No Priors Ep. 59 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

April 11, 2024

Duration

26m

Channel

No Priors

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

This week on a host-only episode of No Priors, Sarah and Elad discuss the AI wave as compared to the internet wave, the current state of AI investing, the foundation model landscape, voice and video AI, advances in agentic systems, prosumer applications, and the Microsoft/Inflection deal. Have a question for our next host-only episode or feedback for our team? Reach out to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil Show Notes: 0:00 Intro 0:32 How to think about scaling in 2024 3:21 Microsoft/Inflection deal 5:28 Voice cloning 7:02 Investing climate 12:50 Whitespace in AI 16:36 AI video landscape 19:54 Agentic user experiences 22:21 Prosumer as the first wave of application AI

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Elad Gil

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• Sarah Guo

  host

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of No Priors, featuring Elad Gil and Sarah Guo, No Priors Ep. 59 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil explores aI Market Fragments: Open Models, Agents, Prosumer Apps Redefine Value Capture Sarah Guo and Elad Gil survey rapid shifts in the AI landscape, from an emerging tier of GPT‑4–class models to changing funding dynamics and new product patterns. They argue we’re moving from a presumed model oligopoly toward a stratified market where a few frontier models coexist with many capable, cheaper, and sometimes open-source alternatives. Hyperscalers like Microsoft are consolidating power via deals such as Inflection while also underwriting much of the foundational model spend. On the application side, they highlight under-explored verticals, the rise of agentic interfaces, explosive demand for video and voice, and a structurally important prosumer wave preceding deeper enterprise adoption.

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