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.
In this interview, Jacob Effron speaks with Bill Peebles, Rohan Sahai, and Thomas Dimson, members of the Sora team at OpenAI, about the development and launch of Sora, a new AI video generation app. They discuss the unexpected popularity of Sora, the challenges of allocating GPU capacity, and the decision to create Sor...
In this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Jacob Effron hosts Ari Morcos from Datology and Rob Toews from Radical for a recurring series discussing major AI topics. They debate whether the AI industry is in a bubble, referencing Andrej Karpathy's comments on AI's current limitations and future potential. The conversatio...
In this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Jacob interviews Nicole Brichtova and Oliver Wang from Google about Nano Banana, Google's new image model. They discuss the model's character consistency and image quality, favorite use cases such as turning photos into figurines and colorizing old photos, and feature requests ...
In this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Jacob Effron interviews Tri Dao, a leading AI researcher and chief scientist at Together, about the future of AI hardware and inference. They discuss the dominance of Nvidia in the AI chip market, potential competitors, and the evolving landscape of AI workloads, including the ...
In this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Jacob Effron interviews Peter Deng, a product leader with experience at Uber, Facebook, and OpenAI, now an investor at Felicis. They discuss how AI is changing product management, particularly regarding pricing strategies, moving away from seat-based subscriptions to models tha...
In this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Jacob interviews Joshua Meier, CEO of Chai Discovery, about the application of AI in biology and drug discovery. They discuss the evolution of AI in drug discovery over the last decade, from early deep learning models to the current wave of bio-foundation model companies. Meier...
In this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Jacob Effron interviews Karol Hausman, CEO and co-founder, and Danny Driess, a key researcher at Physical Intelligence, an AI robotics company. They discuss the evolution of AI robotics over the last 15 years, highlighting the shift from coding robots to learn tasks from experi...
In this interview, Ion Stoica, co-founder of Databricks, AnyScale, and LLMarena, discusses his new company LLMarena, which focuses on AI model evaluations using human preferences and dynamic benchmarks to combat contamination and subjectivity. Stoica explains the company's origins from a Berkeley project, the challenge...
In this interview podcast, Brendan Foody, the co-founder and CEO of Mercor, discusses the current state and future of AI in talent evaluation and labor markets. He highlights AI's increasing accuracy in assessing candidates through text-based data, such as resumes and interview transcripts, and the potential for AI to ...
In this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Jacob Effron and Logan Bartlett interview Max Junestrand, the CEO and co-founder of Legora, an AI application for the legal industry. Max discusses the evolution of AI in law, from early BERT models to the current use of GPT and surrounding frameworks. He highlights how Legora ...
In this interview, Jacob Effron speaks with Sholto Douglas from Anthropic about the newly released Claude 4 models. Sholto highlights the advancements in software engineering capabilities, particularly the model's ability to handle ill-specified tasks in large codebases autonomously. They discuss how developers can lev...
This episode explores the development and real-world applications of GPT-4.1, focusing on its enhanced utility for developers and improvements over previous models. Michelle Pokrass, a key figure behind GPT-4.1, discusses the shift from optimizing for benchmarks to prioritizing real-world usability, emphasizing the imp...
This episode explores the transformative potential of AI in education, specifically focusing on Khan Academy's AI-powered tutoring assistant, Khanmigo. Against the backdrop of rapid advancements in AI models, Salman Khan, founder and CEO of Khan Academy, discusses his vision for the future of classrooms, envisioning a...
This episode explores the future of enterprise AI adoption and the evolving models for its deployment, focusing on the challenges and opportunities in integrating generative AI into businesses. Against the backdrop of various deployment models—consulting, product-led, and out-of-the-box solutions—the discussion highli...
This episode explores the venture capital firm Redpoint's approach to investing in the AI landscape. Against the backdrop of massive hardware investments, particularly in NVIDIA GPUs, the panelists discuss the projected trillion-dollar AI market by 2032 and debate the feasibility of such growth. More significantly, th...
This episode explores the surprising developments in the AI landscape over the past year, focusing on the unexpected rise of smaller, more efficient models and the slower-than-anticipated adoption of open-source models in enterprise settings. Against this backdrop, the discussion pivots to the overhyped and underhyped ...
This episode explores the future of AI agents and their integration into various applications. Against the backdrop of OpenAI's recent releases, the discussion centers on how consumers will interact with agents in the next 5-10 years, envisioning their embedding into everyday products and services like web browsers and...
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