Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
We probe the sharpest minds in AI in search for the truth about what’s real today, what will be real in the future and what it all means for businesses and the world. If you’re a builder, researcher or investor navigating the AI world, this podcast will help you deconstruct and understand the most important breakthroughs and see a clearer picture of reality. Follow this show and consider enabling notifications to stay up to date on our latest episodes. Unsupervised Learning is a podcast by Redpoint Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that has invested in companies like Snow...
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Episodes (104)
Ep 93: CEO of Redwood Research Buck Shlegeris on OpenAI/HuggingFace Revelations, Fixing AI Safety & Takeover Odds
Sep 3, 2026
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AI Vibe Check: Chinese Open Models, Distillation & The Hugging Face Breach
Aug 3, 2026
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Ep 92: xAI Co-Founder Unpacks the Future of Model Development
Jul 31, 2026
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Ep 91: Top AI Analyst Unpacks Today's AI Hype Cycle
Jul 16, 2026
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Ep 90: AI Pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber on the State of AI Today
Jul 9, 2026
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AI Vibe Check: Lab Wars, Why APIs Might Vanish & Future Predictions
Jun 12, 2026
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Ep 89: AI Research Legend’s Honest Assessment of Where We Are
Jun 3, 2026
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Ep 88: Unpacking DeepMind's Quest for SuperIntelligence with Demis Hassabis' Biographer
Jun 1, 2026
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Ep 87: Gemini Co-Lead on World Models, RL's Next Domains & Continual Learning
May 22, 2026
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Ep 86: Yann LeCun on Leaving Meta, Breaking The LLM Paradigm, & Why Hinton is Wrong
May 15, 2026
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Ep 85: Has AI Infra Stabilized, FM Vibe Shift, & What's Next for Coding Agents
Apr 23, 2026
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Ep 84: OpenAI’s Chief Scientist on Continual Learning Hype, RL Beyond Code, & Future Alignment Directions
Apr 9, 2026
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Ep 83: Owning the System of Record, AI-Native Org Charts, & Why ITSM is The Most Vulnerable Legacy Category
Apr 2, 2026
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Ep 82: Behind Legora's $550M Raise, Model Competition, Doubling Revenue Every Quarter, & US Expansion
Mar 11, 2026
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Ep 81: Ex-OpenAI Researcher On Why He Left, His Honest AGI Timeline, & The Limits of Scaling RL
Jan 29, 2026
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Ep 81: Pete Shalek On The Future of Front Office Automation
Jan 7, 2026
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AI Vibe Check: The Actual Bottleneck In Research, SSI’s Mystique, & Spicy 2026 Predictions
Dec 18, 2025
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Ep 80: CEO of Surge AI Edwin Chen on Why Frontier Labs Are Diverging, RL Environments & Developing Model Taste
Dec 15, 2025
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Ep 79: OpenAI's Head of Product on How the Best Teams Build, Ship and Scale AI Products
Dec 10, 2025
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Ep 78: Jordan Schneider, Host of China Talk, on AI Race, Key Policy Decisions & Unpacking Geopolitical Chip Tension
Dec 5, 2025
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Ep 77: Anthropic’s Dianne Na Penn on Opus 4.5, Rethinking Model Scaffolding & Safety as a Competitive Advantage
Dec 2, 2025
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Ep 76: Sora Creators Bill Peebles, Rohan Sahai & Thomas Dimson on Their Unexpected Viral Success
Nov 3, 2025
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AI Round Up: Ari Morcos from Datalogy AI and Rob Toews from Radical VC on Karpathy Reactions, OpenAI’s Dealmaking, & Bubble Reality Check
Oct 24, 2025
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AI Round Up: Ari Morcos from Datalogy AI and Rob Toews from Radical VC on AI Talent Wars, xAI’s $200B Valuation, & Google’s Comeback
Sep 24, 2025
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Ep 75: Nano Banana’s Oliver Wang and Nicole Brichtova - Behind the Breakthrough as Gemini Tops the Charts
Sep 17, 2025
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Ep 74: Chief Scientist of Together.AI Tri Dao On The End of Nvidia's Dominance, Why Inference Costs Fell & The Next 10X in Speed
Sep 10, 2025
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Ep 73: General Partner of Felicis Peter Deng on on AI Pricing Tactics, Reaction to GPT-5 & Why Voice is Underrated
Aug 26, 2025
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Ep 72: Co-Founder of Chai Discovery Joshua Meier on 99% Faster Drug Discovery, BioTech’s AlphaGo Moment, Building Photoshop for Molecules
Aug 13, 2025
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Ep 71: CEO of TurboPuffer Simon Eskildsen on Building Smarter Retrieval, AI App Must-Have Features & Current State of Vector DBs
Jul 22, 2025
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Ep 70: Karol Hausman and Danny Driess (Physical Intelligence) Unpack the Most Recent Breakthroughs & Path to Generalist Robots
Jul 8, 2025
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Ep 69: Co-Founder of Databricks & LMArena on Current Eval Limitations, Why China is Winning Open Source and Future of AI Infrastructure
Jun 17, 2025
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Ep 68: CEO of Mercor Brendan Foody on Evals Replacing Knowledge Work, AI x Hiring Today & the Future of Data Labeling
Jun 4, 2025
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Ep 67: Max Junestrand (CEO, Legora) on Differentiating and Pricing AI Apps & How the Legal Industry Will Evolve
May 27, 2025
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Ep 66: Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic Sholto Douglas on Claude 4, Next Phase for AI Coding, and the Path to AI Coworkers
May 22, 2025
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Ep 65: Co-Authors of AI-2027 Daniel Kokotajlo and Thomas Larsen On Their Detailed AI Predictions for the Coming Years
May 14, 2025
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Ep 64: GPT 4.1 Lead at OpenAI Michelle Pokrass: RFT Launch, How OpenAI Improves Its Models & the State of AI Agents Today
May 8, 2025
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Ep 63: Khan Academy Founder/CEO on Salman Khan on Classrooms in 20 years, Rolling out to 1.4M Users & Sal’s Hopes for AI Education
Apr 29, 2025
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Ep 62: CEO of Cohere Aidan Gomez on Scaling Limits Emerging, AI Use-cases with PMF & Life After Transformers
Apr 15, 2025
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Ep 61: Redpoint’s AI Investors Break Down What Separates Enduring AI Companies from the Hype
Apr 9, 2025
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Ep 60: Swyx and Alessio (Latent Space) on What has PMF Today, Google is Cooking & GPT Wrappers are Winning
Mar 28, 2025
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Ep 59: OpenAI Product & Eng Leads Nikunj Handa and Steve Coffey on OpenAI’s New Agent Development Tools
Mar 25, 2025
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Ep 58: Google Researchers Noam Shazeer and Jack Rae on Scaling Test-time Compute, Reactions to Ilya & AGI
Mar 17, 2025
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Ep 57: Former CTO of Meta Mike Schroepfer on the Path to Powering the AI Revolution
Mar 5, 2025
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Ep 56: Distinguished Engineer at Waymo Vincent Vanhoucke Unpacks the Breakthroughs and Bottlenecks of Self-Driving
Feb 26, 2025
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Ep 55: Head of Amazon AGI Lab David Luan on DeepSeek’s Significance, What’s Next for Agents & Lessons from OpenAI
Feb 19, 2025
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Ep 54: Princeton Researcher Arvind Narayanan on the Limitations of Agent Evals, AI’s Societal Impact & Important Lessons from History
Jan 30, 2025
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Ep 53: SemiAnalysis Founder Dylan Patel on New AI Regulations, Future of Chinese AI & xAI’s Scrappy Surge to Hyperscale
Jan 21, 2025
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Ep 52: Marc Benioff Responds to Satya and Unpacks the Agentic Era
Jan 10, 2025
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Ep 51: Former Chief Research Officer of OpenAI Bob McGrew - What Comes Next for AI?
Dec 18, 2024
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Ep 50: Fireworks CEO Lin Qiao on Why There Won’t be a Single Model, Will Hyperscalers Win Inference & AI Use-cases with PMF
Dec 16, 2024
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