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Podcasts like No Priors

Sarah Guo and Elad Gil talk with AI founders, engineers and researchers on No Priors. Here are six of their episodes, each with a Chain of Thought conversation to play next.

  • 6 episode pairings

I host Chain of Thought. We have no affiliation with No Priors: no partnership, no arrangement, nothing either of us gets from this page.

What No Priors is

No Priors began in February 2023. Sarah Guo and Elad Gil interview people building AI systems and companies, and sometimes talk through a subject together without a guest.

Recent episodes ask how open models are trained and paid for, what new chip designs mean for inference, how established companies can use AI, and how to supervise agents with access to enterprise systems.

At a glance

No Priors and Chain of Thought
DetailNo PriorsChain of Thought
HostsSarah Guo and Elad GilConor Bronsdon
First episodeFebruary 2023November 2024
FormatInterviews with builders and researchers, plus host-only conversationsInterviews with engineers, founders and operators shipping AI in production
Where to listenApple PodcastsEpisode archive and podcast apps

Details for No Priors come from the sources below, checked 14 October 2026.

Where Chain of Thought fits

Chain of Thought follows AI infrastructure through the decisions of the people building and operating it. Conor Bronsdon asks guests what they shipped, what constrained the work and what they learned. No Priors also asks founders and researchers how their work may change AI products and markets.

Which one to start with

Start with No Priors for conversations about the technical and business bets behind AI, from model training to chips and company strategy.

Start with Chain of Thought to hear how a team put one of those bets to work in a product or production system.

You do not have to pick one. The pairings below are where the two shows meet.

  1. Then play

    Chain of ThoughtEP 4954 minTranscript How Intercom Cut $250K/Month by Ditching GPT for Open Models | Fergal Reid Fergal Reid, Intercom Fergal Reid of Intercom takes the open-model question into a customer support workflow, explaining why his team moved one summarization task from GPT to a post-trained Qwen model.

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    Chain of ThoughtEP 7253 minTranscript Tuning GPU Performance with AI Agents | AMD’s Anush Elangovan on ROCm 10 Anush Elangovan, AMD Anush Elangovan of AMD follows the compute question down to GPU workloads, where agents tune kernels with Hyperloom.

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    Chain of ThoughtEP 1444 minTranscript Using AI to Modernize Your Legacy Applications | MongoDB’s Rachelle Palmer Rachelle Palmer, MongoDB Rachelle Palmer of MongoDB gives an implementation case for changing an established business, with her team using AI to modernize old application code.

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    Chain of ThoughtEP 4353 minTranscript Beyond Transformers: How Liquid AI Is Rethinking LLM Architecture | Maxime Labonne Maxime Labonne, Liquid AI Maxime Labonne of Liquid AI picks up the architecture question with a different model design, describing its effect on inference latency and device size.

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    Chain of ThoughtEP 6653 minTranscript Data Federation, Not Centralization, Is What Enterprise AI Needs | Jitender Aswani, Starburst Jitender Aswani, Starburst Jitender Aswani of Starburst continues the data-access question by explaining how AI systems can query sources across an enterprise without first moving them into one store.

  6. Then play

    Chain of ThoughtEP 6051 minTranscript We Built Agents, Nobody Built HR | Tyler Akidau, Redpanda Tyler Akidau, Redpanda Tyler Akidau of Redpanda makes that oversight concrete through identity, authorization, observability and accountability for agents at work.

Sources

Facts about No Priors on this page were checked against these pages on 14 October 2026.

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