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Behnam Neyshabur

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Behnam Neyshabur

@bneyshabur

Co-Founder & CEO @mirendil 💼 Past: co-led Discovery team @AnthropicAI & Blueshift team @GoogleDeepMind 🎒Traveling & Backpacking

San Francisco

Joined May 2014

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Behnam Neyshabur
@bneyshabur
Jun 24
Today, I’m excited to formally announce @mirendil with my amazing co-founders Harsh Mehta, Shayan Salehian, and Tara Rezaei! We’re fortunate to work with @a16z and @kleinerperkins, who led our seed round of $200M, followed by a major investment from NVIDIA, among others.
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Behnam Neyshabur
@bneyshabur
Dec 2, 2024
Thrilled to share that I’m joining @AnthropicAI ! After 5.5 amazing years at Alphabet, including working on Gemini’s reasoning over the past 2 years, I’m looking forward to advancing Claude’s ability to tackle complex reasoning challenges across a diverse range of domains!
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Behnam Neyshabur
@bneyshabur
Jan 13, 2021
Some people say that one shouldn't care about publication and the quality matters. However, the job market punishes those who don’t have publications in top ML venues. I empathize with students and newcomers to ML whose good papers are not getting accepted. #ICLR2021 1/
Behnam Neyshabur
@bneyshabur
Feb 24, 2023
Excited to announce that the entire Blueshift team has joined @DeepMind! We will be working with @OriolVinyalsML and others to advance capabilities of LLMs developed by DM / Alphabet! We hope to continue to grow DM's presence in Bay Area and New York in the coming months :-)
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Behnam Neyshabur
@bneyshabur
Dec 6, 2023
My favorite Gemini demo:
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Behnam Neyshabur
@bneyshabur
Dec 21, 2022
These days, many people are interested in getting a PhD in ML. I think you should think really hard before committing to a PhD program in ML. Why? I'm going to summarize some thoughts in this thread: 1/10
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Behnam Neyshabur
@bneyshabur
Dec 9, 2021
Totally agree! Anyone screening applications and any applicant thinking their CV is not representative of their skills/potentials, I think you might want to read the story of my own PhD application in this thread: 1/
Peyman Milanfar
@docmilanfar
Dec 9, 2021
Any document claiming an easy way to gauge grad school applicants needs to be challenged To wit: While 2 or 3 Unis in Iran are far more selective than others, the # of outstanding candidates far exceeds their enrollment. The given ranking is thus opinion not fact & is misleading
Behnam Neyshabur
@bneyshabur
Jul 28, 2020
💡💡What is the best acc an MLP can get on CIFAR10❓ 65%❓ No, 85%‼️ Trying to understand convolutions, we look at MDL and come up with a variant of LASSO that when applied to MLPs, it learns local connections and achieves amazing accuracy! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2007.13657 1/n
Behnam Neyshabur
@bneyshabur
Oct 5, 2025
When @ethansdyer and I joined Anthropic last Dec and spearheaded the discovery team, we decided to focus on unlocking computer-use as a bottleneck for scientific discovery. It has been incredible to work on improving computer-use and witness the fast progress. In OSWorld for
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Behnam Neyshabur
@bneyshabur
Jun 30, 2022
Very excited to announce a significant milestone in expanding reasoning capabilities of language models! 🎉🎉 We introduce #Minerva🦉: a language model that can solve mathematical questions using step-by-step natural language reasoning: bit.ly/3OBj2d5 🧵 1/
alewkowycz
@alewkowycz
Jun 30, 2022
Very excited to present Minerva🦉: a language model capable of solving mathematical questions using step-by-step natural language reasoning. Combining scale, data and others dramatically improves performance on the STEM benchmarks MATH and MMLU-STEM. goo.gle/3yGpTN7
Behnam Neyshabur
@bneyshabur
Dec 9, 2021
Replying to @bneyshabur
Looking back, I think the moment that I was asked "How can you prove that you are hardworking and a fast learner?" was an absolutely pivotal event in my life and I am forever grateful for that opportunity. 13/
Behnam Neyshabur
@bneyshabur
May 26, 2022
We often prefer collaborating with people we know or those of high status. That makes it very difficult for hardworking and motivated junior researchers to get enough support to flourish. Is it possible to reduce this barrier? I'v been running some experiments to find out! 1/6
Behnam Neyshabur
@bneyshabur
Mar 17, 2022
You think the RNN era is over? Think again! We introduce "Block-Recurrent Transformer", which applies a transformer layer in a recurrent fashion & beats transformer XL on LM tasks. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2203.07852… W. DeLesley Hutchins, Imanol Schlag, @Yuhu_ai_ & @ethansdyer 1/
Behnam Neyshabur
@bneyshabur
May 16, 2025
@ethansdyer and I have started a new team at @AnthropicAI — and we’re hiring! Our team is organized around the north star goal of building an AI scientist: a system capable of solving the long-term reasoning challenges and core capabilities needed to push the scientific
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Research Engineer, Discovery
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