Elie Bakouch

Researcher

Prime Intellect

Researcher focused on training large language models; previously associated with Hugging Face and now working on open model training at Prime Intellect.

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« the era of (auto) research »

12:05 PM·Main Stage

the nanogpt speedrun is a great setup to test autonomous research: fixed model, one number to beat, and a human record that keeps moving. we pointed coding agents at it on idle compute and let them iterate for days, thousands of runs with minimal human intervention, until they beat the human baseline. in this talk we go through how they did it, how codex and claude code behave very differently as researchers, and why speedrun are one of the best environments we've found for studying autonomous research agents

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