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A London lab is beating frontier models without any pre-training.

Name: A London lab is beating frontier models without any pre-training.
Uploaded: 2026-11-05T16:32:36.000Z
Channel: Guillermo Flor
Description: A London lab is beating frontier models without any pre-training. It's Ineffable, started this year by David Silver, who led AlphaGo at DeepMind. Sequoia backed it. Pat Grady, co-steward of Sequoia, explains: 1. Every LLM today starts with pre-training on the world's knowledge 2. Silver's…

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A London lab is beating frontier models without any pre-training. It's Ineffable, started this year by David Silver, who led AlphaGo at DeepMind. Sequoia backed it. Pat Grady, co-steward of Sequoia, explains: 1. Every LLM today starts with pre-training on the world's knowledge 2. Silver's question: humans aren't pre-trained, they explore 3. Ineffable trains with reinforcement learning only 4. Grady says its models already outperform the frontier 5. In a fraction of the time, at a fraction of the cost If he's right, the most expensive step in AI could become optional. Full breakdown here:

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