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Jacob Effron

@jacobeffron

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Managing Director @redpoint supporting @AbridgeHQ @ideogram_ai @tryramp @poolsideai @AcuityMD @scribehow @wearelegora @getgarner / AI pod: Unsupervised Learning

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@jacobeffron
Jacob Effron
7 months
New Unsupervised Learning with Google AI researchers @NoamShazeer and @jack_w_rae on: - Scaling test-time compute - The power of the Mom eval - The pace of Open Source / DeepSeek - How AI research is where chemistry was in the 15th century - Reactions to Ilya on how
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Jacob Effron
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New Vital Signs with @nikillinit and Viren Shetty, Vice Chairman of @NarayanaHealth on: - How extreme standardization and physician specialization drive down costs - Lessons for the rest of the world - Where AI actually works Some great insights on building
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Jacob Effron
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๐ŸŽงListen Here: Spotify: https://t.co/4NQT3E9Gzh Apple: https://t.co/ZCzBSKieSh YouTube:
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Jacob Effron
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With AI talent wars, lots of RL Environment companies being started, high foundation model valuations, and Google's comeback, it's been a wild couple of months in AI. We're introducing a new format at Unsupervised Learning discussing these topical questions alongside our
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Jacob Effron
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This was quite a surprising part of my interview with Tri on Unsupervised Learning and reinforces that many of the people who benefit most from models are at the cutting edges of their fields
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Lisan al Gaib
23 days
Tri Dao says Claude Code makes him 1.5x more productive and that it's quite helpful at writing Triton kernels
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Jacob Effron
28 days
New Unsupervised Learning with the team behind Nano Banana @nbrichtova and @oliver_wang2 on: - The technical recipe behind Nano Banana's success and why even Google was surprised by adoption - How language model improvements directly translate to better image generation -
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AI Horizons
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๐Ÿ”ฅ Live at #AIHorizonsPgh ๐Ÿ”ฅ Extraordinary discussion - Special Deployment Fireside: "Transforming Healthcare with AI" with special guests - @ShivdevRao - MD, CEO & Founder, @AbridgeHQ - @jacobeffron - Managing Director, @Redpoint Ventures #AIDeployed #HealthcareAI #AIAvenue
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Jacob Effron
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New Unsupervised Learning with @tri_dao (Chief Scientist at @togethercompute) on: - Why Nvidia's 90% market dominance will fragment as AI workloads specialize into distinct categories - How Claude Code made him 1.5x more productive kernel development work - The three
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Harish Abbott
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๐Ÿš€ Big news at @tryaugie (Augment) : weโ€™ve raised an $85M Series A, bringing total funding to $110M in just 5 months. ๐Ÿงš Why? To supercharge Augieโ€”the most trusted AI teammate for logistics. ๐Ÿ“ˆ Augie is already doubling operator productivity across teams managing $35B+ in
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TechCrunch
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Having built and sold e-commerce shipping startup Deliverr to Shopify for $2.1 billion in 2022, co-founder and CEO Harish Abbott knows the logistics
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The new funding, which was led by Redpoint, comes just five months after the startup launched out of stealth with a $25 million seed round.
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Jacob Effron
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So excited to announce our investment in Augment, the AI productivity platform for logistics. Weโ€™re thrilled to partner with @habbott and the amazing team. More on Augmentโ€™s compelling vision:
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Jacob Effron
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Jacob Effron
2 months
New Unsupervised Learning with @pxd (former VP Consumer at OpenAI, current Felicis partner) on AI product strategy including: - New pricing models for AI products - How evals are becoming the new product specs - The "AI under your fingernails" test for founders
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Jacob Effron
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New Unsupervised Learning with @joshim5 (@chaidiscovery) on how AI x drug discovery is starting to inflect and: - The 3 waves of AI biotech - How AI models think differently than chemists - Building "Photoshop for molecules" - Deciding what to open source
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Abridge
2 months
๐Ÿš€ ๐—”๐—ฑ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—–๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฆ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ด๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป: ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฎ ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜„ ๐—•๐—ฎ๐—ฟ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—˜๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฒ-๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ ๐—”๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—”๐—œ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—›๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜๐—ต๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ. Following the latest round of improvements for Abridge AI models, here are some key
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Nikhil Krishnan
2 months
me and @jacobeffron had an excellent conversation with @elliotcohen about lots of stuff (how they're building General Medicine, consumer shopping in healthcare, etc.) But there was a particularly interesting part about what it was like building at Amazon post Pillpack
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Elliot Cohen
3 months
Thanks to @jacobeffron and @nikillinit for inviting me on Vital Signs this week. Itโ€™s fun to catch up with friends and great to share more about what weโ€™re building at General Medicine, including our approach to make sure people can own their own healthcare.
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Jacob Effron
3 months
Fun Vital Signs with PillPack/General Medicine co-founder @elliotcohen and @nikillinit on: - Lessons from PillPack and Amazon - Why consumers are smarter than healthcare thinks - Building an effective front door to healthcare - Why doctor quality is context-dependent
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@ideogram_ai
Ideogram
3 months
Introducing Ideogram Character -- the first character consistency model that works with just one reference image. Now available to all users for free! Create consistent character images in any style, expression, scene, and lighting. Who wants video next? ๐Ÿฅบ
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