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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