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Cursor covering AI Research Culture, OpenAI History, Reinforcement Learning, and Large Language Models (LLMs). Notable guests include John Schulman (Co-founder, Thinking Machines; former OpenAI Researcher).
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John Schulman on dead ends, scaling RL, and building research institutions
›Dec 17, 2025 · WITH John Schulman
With full hindsight, a model equivalent to GPT-3.5 could have been developed as early as 2018 by a small, talented team, emphasizing the power of algorithmic cleverness and post-training techniques...
AI Research CultureOpenAI HistoryReinforcement LearningLarge Language Models (LLMs)+11 more