Unsupervised Learning
Hosted by Jacob Effron · by Redpoint Ventures
4.9from 239 ratings
- 103
- Episodes
- 77
- Transcribed
- 239
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 3M
- YouTube views
About Unsupervised Learning
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.
- Publisher
- by Redpoint Ventures
- Category
- technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 16 Feb 2023
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
77 of 103 episodes have a transcript.
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep 94: Applied Compute CEO on the Limits of RL, the New AI Hyperscaler & Why Post-Training Wins Inference
3 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep 93: CEO of Redwood Research Buck Shlegeris on OpenAI/HuggingFace Revelations, Fixing AI Safety & Takeover Odds
3 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
AI Vibe Check: Chinese Open Models, Distillation & The Hugging Face Breach
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Ep 94: Applied Compute CEO on the Limits of RL, the New AI Hyperscaler & Why Post-Training Wins Inference
Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] We're actually able to bias the model. based off of the direct user feedback using some of these online training methodologies. And we're able to see real upticks in user satisfaction, completion rates, decreased tool call failures, things like that. The main question and answer is what's the TCO of doing this? How expensive is it to post-train? And that's like a lot of the stuff that we're going and building is how do we actually decrease the cost to go and, uh, you know, RL a model? How can we actually do this automatically and online, uh, without you having to go and build, uh, hand tuned RL environments that are fully replayable and things like that. […]
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- Yash Patil
- Buck Shlegeris
- Ari
- Rob
- Igor Babuschkin
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- 3,470,828
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 54 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 185 ratings
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- 85
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 98
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