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At the company's founding roughly two and a half years earlier, Laskin and his co-founder bet that reinforcement learning could be applied beyond chat models.
Misha Laskin · Beam: The Great American Open Model with ReflectionAI Co-Founder and CEO Misha Laskin · 9 Oct 2026
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“When we started the company about two and a half years ago,”
“our bet was so maybe I'll contextualize it where the world was then.”Play from 4:04Report a misattribution
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