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Unsupervised 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.
48:00ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Dec 15, 2025PodcastA Two-Second Vote Is Training Models to Be ClickbaitHost Jacob EffronSurge AI CEO Edwin Chen tells Redpoint why LMArena rewards length and emojis, how one lab's models got worse for a year, and why frontier labs are no longer on the same path.
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.
57:52ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Aug 13, 2025PodcastThey Aimed for 1%. The Lab Hit 20%. Chai Discovery Moved Antibody Design Onto the Computer.Host Jacob EffronJoshua Meier on three waves of AI drug discovery, why Chai-2 behaves like Photoshop for molecules, and why a 1% hit rate was supposed to be enough to change the industry.
44:21ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Jun 4, 2025PodcastMercor's CEO: Knowledge Work's Next Job Is Writing EvalsHost Jacob EffronBrendan Foody tells Redpoint how Mercor turned AI hiring and expert data into a $100 million round — and why he thinks a huge slice of white-collar work will become creating tests for models.
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.
1:10:19ENUnsupervised 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.