Guest
Alex Zhang
Researcher, MIT
Real Alpha has cut 3 moments of Alex Zhang (Researcher, MIT) talking, from an interview on Latent Space published Oct 2, 2026.
What Alex Zhang said
RLMs generalize across tasks because the strategy stays the same
“the solution to many tasks is very similar across like tasks where you don't even like it's not even that clear to you that the solutions are similar.”
Alex Zhang36:38 Academics should take big bets that industry labs won't
“as a PhD student, I think you're in such a unique position where you can work on literally whatever you want, for the most part”
Alex Zhang19:54 One expert insight can erase a trillion tokens of search
“if you bring in someone who knows something about the problem, they can uncover something for the model that would like erase that one trillion token spend.”
Alex Zhang10:00
The episode
Latent SpaceRecursive Language Models — Alex Zhang, MIT PhD
Alex Zhang · Researcher, MIT
36:18of 1:43:25 · Oct 2
