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🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences
The AI Memory Problem: Why Long Context Isn’t Enough — Dan Biderman, Engram Co-founder & CEO
- ▶ 26:19 Dan Biderman And that's the magic that, that, you know, Ilya and others have shown us with pre-training, right?
Cooking with OpenAI’s Research Chief: AGI, o1, Evals, and Scaling Laws — Mark Chen
Scaling Past Informal AI - Carina Hong, Axiom Math
- ▶ 1:05:33 Carina Hong When Ilya was there, there was GPTF that was
Inside AI’s $10B+ Capital Flywheel — Martin Casado & Sarah Wang of a16z
- ▶ 1:12 Martin Casado So she worked with Noam Chazir, Mira, Ilya, Fei-Fei, and so just these frontier kind of like large AI models, I think, you know, Sarah's been the, the broadest investor.
- ▶ 45:17 Sarah Wang They say that we're big, we're in everything, but, um, you know, if you think about Ilya, right, he's at SSI, he's sort of been behind almost every foundational breakthrough for the last 15 years.
Goodfire AI’s Bet: Interpretability as the Next Frontier of Model Design — Myra Deng & Mark Bissell
- ▶ 1:04:54 unnamed speaker The question that Ilya and Yanlika posed was, well, is that going to scale?
Captaining IMO Gold, Deep Think, On-Policy RL, Feeling the AGI in Singapore — Yi Tay
- ▶ 51:25 unnamed speaker I do think that people are in, let's call it what Ilya Suskever has been calling the age of research, right?
Artificial Analysis: The Independent LLM Analysis House — with George Cameron and Micah Hill-Smith
- ▶ 39:25 Shawn Wang At the same time, I do feel like, you know, especially coming back from Europe's people do feel like Ilya is probably right that the paradigm is, doesn't have
[State of AI Papers 2025] Fixing Research with Social Signals, OCR & Implementation — Team AlphaXiv
- ▶ 10:55 unnamed speaker Um, I think, so, one category of papers, and I'll start by prefacing, we saw the quote on, on Twitter from, from Ilya that, like, the,
[State of RL/Reasoning] IMO/IOI Gold, OpenAI o3/GPT-5, and Cursor Composer — Ashvin Nair, Cursor
- ▶ 22:28 Ashvin Nair Yeah, I think, um, in general, OpenAI is really good about, like, having conviction in something, and just, like, really, like, from first principles, like, going after it, and I think, like, the people who are kind of most responsible for…
⚡️Raising $1.1b to build the fastest LLM Chips on Earth — Andrew Feldman, Cerebras
- ▶ 1:47 Andrew Feldman And I, I think we were, uh, you know, in 2016, we, we met with Sam Altman and Ilya Suskovard at OpenAI and they were an idea 2 times in the scene
Greg Brockman on OpenAI's Road to AGI
- ▶ 1:12 unnamed speaker Um, but you started originally the reasoning team with Ilya at OpenAI, so maybe, can you just give a quick history of reasoning at OpenAI? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:07 Greg Brockman And 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?
Information Theory for Language Models: Jack Morris
- ▶ 20:56 Shawn Wang But I think there's a, there's a related talk from Elia Sotskiver about how deep learning is machine learning and kind of is, is, is compression. 3 times in the scene
Scaling Test Time Compute to Multi-Agent Civilizations — Noam Brown, OpenAI
- ▶ 21:51 Spooks (Swyx) One last question on Ilya. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:06 Spooks (Swyx) The last follow-up before we change topics to coding, any other just anecdotes or insights from Ilya, just in general? 6 times in the scene
SF Compute: Commoditizing Compute
- ▶ 1:00:16 Michael Swix (Swyx) I mean, also like Dan is going raising like at a thirty billion dollar valuation for Ilya, you know, like.
Beating Google at Search with Neural PageRank and $5M of H200s — with Will Bryk of Exa.ai
- ▶ 45:10 unnamed speaker So you say, this is what Ilya see, what Sam see, what they will see.
2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
- ▶ 7:02 Shawn Wang It helps that this was the day before Ilya went on, went up on stage and then said, pre-training has hit a wall and data has hit a wall. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:14 Alessio Fanelli And then there was the Ilya talk. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:30:08 Shawn Wang Going, um, Ilya, and then, and then that bridges us back into the episode recording.
- ▶ 1:30:39 Shawn Wang Ilya came out from the woodwork, uh, saw a term sheet, raised a billion dollars. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:43:35 Shawn Wang Even in like the Ilya post, I was still referring to what he said. 3 times in the scene
Agents @ Work: Dust.tt — with Stanislas Polu
- ▶ 4:21 Stanislas Polu I was in chat and in, in touch with Greg and eventually got in touch with Ilya and finally found my way to OpenAI.
- ▶ 5:15 Stanislas Polu So I hadn't worked with, I had worked with Greg, but not Ilya, but I had started chatting with Ilya and Ilya was kind of excited because he knew that I was a good engineer through Greg, I presume, but I was not a trained researcher, didn't… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:14 Alessio Fanelli And you were reporting to Ilya, like the results you were kind of bringing back to him or like, what's the structure? 10 times in the scene
Language Agents: From Reasoning to Acting — with Shunyu Yao of OpenAI, Harrison Chase of LangGraph
- ▶ 2:12 Shunyu Yao It's like, back in OpenAI, they did this GPT-ONE together, and Ilya just said, Karthik, you should stay, because we just solved the language.
The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars of the AI Stack Recap)
Breaking down the OG GPT Paper by Alec Radford
- ▶ 0:54 unnamed speaker So, uh, mainly Alec Radford and Elia Suskiver, very well-known publishers in the ML field.
Why Google failed to make GPT-3 -- with David Luan of Adept
- ▶ 1:57 David Luan I think second or, uh, second or third day of my time at OpenAI, um, Greg and Ilya pulled me in a room and were like, hey, um, uh, you know, the, uh, you should take over, you should take over our directs and we'll go mostly do IC work. 2 times in the scene