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Alex Zhang wants to explore research ideas without systems challenges becoming a bottleneck, and is interested in both harness-level and model-level work.
Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“you exploring other ideas like you you you want to for example like get good at writing kernels or like even automate writing kernels for the sake of a broader goal of like i want to explore ideas where i'm not bottlenecked by systems challenges in that sense like you know i guess a lot of what's written there is all harness stuff but i am also interested in things at the model level as well um but i'll just leave it at that yeah”Play from 1:33:24Report a misattribution
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