Continual Learning Is the Next Bottleneck | Rohan Anil (Core Automation )

The Information Bottleneck · Sep 10, 2026 · 1h 11m · transcript

Rohan Anil spent eleven and a half years at Google, where he went from writing memory allocators to large-scale linear solvers, then optimization at Google Brain, where he co-developed distributed Shampoo and led optimization for PaLM and Gemini pre-training, including the work that produced Gemini Flash. He then joined Anthropic's pre-training team, and left before the IPO to co-found Core Automation with Jerry Tworek (ex-VP of Research at OpenAI). We talk with him about how Brain worked at its peak, why he left two of the world's best labs, and what he thinks is missing from today's models…