claude's analysis of 🍓🍓🍓's claims from the past 2 years
‼️huge ssi news.
ilya is about to take his first tentative steps out of the age of research and back into the age of scale. it’s time to smell what ssi is cooking.
ssi have built a small reasoning engine that can compete with much larger training runs because his data is better curated to meta learning. but, more importantly.
we’re about to step into the era of TTT (test time training. gradient descent happening in real time to solve your problems). so instead of a context window you get actual learning.
and because it’s so sample efficient it can be trained on hard to verify tasks that other paradigms can’t touch. everyone else’s weights are frozen, they struggle out of distribution. ssi have created something that has a bundle of knowledge but can truly learn in real time and use that to your advantage.
current approaches are trying to hack their way to ‘learn’ with memory tricks, this thing will updates its weights, remember key lessons, and finally feel like a human level reasoner. this is a huge paradigm shift from the king. early results are very impressive. we can stop watching memento on repeat.
it’s learning all the way down, the descent is real.