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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Jul 31, 2026PodcastThe Man Who Helped Stand Up Colossus in 120 Days Is Betting on an AI That Lives in Your HouseHost Jacob EffronxAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin left to start River AI, arguing coding agents have crossed a threshold, closed labs are getting squeezed, and the next prize is personal, local intelligence.
56:10ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Jun 1, 2026PodcastReid Hoffman Pledged a Billion to Free DeepMind. Hassabis Never Played the CardHost Jacob EffronSebastian Mallaby's biography of Demis Hassabis, discussed with Jacob Effron, is a story of a founder who tried to stop the AI race and then became one of its central players.
1:18:05ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Dec 18, 2025PodcastThe Real Bottleneck in AI Research Is Compute, Not IdeasHost Jacob EffronAfter NeurIPS, Ari Morcos and Rob Toews sit down with Jacob Effron to argue about plateauing models, SSI’s secrecy, OpenAI’s cash burn, and a set of spicy 2026 bets.
1:16:53ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Oct 24, 2025PodcastKarpathy Called Today's Models Slop. His Decade Timeline Still Sounds BullishHost Jacob EffronDatology AI's Ari Morcos and Radical Ventures' Rob Toews walk through Karpathy's cold water, OpenAI's dealmaking, and who actually pays for the data-center boom.
1:02:05ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Sep 24, 2025Podcast$100 Million Researchers and a $200 Billion xAI: An AI Roundtable Does the MathHost Jacob EffronDatology’s Ari Morcos and Radical Ventures’ Rob Toews argue over whether models are plateauing, whether RL-environment startups will last, and why Google is the lab they would pick.
43:51ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Apr 9, 2025PodcastThe $177 Billion GPU Bet Only Works If AI Becomes a $1.5 Trillion MarketHost Jacob EffronFour Redpoint partners walk their limited partners through where AI value will accrue—and why revenue is now the easiest metric to misread.
56:10ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Oct 29, 2024PodcastDeepL Beat Google at Translation by Refusing to Be a General ModelHost Jacob EffronOnly 18 percent of the world speaks English—and a Cologne startup turned that fact into a $2 billion language-AI company.
1:05:22ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastBuild First, Optimize Later: Harrison Chase on LangChain, Evals, and the State-Machine Future of AgentsHost Jacob EffronHarrison Chase explains how LangChain grew from an orchestration layer into LangSmith and LangGraph, why evaluation datasets force product clarity, and why reliable agents look more like state machines than autonomous loops.
54:44ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastLegal Tech's Step-Function Moment: Why Legora Bet on the Last 20%Host Jacob EffronLegora CEO Max explains the $550M Series D, AI-native legal work, foundation-model competition, and the culture required to keep moving fast.
1:01:47ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastInside Notion AI: Prototypes That Annoy Everyone, Evals Built In-House, and Models Rented from PartnersHost Jacob EffronNotion AI engineer Linus Lee explains how a dozen-person team went from a hotel-room hackathon to Writer, Autofill and workspace Q&A.
1:09:31ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastThe Staircase to an AI Tutor: Connor Wick on Speak, Moats, and Voice-First LearningHost Jacob EffronHow Speak's CEO is building a fluency product one model-capability step at a time, from specialized speech models to evals, pricing, and the future of education.
51:30ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastLess Email, Better Thinking: Grammarly’s CEO on AI That Augments CommunicationHost Jacob EffronGrammarly CEO Rahul explains how the company is moving from grammar checks to end-to-end communication assistance—and why evals, user data, and measurable outcomes matter.
1:04:25ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastInside GitHub's Copilot Bet: Agents, Open Source, and Why the Developer Job EnduresHost Jacob EffronGitHub CEO Thomas explains how Copilot went from a research bet to 1.3 million developers, and what agents, fine-tuning and a multi-model world mean for the next five years of software.
57:08ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastShipping Finn: Intercom's Product Playbook for the ChatGPT EraHost Jacob EffronDes Traynor explains how Intercom pivoted to AI, shipped Finn, built guardrails, and turned customer support into a product lab for LLMs.
40:00ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastThe Winds of Change: How Mistral Plans to Win the Open-Model EraHost Jacob EffronArthur Mensch explains Mistral's open-source strategy, enterprise distribution, model research, and views on AI regulation and sovereignty.
1:00:10ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastThe Long Leash and the Narrow Fences: Eric Ries and Jeremy Howard on Building AI’s Edison LabHost Jacob EffronEric Ries and Jeremy Howard discuss Lean Startup discipline in AI, Answer.AI’s for-profit R&D lab model, efficient fine-tuning, language-heavy applications, and AI safety regulation.
1:09:00ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastThe Meeting Is the Moat: Fireflies.ai’s Path to 16 Million UsersHost Jacob EffronKrish Ramani explains how Fireflies.ai turned AI note-taking into a meeting chief of staff, why he avoids fine-tuning, and how a startup competes with Microsoft, Zoom, and Google.
54:05ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastServal's Jake Stout on Outbuilding ServiceNow: Mirror the System of Record, Bet on Code, and Ship Before the Incumbent Can Book a MeetingHost Jacob EffronHow an AI-native employee-support startup attacks a legacy ITSM incumbent with velocity, code-generated workflows and a permissions-first architecture.
44:53ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastLegora's CEO on Building Legal AI That Survives the Next Model ReleaseHost Jacob EffronMax explains how Legora turns fast-moving model capabilities into end-to-end legal work, enterprise adoption, and a durable product strategy.
1:01:13ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastPinecone's Vector Database Bet: Scaling Through the ChatGPT TsunamiHost Jacob EffronEdo Liberty explains how Pinecone scaled through the generative AI boom, why vector search is more than a database add-on, and where he sees the next AI infrastructure shifts.