
The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job
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Timestamps:
(00:00:00) – The big research bet the labs are making
(00:02:12) – Grindability is just as important as verifiability
(00:06:10) – Will RLVR alone generalize?
(00:08:41) – Getting the learning back to the weights
(00:15:22) – Dreaming
(00:17:23) – What 2027 looks like
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