D., professor of computational neurobiology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. He is world-renowned for exploring how our brain processes and stores information and, with that understanding, for developing tools that ... Show More
2h 34m
Jan 2025
Erik Bernhardsson on Creating Tools That Make AI Feel Effortless
Today on No Priors, Elad chats with Erik Bernhardsson, founder and CEO of Modal Labs, a platform simplifying ML workflows by providing a serverless infrastructure designed to streamline deployment, scaling, and development for AI engineers. Erik talks about his early work on Spot ... Show More
23m 36s
Nov 2024
AI and the Future of Math, with DeepMind’s AlphaProof Team
In this week’s episode of No Priors, Sarah and Elad sit down with the Google DeepMind team behind AlphaProof, a new reinforcement learning-based system for formal math reasoning that recently reached a silver-medal standard in solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems. ... Show More
39m 21s
Feb 2025
Grok 3: The New AI Challenger
In this episode, Jaeden discusses the launch of Grok 3, the latest AI model from X AI, highlighting its capabilities, training methods, and performance benchmarks compared to competitors like OpenAI's ChatGPT. He shares personal experiences using Grok 3, including its reasoni ... Show More
16m 45s
Feb 2025
863: TabPFN: Deep Learning for Tabular Data (That Actually Works!), with Prof. Frank Hutter
Jon Krohn talks tabular data with Frank Hutter, Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Universität Freiburg in Germany. Despite the great steps that deep learning has made in analysing images, audio, and natural language, tabular data has remained its insurmountable obstacle. In ... Show More
1h 6m