Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT

תקציר מקורי באנגליתLast call for regular tickets for AI Engineer NYC ! As an exclusive for Latent Space subscribers, the first 30 of you can take a 30% off code if it helps - for new tickets only, no refunds! See you in 2 weeks! While we tend to cover industry on the pod, every so often we celebrate a clearly emerging superstar PhD. In 2024 we featured Shunyu Yao , who went on to build Operator at OpenAI and is now Chief AI Scientist of Tencent . In 2025 we featured Jack Morris , who went on to cofound Engram at $600m and is now a leading voice on continual learning . This year we are proud to feature the work of Alex Zhang of MIT. From GPU kernels and KernelBench to Recursive Language Models , Mismanaged Geniuses , and massive multi-agent swarms, Alex Zhang is exploring how much capability we’re leavi