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The speakers expected the development of reinforcement-learning systems that worked at scale to take longer, using the roughly four-year transition from ImageNet in 2012 as a comparison.
Misha Laskin · Beam: The Great American Open Model with ReflectionAI Co-Founder and CEO Misha Laskin · 9 Oct 2026
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“We actually thought it would take longer just because the journey from ImageNet in 2012 to RL systems that worked at scale was about four years.”
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