🎙️INSIDE A CHINESE AI LAB: HOW MINIMAX BUILDS OPEN MODELS

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Chinese labs move fast through first-principles thinking, engineering discipline, and willingness to work whenever the model in experimentation requires them to. This post features an interview with MiniMax's senior researcher, Olive Song, that looks at how cutting-edge AI research is actually done inside a Chinese lab. It covers topics like alignment, things that can derail training, agentic RL, coding and general intelligence, and more. The interview is also available in video.