AIE Europe Debrief + Agent Labs Thesis: Unsupervised Learning x Latent Space Crossover Special (2026)
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The episode discusses the changes in AI a year after the first Unsupervised Learning x Latent Space Crossover special, focusing on various aspects of AI engineering and infrastructure.
Today, we check in a year after the first Unsupervised Learning x Latent Space Crossover special to discuss everything that has changed (there is a lot) in the world of AI. This episode was recorded just after AIE Europe , but before the Cursor-xAI deal . Unsupervised Learning is a podcast that interviews the sharpest minds in AI about what’s real today, what will be real in the future and what it means for businesses and the world - helping builders, researchers and founders deconstruct and understand the biggest breakthroughs. Thanks to Jacob and the UL production team for hosting and editing this! Jacob Effron * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobeffron/ * X: https://x.com/jacobeffron Full Episode on Their YouTube We discuss: * swyx’s view from the center of the AI engineering zeitgeist: OpenClaw, harness engineering, context engineering, evals, observability, GPUs, multimodality, and why conference tracks now reveal what matters most in AI * Whether AI infrastructure has finally stabilized: why “skills” may be the minimal viable packaging format for agents, why infra companies have had to reinvent themselves every year, and why application companies have had an easier…
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