Nous Research

3 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 27, 2024 by Karan Malhotra · said 14 times in 9 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Apr 27, 2024
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Malhotra: Assistant personas are conjured by weights, not the weights themselves
“The assistant isn't the weights. The assistant, the entity you're talking to is something drummed up by the weights.”
Karan Malhotra Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 5:40 This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)
Apr 29, 2025 positive
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Jin: Fusing inference and scoring natively enables multi-step and multi-agent RL
“Collect trajectories is a fusion of both these. It handles both inference and scoring, and we deliberately chose that because, like, what happens when you try to, like, do, like, multi-turn, or, like, multi-agent with, like, a separate score function? Then thi…”
Roger Jin Apr 29, 2025 ▶ 10:46 What is an RL environment? w/ Nous Research's Roger Jin
Apr 29, 2025 neutral
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Jin: Nous RL environments return literal tokens instead of parsed text
“Another, like, kind of weird quirky thing about our design is that at least for text, the thing that's returned by each of these environments is, like, the literal tokens. So it's not, like, it's not text, it's not, like, messages, it's the tokens.”
Roger Jin Apr 29, 2025 ▶ 12:07 What is an RL environment? w/ Nous Research's Roger Jin
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