Mati Staniszewski, CEO of ElevenLabs, discusses the company's strategy for rapidly shipping research-grade AI. He covers their organizational structure of small, autonomous teams, a global and remote-first hiring philosophy, the transition from a creator-focused product to an enterprise platform, and the lessons learned in navigating complex licensing and scaling a go-to-market team.
David Sacks details the Trump administration's strategy for AI and crypto, focusing on unleashing permissionless innovation, combating regulatory capture, and winning the global AI race through infrastructure and open source, while warning against the rise of "Orwellian AI."
In a reflective and forward-looking conversation, Daniel Terhorst-North and Kevlin Henney explore the evolution of software development over the past 20 years and predict the key challenges and innovations for the next 20. They delve into the philosophy of programming language design, the critical need for hardware-sympathetic programming, the untapped potential of concurrency models like CSP and the Actor Model, and the future of user interfaces and decentralized technology.
A recap of key conversations from the No Priors podcast in 2025, featuring insights from leaders at OpenAI, Harvey, and the Center for AI Safety on topics ranging from reasoning models and spatial intelligence to the geopolitical risks of superintelligence and the human impact of AI in healthcare.
The Mixture of Experts panel discusses Anthropic's major investment in Google's TPUs for inference, debates the feasibility of insuring superintelligence, critiques OpenAI's approach to handling sensitive user conversations, and explores the futuristic concept of data centers in outer space.
Gavin Baker, CIO of Atreides Management, and David George, General Partner at a16z, provide a macro view of the AI landscape. They discuss the trillion-dollar data center buildout, compare the current AI boom to the 2000 telecom bubble, analyze the competitive dynamics in AI infrastructure between Nvidia and Google, and explore the evolving business models for AI applications and the future of SaaS.