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Yannis Antonoglou

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
329 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

So these are systems that can use tools, they can code, they can use MCPs, which is an obstruction over software, so they can actually take actions and complete tasks.

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

excuse me, complete tasks end-to-end.

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

This is kind of like what we're building and this is why reinforcement learning and our backgrounds, like both my background and my co-founder's background is like so kind of like well aligned with like the systems that we're building.

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

Now, the question is like, how can we compete to the big labs?

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

And I think that, you know, we've,

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

Building models require a lot of resources and a lot of talent.

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

Reflection is one of the few places that, given the round that we raised, we've actually managed to get a lot of resources.

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

And we also attracted some of the best talent in the world.

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

So actually, people who've done their thinking models, both in DeepMind and OpenAI, led the efforts there.

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

They've actually joined Reflection.

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

We have people who...

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

We're like one of the leads in pre-training at Gemini who kind of lead our pre-training here.

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

So we have people who build the most impactful models and systems at the big labs who've actually come together with us to just ensure that this technology becomes available and accessible to people.

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

They really believe and they really share our dream and vision of open weight models.

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

At the same time, you know, like we are...

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

You can see that there are many frontier open models coming out of China.

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

And the Chinese labs, they don't have the same resources that maybe the closed labs have.

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

But at the same time, that hasn't stopped them from building some really, really powerful models like DeepSea Core Kimi.

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

So we are really bullish that we'll just repeat the same in the West.

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

Yes.