Rethinking Pre-Training for Agentic AI with Aakanksha Chowdhery - #759

This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast by TWIML

Dec 17, 202552:54Technology

Today, we're joined by Aakanksha Chowdhery, member of technical staff at Reflection, to explore the fundamental shifts required to build true agentic AI. While the industry has largely focused on post-training techniques...

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