
sarah guo
@saranormous • 155,342 subscribers
startup investor/helper, founder @conviction. interested in intelligence, accelerating progress. tech podcast: @nopriorspod
Videos

Caught up with Andrej Karpathy for a new No Priors: on the phase shift in engineering, AI psychosis, claws, AutoResearch, the opportunity for a SETI-at-Home like movement in AI, the model landscape, and second order effects 02:55 - What Capability Limits Remain? 06:15 - What Mastery of Coding Agents Looks Like 11:16 - Second Order Effects of Coding Agents 15:51 - Why AutoResearch 22:45 - Relevant Skills in the AI Era 28:25 - Model Speciation 32:30 - Collaboration Surfaces for Humans and AI 37:28 - Analysis of Jobs Market Data 48:25 - Open vs. Closed Source Models 53:51 - Autonomous Robotics and Atoms 1:00:59 - MicroGPT and Agentic Education 1:05:40 - End Thoughts
sarah guo3,040,626 次观看 • 5 个月前

Really fun to hang again with my friend 🃏 Noam Brown (OpenAI research scientist, our first guest ever on No Priors in early 2023) to talk about the implications of large test-time compute, and what happens when models are given $10M budgets to spend on a single task. Topics: 01:23 – Why Benchmarks Are Broken 04:19 – Compute Budgets and Projections 06:48 – How Long Should Models Think? 08:01 – Benchmarkmaxxing 09:48 – Noam's Evals 12:40 – Safety (When Model Capability Scales With Spend) 16:09 – Implications For the Model Release Cycle 18:34 – Latent Model Capability 22:27 – Limits on Recursive Self-Improvement 28:38 – Large-Scale Multi-Agent Coordination 30:39 – Competition at the Frontier 33:19 – Breaking the Benchmark Grid Equilibrium 34:57 – Why Benchmarks Should be Scaled by Cost
sarah guo87,850 次观看 • 1 个月前

🆕 One of my favorite No Priors discussions: the wonderful Andrej Karpathy on - status of autonomy, tesla v. waymo - humanoid robots - bottlenecks to AGI - our future exo-brains - small models, open source - eureka labs, education - what young people should study in the age of AI
sarah guo440,409 次观看 • 1 年前

New drop of No Priors with Jared Kushner. Topics: - Brain Co (new startup with Elad Gil Eric Wu Luis Videgaray Caso Clemens Mewald & team - Affinity’s investing thesis on undervalued countries (and country management) - What he learned from diplomacy - Going outsider -> insider
sarah guo180,800 次观看 • 11 个月前

ICYMI, full No Priors discussion at Microsoft Build with Satya Nadella 01:48 – Reflections from Microsoft Build, ecosystem 03:12 – MAI Training, Model Strategy 05:48 – Complexity of Real-World Deployment of AI 07:33 – Augmenting Human Capital 09:37 – Harnesses for Enterprise 11:49 – Value Capture By Developers 15:09 – Can Everybody Operate at the Frontier? 15:51 – The Definition of IP in 2026 17:38 – Vendor vs. Enterprise Agents 21:48 – Predictions on Model Pricing 24:02 – Durability of SaaS, SaaSpocalypse 25:58 – What Satya’s Coding Himself 28:18 – Future of Engineering 30:54 – How Microsoft Can Be More Ambitious? 34:36 – Data Centers and Community Impact 38:01 – AI’s Impact on Society 39:52 - AI and Education
sarah guo12,341 次观看 • 2 个月前

New No Priors w/ Eric Zelikman (former Stanford/xAI) about his new startup: humans& we talk about training models with EQ that collaborative with humans to unlock their full potential, the challenge of understanding human objectives, long-term memory & his views on abundance
sarah guo30,207 次观看 • 10 个月前

1/ The biggest blocker to effective AI-in-bio is lack of quality data, but Vevo Therapeutics is open-sourcing their gigantic #Tahoe100M single cell dataset (on Arc Institute's new Virtual Cell Atlas)! I talk w/Vevo's founders and Arc CEO/CTO about "Virtual Cell Models" and significance
sarah guo44,512 次观看 • 1 年前

New No Priors: Parker Conrad, one of tech's most admired founders: *his redemption arc *why you shouldn't start a company *why the conventional wisdom on "point product" is bad *founder psychology *building a team of owners *the impact of AI on SaaS strategy *will Rippling be a public company?
sarah guo27,247 次观看 • 1 年前