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- In Iain Banks' The Player of Games, a civilization chooses its emperor by playing a strategy game. That may be the best metaphor for AI right now: multiple players, one board, and everyone at the table believes the winner controls AGI – whatever that turns out to mean.
- The unwritten rule of AI research: prove your architecture at small scale, then earn the compute to scale it. @MillionInt thinks that rule may have quietly killed the transformer's competitors. RL showed almost nothing interesting until it crossed a compute threshold – theTwo of the people most responsible for scaling the transformer are now betting on a next act. @MillionInt ran the Reasoning 🍓 team at OpenAI. @_arohan_ was a pre-training lead on Gemini after years at Google Brain and Anthropic. They just started @CoreAutoAI to find what comes
- Building the most automated AI lab in the world doesn’t mean removing humans. @CoreAutoAI co-founder @MillionInt's version of automated: give each researcher maximum agency. Walking gets you some distance. A bike gets you further. A car, much further. Farming by hand works aTwo of the people most responsible for scaling the transformer are now betting on a next act. @MillionInt ran the Reasoning 🍓 team at OpenAI. @_arohan_ was a pre-training lead on Gemini after years at Google Brain and Anthropic. They just started @CoreAutoAI to find what comes
- A Clay teammate told a stuck customer "I'm coming to your house" – and meant it. Kareem Amin on why genuine intent built the community, not a playbook.NEW EPISODE of Long Strange Trip with the CEO of Clay, Kareem Amin Clay is one of those companies where iykyk. The Go-To-Market Platform for the AI Era that went from $1M ➡️$100M ARR in two years. But it wasn't always that way. Everyone I spoke to about Kareem, from employees
