AI executive Wenfeng outlines API-first roadmap to AGI

the cooperative stance is now known, though sincerity can be questioned, and of course at this point Moonshot can reasonably bristle at this attitude as arrogant, they aren't behind in ML. It's interesting he's so skeptical of World Models. This is a rebuke to Tencent etc I guess

on costs, and again, the peril of trying to eat a large chunk of global GDP «We also have many algorithmic methods—costs can go lower still. «the lower the cost, the bigger the model I can train, the bigger the model I can afford»

«our timeline: first solve learning to learn, then reach the intelligence singularity that can self-iterate, then embodied intelligence. After embodied intelligence, it enters the real world—…it can do your housework, care for you in old age.» …what a deflationary take tbh

V4's updated version should have native multimodality. V4 is as big as he could train at the moment. Suggests that either Kimi has more compute, or it has in his view made an error training something beyond their inference means.

he does seem to commit to not deploy a stronger model than open sourced ones this doesn't mean open sourcing internal models, I notice. A purely business argument

Interesting contradiction with newer (and some older) reporting: «I hope not to make chips». But aren't you making chips already? I guess the funding round success + compute scarcity gave him more sense of urgency.

Some explicit ideological rejection of American way. «America will meet challenges, and in the future it may meet China's challenge, because Chinese people are willing to take less and can provide you this service.»

Wenfeng sounds a lot less sage-like in these moments. He can be quite cutthroat. Tbh that's necessary when dealing with Cannibal Kings.

I guess he really was a bit shocked by Daya leaving.

Wenfeng sounds a lot less sage-like in these moments. He can be quite cutthroat. Tbh that's necessary when dealing with Cannibal Kings.