The Best of 2025 (So Far) with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil

No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups

2025 has thus far been a year of great leaps and advances in AI technology. And Sarah and Elad have spoken with some of the most enterprising founders and scientific minds in the field of AI today. So we’re revisiting a few of our favorite conversations on No Priors so far in 2025 – Winston Weinberg (Harvey), Dr. Fei-Fei Li (World Labs), Brendan Foody (Mercor), Dan Hendrycks (Center for AI Safety), Noubar Afeyan (Flagship Pioneering), Brandon McKinzie and Eric Mitchell (OpenAI o3), Isa Fulford (OpenAI), Arvind Jain (Glen), and Dr. Shiv Rao (Abridge).

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Chapters:

00:00 – Episode Introduction

0:21 – Winston Weinberg on Leaning into New Capabilities

02:01 – Dr. Fei-Fei Li on Spatial Intelligence

04:13 – Brendan Foody on AI Disruption in the Workforce

06:10 – Dan Hendrycks on the Geopolitics of Superintelligence

08:06 – Noubar Afeyan on Entrepreneurship

10:38 – Brandon McKinzie and Eric Mitchell on Reasoning Models

12:41 – Isa Fulford on Training Deep Research

13:49 – Arvind Jain on Innovating Enterprise Search

16:21 – Dr. Shiv Rao on AI’s Human Impact

18:58 – Conclusion