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Laskin says model development depends on getting roughly 30 factors right, including talent recruitment and retention, a strong mission and culture, data, compute, and usable infrastructure.
Misha Laskin · Beam: The Great American Open Model with ReflectionAI Co-Founder and CEO Misha Laskin · 9 Oct 2026
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“another or something like this and again the the answer is like everything right you you actually have to get 30 things right and that's why everything is hard because you have to get 30 things right you have to get the talent you have to retain the talent you have to have a strong mission and culture that keeps the talent you know working together and rowing in the same boat you have to get the data you have to get the compute you have to build the infrastructure”
“uh to ensure that the computer's actually usable. Uh and these are a lot of these things when you're an ex existing big lab, there have been years of build out that enabled them to have this kind of stable surface, so I was a deep mind before this, and a lot of the tools that we just take for granted or I took for granted as a researcher because they just worked, you have to build. So I would say”Play from 3:01Report a misattribution
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