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The speaker argues that if inference-time reasoning alone were sufficient, all frontier AI labs would have stopped training their models.
Liam Fedus · Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 8 Oct 2026
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“If inference time reasoning was sufficient,”
“all of the frontier labs would have stopped training.”Play from 59:54Report a misattribution
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