Real Alpha

Full episode · 57 min

Applied Compute CEO on the Limits of RL, the New AI Hyperscaler & Why Post-Training Wins Inference

Unsupervised Learning · Jacob Effron with Yash Patil

The best minutes

  1. 29:20Post-training wins inference because the biggest workloads train first2 min
  2. 24:24RL is a hill-climbing machine, so protect your evals2 min
  3. 12:28Continual learning is blocked by data-efficient sparse-reward training1 min

Published Oct 6, 2026.

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