“We now have a stronger pre-trained base model than the model that currently powers GPT 5.6 Sol.”
“And in fact, we used one-quarter of the compute that OpenAI used to train their model.”
“12 times less computation than was used for DeepSeek, for example, on compute efficiency.”
“I don't think anyone's matching those things.”
“I think that Zuck's taken a particular approach that involves sort of hiring a lot of individuals rather than maybe creating a team, and I don't really think that's the right approach.”
“Suleyman said he was "very selective" about new hires when he previously worked at DeepMind. At Microsoft, he said he has hired "incrementally," prioritizing candidates who aligned with…”
“In the meantime, we finished training Inflection-2 last night! It's now the 2nd best LLM in the world ... & we're scaling MUCH further”
“We made a lot of mistakes in the way that we attempted to set up the board, and I'm not sure that we can say it was definitively successful, but I do believe that radical experimentation…”
“I find it super energizing when I'm around people who also have a courageous vision of the future, which sounds wacky or implausible, but are prepared to dedicate their lives to giving it…”