Life in the Singularity

Life in the Singularity

START: Self-taught Reasoner with Tools

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Matt McDonagh
Mar 08, 2025
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The last few months in AI have been incredible.

The reinforcement learning renaissance is underway. Then we hacked how to give models near-perfect (and near-infinite) memory. This all lead to the breakthrough of giving models a mechanism to self-reward:

All of that in the span of 30-days.

Now, we are giving these reasoning models a large and powerful tool…

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