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July's clearest pattern was a retreat from unconstrained experimentation and unlimited token spending. Unit economics and measurable business results moved to the foreground.
Details a new approach for generative models that scales inference compute to improve generalization, adding to standard data and parameter scaling. Researchers identified "Exploration" as a third pretraining axis that consistently improves text, image, and video models.
OpenAI's agent infrastructure practices show how stable prompt prefixes, bounded tool outputs, and deferred tool discovery can improve cache reuse and reduce the cost of running agents.
Joon Sung Park is a researcher and entrepreneur whose work bridges artificial intelligence and social computing. He is best known for creating generative agents—computational models of humans that use large language models to simulate social behaviors, memories, and routines at scale.
Before co founding Periodic Labs, computer scientist and physicist Liam Fedus designed the Switch Transformer at Google Brain and helped build ChatGPT and GPT 4 at OpenAI.
As CEO of Booking Holdings, Glenn Fogel oversees a travel portfolio that includes Booking. com, Kayak, Priceline, and OpenTable.
Lou Shipley is a three time software CEO who turned struggling compliance tools like Black Duck into high value security acquisitions. He now teaches sales and entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School, drawing directly on his own time running companies.
Explains why supervising an agent's step-by-step process is better for reliability than only checking its final output. Real-world tasks take time and involve many intermediate steps.