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In other competitions, people have set records using automated research loops, including participants without prior kernel-writing backgrounds.
Unidentified speaker · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“get into it so i think one of the biggest news is gpt 5.6 wrote more efficient kernels so terra and luna could be 80 cheaper and then we've seen other competitions where people are like setting records and they're like we're doing some auto research loop and these are people that don't have a background in any kernel writing right”Play from 5:13Report a misattribution
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