Chen: AI reasoning only emerges at large scale requiring massive compute
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Mark Chen, Chief Research Officer at OpenAI, discusses why frontier AI reasoning research is concentrating in well-resourced industrial labs rather than small academic teams.
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“When you look at reasoning you just don't see that happen at small scale, right? There's like a certain scale at which it starts becoming signal bearing and that requires you to have resources, right?”
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