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Bill Peebles

Former Head of Sora, OpenAI · 1 appearance on the record.

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He co-led the creation of OpenAI's text-to-video model Sora and co-authored the seminal paper inventing Diffusion Transformers (DiT). He earned a Ph.D. in computer science from UC Berkeley and previously conducted research at NVIDIA, Adobe Research, and FAIR.

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Everything Bill Peebles said on No Priors that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

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Peebles: Sora will evolve into interactive world simulators with autonomous humans
“And so looking forward, as we continue to scale up models like Sora, we think we're going to be able to build these, like, world simulators, where essentially, you know, anybody can interact with them. I, as a human, can have my own simulator running, and I ca…”
Bill Peebles Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 1:52 No Priors Ep.61 | OpenAI's Sora Leaders Aditya Ramesh, Tim Brooks and Bill Peebles
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Peebles: Video models will eventually surpass humans as physical world models
“We're optimistic that Sora will, you know, supersede that kind of capability and will, you know, in the long run enable it to be More intelligent one day than humans as world models.”
Bill Peebles Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 27:46 No Priors Ep.61 | OpenAI's Sora Leaders Aditya Ramesh, Tim Brooks and Bill Peebles
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Peebles: Training AI on raw video is essential for robotics
“There's so much you learn from video, which you don't necessarily get from other modalities, which companies like OpenAI have invested a lot in the past, like language, you know, like the minutia of like how arms and joints move through space, you know, again,…”
Bill Peebles Jul 11, 2024 ▶ 17:15 No Priors Ep. 71: The Best of 2024 (so far) with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
Opinion
Peebles: Generative video models are on the critical path to AGI
“Yeah, we absolutely believe models like Sora are really on the critical pathway to AGI.”
Bill Peebles Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 1:07 No Priors Ep.61 | OpenAI's Sora Leaders Aditya Ramesh, Tim Brooks and Bill Peebles
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Peebles: Training on raw video is essential for future embodied robotics
“So you learn so much about the physical world just from training on raw video that we really believe that it's going to be essential for things like physical embodiment moving forward.”
Bill Peebles Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 8:20 No Priors Ep.61 | OpenAI's Sora Leaders Aditya Ramesh, Tim Brooks and Bill Peebles
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Peebles: Sora is the first visual model with LLM-like breadth
“And so this is really the first generative model of visual content that has breadth in a way that language models have breadth.”
Bill Peebles Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 12:59 No Priors Ep.61 | OpenAI's Sora Leaders Aditya Ramesh, Tim Brooks and Bill Peebles
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Peebles: Generating long videos with Sora currently takes several minutes
“It's not instant and you have to wait at least like a few minutes for like these really long videos that we're generating.”
Bill Peebles Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 23:15 No Priors Ep.61 | OpenAI's Sora Leaders Aditya Ramesh, Tim Brooks and Bill Peebles

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Appearances (1)

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No Priors Ep.61 | OpenAI's Sora Leaders Aditya Ramesh, Tim Brooks and Bill Peebles Apr 25, 2024 7m

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No Priors Ep. 71: The Best of 2024 (so far) with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil Jul 11, 2024 1m clip played
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