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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Jun 3, 2026PodcastA Trillion Tokens Later, the Concept Finally Lands: Łukasz Kaiser on What Transformers Still MissHost Jacob EffronThe Attention Is All You Need co-author tells Unsupervised Learning that transformers will probably keep winning — and that they still do not learn the way people do.
1:03:00ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Jan 29, 2026PodcastA Model That Solves New Math Problems Every Week Still Isn't AGIHost Jacob EffronFormer OpenAI research VP Jerry Tworek on why scaling still works, why models go hopeless when they fail, and why he left to chase continual learning.
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.
1:02:05ENUnsupervised 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.
51:08ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Apr 15, 2025PodcastThe Transformer Co-Author Who Says Scaling Hit a WallHost Jacob EffronCohere CEO Aidan Gomez tells Redpoint that a $100 million model is still an amnesiac genius, and that enterprise AI money is concentrating in support, research, and the back office.
1:10:23ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Mar 17, 2025PodcastA Million Tokens per Dollar: Why Noam Shazeer Thinks Inference Compute Is Still UntappedHost Jacob EffronThe Transformer co-inventor and Gemini researcher Jack Rae walk through test-time compute, Ilya Sutskever's AGI critique, and a four-year-old who now lectures his teacher about lizards.
48:18ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Dec 6, 2024PodcastNoam Brown: There's No Hard Wall—Just Eight Orders of Magnitude of HeadroomHost Jacob EffronA ChatGPT query costs about a penny. The problems society cares about most, he says, are worth a million dollars.
1:10:19ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastThe Robot That Folded the Laundry: Physical Intelligence’s Three FrontiersHost Jacob EffronKarol Hausman and Danny Driess explain how robot foundation models moved from coded primitives to web-scale pretraining, and why performance is now the hard gate.
1:13:40ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastThe Long Tail, the World Model, and the 1995 Problem: Inside Waymo's Scaling Phase and Robotics' Missing MomentHost Jacob EffronVincent, a distinguished engineer at Waymo, explains how foundation models became teachers for self-driving, why the long tail and causality are the real frontier, and where robotics still lacks its generalist proof point.