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Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT

aired Oct 02, 2026 · 101.0m
Signal
85.1/ 100
Essential
confidence 0.99
Orig59.0
Actn100.0
Dens100.0
Dpth100.0
Clty61.4
Summary

All right, we're here in the studio with Alex Zhang, I guess most famously of RLMs, but you have a few other affiliations. Yeah, thank you for having me.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, think, yeah, including: Yeah, thank you for having me.

Key takeaways
  1. 01I think with a lot of like MLSYS, MLPerf kind of benchmarks, like for the most part, like only serious labs and companies participate like seriously in them, at least that's that w
  2. 02we've always known for a long time that he's like a super super cracked like gpu kernel writer one thing we discovered on this leaderboard is like almost every he also used ai to h
  3. 03I mean, these companies still hire mathematicians like to do whether it be like data labeling work or even just like steering the models to solve problems
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