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The speaker is not working on RLMs at MIT at scale because he cannot afford to.
Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“I am not working on this at MIT,”
“or at least in the scaled sense,”
“because I can't afford to.”Play from 49:22Report a misattribution
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