


7 episodes
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.





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
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
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
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
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
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
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