Illustrated portrait of Jacob Menick

Jacob Menick is a frontier AI researcher, engineer and technologist.

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My current research interests focus on:

  1. the improvement of obvious shortcomings in the RL recipes used to train LLMs.
  2. the search for the new paradigms that will supersede next-token prediction and verifiable RL. More broadly

I’ve also spent a fair amount of time recently thinking about the intersection between AI and personal computing, and between personal computing and offline real life.