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Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron

by Redpoint Ventures

We probe the sharpest minds in AI in search for the truth about what’s real today, what will be real in the future and what it all means for businesses and the world. If you’re a builder, researcher or investor navigating the AI world, this podcast will help you deconstruct and understand the most important breakthroughs and see a clearer picture of reality. Follow this show and consider enabling notifications to stay up to date on our latest episodes. Unsupervised Learning is a podcast by

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Ep 24: OpenAI Head of DevRel Logan Kilpatrick on The...

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2024/01/09

OpenAI's inaugural DevDay sparked excitement in the AI community, with several product releases and ChatGPT hitting the milestone of reaching 100M weekly active users. On this week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning, we sat down with the Head of Developer Relations at OpenAI, Logan Kilpatrick. Logan shared with us how OpenAI prioritizes product builds internally, the interesting use cases he's seen for several OpenAI products, where OpenAI is headed, and what the Gemini release means for the

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01:06:08

Ep 23: Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on the future...

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2023/12/14

Perplexity is a next-gen search tool going after Google, with 1M Android app installs and 1M iOS installs within only 8 months of product launch. On this week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning, we sat down with the CEO and Co-Founder of Perplexity AI, Aravind Srinivas. Aravind shared with us the behind-the-scenes stories of how Perplexity AI was born (37:19), how he thinks about Perplexity being viewed as a "wrapper" (24:01), where search will be in 10 years (23:08), and where Perplexity is

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00:47:00

Special Episode: A Full Breakdown of the OpenAI Saga...

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2023/11/22

In light of one of the biggest news stories in AI, we’ve put together a special episode to discuss the ramifications of Sam Altmans’ firing from OpenAI. Regardless of what happens between now and when you’re listening to this, the implications of the events that happened over the past few days are certainly worth unpacking. About our guests: Alex Konrad, a journalist at Forbes covering Venture Capital and Tech Jason Warner, former CTO at GitHub, partner at Redpoint, and now Founder of AGI start-up

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Ep 22: Notion AI Engineer Linus Lee: Behind the...

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2023/11/16

Linus Lee is an AI engineer at Notion, one of the earliest and most effective adopters of AI. In the episode, Linus shares how Notion developed its AI products, including Writer, Autofill, and Q&A, which just launched on Tuesday. It was fascinating to learn how Notion structures its AI team and dogfoods its development process. Linus also explores the hardest to anticipate when going to market with new AI features, and how Notion thinks of its LLM partnerships. Overall, a wide-ranging conversation

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00:53:59

Ep 21: Modal CEO Erik Bernhardsson on Bringing...

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2023/10/31

Jacob and Pat sit down with Erik Bernhardsson, the founder of Modal Labs, a data infrastructure company providing GPU compute to data teams. On this episode we discussed Erik’s thoughts on the AI chip market, the most popular GenAI use cases on Modal, and even Oracle Cloud’s resurgence in the AI start-up market. 0:00 intro0:45 motivation for founding Modal6:35 advantages that Modal gives developers9:21 early applications built with Modal11:58 challenges for AI developers16:31 GPU access today20:09

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01:49:07

Ep 20: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on the Future of...

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2023/10/16

Special Crossover Episode: We're excited to share this conversation from "The Logan Bartlett Show," another Redpoint podcast that focuses on untold stories from tech's inner circle. In the episode, Logan Bartlett interviews Dario Amodei (CEO, Anthropic) on the future of AI.In the episode, Dario gives detailed predictions on the AI industry for 2024, 2025, and beyond. He discusses his days at OpenAI, leaving to start Anthropic, why he doesn’t like the term AGI, what AI developments he’s most excited

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00:46:53

Ep 19: Tome CEO Keith Peiris on Disrupting Powerpoint...

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2023/09/28

Jacob and Pat sit down with Tome Co-Founder and CEO Keith Peiris to discuss Tome’s go-to market strategy, deciphering through the “AI tourists” to identify their ideal customer profile (ICP), and the different hardware cost considerations when reaching enterprise scale. 0:00 intro1:35 founding Tome5:05 designing Tome10:30 how users want to interact with AI12:26 teaching users how to use Tome20:13 partnering with model providers vs. building your own28:43 model evaluation31:23 building an enterprise

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00:47:15

Ep 18: LlamaIndex CEO Jerry Liu on Trends in LLM...

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2023/09/19

Jacob and Pat sit down with LlamaIndex CEO Jerry Liu to discuss his motivations for building LlamaIndex, thoughts on building enterprise-ready LLM applications and agents, and when fine-tuning makes sense. 0:00 intro1:02 the evolution of LlamaIndex3:48 apps being built with LlamaIndex6:39 making agents more effective12:58 retrieval augmented generation16:49 what’s the right level of abstraction for LlamaIndex?19:42 balancing reasoning and knowledge30:46 storage for embeddings36:03 underutilized

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Ep 17: Nomic AI Co-Founder Andriy Mulyar on...

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2023/09/12

Jordan and Erica sit down with Andriy Mulyar, Founder & CTO of Nomic AI, and discuss his motivation for creating GPT4ALL, the importance of data-centric AI, the use of LLMs in video games, and which technology companies are well positioned to “win” in the GenAI market long term. 0:00 intro0:59 getting into AI and meeting Brandon2:27 starting Nomic7:43 how people are using Atlas10:31 hallucinations in LLMs13:05 gpt4all17:25 building LLMs into video games26:31 where does Nomic go from here?37:39

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00:52:20

Ep 16: VP of Generative AI at Adobe Alexandru Costin...

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2023/08/29

Patrick and Jacob sit down with Alexandru Costin, the VP of Generative AI and Sensei at Adobe, and discuss how Adobe’s early projects with generative AI in 2019 helped them move quickly upon the release of LLMs and diffusion models. Before leading Adobe’s generative AI efforts he founded InterAKT, a web development company, and led Adobe Romania for 10 years. 00:00 intro01:44 Adobe Romania and background02:26 AI projects at Adobe10:03 incorporating AI into existing products16:34 educating Adobe’s

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00:46:45

Ep 15: Snorkel AI CEO Alex Ratner on What's Needed...

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2023/08/18

Jacob sits down with Alex to discuss how Snorkel grew from an open-source project in a Stanford AI lab to a $1B company. Alex shares his thoughts on why data development is at the heart of AI development, why enterprises are slow to deploy LLM applications, and the importance of academia in the future of AI development. 00:00 intro 01:03 moving from academia to Snorkel 05:08 the evolution of Snorkel 18:33 improving pre-training 21:37 avoiding hallucinations and other errors 33:00 barriers to

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00:48:42

Ep 14: Chroma CEO Jeff Huber on Vector Databases,...

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2023/08/01

On today’s episode we talk with Jeff Huber, the CEO and Co-founder of Chroma. We talk about what sets Chroma apart from its competitors, new developments in AI technology, and advice for listeners who want to get started in AI. 0:00 intro 1:02 starting chroma 6:08 vector databases 10:03 interesting use cases for vector databases 13:14 what sets chroma apart? 23:00 unresolved questions in LLMs 32:45 multiple agents vs. one agent to rule them all 34:50 chroma’s future 38:00 embedding models 43:00

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Ep 13: PathAI CEO Dr. Andy Beck on the Future of AI...

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2023/07/25

Jacob sits down with PathAI Ceo Dr. Andy Beck to discuss the state of AI adoption in diagnosis, why Path acquired their own lab, pathologists' jobs in the future and nailing GTM to reach a ~$1B valuation. 00:00 intro 01:01 pathology and AI 13:30 nailing go-to-market strategy 19:47 how pathology labs can go digital 25:36 regulatory frameworks and roadblocks 33:05 do improvements in foundation models impact PathAI? 36:26 standardizing diagnosis 40:05 how will the job of a pathologist change going

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Ep 12: EleutherAI's Aran Komatsuzaki on Open-Source...

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2023/07/19

Jacob and Jordan sit down with EleutherAI's Aran Komatsuzaki to discuss the future of open-source models, thought cloning, his work on GPT-J and more. 0:00 intro01:06 Aran’s background02:58 starting work on gpt-j05:49 gathering data for Lion and gpt-j08:51 history of EleutherAI11:16 open vs. closed-source models19:06 how will open-source models be used going forward21:33 thought cloning25:51 building AI models that understand video29:35 one model to rule them all31:58 influence of academia in the

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00:50:16

Ep 11: Stanford Professor Tatsu Hashimoto on AI...

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2023/07/05

Patrick and Jacob sit down with Tatsu Hashimoto, Professor of AI at Stanford, to discuss the incredible open source projects from his research group like Alpaca and AlpacaFarm, whether data, algorithms, fine-tuning or RLHF is most important for performance, if AI is liberal or conservative, and much more! (0:00) - intro(1:05) - journey to Stanford(2:50) - origins of Alpaca(6:08) - capabilities of the Alpaca model(16:39) - the future of AI(20:07) - AlpacaFarm(21:37) - how to improve language

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00:49:01

Ep 10: Insitro CEO Daphne Koller on Using ML to...

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2023/06/13

Jacob sits down with Insitro CEO Daphne Koller to discuss founding Coursera, where and how ML can drive the most impact in drug development, and if foundation models can transform core drug discovery work and edtech. (00:00) - intro (00:54) - Daphne’s journey (09:18) - AI and biology discovery (10:59) - insitro vs. traditional pharma (20:04) - phenotyping patients (26:01) - early mistakes (29:51) - the future of data (35:33) - partnering with larger pharma companies (38:17) - impact of LLMs on

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00:50:11

Ep 9: Open AI VP of Product Peter Welinder on...

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2023/06/07

Jacob sits down with OpenAI VP of Product & Partnerships Peter Welinder and guest host Rob Toews (Radical VC Partner) to discuss OpenAI’s strategy, how they think about what they will/won’t build, the future of open source models and when we’ll reach AGI. (00:00) - intro(00:42) - where is the value in AI?(07:51) - how OpenAI prioritizes projects(14:15) - open-source AI(25:49) - gaps in AI(29:36) - risks and downsides(34:02) - when will we reach super-intellegence?(40:40) - super-intellegence

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Ep 8: Ex-DeepMind/WhiteHouse Operator Tantum Collins...

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2023/05/31

Jacob sits down with ex-DeepMind / White House operator Teddy Collins to discuss Sam Altman’s Congressional testimony, how AI can enable direct democracy, state-driven economic planning and better orgs, US-China competition and more. (00:00) - intro(01:15) - how Teddy came to the AI world(06:26) - working in government(12:27) - AI regulation and Sam Altman testimony(19:19) - the end of humanity(34:34) - nearer term issues with AI(41:10) - how the government can use AI(47:13) - lessons from

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00:48:56

Ep 7: Co-Creator of Databricks Dolly Mike Conover on...

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2023/05/11

Patrick and Jacob sit down with Mike Conover, Staff Software Engineer at Databricks and Co-Creator of Databricks Dolly, the world’s first truly open instruction-tuned LLM, to discuss the magic behind Dolly, Alpaca and other instruction-tuned LLMs, the unreasonable effectiveness of fine-tuning, how they got all Databricks employees to help them curate the Dolly dataset (hint: google forms), and more. (0:00) - Intro(5:54) - The birth of Dolly(12:03) - Data curation at Databricks(15:34) - Advice for

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00:41:19

Ep 6: Jasper CEO Dave Rogenmoser on the Future of...

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2023/04/19

Jacob and Erica sit down with Jasper CEO Dave Rogenmoser to discuss the future of writing with AI and what it means for marketers and the internet, Jasper post ChatGPT, hosting a massive Gen AI conference, going upmarket and more.(00:56) - How Jasper works and how people are using it(02:00) - Dave's journey leading up to Jasper(04:30) - The moment Dave knew he was onto something with Jasper(07:30) - Where Jasper works well for business applications(10:55) - How the content of the internet might

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