The Best of 2024 with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil

2024 has been a year of transformative technological progress, marked by conversations that have reshaped our understanding of AI's evolution and what lies ahead. Throughout the year, Sarah and Elad have had the privilege of speaking with some of the brightest minds in the field. As we look back on the past months, we’re excited to share highlights from some of our favorite No Priors podcast episodes. Featured guests include Jensen Huang (Nvidia), Andrej Karpathy (OpenAI, Tesla), Bret Taylor (Sierra), Aditya Ramesh, Tim Brooks, and Bill Peebles (OpenAI’s Sora Team), Dmitri Dolgov (Waymo), Dylan Field (Figma), and Alexandr Wang (Scale). Want to dive deeper? Listen to the full episodes here:

• NVIDIA's Jensen Huang on AI Chip Design, Scaling Data Centers, and his 10-Year Bet No Priors Ep. 89 | With NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang (youtube.com/watch?v=hw7EnjC68Fw)

• The Road to Autonomous Intelligence, With Andrej Karpathy from OpenAI and Tesla No Priors Ep. 80 | With Andrej Karpathy from OpenAI and Tesla (youtube.com/watch?v=hM_h0UA7upI)

• Transforming Customer Service through Company Agents, with Sierra’s Bret Taylor No Priors Ep. 82 | With CEO of Sierra Bret Taylor (youtube.com/watch?v=riWB5nPNZEM)

• OpenAI’s Sora team thinks we’ve only seen the "GPT-1 of video models" No Priors Ep.61 | OpenAI's Sora Leaders Aditya Ramesh, Tim Brooks and Bill Peebles (youtube.com/watch?v=reMnn6bV_fI)

• Waymo’s Journey to Full Autonomy: AI Breakthroughs, Safety, and Scaling No Priors Ep. 87 | With Co-CEO of Waymo Dmitri Dolgov (youtube.com/watch?v=d6RndtrwJKE)

• Designing the Future: Dylan Field on AI, Collaboration, and Independence No Priors Ep. 55 | With Figma CEO Dylan Field (youtube.com/watch?v=k7F0yRs1IWY)

• The Data Foundry for AI with Alexandr Wang from Scale No Priors Ep. 65 | With Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang (youtube.com/watch?v=2SWRU7YOd6c)

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Show Notes:
0:00 Introduction
0:15 Jensen Huang on building at data-center scale
4:00 Andrej Karpathy on the AI exo-cortex, model control, and a shift to smaller models
7:14 Bret Taylor on the agentic future of business interactions
11:17 OpenAI’s Sora team on visual models and their role in AGI
15:53 Waymo’s Dmitri Dolgov on bridging the gap to full autonomy and the challenge of 100% accuracy
19:00 Figma’s Dylan Field on the future of interfaces and new modalities
23:29 Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang on the journey to AGI
26:29 Outro