Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron is an AI podcast from Redpoint Ventures, hosted by Jacob Effron. It publishes about every two weeks (4 episodes in the last 90 days, as of October 2026), and episodes usually run about 59 minutes.
The feed describes the show as probing the sharpest minds in AI in search of the truth about what is real today, what will be real in the future and what it means for businesses and the world. It is aimed at builders, researchers and investors.
Recent episodes are interviews with company leaders and researchers: the CEO of Applied Compute on reinforcement learning and post-training, the CEO of Redwood Research on AI safety, and an xAI co-founder on the future of model development. The feed also includes a periodic "AI Vibe Check" episode. Its most-viewed YouTube video is a conversation with Yann LeCun.
Our take: Unsupervised Learning is a fit for people who want long, serious interviews with AI researchers and company builders, and who will listen for an hour. See our best machine learning podcasts list for related shows.
Ranked by YouTube views among the channel's latest 79 uploads, as of October 2026.
Built This Week is our show, with Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler: the hosts build something with AI on air every week, test new AI tools, interview a founder or operator and cover AI news. Unsupervised Learning goes long with researchers; our episodes are shorter and include a live build. For more picks, see best machine learning podcasts and best AI podcasts or the full list of best podcasts.
Show details on this page come from the public listings and feeds below, checked on October 24, 2026.
Unsupervised Learning is hosted by Jacob Effron and produced by Redpoint Ventures.
About every two weeks. The feed shows 4 episodes in the last 90 days, as of October 2026.
Episodes usually run about 59 minutes.
By YouTube views, the top video is "Yann LeCun on What Comes After LLMs" (453K views as of October 2026), followed by the AI 2027 co-authors episode.
No Priors, Training Data, Latent Space and Dwarkesh Podcast also feature long AI interviews.
