Ilya Sutskever
4 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Mar 27, 2024 by David Luan · said 76 times in 22 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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2026 10 mentions in 8 episodes 1 per episode
- 🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences
- Inside AI’s $10B+ Capital Flywheel — Martin Casado & Sarah Wang of a16z
- The AI Memory Problem: Why Long Context Isn’t Enough — Dan Biderman, Engram Co-founder & CEO
- Cooking with OpenAI’s Research Chief: AGI, o1, Evals, and Scaling Laws — Mark Chen
- Scaling Past Informal AI - Carina Hong, Axiom Math
- Goodfire AI’s Bet: Interpretability as the Next Frontier of Model Design — Myra Deng & Mark Bissell
- Captaining IMO Gold, Deep Think, On-Policy RL, Feeling the AGI in Singapore — Yi Tay
- Artificial Analysis: The Independent LLM Analysis House — with George Cameron and Micah Hill-Smith
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2025 47 mentions in 9 episodes 5 per episode
- 2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
- Scaling Test Time Compute to Multi-Agent Civilizations — Noam Brown, OpenAI
- Greg Brockman on OpenAI's Road to AGI
- Information Theory for Language Models: Jack Morris
- ⚡️Raising $1.1b to build the fastest LLM Chips on Earth — Andrew Feldman, Cerebras
- [State of AI Papers 2025] Fixing Research with Social Signals, OCR & Implementation — Team AlphaXiv
- [State of RL/Reasoning] IMO/IOI Gold, OpenAI o3/GPT-5, and Cursor Composer — Ashvin Nair, Cursor
- SF Compute: Commoditizing Compute
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2024 19 mentions in 5 episodes 4 per episode
- Agents @ Work: Dust.tt — with Stanislas Polu
- The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars of the AI Stack Recap)
- Why Google failed to make GPT-3 -- with David Luan of Adept
- Language Agents: From Reasoning to Acting — with Shunyu Yao of OpenAI, Harrison Chase of LangGraph
- Breaking down the OG GPT Paper by Alec Radford
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Everything said about Ilya Sutskever, oldest first
Mar 27, 2024 neutral
Nov 11, 2024 positive
Polu: Ilya Sutskever Spent Surprising Amount of Time Communicating OpenAI Vision
“I think he was really focused on building the vision and communicating the vision within the company, which was extremely It's extremely useful. I was personally surprised that he spent so much time, you know, working on communicating that vision and getting t…”
Aug 15, 2025 positive
Brockman: As AI capability increases, the value of generated tokens scales dramatically
“One thing that Ilya used to say a lot that I think is, is, is very, very astute is that when the models are not very capable, right? That the value of a token that they generate is very low. When the models are extremely capable, the value of a token they gene…”
Oct 1, 2025 positive
Feldman: Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever invested in Cerebras' early rounds
“In 2016, we met with Sam Altman and Ilya Suskovard at OpenAI and they were an idea and we were PowerPoint, right? That's amazing. And what AI was doing was identifying cats in pictures. And I think they ended up investing in us, both of them and many of their …”