Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron

Jacob Effron, Patrick Chase, Jordan Segall, Erica Brescia

Booking Overview

An interview-led AI analysis show focused on artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, and their implications for business and society, featuring prominent researchers, founders, investors, and technology analysts. Credible pitches include leading AI scientists, venture-backed AI founders, semiconductor or infrastructure executives, technology investors, and authoritative AI commentators; booking difficulty is high because recent guests are highly accomplished and well-known in the field.

Metrics

Episodes: 102

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 4.2k subscribers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

jacob@redpoint.com

jeffron@redpoint.com

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Host

Jacob Effron - Managing Director and investor at Redpoint Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on technology companies.

Patrick Chase - Co-host of the podcast.

Jordan Segall - Co-host of the podcast.

Erica Brescia - Co-host of the podcast.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Established AI researchers, technology analysts, AI founders, venture investors, and senior leaders with deep expertise in artificial intelligence, computing infrastructure, or technology strategy.

Required Achievements:

Founded or led a notable AI or technology company, Published influential AI research, Held senior roles at major technology or AI organizations, Built a recognized profile as an analyst, investor, or columnist, Developed original views on the future of AI and technology

Recent Guest Discussions

Benedict Evans - AI Adoption, Technology Platform Economics, Enterprise Use Cases, Automation, Foundation-model Strategy, And The Future Of Software.

Jürgen Schmidhuber - Artificial General Intelligence, Recursive Self-improvement, Artificial Curiosity, AI Hardware, Open-source And Closed AI, Robotics, And AI Safety.

Rob Toews - AI Lab Competition, Foundation Models, Enterprise Adoption, Compute Infrastructure, Semiconductor Bottlenecks, Robotics, And Technology-company Strategy.

Ari Morcos - AI Model Development, Coding Agents, Open-weight Models, AI Labs, Compute Constraints, Semiconductor Technology, Robotics, And Recursive Self-improvement.

Recent Topics

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Venture Capital, Technology, Robotics

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron

Ep 93: CEO of Redwood Research Buck Shlegeris on OpenAI/HuggingFace Revelations, Fixing AI Safety & Takeover Odds

September 03, 2026

Jacob sits down with Buck Shlegeris, CEO of Redwood Research, one of the organizations that led the independent investigation into OpenAI/Hugging Face's incident. They dig into the incident itself, Buck's reactions to it, and what he believes it reveals about the state of where we are today. (0:00) Intro(1:02) Buck's initial reaction upon first reading the report(2:37) How fast the AIs actually solved the "hack"(3:59) Why the AIs cheated in the first place(10:28) How this might have play...

AI Vibe Check: Chinese Open Models, Distillation & The Hugging Face Breach

August 03, 2026

In this installment of their recurring roundtable, Jacob, Ari, and Rob dig into the accelerating Chinese open-source model race, debating whether Kimi K3 has actually closed the gap with the US frontier or just looks like it has, and whether distillation fully explains China's progress. That opens into the messier fight over open-weight models generally, with the group dissecting the backlash against Anthropic's stance and asking whether powerful open models are inherently dangerous or actual...

Ep 92: xAI Co-Founder Unpacks the Future of Model Development

July 31, 2026

Igor Babuschkin, co-founder of River AI and formerly a co-founder of xAI, joins to unpack a career that spans nearly every major AI lab: he led the StarCraft and AlphaCode work at DeepMind, joined OpenAI's reasoning team years before o1 shipped, and co-founded xAI, where he helped stand up the Colossus data center in roughly 120 days and reflects candidly on what it's actually like working with Elon Musk day to day, plus what the Cursor acquisition actually unlocked for Grok's coding models. ...

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