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Chen: OpenAI's three-year goal is models conducting end-to-end research
“When we look at our kind of three-year roadmap, right the end goal that we want to reach is one where You know, the models are just doing end-to-end research, and I think a part of that problem is just being able to have the model come up with good taste.”
Chen: OpenAI favors unifying modalities in as few architectures as possible
“For a research lab, I think there are a lot of advantages for it to being under one. So you just have to maintain one infrastructure stack, for instance. I think the cost to, like, maintaining and scaling many infrastructure stacks at once I think that's somet…”
Mark Chen brought soup to researchers to counter Zuckerberg's talent poaching
“Oh, you know, it's absolutely a true story. And I have brought soup to our own researchers.”
OpenAI's three research pillars are pre-training, RL, and alignment
“At the very highest level, right, we have an org that focuses on pre-training, right, which is, you know, giving models a lot of world knowledge. We focus on RL, like, teaching the models how to reason with that knowledge, how to chain the little insights toge…”