
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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RT @nikillinit: me and @jacobeffron had an excellent conversation with @elliotcohen about lots of stuff (how they're building General Medic….
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RT @elliotcohen: Thanks to @jacobeffron and @nikillinit for inviting me on Vital Signs this week. It’s fun to catch up with friends and gre….
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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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RT @ideogram_ai: Introducing Ideogram Character -- the first character consistency model that works with just one reference image. Now avai….
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RT @jasonlk: Sign up!! SaaStr WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY this week: @Redpoint's AI Investment Playbook! with Managing Director @jacobeffron . 1⃣The….
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What are the new table-stakes AI features for SaaS?. When mobile first emerged, most apps were just wrappers around desktop features, until a new generation of products were built natively for mobile habits, constraints, and capabilities. On Unsupervised Learning @Sirupsen told
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New Unsupervised Learning with @hausman_k & @DannyDriess (@physical_int) on building generalist robotics foundation models and: . - What’s next in AI x robotics. - Biggest outstanding questions. - How they 10x’d model training speed. - Open sourcing π 0 . - Breakthroughs
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RT @AbridgeHQ: Abridge raises $300M Series E funding round led by @a16z, and joined by @khoslaventures to pioneer a new paradigm of care wi….
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New Unsupervised Learning with @istoica05 Co-Founder @databricks, @anyscalecompute, and @lmarena_ai - and special guest host @_RobToews on:. - Why Ion and the team turned a research project into the company LMArena. - Why evaluating LLMs is so much harder than it looks. - Why
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RT @Redpoint: The Redpoint InfraRed 100 is now live!. This list honors 100 infrastructure innovators who are transforming how businesses sc….
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New Unsupervised Learning with @mercor_ai CEO @BrendanFoody and @patrickachase on:. - Why most knowledge workers will be primarily creating evals in the future . - How AI is already outperforming humans in hiring. - The meeting with xAI that changed Mercor’s trajectory. - AI
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Honored to be on the 2025 Midas Brink List with such a great group - very thankful to the founders, teams and colleagues who make this job so incredible!.
Spotlighting Venture’s Rising Stars: The 2025 Forbes Midas Brink List #ForbesMidas.
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Really fun having @MaxJunestrand (CEO of our portfolio company @WeAreLegora) on Unsupervised Learning with @loganbartlett fresh off announcing their $80M Series B last week. Working with Max and the Legora team has been an absolute blast and I think folks will really enjoy Max's
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RT @_sholtodouglas: Extremely fun conversation - we talked a lot about what the next few years might look like, what kinds of long running….
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New episode with @_sholtodouglas (Member of Technical Staff, @AnthropicAI) on how Claude 4 is reshaping coding, research, and the future of work:. - What is newly enabled by Claude 4.- AI's impact today on AI research.- Timeline to automation of all white-collar jobs.- AI 2027
Introducing the next generation: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. Claude Opus 4 is our most powerful model yet, and the world’s best coding model. Claude Sonnet 4 is a significant upgrade from its predecessor, delivering superior coding and reasoning.
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With GPT 4.1 landing in ChatGPT this week, here's a clip from @michpokrass (one of the model leads) talking through how it was developed end to end
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New Unsupervised Learning with @AI_Futures_ Researchers @DKokotajlo and @thlarsen on:. - Unpacking AI 2027. - Current alignment research and what's working / not working + challenges ahead. - The path to AI dramatically accelerating AI research. - The race between model
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