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Chapt 18 we are cooked
AI safety has race too. Whenever deepmind published a paper, Altman offered them a job and higher salaries lol. Recalled the 2023 coup to oust Altman, but Ilya actually chose the worst timing when Dan is about to close the deal to allow employee to sell their private stocks, worth roughly 1m per person sigh. With rainmakers waving cash on one side and employees wanting cash on the other, cooked
— Nov 01, 2026 04:28PM
AI safety has race too. Whenever deepmind published a paper, Altman offered them a job and higher salaries lol. Recalled the 2023 coup to oust Altman, but Ilya actually chose the worst timing when Dan is about to close the deal to allow employee to sell their private stocks, worth roughly 1m per person sigh. With rainmakers waving cash on one side and employees wanting cash on the other, cooked
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Chpt 19 Step by Step
Oh well Gemini at one point did perform better but no one cared. Products release is so important and Altman unveiled Sora at that point. Then deepmind lost the RL chain of thoughts model improvement again to o1 of OpenAI. This seems to be the case that biz acumen does lead OpenAI much further than deepmind
— Nov 09, 2026 05:27PM
Oh well Gemini at one point did perform better but no one cared. Products release is so important and Altman unveiled Sora at that point. Then deepmind lost the RL chain of thoughts model improvement again to o1 of OpenAI. This seems to be the case that biz acumen does lead OpenAI much further than deepmind
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Chapt 16 the power and glory
Inventors are destined to follow the power and glory
So interesting to see how deepmind was always cautious at releasing products where as Altman sprinted ahead. There are ppl like Irving who preferred deepmind whereas Rae preferred openAI. Also so interesting how Sparrow and ChatGPT both used RLHF but sparrow lost on just taking a few months to release product
— Oct 18, 2026 10:12AM
Inventors are destined to follow the power and glory
So interesting to see how deepmind was always cautious at releasing products where as Altman sprinted ahead. There are ppl like Irving who preferred deepmind whereas Rae preferred openAI. Also so interesting how Sparrow and ChatGPT both used RLHF but sparrow lost on just taking a few months to release product
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Chapter 15 Fermat of biology
Alphafold got made, from RL to convolution neuronetworks to transformer! Terminated CASP comp. Alphafold solved protein folding, and cascaded the AlphaDev, AlphaGeometry etc
Never say impossible to the boss if he wants it to be possible lol
— Oct 13, 2026 04:48PM
Alphafold got made, from RL to convolution neuronetworks to transformer! Terminated CASP comp. Alphafold solved protein folding, and cascaded the AlphaDev, AlphaGeometry etc
Never say impossible to the boss if he wants it to be possible lol
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Chpt 14 Project Mario
Safety talk went rogue. When Google changed to alphabet, they tried to keep applied in Google and research out, but Pichai found a way to just fold in healthcare team without all the other promises, or i guess it happens to because a key supporter’s career change. At the same time, Musk left OpenAI, similar governance problem. Suleyman left because of workplace abuse hmmm
— Oct 04, 2026 05:29PM
Safety talk went rogue. When Google changed to alphabet, they tried to keep applied in Google and research out, but Pichai found a way to just fold in healthcare team without all the other promises, or i guess it happens to because a key supporter’s career change. At the same time, Musk left OpenAI, similar governance problem. Suleyman left because of workplace abuse hmmm
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Chpt 13 on language and nature
Gaia sounds so interesting. An agent navigate an nature simulation and learn from perception and trial and the StarCraft thing too
Though during this era is where they lose to GPT
— Sep 27, 2026 07:37AM
Gaia sounds so interesting. An agent navigate an nature simulation and learn from perception and trial and the StarCraft thing too
Though during this era is where they lose to GPT
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Chpt 12, the agent and the transformer
Sutskever left Google to join OpenAI
Radioed and Sutskever actually build GPT starting from a Google paper
— Sep 27, 2026 07:05AM
Sutskever left Google to join OpenAI
Radioed and Sutskever actually build GPT starting from a Google paper
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Chpt 11 P0 Plus plus
Interestingly their healthcare stab comes from just building a normal notification system called streams and then went on train kidney radio detection and retina, but so sad the data, privacy and AI fear has prevented any of them to go anywhere.
Moose’s applied division has a task ranking system and everything becomes P0 plus plus lol
And he sounds like quite an intolerable boss too
— Sep 21, 2026 04:59PM
Interestingly their healthcare stab comes from just building a normal notification system called streams and then went on train kidney radio detection and retina, but so sad the data, privacy and AI fear has prevented any of them to go anywhere.
Moose’s applied division has a task ranking system and everything becomes P0 plus plus lol
And he sounds like quite an intolerable boss too
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Chapter 10 Out of Eden
Page speciest view is so crazy. Musk and Sam Altman launched openAI. Poor Demis’ singular wished and optimism
— Sep 13, 2026 04:26PM
Page speciest view is so crazy. Musk and Sam Altman launched openAI. Poor Demis’ singular wished and optimism
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Chpt 9 intuition
AlphaGo was produced to beat humans
— Sep 13, 2026 04:07PM
AlphaGo was produced to beat humans
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Chpt 8
Get Google
Woww they went from struggling to raise 60m to sold at 650m
— Sep 06, 2026 06:07AM
Get Google
Woww they went from struggling to raise 60m to sold at 650m