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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 Snowflake, Str...

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Said on Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron

“We underestimated the scale… I underestimated the scale that a single client operates at nowadays. Five years ago, if you're talking about a 30-megawatt data center, it was a serious facility. By now, 30 megawatts sometimes is not enough for a single client, which I'm still getting used to.” — Danila Shtan, Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
Danila Shtan · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →
“As an industry we didn't optimize shit, pardon my French. I strongly believe that running inference, particularly with the variety of open-weight models that are available today, is not a solved problem. If you take something and just run with it as it's published, your results will probably be underwhelming. It's not that fast, it's not that cheap.” — Danila Shtan, Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
Danila Shtan · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →
“I feel like in a way, because of the training data and the training loops, there's more incumbency power. There's more staying power in software today. If you get inside the training data and you get the models to recommend a certain framework, I've heard people say, oh, I'm just going to use React for everything because agents are really good at it. I'm not going to try these new fancy front-end frameworks.” — Erik Bernhardsson, Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
Erik Bernhardsson · 28 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I thought it would be the junior people that would adopt agents the most. I've actually seen almost the other way around. It's the very senior people, because for them, it's like giving them 10 interns. They've been constrained by the typing speed for a long time, but they have all these ideas in their heads.” — Erik Bernhardsson, Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
Erik Bernhardsson · 28 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I went to GTC earlier this year in San Jose, the NVIDIA big conference. And it was like an open-air drug market, but like GPUs. You're just walking around, talking to people, trying to get GPUs and meeting people in hotel lobbies and exchanging numbers. … I think we got connected with someone who had GPUs because I think our VP of sales' cousin was golfing with someone and we got connected.” — Erik Bernhardsson, Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
Erik Bernhardsson · 28 Oct 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron is hosted by Jacob Effron , Patrick Chase , Jordan Segall and Erica Brescia .

Recent Episodes

  1. 2 Nov 2026

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

    With Danila Shtan

  2. 28 Oct 2026

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

    With Erik Bernhardsson

  3. 6 Oct 2026

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

    With Yash Patil

  4. 3 Sep 2026

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

    With Buck Shlegeris

  5. 3 Aug 2026

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

    With Rob Toews and Ari Morcos

  6. 31 Jul 2026

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

    With Igor Babuschkin

  7. 16 Jul 2026

    Ep 91: Top AI Analyst Unpacks Today's AI Hype Cycle

    With Benedict Evans

  8. 9 Jul 2026

    Ep 90: AI Pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber on the State of AI Today

    With Jürgen Schmidhuber

  9. 12 Jun 2026

    AI Vibe Check: Lab Wars, Why APIs Might Vanish & Future Predictions

    With Ari Morcos and Rob Toews

  10. 3 Jun 2026

    Ep 89: AI Research Legend’s Honest Assessment of Where We Are

    With Lukasz Kaiser

  11. 1 Jun 2026

    Ep 88: Unpacking DeepMind's Quest for SuperIntelligence with Demis Hassabis' Biographer

    With Sebastian Mallaby

  12. 22 May 2026

    Ep 87: Gemini Co-Lead on World Models, RL's Next Domains & Continual Learning

    With Oriol Vinyals

Guests

Erik Bernhardsson (2 episodes), Matei Zaharia , Dave Rogenmoser , Illia Polosukhin , Thomas Dohmke , Joshua Xu , Matt Welsh , Clem Delangue , Danila Shtan , Richard Socher , Marc Benioff .