“We're in this paradigm of offline RL. You go and you procure high-quality datasets from data vendor companies. You go and hill climb those specifically”

Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron · Ep 94: Applied Compute CEO on the Limits of RL, the New AI Hyperscaler & Why Post-Training Wins Inference

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procure high-quality datasets from data-vendor companies and use offline RL to hill-climb domain-specific models

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