Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
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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 86: Yann LeCun on Leaving Meta, Breaking The LLM Paradigm, & Why Hinton is Wrong
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May 15, 2026 |
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Ep 85: Has AI Infra Stabilized, FM Vibe Shift, & What's Next for Coding Agents
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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Ep 84: OpenAI’s Chief Scientist on Continual Learning Hype, RL Beyond Code, & Future Alignment Directions
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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Ep 83: Owning the System of Record, AI-Native Org Charts, & Why ITSM is The Most Vulnerable Legacy Category
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Ep 82: Behind Legora's $550M Raise, Model Competition, Doubling Revenue Every Quarter, & US Expansion
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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
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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AI Vibe Check: The Actual Bottleneck In Research, SSI’s Mystique, & Spicy 2026 Predictions
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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
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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
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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
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Ep 77: Anthropic’s Dianne Na Penn on Opus 4.5, Rethinking Model Scaffolding & Safety as a Competitive Advantage
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Ep 76: Sora Creators Bill Peebles, Rohan Sahai & Thomas Dimson on Their Unexpected Viral Success
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Nov 03, 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jul 08, 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
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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
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Ep 67: Max Junestrand (CEO, Legora) on Differentiating and Pricing AI Apps & How the Legal Industry Will Evolve
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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
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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
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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
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May 08, 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
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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
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Ep 61: Redpoint’s AI Investors Break Down What Separates Enduring AI Companies from the Hype
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Ep 60: Swyx and Alessio (Latent Space) on What has PMF Today, Google is Cooking & GPT Wrappers are Winning
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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
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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
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Ep 57: Former CTO of Meta Mike Schroepfer on the Path to Powering the AI Revolution
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Ep 56: Distinguished Engineer at Waymo Vincent Vanhoucke Unpacks the Breakthroughs and Bottlenecks of Self-Driving
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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
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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
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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
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Ep 52: Marc Benioff Responds to Satya and Unpacks the Agentic Era
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Ep 51: Former Chief Research Officer of OpenAI Bob McGrew - What Comes Next for AI?
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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
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Ep 49: OpenAI Researcher Noam Brown Unpacks the Full Release of o1 and the Path to AGI
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Ep 48: Co-Founder/CEO of LiveKit Russ d'Sa on the Best ChatGPT Voice Use-Cases, New UX Paradigms in AI, and When Voice Makes Sense
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Ep 47: Chief AI Scientist of Databricks Jonathan Frankle on Why New Model Architectures are Unlikely, When to Pre-Train or Fine Tune, and Hopes for Future AI Policy
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Ep 46: CEO of DeepL Jarek Kutylowski on Specialized vs. General Models, Beating Google and a Future with Synchronous Translation
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Ep 45: Founder & CEO of HeyGen Josh Xu on TikTok’s GenAI Dilemma, Trust and Safety and the Path to Interactive Avatars
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Ep 44: Co-Founder of Together.AI Percy Liang on What’s Next in Research, Reaction to o1 and How AI will Change Simulation
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Ep 43: CEO/Co-Founder of Contextual AI Douwe Kiela Reaction to o1, What’s Next in Reasoning and Innovations in Post-Training
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Ep 42: CEO of Grammarly Rahul Roy-Chowdhury on the Future of Communication, Impact of LLMs and How Grammarly Does Eval
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Bonus Episode: Trunk Tools CEO Sarah Buchner is Building Trunk Tools to Simplify the $13T Construction Industry
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Ep 41: Head of AI at Snowflake Baris Gultekin on Why They Built Their Own LLM, Governance as a Moat, and the Most Common Enterprise Use-Cases
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Ep 40: CEO of Speak.com Connor Zwick on How AI Will Change the Way we Learn
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Ep 39: Github CEO Thomas Dohmke on Building Copilot, Scaling to 1.2M Users and the Future of Code
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Ep 38: Runway CEO Cristobal Valenzuela on the Next Frontiers for AI Media and The Role of Human Taste in AI Filmmaking
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Ep 37: Co-Founder and CEO of Fireflies.ai Krish Ramineni on How AI Catalyzed Fireflies to 16M Users
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Ep 36: Adobe CPO Scott Belsky on How AI Will Transform Creative Workflows
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Ep 35: CEO of Suno Mikey Shulman on Future of Music with AI, Tactics for Model Eval and Solving the Blank Canvas Problem
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May 30, 2024 |
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Ep 34: Eric Ries and Jeremy Howard (Answer.ai) on the Biggest Mistakes AI Founders are Making and Building the Bell Labs of AI
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May 22, 2024 |
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Bonus Episode: Sam Altman (CEO, OpenAI) Talks GPT-4o and Predicts the Future of AI
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May 20, 2024 |
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Ep 33: CTO and Co-Founder of Sourcegraph on Current Landscape and Future of Software Development, How to Make RAG Better, and Building Towards the Agentic Future
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Ep 32: CEO and Founder of Pinecone Edo Liberty on Pioneering Vector Databases, Barriers to Productionalizing Models and Why What’s Happening with GPUs is Not Sustainable
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Ep 31: CEO and Co-Founder of Mistral Arthur Mensch on the Next Frontiers for LLMs, Why Open Source Will Prevail and AI Safety
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Ep 30: Superhuman CEO Rahul Vohra on the Future of Email with AI and the Role Agents Will Play
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Ep 29: Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shih on Future of Slack, How Gucci Uses AI and Working with Marc Benioff
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Ep 28: LangChain CEO Harrison Chase on the Current State of Eval and Agents and The LLM Apps that Will Define 2024
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Ep 27: Oscar Co-Founder Mario Schlosser on How LLMs Can Be Used in Healthcare Today and The Path to AI Doctors
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Ep 26: Replit Founder Amjad Masad on the 1000x Engineer, ChatBots are Overhyped and Why We Don’t Really Have True Open-Source Models
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Ep 25: Intercom Co-Founder Des Traynor on Building Winning AI Strategy and Where We Are in the AI Adoption Curve
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Ep 24: OpenAI Head of DevRel Logan Kilpatrick on The Best ChatGPT Use Cases, Future of Agents, and Google Gemini
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Ep 23: Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on the future of Search, OpenAI Wrappers and Using AI to Talk to Loved Ones
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Special Episode: A Full Breakdown of the OpenAI Saga and What It Means for AI Founders
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Ep 22: Notion AI Engineer Linus Lee: Behind the Scenes of Notion AI
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Ep 21: Modal CEO Erik Bernhardsson on Bringing Development to the Cloud, the GPU Market, and GenAI Music
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Ep 20: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on the Future of AGI, Leading Anthropic, and AI Doom Chances
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Ep 19: Tome CEO Keith Peiris on Disrupting Powerpoint and Scaling To Millions of Users
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Ep 18: LlamaIndex CEO Jerry Liu on Trends in LLM Applications
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Ep 17: Nomic AI Co-Founder Andriy Mulyar on "GPT-4-All", LLMs in Video Games, and Apple's AI Strategy
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Ep 16: VP of Generative AI at Adobe Alexandru Costin on The Future of Content Creation
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Ep 15: Snorkel AI CEO Alex Ratner on What's Needed for Wider-Spread Enterprise AI Adoption
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Ep 14: Chroma CEO Jeff Huber on Vector Databases, Multimodal Embeddings & Building an AI Startup
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Ep 13: PathAI CEO Dr. Andy Beck on the Future of AI in Medical Diagnosis
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Ep 12: EleutherAI's Aran Komatsuzaki on Open-Source Models' Future and Thought Cloning
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Ep 11: Stanford Professor Tatsu Hashimoto on AI Biases and Improving LLM Performance
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Ep 10: Insitro CEO Daphne Koller on Using ML to Change Drug Discovery
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Ep 9: Open AI VP of Product Peter Welinder on OpenAI’s Strategy and AI’s Future
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Ep 8: Ex-DeepMind/WhiteHouse Operator Tantum Collins on AI Regulation and Geopolitical Impacts
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May 31, 2023 |
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Ep 7: Co-Creator of Databricks Dolly Mike Conover on Open-Source LLMs
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May 11, 2023 |
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Ep 6: Jasper CEO Dave Rogenmoser on the Future of Writing with AI
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Ep 5: You.com CEO Richard Socher on The Future of Search, Open Source Models and AGI
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Ep 4: Fixie.ai CEO Matt Welsh on How LLMs Will Change the Way We Work
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Ep 3: NEAR CEO Illia Polosukhin on the Origins of the Transformer Paper and The Overlap Between AI and Crypto
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Ep 2: Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia on scaling and orchestrating large language models
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Ep 1: Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue on The Future of Open vs Closed Source in AI
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Unsupervised Learning: Trailer
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Feb 16, 2023 |