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6 facts from 1 episode, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2017
David Luan says he led the research and engineering team at OpenAI from 2017 to mid-2020, during which the team developed GPT-2, GPT-3, CLIP and DALL-E.
“I led the research and engineering team at OpenAI from 2017 to mid 2020, where the teams did GPT two and three and CLIP and Dolly.”
2018
David Luan says OpenAI's working definition of AGI was a system that outperforms humans at economically valuable tasks.
“The OpenAI definition for AGI we had was a system that outperforms humans at economically valuable tasks.”
2024
David Luan says Amazon brought in him and his Adept team to run agents work at Amazon about a year before the interview.
“Amazon brought us in to go, uh, run agents for Amazon about a year ago at this point.”
Undated
David Luan says he later led the large language model effort at Google, which trained a model called PaLM.
“I led the LLM effort at Google, uh, where we trained a model called Palm, which was a, uh, quite strong model for its time.”
Undated
David Luan says Adept was the first AI agent startup and effectively invented the computer-use agent.
“It was the first AI agent startup. We ended up inventing the computer use agent effectively.”
Undated
David Luan says Adept raised $450 million, which was a very large sum at the time.
“And Adept, you know, we raised 450 million, which at the time was a very large number.”
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