Noam Brown: the only visitor to his poster is now his OpenAI colleague behind superhuman Stratego AI
polynoamial · x · 2026-10-01
Noam Brown recalls meeting Sam Sokota at a conference poster session five years ago, being impressed, and offering him an internship — Sokota now works with him at OpenAI. Brown later learned he was the only person to stop by that poster all session.
The quoted tweet points to Sokota's Nature paper introducing the first superhuman Stratego AI, built with general RL and test-time compute techniques developed for imperfect-information games.
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