Muennighoff's MIT talk: infinite test-time scaling could let models work autonomously for weeks
Muennighoff · x · 2026-10-11
OpenAI researcher Muennighoff gave a talk at the MIT NLP Seminar on infinite test-time scaling and prefix sliding. His key claim: we seem close to models that can work autonomously for weeks to solve very hard tasks. He also framed an engineering endgame — replacing compaction, the current standard for long-context management, with prefix sliding.
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