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Hosted by Elad Gil & Sarah Guo

AI, technology, and startups with Elad Gil and Sarah Guo. Weekly interviews with the founders, researchers, and investors shaping the AI revolution. Both hosts are active AI investors with deep networks.

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Themes
AI startupsfoundation modelsAI investingroboticsbiotechenterprise AIAI infrastructure
Style

Two investor-hosts with deep technical knowledge. Sarah Guo brings VC pattern recognition, Elad Gil brings operator experience. 40-60 minutes. Focus on what's working now.

Known Biases
Investor/operator lensScaling perspectiveSilicon Valley network effectsPro-commercialization of AI
38 canon references

Episodes

# · Feb 12, 2026 · 50m
Dave Baszucki

Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki explores the intersection of AI, physics simulation, and the future of human connection on virtual platforms.

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# · Feb 5, 2026 · 45m
Laura Deming

Laura Deming, CEO of Until, dives deep into reversible cryopreservation — the technology that could enable organ banking and eventually full-body preservation.

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# · Jan 8, 2026 · 55m
Jensen Huang

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang reflects on the biggest surprises of 2025, including rapid improvements in reasoning and the profitability of inference tokens.

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# · Jan 2, 2026 · 50m
Elad Gil & Sarah Guo

Sarah and Elad forecast 2026: foundation model competition, expected IPOs from OpenAI and Anthropic, and the emerging robotics wave.

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# · Dec 20, 2025 · 45m
Elad Gil & Sarah Guo

Sarah and Elad review their favorite conversations and biggest takeaways from 2025, identifying the trends that will define 2026.

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# · Dec 11, 2025 · 50m
Gabe Pereyra

Harvey co-founder Gabe Pereyra discusses why legal AI is about more than individual productivity — it is about putting together complex client matters to make law firms more profitable.

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# · Nov 15, 2025 · 45m
Mati Staniszewski

ElevenLabs co-founder Mati Staniszewski on how AI voice technology is transforming how humans interact with technology and each other.

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# · Nov 1, 2025 · 50m
Elad Gil & Sarah Guo

Cheng Chi and Tony Zhao discuss the gap between impressive robot demos and real-world deployment, and what it takes to bridge that gap.

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# · Oct 20, 2025 · 50m
Fei-Fei Li

Stanford professor and World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li discusses spatial intelligence — AI that understands and reasons about the 3D physical world.

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# · Sep 25, 2025 · 50m
Dan Hendrycks

CAIS executive director Dan Hendrycks discusses the real risks of advanced AI: not science fiction scenarios but concrete near-term dangers from misuse, misalignment, and concentration of power.

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# · Aug 15, 2025 · 50m
Elad Gil & Sarah Guo

OpenAI's Brandon McKinzie and Eric Mitchell discuss the development of o3 and how reasoning models represent a paradigm shift in AI capability.

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# · Jul 20, 2025 · 45m
Elad Gil & Sarah Guo

Brendan Foody of Mercor discusses how AI is transforming talent matching and hiring, creating a new kind of labor market infrastructure.

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# · Jun 15, 2025 · 45m
Elad Gil & Sarah Guo

Dr. Shiv Rao of Abridge discusses how AI medical scribes are transforming clinical documentation, freeing doctors to focus on patient care.

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# · May 10, 2025 · 45m
Elad Gil & Sarah Guo

Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora discusses how AI is both the biggest security threat and the most powerful security tool.

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# · Apr 15, 2025 · 45m
Elad Gil & Sarah Guo

Zach Dell discusses patterns in enterprise AI adoption, identifying which categories of AI enterprise software are finding product-market fit.

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# · Mar 20, 2025 · 50m
Elad Gil & Sarah Guo

Flagship Pioneering founder Noubar Afeyan discusses how AI is transforming drug discovery and biotech, and why the most impactful applications are not the most obvious ones.

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# · Feb 20, 2025 · 40m
Elad Gil & Sarah Guo

OpenAI's Isa Fulford discusses developer experience, API design, and how OpenAI is building the platform environment for millions of AI developers.

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# · Dec 30, 2024 · 60m
Elad Gil

Sarah Guo and Elad Gil review the year in AI, covering the biggest breakthroughs, surprises, and disappointments. They discuss the gap between AI hype and AI deployment, the emergence of AI agents, and their predictions for 2025.

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#89 · Nov 7, 2024 · 55m
Jensen Huang

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang discusses the architecture of AI infrastructure, why data center design is the new semiconductor design, and why he bet NVIDIA's future on AI computing a decade before ChatGPT proved him right.

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#80 · Sep 5, 2024 · 65m
Andrej Karpathy

Andrej Karpathy discusses his vision for autonomous intelligence -- AI systems that can learn, reason, and act independently. He covers the limitations of current LLMs, the path from tool AI to autonomous AI, and why the next breakthrough will come from systems that can write and execute their own code.

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# · Jul 18, 2024 · 50m
Alexandr Wang

Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang discusses why data quality is the limiting factor in AI development, how Scale AI became the data backbone of every major AI lab, and why the next frontier of AI requires not just more data but fundamentally better data.

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