Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
Today: #200 in Technology on our combined chart.
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts |
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| Oct 9 | #200 | #196 |
| Oct 8 | — | #196 |
| Oct 7 | — | #199 |
About the show
Latest episodes
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Ep 94: Applied Compute CEO on the Limits of RL, the New AI Hyperscaler & Why Post-Training Wins Inference
October 6, 2026 · 58 minYash Patil, a former OpenAI researcher who worked on Codex and now runs Applied Compute, argues that post-training is the most overlooked part of the AI stack and the key to owning your intelligence. He explains when companies should…
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Ep 93: CEO of Redwood Research Buck Shlegeris on OpenAI/HuggingFace Revelations, Fixing AI Safety & Takeover Odds
September 3, 2026 · 58 minJacob 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…
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AI Vibe Check: Chinese Open Models, Distillation & The Hugging Face Breach
August 3, 2026 · 1 hr 12 minIn 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…
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Ep 92: xAI Co-Founder Unpacks the Future of Model Development
July 31, 2026 · 1 hr 4 minIgor 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…
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Ep 91: Top AI Analyst Unpacks Today's AI Hype Cycle
July 16, 2026 · 1 hr 14 minBenedict Evans, one of tech's most widely-read analysts, joins Jacob Effron. The conversation centers on Benedict's core thesis that comparing AI's scale to past platform shifts (the internet, mobile, PCs) is analytically useless, and that…
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Ep 90: AI Pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber on the State of AI Today
July 9, 2026 · 51 minDr. Jürgen Schmidhuber, a renowned scientist and AI researcher widely regarded as one of the pioneers in the field, originated key ideas behind today's transformers, LSTMs, and recursive self-improvement through his lab's work. He argues…
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AI Vibe Check: Lab Wars, Why APIs Might Vanish & Future Predictions
June 12, 2026 · 1 hr 7 minSix months after their last roundup, Jacob sits down with Ari Morcos (Datology AI CEO, former Meta AI researcher) and Rob Toews (Radical Ventures partner, Forbes AI columnist) to take stock of an AI landscape that has shifted dramatically…
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Ep 89: AI Research Legend’s Honest Assessment of Where We Are
June 3, 2026 · 1 hr 14 minThis episode with Lukasz Kaiser, co-author of the seminal "Attention Is All You Need" transformer paper and former researcher at both Google Brain and OpenAI, is a wide-ranging conversation about the fundamental limits of current AI…