

Unsupervised Learning
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 Redpoint Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that has invested in companies like Snowflake, Stripe, and Mistral.
Hosted by Redpoint investor Jacob Effron alongside Patrick Chase, Jordan Segall and Erica Brescia.
Unsupervised Learning is a podcast by Redpoint Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that has invested in companies like Snowflake, Stripe, and Mistral.
Hosted by Redpoint investor Jacob Effron alongside Patrick Chase, Jordan Segall and Erica Brescia.
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Jul 1, 2024 • 1h 9min
Ep 37: Co-Founder and CEO of Fireflies.ai Krish Ramineni on How AI Catalyzed Fireflies to 16M Users
Krish Ramineni, Co-Founder and CEO of Fireflies.ai, discusses AI's impact on meetings, Fireflies' capabilities, model enhancements, dealing with inference costs, and metrics that matter. He shares insights on competing with established players, addressing AI limitations, and the importance of speed. The conversation explores overhyped/underhyped aspects of AI, surprises in building Fireflies, and key learnings in AI development.

Jun 11, 2024 • 36min
Ep 36: Adobe CPO Scott Belsky on How AI Will Transform Creative Workflows
Scott Belsky, Founder of Behance and Chief Product Officer at Adobe, discusses the future of creative tools with AI, personalization in media, AI music, pricing strategies, and the impact of AI on creative workflows in images, video, and music.

May 30, 2024 • 1h 2min
Ep 35: CEO of Suno Mikey Shulman on Future of Music with AI, Tactics for Model Eval and Solving the Blank Canvas Problem
CEO of Suno, Mikey Shulman, talks about the future of music with AI, multiplayer music collaboration, model evaluation, pricing strategies, handling usage spikes, raising $125 million, and building Suno. They also discuss the challenges of AI in music creation, evolving infrastructure, open source AI, community engagement, and the intersection of AI and music.

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May 22, 2024 • 60min
Ep 34: Eric Ries and Jeremy Howard (Answer.ai) on the Biggest Mistakes AI Founders are Making and Building the Bell Labs of AI
Eric Ries and Jeremy Howard discuss AI innovation, agile growth strategies, starting Answer.ai, AI regulations, and promising AI startups. They highlight the importance of customer focus, rapid adaptation in the AI landscape, funding challenges, innovation in technology, and societal impact of language computing applications.

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May 20, 2024 • 54min
Bonus Episode: Sam Altman (CEO, OpenAI) Talks GPT-4o and Predicts the Future of AI
CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, shares insights on the future of AI, including AGI, AI personal assistants, and societal impacts. He discusses the challenges and opportunities in the AI landscape, the importance of interpretability and AI ethics, and the role of AI in shaping future jobs and experiences.

Apr 30, 2024 • 1h 37min
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
CTO and Co-Founder of Sourcegraph, Beyang Liu, discusses AI coding, making RAG better, and building towards an agentic future. They cover AI products in Sourcegraph, the current state of AI coding, customizing RAG, and the future of engineers. Liu shares insights on inference cost, evaluating products, and surprises in their journey.

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Apr 16, 2024 • 1h 1min
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
CEO and Founder of Pinecone, Edo Liberty, discusses the evolving landscape of vector databases, challenges in building them, painful serverless model launch, common Pinecone use cases, and targeting areas for AI startups. Exploring image/video applications, myth-busting about Pinecone, and surprises in building the platform.

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Mar 28, 2024 • 40min
Ep 31: CEO and Co-Founder of Mistral Arthur Mensch on the Next Frontiers for LLMs, Why Open Source Will Prevail and AI Safety
CEO of Mistral AI, Arthur Mensch, discusses open-source vs closed-source models, partnership strategy, next frontiers for LLMs, AI regulation, and global language diversity. They touch on Mistral's origins, releasing Le Chat, and the hype around AI advancements in material science.

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Mar 19, 2024 • 1h 12min
Ep 30: Superhuman CEO Rahul Vohra on the Future of Email with AI and the Role Agents Will Play
Rahul Vohra, CEO of Superhuman, discusses the future of email with AI and the role of agents. Topics include design decisions, personalizing email voices, competing with incumbents, and the evolving nature of work. Exploring AI features, model selection, and collaborations with OpenAI. Also, delves into the significance of email in work environments compared to platforms like Slack, potential AI-driven agents for task organization, and tech partnerships in robotics and biology.

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Mar 6, 2024 • 53min
Ep 29: Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shih on Future of Slack, How Gucci Uses AI and Working with Marc Benioff
AI CEO Clara Shih discusses Salesforce's rapid product development, Gucci's AI adoption, future of Slack, and working with Marc Benioff. Topics include reply recommendations, AI costs, unique brand voices, and AI incumbents vs. startups