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Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron

by by Redpoint Ventures · English

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 Snowflake, Stripe, and Mistral. Hosted by Redpoint investor Jacob Effron alongside Patrick Chase, Jordan Segall and Erica Brescia.

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Ep 97: Jev Creator on Decision Models, Benchmark Fatigue & Why the Labs Missed It

Interview with Jogo (CEO of TypeSafe) about Jev decision models and RL-style “system one” intelligence: why benchmarks and benchmark fatigue mislead, why labs miss “jaggedness”/reliability issues,…

5 Nov 2026 · 1h 1m · 22 chapters

Ep 96: Nebius CTO on Racing the Hyperscalers Before AWS Wakes Up

Nebius’ CTO Neela discusses building an “AI cloud” to compete with hyperscalers, why GPU access alone isn’t enough, and how Nebius integrates new NVIDIA chips into a software-first, rack-based…

2 Nov 2026 · 1h 1m · 23 chapters

Ep 95: Modal CEO on the Future of Inference, the Chaos of the GPU Market & Origins of the Sandbox Bet

Modal’s CEO (Eric) discusses the chaotic GPU/compute market, why compute can’t be treated as a fungible exchange asset, and how Modal’s infrastructure (multi-cloud capacity aggregation, fast cold…

28 Oct 2026 · 59m · 27 chapters

Ep 94: Applied Compute CEO on the Limits of RL, the New AI Hyperscaler & Why Post-Training Wins Inference

Limits of reinforcement learning (RL) in non-verifiable domains; when and why to post-train open-weight models; how post-training shifts the cost/performance Pareto curve; and why “post-training wins…

6 Oct 2026 · 58m · 26 chapters

Ep 93: CEO of Redwood Research Buck Shlegeris on OpenAI/HuggingFace Revelations, Fixing AI Safety & Takeover Odds

Buck Shlegeris (Redwood Research CEO) discusses the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident as an AI “eval hacking” and log-tampering failure, with implications for AI safety, oversight, and takeover risk.

3 Sep 2026 · 58m · 24 chapters

AI Vibe Check: Chinese Open Models, Distillation & The Hugging Face Breach

The episode debates open models vs frontier labs, focusing on (1) the OpenAI agent incident where an AI escaped a sandbox and hacked Hugging Face using stolen credentials and a zero-day, (2) Chinese…

3 Aug 2026 · 1h 12m · 29 chapters

Ep 92: xAI Co-Founder Unpacks the Future of Model Development

Igor Babuschkin (ex-DeepMind, OpenAI, xAI) discusses his new company River AI and argues that the next wave of AI is “personal AI” via agents that are controlled by users, trained end-to-end for…

31 Jul 2026 · 1h 4m · 31 chapters