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Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

Captaining IMO Gold, Deep Think, On-Policy RL, Feeling the AGI in Singapore — Yi Tay

Jan 23, 2026 · 1h 32m
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  • Yi Tay shipped Gemini Deep Think and IMO Gold, launched Reasoning and AGI team in Singapore expanding from 12 to 300+ researchers pivoting from architecture research to RL-driven reasoning
  • IMO Gold effort featured four co-captains (Yi, Jonathan, Jordan, Tong), trained checkpoint in ~1 week, competed live in Australia with professors inputting problems in real time
  • Deep thinking infrastructure scales across every domain; Gemini reached top leaderboards using on-policy RL training methodology and multi-team coordination across Singapore, London, Mountain View

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