Sara Hooker at PyTorchCon: beyond brute-force scaling, the era of 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," arguing that simply scaling pretraining has limits. She outlined alternatives including post-training, test-time scaling, adaptive compute, and hardware co-design, plus AutoScientist examples spanning agent harness optimization, agent memory, and dataset creation. Her 2026 prediction: "You will build and own frontier AI."
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