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What’s Next for AI? OpenAI’s Łukasz Kaiser (Transformer Co-Author)
We’re told that AI progress is slowing down, that pre-training has hit a wall, that scaling laws are running out of road. Yet we’re releasing this episode in the middle of a wild couple of weeks that saw GPT-5.1, GPT-5.1 Codex Max, fresh reasoning modes and long-running agents ship from OpenAI — on top of a flood of new frontier models elsewhere. To make sense of what’s actually happening at the edge of the field, I sat down with someone who has literally helped define both of the major AI paradigms of our time.
Łukasz Kaiser is one of the co-authors of “Attention Is All You Need,” the paper…
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