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Why AI Labs With Unlimited GPUs Still Fail — Anjney Midha, AMP Jun 18, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 59:11 Anjney Midha You know, my, my roommates were a guy who was a, a top-ranked Dota player from PRC from China, didn't speak a lingua, English,

[State of RL/Reasoning] IMO/IOI Gold, OpenAI o3/GPT-5, and Cursor Composer — Ashvin Nair, Cursor Dec 30, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:55 Ashvin Nair It was just like, um, Robotics, Dota, and, like, 15 interns that summer all having, like, pretty exciting individual projects.
  • ▶ 22:45 Ashvin Nair I think even, like, uh, like, uh, Dota was kind of more or less the same template in some ways, right?

Greg Brockman on OpenAI's Road to AGI Aug 15, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:46 Greg Brockman If you rewind to even 2017, we were working on Dota, which was all reinforcement learning, no behavioral cloning from, from human demonstrations or anything.
  • ▶ 8:23 Greg Brockman The way that this works, like if you rewind to something like Dota, we set out to develop new reinforcement learning algorithms because it was very clear to everyone that reinforcement learning, the algorithms that existed at the time did…

⚡️Launching AI Diplomacy: the hardest LLM Game Benchmark yet - Alex Duffy Jun 11, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:02 unnamed speaker So, uh, you know, more broadly, I guess I'll set some context as in terms of like the history of games and LLMs, uh, obviously OpenAI has played Dota, DeepMind has played Go, and like people have been playing chess since forever. 2 times in the scene

Solve coding, solve AGI [Reflection.ai launch w/ CEO Misha Laskin] Mar 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:13 Alessio Fanelli OpenAI was also working on RL on games with Dota in the beginning, and then everybody just focused on language.

2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents Jan 1, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 23:17 Shawn Wang And so like, it is exactly like basically his insights is him and Greg basically kind of driving the scaling up of, of OpenAI while they're still playing Dota. 3 times in the scene

Is finetuning GPT4o worth it? Aug 22, 2024 · 2 mentions

Why Google failed to make GPT-3 -- with David Luan of Adept Mar 27, 2024 · 2 mentions

The State of Silicon and the GPU Poors - with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis Dec 5, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:02:12 Shawn Wang They're on a very different path with, like, the Dota games and all that before they eventually found, like, GPTs as the, as the thing.
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