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Next-word prediction enables a model to learn aspects of the data's structure.
Stefano Ermon · Why Diffusion Will Win AI Inference with Inception Co-Founder and CEO Stefano Ermon · 18 Sept 2026
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“which is the amazing thing. It's just like by predicting the next word.”
“you are learning something about the structure of the data.”Play from 23:06Report a misattribution
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