OpenAI Researcher: Humans Prove Better Algorithms Exist, Open Source Has a Chance
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-02
Key Points
- Lukasz Kaiser (Co-author of Attention Is All You Need) argues that human existence proves algorithms far superior to current models exist.
- Current State: OpenAI has shifted from a pure research lab to a large company focused on products, reducing its research focus.
- Opportunity: This creates a prime chance for the open source community, academia, and universities to catch up and make discoveries.
- Hardware Power: He notes that a single RTX 5090 now possesses more computing power than the 8-GPU server used by his team to design the original Transformer.
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