@FinanceYF5: "A future worth building is for people." That's what Lilian Weng said today when she officially announced leaving Thinking Machines to focus on health. Someone dug up her 2019 talk at OpenAI, recalling what she has always done—making very difficult frontier topics feel worth exploring.
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Lilian Weng announces leaving Thinking Machines, focusing on health. She has been dedicated to making cutting-edge AI topics easy to understand.
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“A future worth building belongs to people.” This is what Lilian Weng said today when she officially announced her departure from Thinking Machines to focus on health.
Some people dug up her 2019 talk at OpenAI, recalling what she has always been doing — taking difficult, cutting-edge topics and making them feel worth exploring. https://t.co/dIvsAkvudA
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