From 1-bit weight research to OpenAI: the rise of researcher Soham De
DrDatta_AIIMS · x · 2026-11-11
A viral tweet traces the career of researcher Soham De: as an undergrad at Jadavpur University he published 2017 research on training neural networks with just one bit per weight, earned his PhD from Maryland in 2018, joined DeepMind in London where he helped build normalization-free state-of-the-art image recognition models and Griffin (mixing recurrence with attention to compete with transformers), then joined OpenAI to work on training.
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