Applied Compute, founded by ex-OpenAI Codex researchers, hits unicorn status in 16 months
rhythmrg · x · 2026-10-07
A podcast with Yash Patil, co-founder of Applied Compute (with ex-OpenAI Codex colleagues Rhythm Garg and Linden Li). The company reached unicorn status in 16 months and serves DoorDash and Cognition. Topics include: the case for owning your intelligence, when harness optimization suffices vs post-training, whether post-training can beat frontier models, out-of-distribution data, online training in practice, lowering post-training costs, whether every company needs its own model, and RL in non-verifiable domains.
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