OpenAI's Aaron Lou on diffusion LMs vs autoregressive: why he left a Stanford PhD
aaron_lou · x · 2026-10-26
SOTA TV episode 2 teaser: guest Aaron Lou, who leads OpenAI's strategic explorations team, won an ICML Best Paper for diffusion LMs before dropping out of a Stanford PhD to join OpenAI. The episode debates whether AGI will come from autoregressive + speculative decoding or diffusion LMs. Full episode drops tomorrow, 9 AM PT.
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