MIT's Alex Zhang on RLMs, GPU kernels, and agent swarms: academic research should pursue what industrial labs will not
Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT
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MIT researcher Alex Zhang discussed his Recursive Language Models (RLM) on the Latent Space podcast. An RLM-based harness is the first system to come close to solving ARC-AGI-3, ahead of OpenAI's Astra.
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