Sara Hooker at PyTorchCon: scaling limits and the shift to adaptive intelligence
PyTorch · x · 2026-10-21
At PyTorchCon 2026, Adaption CEO Sara Hooker delivered the keynote "Beyond Brute Force: The Era of Adaptive Intelligence," examining the limits of scaling and arguing for adaptive intelligence. She covered post-training, test-time scaling, adaptive compute, and hardware co-design as alternatives to pure pretraining scaling, plus AutoScientist examples spanning agent harness optimization, agent memory, and dataset creation. Her thesis: easier adaptation could let more people build and own frontier AI.
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