Ex-Meta researcher Yuandong Tian: GPT-5 co-authored my last paper, so I started a company
ziv_ravid · x · 2026-10-07
A new episode of The Information Bottleneck interviews Yuandong Tian, formerly a Meta researcher and now co-founder of Recursive Superintelligence.
- He says that after finishing his last paper at Meta with GPT-5's help, he realized his job could be replaced within five years: "Instead of losing my job involuntarily, I think it's good to start a company."
- Yet he argues current models still can't generate genuinely good ideas — you ask for one and get something mediocre everyone has already thought of.
- The conversation also covers RL, Go, Continuous Latent Space CoT reasoning (Coconut), and calls to restrict self-improving AI.
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