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Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
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Ep 83: Owning the System of Record, AI-Native Org Charts, & Why ITSM is The Most Vulnerable Legacy Category
54 mins; April 02, 2026
Ep 82: Behind Legora's $550M Raise, Model Competition, Doubling Revenue Every Quarter, & US Expansion
54 mins; March 11, 2026
Ep 81: Ex-OpenAI Researcher On Why He Left, His Honest AGI Timeline, & The Limits of Scaling RL
62 hours 52 mins; January 29, 2026
Ep 81: Pete Shalek On The Future of Front Office Automation
35 mins; January 07, 2026
AI Vibe Check: The Actual Bottleneck In Research, SSI’s Mystique, & Spicy 2026 Predictions
78 hours 4 mins; December 18, 2025
Ep 80: CEO of Surge AI Edwin Chen on Why Frontier Labs Are Diverging, RL Environments & Developing Model Taste
48 mins; December 15, 2025
Ep 79: OpenAI's Head of Product on How the Best Teams Build, Ship and Scale AI Products
56 mins; December 10, 2025
Ep 78: Jordan Schneider, Host of China Talk, on AI Race, Key Policy Decisions & Unpacking Geopolitical Chip Tension
73 hours 22 mins; December 05, 2025
Ep 77: Anthropic’s Dianne Na Penn on Opus 4.5, Rethinking Model Scaffolding & Safety as a Competitive Advantage
42 mins; December 02, 2025
Ep 76: Sora Creators Bill Peebles, Rohan Sahai & Thomas Dimson on Their Unexpected Viral Success
63 hours 23 mins; November 03, 2025
AI Round Up: Ari Morcos from Datalogy AI and Rob Toews from Radical VC on Karpathy Reactions, OpenAI’s Dealmaking, & Bubble Reality Check
76 hours 53 mins; October 24, 2025
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
62 hours 54 mins; September 24, 2025
Ep 75: Nano Banana’s Oliver Wang and Nicole Brichtova - Behind the Breakthrough as Gemini Tops the Charts
41 mins; September 17, 2025
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
58 mins; September 10, 2025
Ep 73: General Partner of Felicis Peter Deng on on AI Pricing Tactics, Reaction to GPT-5 & Why Voice is Underrated
64 hours 14 mins; August 26, 2025
Ep 72: Co-Founder of Chai Discovery Joshua Meier on 99% Faster Drug Discovery, BioTech’s AlphaGo Moment, Building Photoshop for Molecules
57 mins; August 13, 2025
Ep 71: CEO of TurboPuffer Simon Eskildsen on Building Smarter Retrieval, AI App Must-Have Features & Current State of Vector DBs
51 mins; July 22, 2025
Ep 70: Karol Hausman and Danny Driess (Physical Intelligence) Unpack the Most Recent Breakthroughs & Path to Generalist Robots
69 hours 57 mins; July 08, 2025
Ep 69: Co-Founder of Databricks & LMArena on Current Eval Limitations, Why China is Winning Open Source and Future of AI Infrastructure
54 mins; June 17, 2025
Ep 68: CEO of Mercor Brendan Foody on Evals Replacing Knowledge Work, AI x Hiring Today & the Future of Data Labeling
44 mins; June 04, 2025
Ep 67: Max Junestrand (CEO, Legora) on Differentiating and Pricing AI Apps & How the Legal Industry Will Evolve
44 mins; May 27, 2025
Ep 66: Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic Sholto Douglas on Claude 4, Next Phase for AI Coding, and the Path to AI Coworkers
57 mins; May 22, 2025
Ep 65: Co-Authors of AI-2027 Daniel Kokotajlo and Thomas Larsen On Their Detailed AI Predictions for the Coming Years
83 hours 27 mins; May 14, 2025
Ep 64: GPT 4.1 Lead at OpenAI Michelle Pokrass: RFT Launch, How OpenAI Improves Its Models & the State of AI Agents Today
47 mins; May 08, 2025
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
50 mins; April 29, 2025
Ep 62: CEO of Cohere Aidan Gomez on Scaling Limits Emerging, AI Use-cases with PMF & Life After Transformers
50 mins; April 15, 2025
Ep 61: Redpoint’s AI Investors Break Down What Separates Enduring AI Companies from the Hype
43 mins; April 09, 2025
Ep 60: Swyx and Alessio (Latent Space) on What has PMF Today, Google is Cooking & GPT Wrappers are Winning
61 hours 30 mins; March 28, 2025
Ep 59: OpenAI Product & Eng Leads Nikunj Handa and Steve Coffey on OpenAI’s New Agent Development Tools
44 mins; March 25, 2025
Ep 58: Google Researchers Noam Shazeer and Jack Rae on Scaling Test-time Compute, Reactions to Ilya & AGI
69 hours 28 mins; March 17, 2025
Ep 57: Former CTO of Meta Mike Schroepfer on the Path to Powering the AI Revolution
44 mins; March 05, 2025
Ep 56: Distinguished Engineer at Waymo Vincent Vanhoucke Unpacks the Breakthroughs and Bottlenecks of Self-Driving
73 hours 1 min; February 26, 2025
Ep 55: Head of Amazon AGI Lab David Luan on DeepSeek’s Significance, What’s Next for Agents & Lessons from OpenAI
43 mins; February 19, 2025
Ep 54: Princeton Researcher Arvind Narayanan on the Limitations of Agent Evals, AI’s Societal Impact & Important Lessons from History
57 mins; January 30, 2025
Ep 53: SemiAnalysis Founder Dylan Patel on New AI Regulations, Future of Chinese AI & xAI’s Scrappy Surge to Hyperscale
84 hours 15 mins; January 21, 2025
Ep 52: Marc Benioff Responds to Satya and Unpacks the Agentic Era
39 mins; January 10, 2025
Ep 51: Former Chief Research Officer of OpenAI Bob McGrew - What Comes Next for AI?
67 hours 32 mins; December 18, 2024
Ep 50: Fireworks CEO Lin Qiao on Why There Won’t be a Single Model, Will Hyperscalers Win Inference & AI Use-cases with PMF
55 mins; December 16, 2024
Ep 49: OpenAI Researcher Noam Brown Unpacks the Full Release of o1 and the Path to AGI
47 mins; December 06, 2024
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
45 mins; November 19, 2024
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
64 hours 25 mins; November 12, 2024
Ep 46: CEO of DeepL Jarek Kutylowski on Specialized vs. General Models, Beating Google and a Future with Synchronous Translation
56 mins; October 29, 2024
Ep 45: Founder & CEO of HeyGen Josh Xu on TikTok’s GenAI Dilemma, Trust and Safety and the Path to Interactive Avatars
51 mins; October 15, 2024
Ep 44: Co-Founder of Together.AI Percy Liang on What’s Next in Research, Reaction to o1 and How AI will Change Simulation
66 hours 20 mins; October 03, 2024
Ep 43: CEO/Co-Founder of Contextual AI Douwe Kiela Reaction to o1, What’s Next in Reasoning and Innovations in Post-Training
57 mins; September 18, 2024
Ep 42: CEO of Grammarly Rahul Roy-Chowdhury on the Future of Communication, Impact of LLMs and How Grammarly Does Eval
51 mins; September 06, 2024
Bonus Episode: Trunk Tools CEO Sarah Buchner is Building Trunk Tools to Simplify the $13T Construction Industry
21 mins; September 04, 2024
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
46 mins; August 28, 2024
Ep 40: CEO of Speak.com Connor Zwick on How AI Will Change the Way we Learn
69 hours 12 mins; August 13, 2024
Ep 39: Github CEO Thomas Dohmke on Building Copilot, Scaling to 1.2M Users and the Future of Code
64 hours 21 mins; July 30, 2024
Ep 38: Runway CEO Cristobal Valenzuela on the Next Frontiers for AI Media and The Role of Human Taste in AI Filmmaking
57 mins; July 16, 2024
Ep 37: Co-Founder and CEO of Fireflies.ai Krish Ramineni on How AI Catalyzed Fireflies to 16M Users
68 hours 33 mins; July 01, 2024
Ep 36: Adobe CPO Scott Belsky on How AI Will Transform Creative Workflows
35 mins; June 11, 2024
Ep 35: CEO of Suno Mikey Shulman on Future of Music with AI, Tactics for Model Eval and Solving the Blank Canvas Problem
62 hours 0 mins; May 30, 2024
Ep 34: Eric Ries and Jeremy Howard (Answer.ai) on the Biggest Mistakes AI Founders are Making and Building the Bell Labs of AI
60 hours 0 mins; May 22, 2024
Bonus Episode: Sam Altman (CEO, OpenAI) Talks GPT-4o and Predicts the Future of AI
53 mins; May 20, 2024
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
96 hours 50 mins; April 30, 2024
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
61 hours 12 mins; April 16, 2024
Ep 31: CEO and Co-Founder of Mistral Arthur Mensch on the Next Frontiers for LLMs, Why Open Source Will Prevail and AI Safety
39 mins; March 28, 2024
Ep 30: Superhuman CEO Rahul Vohra on the Future of Email with AI and the Role Agents Will Play
71 hours 42 mins; March 19, 2024
Ep 29: Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shih on Future of Slack, How Gucci Uses AI and Working with Marc Benioff
52 mins; March 06, 2024
Ep 28: LangChain CEO Harrison Chase on the Current State of Eval and Agents and The LLM Apps that Will Define 2024
64 hours 44 mins; February 20, 2024
Ep 27: Oscar Co-Founder Mario Schlosser on How LLMs Can Be Used in Healthcare Today and The Path to AI Doctors
63 hours 44 mins; February 13, 2024
Ep 26: Replit Founder Amjad Masad on the 1000x Engineer, ChatBots are Overhyped and Why We Don’t Really Have True Open-Source Models
70 hours 22 mins; February 06, 2024
Ep 25: Intercom Co-Founder Des Traynor on Building Winning AI Strategy and Where We Are in the AI Adoption Curve
57 mins; January 24, 2024
Ep 24: OpenAI Head of DevRel Logan Kilpatrick on The Best ChatGPT Use Cases, Future of Agents, and Google Gemini
66 hours 37 mins; January 09, 2024
Ep 23: Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on the future of Search, OpenAI Wrappers and Using AI to Talk to Loved Ones
66 hours 8 mins; December 14, 2023
Special Episode: A Full Breakdown of the OpenAI Saga and What It Means for AI Founders
47 mins; November 21, 2023
Ep 22: Notion AI Engineer Linus Lee: Behind the Scenes of Notion AI
61 hours 47 mins; November 16, 2023
Ep 21: Modal CEO Erik Bernhardsson on Bringing Development to the Cloud, the GPU Market, and GenAI Music
53 mins; October 31, 2023
Ep 20: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on the Future of AGI, Leading Anthropic, and AI Doom Chances
109 hours 7 mins; October 16, 2023
Ep 19: Tome CEO Keith Peiris on Disrupting Powerpoint and Scaling To Millions of Users
46 mins; September 28, 2023
Ep 18: LlamaIndex CEO Jerry Liu on Trends in LLM Applications
47 mins; September 19, 2023
Ep 17: Nomic AI Co-Founder Andriy Mulyar on "GPT-4-All", LLMs in Video Games, and Apple's AI Strategy
45 mins; September 12, 2023
Ep 16: VP of Generative AI at Adobe Alexandru Costin on The Future of Content Creation
52 mins; August 29, 2023
Ep 15: Snorkel AI CEO Alex Ratner on What's Needed for Wider-Spread Enterprise AI Adoption
46 mins; August 18, 2023
Ep 15: Savvy CEO Suril Kantaria on First Time Founder Lessons, ICHRA and Working With Elon at Twitter
40 mins; August 08, 2023
Ep 14: Chroma CEO Jeff Huber on Vector Databases, Multimodal Embeddings & Building an AI Startup
48 mins; August 01, 2023
Ep 13: PathAI CEO Dr. Andy Beck on the Future of AI in Medical Diagnosis
50 mins; July 25, 2023
Ep 12: EleutherAI's Aran Komatsuzaki on Open-Source Models' Future and Thought Cloning
43 mins; July 19, 2023
Ep 11: Stanford Professor Tatsu Hashimoto on AI Biases and Improving LLM Performance
50 mins; July 05, 2023
Ep 10: Insitro CEO Daphne Koller on Using ML to Change Drug Discovery
49 mins; June 13, 2023
Ep 9: Open AI VP of Product Peter Welinder on OpenAI’s Strategy and AI’s Future
50 mins; June 07, 2023
Ep 8: Ex-DeepMind/WhiteHouse Operator Tantum Collins on AI Regulation and Geopolitical Impacts
61 hours 3 mins; May 31, 2023
Ep 7: Co-Creator of Databricks Dolly Mike Conover on Open-Source LLMs
48 mins; May 11, 2023
Ep 6: Jasper CEO Dave Rogenmoser on the Future of Writing with AI
41 mins; April 19, 2023
Ep 5: You.com CEO Richard Socher on The Future of Search, Open Source Models and AGI
43 mins; April 06, 2023
Ep 4: Fixie.ai CEO Matt Welsh on How LLMs Will Change the Way We Work
32 mins; April 04, 2023
Ep 3: NEAR CEO Illia Polosukhin on the Origins of the Transformer Paper and The Overlap Between AI and Crypto
48 mins; March 21, 2023
Ep 2: Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia on scaling and orchestrating large language models
46 mins; March 07, 2023
Ep 1: Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue on The Future of Open vs Closed Source in AI
48 mins; February 22, 2023
Unsupervised Learning: Trailer
2 mins; February 16, 2023
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