Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron

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 wit...

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 intro 0:45 motivation for founding Modal 6:35 advantages that Modal gives devel...

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 Open...

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 intro 1:35 founding Tome 5:05 designing Tome 10:30 how users want to interact with AI 12:26 teaching users how to use Tome...

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 intro 1:02 the evolution of LlamaIndex 3:48 apps being built with LlamaIndex 6:39 making agents more effective 12:58 retrieval augmented generation 16:49 what’s the right level of abstrac...

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 intro 0:59 getting into AI and meeting Brandon 2:27 starting Nomic 7:43 how people are using Atlas 10:31 hallucin...

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 intro 01:44 Adobe Romania and...

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...

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 LL...

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 foundati...

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 intro 01:06 Aran’s background 02:58 starting work on gpt-j 05:49 gathering data for Lion and gpt-j 08:51 history of EleutherAI 11:16 open vs. closed-source models 19:06 how will open-source models be used going forward 21:33 thought cloning 2...

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) - capabilitie...

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 ...

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 (...

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 human...

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 mor...

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...

Jacob and Erica sit down with You.com CEO and former Salesforce Chief Scientist Richard Socher to discuss building a new search engine and the future of search, his predictions on when open source models will catch up to GPT-4, AGI and more. (1:29) - Richard's career moves and what motivated them (6:44) - More about You.com and the ethos behind the company (9:47) - How You.com integrates 3rd-party...

Jordan and Erica chat with Fixie.ai co-founder and former Harvard CS professor on the journey from researcher to Google eng leader and then to startup life prior to founding Fixie, a new platform for building LLM-based apps (a Redpoint portfolio company). We also talk about having Mark Zuckerberg in his CS class, ChatGPT Plugins and the AI ecosystem, and what the future might look like for our kid...

Jacob and Jason sit down with NEAR CEO and Transformer paper author Illia Polosukhin. They discuss Illia’s fascinating journey from Ukraine to Google and AI to crypto, the origin story behind the “Attention Is All You Need” paper and the overlap between AI and crypto. Illia also shared his thoughts on AGI and the problems that excite him most in AI right now. You can find Illia on Twitter (@ilblac...

Patrick and Jacob sit down with Matei Zaharia, Co-Founder and CTO at Databricks and Professor at Stanford. They discuss how companies are training and serving models in production with Databricks, where LLMs fall short for search and how to improve them, the state of the art AI research at Stanford, and how the size and cost of models is likely to change with technological advances in the coming y...

Jacob and Jason sit down with Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue and discuss trends in who’s using Hugging Face, the future of closed source vs open source in machine learning, why Clem compares large closed foundation models to Formula One Cars, how enterprise AI teams will evolve and AI safety.   (0:00) - Introduction (1:37) - Welcome Clem (1:57) - Starting Hugging Face (5:42) - Influence of ChatGPT...

  With your host:   @jacobeffron   - Managing Director at Redpoint