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Elad Gil and Sarah Guo speak with leading AI engineers, researchers, and founders about model progress, markets at risk of disruption, and how commerce, culture, and society may change.
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Travel Through the Lens of AI with with Booking.com CEO Glenn Fogel
Booking’s Penny is emerging as a personalized travel concierge, with adoption reportedly doubling monthly and a stronger long-term opportunity in repairing disrupted itineraries than merely shortening search.The investment test is still unresolved: token costs, routing, conversion, cancellations, loyalty, and lifetime value must justify roughly $700 million of annual multi-initiative spending, while scale remains an advantage rather than a moat.
No Priors Ep. 114 | With Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn
Duolingo turns motivation into a product advantage, using two-minute lessons, 16,000 A/B tests, and an approximately 83% success target to drive retention.LLMs reduce content costs and expand courses, while 116 million monthly users, proprietary learning data, and brand offer defenses against an uncertain platform shift.