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Building the Automated AGI Lab: Core Automation's Jerry Tworek and Rohan Anil

aired Jul 29, 2026 · 49.0m
Signal
86.5/ 100
Essential
confidence 0.99
Orig51.5
Actn100.0
Dens100.0
Dpth100.0
Clty75.9
Summary

If I play football, for example, it looks very, very closely to reinforcement learning. I kick a ball a lot of times and every time I adjust it a little bit and I see if it roughly matches what I wanted and there are some self-reinforcement happening.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, it's, think, including: I kick a ball a lot of times and every time I adjust it a little bit and I see if it roughly matches what I wanted and there are some self-reinforcement happening.

Key takeaways
  1. 01The two of you are the founders of Core Automation, one of the hottest neolabs in San Francisco right now
  2. 02Jerry, you were VP of OpenAI, where you worked, amongst other things, on running the Strawberry and Reasoning teams
  3. 03and a lot of the work what people are doing in architectures is trying to make transformers cheaper and trying to make transformer more efficient I very rarely see people thinking
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