
Jacob Effron
@jacobeffron
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Managing Director @redpoint supporting @AbridgeHQ @ideogram_ai @tryramp @poolsideai @AcuityMD @scribehow @wearelegora @getgarner / AI pod: Unsupervised Learning
Joined March 2011
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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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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๐งListen Here: Spotify: https://t.co/4NQT3E9Gzh Apple: https://t.co/ZCzBSKieSh YouTube:
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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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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
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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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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๐ฅ Live at #AIHorizonsPgh ๐ฅ 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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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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๐ Big news at @tryaugie (Augment) : weโve raised an $85M Series A, bringing total funding to $110M in just 5 months. ๐ง Why? To supercharge Augieโthe most trusted AI teammate for logistics. ๐ Augie is already doubling operator productivity across teams managing $35B+ in
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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
techcrunch.com
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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@habbott Did I mention Augment is hiring! Check out open roles here:
goaugment.com
Join Augment and be part of a team revolutionizing the logistics industry with AI. Explore our open positions and help us build the next generation of AI technologies for logistics.
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So excited to announce our investment in Augment, the AI productivity platform for logistics. Weโre thrilled to partner with @habbott and the amazing team. More on Augmentโs compelling vision:
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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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@joshim5 @chaidiscovery Full episode: Apple: https://t.co/prsrSTLYCi Spotify: https://t.co/WqalrPVtGc Youtube:
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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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๐ ๐๐ฑ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ด๐ป๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป: ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ ๐ก๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฒ-๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฒ ๐๐บ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น๐๐ต๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ. Following the latest round of improvements for Abridge AI models, here are some key
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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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Thanks to @jacobeffron and @nikillinit for inviting me on Vital Signs this week. Itโs fun to catch up with friends and great to share more about what weโre building at General Medicine, including our approach to make sure people can own their own healthcare.
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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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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? ๐ฅบ
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