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Sonnet 4.5 & the AI Plateau Myth — Sholto Douglas (Anthropic)
Sholto Douglas, a top AI researcher at Anthropic, discusses the breakthroughs behind Claude Sonnet 4.5—the world's leading coding model—and why we might be just 2-3 years from AI matching human-level performance on most computer-facing tasks.
You'll discover why RL on language models suddenly started working in 2024, how agents maintain coherency across 30-hour coding sessions through self-correction and memory systems, and why the "bitter lesson" of scale keeps proving clever priors wrong.
Sholto shares his path from top-50 world fencer to Google's Gemini team to Anthropic, explaining why…
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