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OpenAI's Noam Brown, Ilge Akkaya and Hunter Lightman on o1 and Teaching LLMs to Reason Better
Combining LLMs with AlphaGo-style deep reinforcement learning has been a holy grail for many leading AI labs, and with o1 (aka Strawberry) we are see…
1 year, 6 months ago
Why Vlad Tenev and Tudor Achim of Harmonic Think AI Is About to Change Math—and Why It Matters
Adding code to LLM training data is a known method of improving a model’s reasoning skills. But wouldn’t math, the basis of all reasoning, be even be…
1 year, 7 months ago
Jim Fan on Nvidia’s Embodied AI Lab and Jensen Huang’s Prediction that All Robots will be Autonomous
AI researcher Jim Fan has had a charmed career. He was OpenAI’s first intern before he did his PhD at Stanford with “godmother of AI,” Fei-Fei Li. He…
1 year, 7 months ago
Founder Eric Steinberger on Magic’s Counterintuitive Approach to Pursuing AGI
There’s a new archetype in Silicon Valley, the AI researcher turned founder. Instead of tinkering in a garage they write papers that earn them the ri…
1 year, 7 months ago
Crucible Moments Returns for S2: The ServiceNow Story ft. CEO Frank Slootman & Founder Fred Luddy
On Training Data, we learn from innovators pushing forward the frontier of AI’s capabilities. Today we’re bringing you something different. It’s the …
1 year, 7 months ago
Sierra Co-Founder Clay Bavor on Making Customer-Facing AI Agents Delightful
Customer service is hands down the first killer app of generative AI for businesses. The reasons are simple: the costs of existing solutions are so h…
1 year, 8 months ago
Phaidra’s Jim Gao on Building the Fourth Industrial Revolution with Reinforcement Learning
After AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol, a young mechanical engineer at Google thought of another game reinforcement learning could win: energy optimization at …
1 year, 8 months ago
Fireworks Founder Lin Qiao on How Fast Inference and Small Models Will Benefit Businesses
In the first wave of the generative AI revolution, startups and enterprises built on top of the best closed-source models available, mostly from Open…
1 year, 8 months ago
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on Building Copilot, and the the Future of Software Development
GithHub invented collaborative coding and in the process changed how open source projects, startups and eventually enterprises write code. GitHub Cop…
1 year, 8 months ago
Meta’s Joe Spisak on Llama 3.1 405B and the Democratization of Frontier Models
As head of Product Management for Generative AI at Meta, Joe Spisak leads the team behind Llama, which just released the new 3.1 405B model. We spoke…
1 year, 9 months ago