Unsupervised Learning

On Unsupervised Learning 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 Redpoint Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that has invested in companies like Snowflake, Stripe, and Mistral. Cohosted by Redpoint investors Jacob Effron, Patrick Chase, Jordan Segall and Erica Brescia.

Ep 67: Max Junestrand (CEO, Legora) on Differentiating and Pricing AI Apps & How the Legal Industry Will Evolve
May 27, 2025 – 00:44:09
Ep 66: Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic Sholto Douglas on Claude 4, Next Phase for AI Coding, and the Path to AI Coworkers
May 22, 2025 – 00:57:45
Ep 65: Co-Authors of AI-2027 Daniel Kokotajlo and Thomas Larsen On Their Detailed AI Predictions for the Coming Years
May 14, 2025 – 01:23:27
Ep 64: GPT 4.1 Lead at OpenAI Michelle Pokrass: RFT Launch, How OpenAI Improves Its Models & the State of AI Agents Today
May 8, 2025 – 00:47:12
Ep 63: Khan Academy Founder/CEO on Salman Khan on Classrooms in 20 years, Rolling out to 1.4M Users & Sal’s Hopes for AI Education
Apr 29, 2025 – 00:50:53
Ep 62: CEO of Cohere Aidan Gomez on Scaling Limits Emerging, AI Use-cases with PMF & Life After Transformers
Apr 15, 2025 – 00:50:44
Ep 61: Redpoint’s AI Investors Break Down What Separates Enduring AI Companies from the Hype
Apr 9, 2025 – 00:43:28
Ep 60: Swyx and Alessio (Latent Space) on What has PMF Today, Google is Cooking & GPT Wrappers are Winning
Mar 28, 2025 – 01:01:30
Ep 59: OpenAI Product & Eng Leads Nikunj Handa and Steve Coffey on OpenAI’s New Agent Development Tools
Mar 25, 2025 – 00:44:37
Ep 58: Google Researchers Noam Shazeer and Jack Rae on Scaling Test-time Compute, Reactions to Ilya & AGI
Mar 17, 2025 – 01:09:28
Ep 57: Former CTO of Meta Mike Schroepfer on the Path to Powering the AI Revolution
Mar 5, 2025 – 00:44:47
Ep 56: Distinguished Engineer at Waymo Vincent Vanhoucke Unpacks the Breakthroughs and Bottlenecks of Self-Driving
Feb 26, 2025 – 01:13:01
Ep 55: Head of Amazon AGI Lab David Luan on DeepSeek’s Significance, What’s Next for Agents & Lessons from OpenAI
Feb 19, 2025 – 00:43:49
Ep 54: Princeton Researcher Arvind Narayanan on the Limitations of Agent Evals, AI’s Societal Impact & Important Lessons from History
Jan 30, 2025 – 00:57:09
Ep 53: SemiAnalysis Founder Dylan Patel on New AI Regulations, Future of Chinese AI & xAI’s Scrappy Surge to Hyperscale
Jan 21, 2025 – 01:24:15
Ep 52: Marc Benioff Responds to Satya and Unpacks the Agentic Era
Jan 10, 2025 – 00:39:57
Ep 51: Former Chief Research Officer of OpenAI Bob McGrew - What Comes Next for AI?
Dec 18, 2024 – 01:07:32
Ep 50: Fireworks CEO Lin Qiao on Why There Won’t be a Single Model, Will Hyperscalers Win Inference & AI Use-cases with PMF
Dec 16, 2024 – 00:55:49
Ep 49: OpenAI Researcher Noam Brown Unpacks the Full Release of o1 and the Path to AGI
Dec 6, 2024 – 00:47:12
Ep 48: Co-Founder/CEO of LiveKit Russ d'Sa on the Best ChatGPT Voice Use-Cases, New UX Paradigms in AI, and When Voice Makes Sense
Nov 19, 2024 – 00:45:28
Ep 47: Chief AI Scientist of Databricks Jonathan Frankle on Why New Model Architectures are Unlikely, When to Pre-Train or Fine Tune, and Hopes for Future AI Policy
Nov 12, 2024 – 01:04:25
Ep 46: CEO of DeepL Jarek Kutylowski on Specialized vs. General Models, Beating Google and a Future with Synchronous Translation
Oct 29, 2024 – 00:56:10
Ep 45: Founder & CEO of HeyGen Josh Xu on TikTok’s GenAI Dilemma, Trust and Safety and the Path to Interactive Avatars
Oct 15, 2024 – 00:51:46
Ep 44: Co-Founder of Together.AI Percy Liang on What’s Next in Research, Reaction to o1 and How AI will Change Simulation
Oct 3, 2024 – 01:06:20
Ep 43: CEO/Co-Founder of Contextual AI Douwe Kiela Reaction to o1, What’s Next in Reasoning and Innovations in Post-Training
Sep 18, 2024 – 00:57:23
Ep 42: CEO of Grammarly Rahul Roy-Chowdhury on the Future of Communication, Impact of LLMs and How Grammarly Does Eval
Sep 6, 2024 – 00:51:21
Bonus Episode: Trunk Tools CEO Sarah Buchner is Building Trunk Tools to Simplify the $13T Construction Industry
Sep 4, 2024 – 00:21:11
Ep 41: Head of AI at Snowflake Baris Gultekin on Why They Built Their Own LLM, Governance as a Moat, and the Most Common Enterprise Use-Cases
Aug 28, 2024 – 00:46:51
Ep 40: CEO of Speak.com Connor Zwick on How AI Will Change the Way we Learn
Aug 13, 2024 – 01:09:12
Ep 39: Github CEO Thomas Dohmke on Building Copilot, Scaling to 1.2M Users and the Future of Code
Jul 30, 2024 – 01:04:21
Ep 38: Runway CEO Cristobal Valenzuela on the Next Frontiers for AI Media and The Role of Human Taste in AI Filmmaking
Jul 16, 2024 – 00:57:51
Ep 37: Co-Founder and CEO of Fireflies.ai Krish Ramineni on How AI Catalyzed Fireflies to 16M Users
Jul 1, 2024 – 01:08:33
Ep 36: Adobe CPO Scott Belsky on How AI Will Transform Creative Workflows
Jun 11, 2024 – 00:35:46
Ep 35: CEO of Suno Mikey Shulman on Future of Music with AI, Tactics for Model Eval and Solving the Blank Canvas Problem
May 30, 2024 – 01:02:00
Ep 34: Eric Ries and Jeremy Howard (Answer.ai) on the Biggest Mistakes AI Founders are Making and Building the Bell Labs of AI
May 22, 2024 – 01:00:00
Bonus Episode: Sam Altman (CEO, OpenAI) Talks GPT-4o and Predicts the Future of AI
May 20, 2024 – 00:53:37
Ep 33: CTO and Co-Founder of Sourcegraph on Current Landscape and Future of Software Development, How to Make RAG Better, and Building Towards the Agentic Future
Apr 30, 2024 – 01:36:50
Ep 32: CEO and Founder of Pinecone Edo Liberty on Pioneering Vector Databases, Barriers to Productionalizing Models and Why What’s Happening with GPUs is Not Sustainable
Apr 16, 2024 – 01:01:12
Ep 31: CEO and Co-Founder of Mistral Arthur Mensch on the Next Frontiers for LLMs, Why Open Source Will Prevail and AI Safety
Mar 28, 2024 – 00:39:57
Ep 30: Superhuman CEO Rahul Vohra on the Future of Email with AI and the Role Agents Will Play
Mar 19, 2024 – 01:11:42
Ep 29: Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shih on Future of Slack, How Gucci Uses AI and Working with Marc Benioff
Mar 6, 2024 – 00:52:37
Ep 28: LangChain CEO Harrison Chase on the Current State of Eval and Agents and The LLM Apps that Will Define 2024
Feb 20, 2024 – 01:04:44
Ep 27: Oscar Co-Founder Mario Schlosser on How LLMs Can Be Used in Healthcare Today and The Path to AI Doctors
Feb 13, 2024 – 01:03:44
Ep 26: Replit Founder Amjad Masad on the 1000x Engineer, ChatBots are Overhyped and Why We Don’t Really Have True Open-Source Models
Feb 6, 2024 – 01:10:22
Ep 25: Intercom Co-Founder Des Traynor on Building Winning AI Strategy and Where We Are in the AI Adoption Curve
Jan 24, 2024 – 00:57:15
Ep 24: OpenAI Head of DevRel Logan Kilpatrick on The Best ChatGPT Use Cases, Future of Agents, and Google Gemini
Jan 9, 2024 – 01:06:37
Ep 23: Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on the future of Search, OpenAI Wrappers and Using AI to Talk to Loved Ones
Dec 14, 2023 – 01:06:08
Special Episode: A Full Breakdown of the OpenAI Saga and What It Means for AI Founders
Nov 22, 2023 – 00:47:00
Ep 22: Notion AI Engineer Linus Lee: Behind the Scenes of Notion AI
Nov 16, 2023 – 01:01:47
Ep 21: Modal CEO Erik Bernhardsson on Bringing Development to the Cloud, the GPU Market, and GenAI Music
Oct 31, 2023 – 00:53:59

Recent Reviews

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Awesome podcast

Great guests great questions love it
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Incredible

Thank you so much for this podcast. Very informative and I can’t wait for each episode!
amooradian

Thank you Redpoint for doing the hard work of keeping up with AI!

Amazing way to keep up with AI’s rapidly evolving impact on all sorts of industries! Unsupervised learning, indeed.