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Unsupervised Learning

Jacob Efron

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Unsupervised Learning is hosted by Jacob Efron covering OpenAI, Anthropic, Foundation Models, and AI Agents. Notable guests include Lukas Kaiser (Co-author, Transformer Paper), Sebastian Malaby (Author and Biographer), Oriol Vinyals (Co-Lead of Gemini, Google DeepMind), and Yann LeCun (VP & Chief AI Scientist, Meta (former); Turing Award Winner). Episodes span from Feb 2025 to Jun 2026.

33episodes
875total claims
12topics covered
33 episodes
AI Research Legend’s Honest Assessment of Where We Are
Jun 3, 2026

Current transformer models, while powerful, exhibit 'jagged' and unreliable generalization, requiring massive datasets and struggling with real-world edge cases like Waymo's issues with constructio...

AI ResearchTransformersPost-Transformer ArchitecturesGeneralization+12 more
A Conversation With Demis Hassabis' Biographer
Jun 1, 2026

The AI development landscape has shifted from a hoped-for 'singleton' approach to an inevitable, multi-polar race between labs like DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, and increasingly, Chinese entities. ...

Demis HassabisSam AltmanDario AmodeiElon Musk+16 more
Gemini Co-Lead on World Models, RL's Next Domains & Continual Learning
May 22, 2026

Google is heavily invested in multimodal 'world models' like Omni, believing the understanding of visual data (video, images) is a key, underexploited path towards AGI. The next frontier for AI age...

AI ResearchMultimodalityWorld ModelsGoogle Gemini+11 more
Yann LeCun on What Comes After LLMs
May 15, 2026
Has AI Infra Stabilized, FM Vibe Shift, & What's Next for Coding Agents
Apr 23, 2026
OpenAI’s Chief Scientist on Continual Learning Hype, RL Beyond Code, & Future Alignment Directions
Apr 9, 2026
Owning the System of Record, AI-Native Org Charts, & Why ITSM is The Most Vulnerable Legacy Category
Apr 2, 2026
The Most Unexpected Breakout Category in AI
Mar 11, 2026
Ex-OpenAI Researcher On Why He Left, His Honest AGI Timeline, & The Limits of Scaling RL
Jan 29, 2026
AI Vibe Check: The Actual Bottleneck In Research, SSI’s Mystique, & Spicy 2026 Predictions
Dec 18, 2025
Edwin Chen: Why Frontier Labs Are Diverging, RL Environments & Developing Model Taste
Dec 15, 2025
OpenAI's Head of Product: How the Best Teams Build, Ship and Scale AI Products
Dec 10, 2025
Anthropic's First PM: Opus 4.5, Rethinking Model Scaffolding & Safety as a Competitive Advantage
Dec 2, 2025
Inside OpenAI's Sora: Surge to #1 App, Key Product Decisions & How Video Models Learn Physics
Nov 3, 2025
AI Round-up: Karpathy Reactions, OpenAI’s Dealmaking, & Bubble Reality Check
Oct 24, 2025
AI Talent Wars, xAI’s $200B Valuation, & Google’s Comeback
Sep 24, 2025
Google's Nano Banana Team: Behind the Breakthrough as Gemini Tops the Charts
Sep 17, 2025
Tri Dao: The End of Nvidia's Dominance, Why Inference Costs Fell & The Next 10X in Speed
Sep 10, 2025
Scale Expert on AI Pricing Tactics, Reactions to GPT-5 & Why Voice is Underrated
Aug 26, 2025
AI Bio Expert: 99% Faster Drug Discovery, BioTech’s AlphaGo Moment, Building Photoshop for Molecules
Aug 13, 2025
The Infrastructure Company Powering the Top AI Apps
Jul 22, 2025
2 Robotics Pioneers Unpack the Path to Generalist Robots
Jul 8, 2025
Databricks Co-Founder: Eval Limitations, Why China is Winning Open Source and Future of AI Infra
Jun 17, 2025
Mercor CEO: Evals Will Replace Knowledge Work, AI x Hiring Today & the Future of Data Labeling
Jun 4, 2025
A Masterclass in Building AI Applications From Legora's CEO
May 27, 2025
Claude 4, Next Phase for AI Coding, and the Path to AI Coworkers
May 22, 2025
AI 2027 Co-Authors Map Out AI’s Spread of Outcomes on Humanity
May 14, 2025
RFT Launch, How OpenAI Improves Its Models & the State of AI Agents Today
May 8, 2025
Khan Academy Founder: Predictions About the Future of AI Education
Apr 29, 2025
Aidan Gomez: Scaling Limits Emerging, AI Use-cases with PMF & Life After Transformers
Apr 15, 2025
Inside OpenAI's New Agent Development Tools
Mar 25, 2025
Former Meta CTO: The Path to Powering the AI Revolution
Mar 5, 2025
Self-Driving Expert Unpacks the Biggest Breakthroughs and Bottlenecks
Feb 26, 2025

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