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The Q* hypothesis: Tree-of-thoughts reasoning, process reward models, and supercharging synthetic data
Emergency special: The information we need to understand what Q* is was right in front of us, but the memes are more fun than reality.
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Nathan Lambert
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Behind the curtain: what it feels like to work in AI right now (April 2023)
Fear, FOMO, and the scientific exodus driven by ChatGPT
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Nathan Lambert
21
Reverse engineering OpenAI’s o1
What productionizing test-time compute shows us about the future of AI. Exploration has landed in language model training.
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Nathan Lambert
2
Llama 2: an incredible open LLM
Meta is continuing to deliver high-quality research artifacts and not backing down from pressure against open source.
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Nathan Lambert
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The AI research job market shit show (and my experience)
There are plenty of jobs, but finding a place where you're happy is as hard as ever.
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Nathan Lambert
OpenAI's o3: The grand finale of AI in 2024
A step change as influential as the release of GPT-4. Reasoning language models are the current big thing.
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Nathan Lambert
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How RLHF actually works
Why RLHF may still win out and why we haven't seen it yet in open-source.
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Nathan Lambert
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OpenAI's o1 using "search" was a PSYOP
How to understand OpenAI's o1 models as really just one wacky, wonderful, long chain of thought
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Nathan Lambert
2
OpenAI’s Strawberry, LM self-talk, inference scaling laws, and spending more on inference
OpenAI’s Strawberry, LM self-talk, inference scaling laws, and spending more on inference. Coming waves in LLMs.
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Nathan Lambert
AI for the rest of us
Apple Intelligence makes a lot of sense when you get out of the AI bubble. Plus, the cool technical details Apple shared about their language models…
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Nathan Lambert
State-space LLMs: Do we need Attention?
Mamba, StripedHyena, Based, research overload, and the exciting future of many LLM architectures all at once.
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Nathan Lambert
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The AI agent spectrum
Separating different classes of AI agents from a long history of reinforcement learning.
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Nathan Lambert
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