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1. the quant years · core-automation-quests · 2015–2018 (approximate)

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     "dates": "2015–2018",
     "detail": "tworek's pre-openai career — senior quantitative researcher at independent view in amsterdam, building fully systematic futures signals as the fund's most senior researcher. the trading frame survives: 'being a good trader means understanding your algorithm very well… in the end all you see is the p&l.'",
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     "owner": "tworek",
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     "status": "ended",
     "title": "the quant years",
     "url": null
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2. million integrals · core-automation-quests · 2026– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2026–",
     "detail": "millionintegrals.com — the self-authored public record of the openai work: copilot, codex, humaneval, plugins and code interpreter, o1, o3, gpt-5, the chatgpt agent. part cv, part deposition.",
     "id": "qst-millionintegrals",
     "owner": "tworek",
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     "status": "continuing",
     "title": "million integrals",
     "url": "https://millionintegrals.com/"
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3. the shampoo→psgd line · core-automation-quests · 2018– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2018–",
     "detail": "the optimizer line anil carries in: shampoo, co-created at google brain with vineet gupta and tomer koren, then the psgd framework that 'can recover shampoo… a much better framework' — implemented inside the internal coreauto codebase. the qr-factorization kernel competition (~60× over cusolver, per anil on training data) sits in the same lineage.",
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     "owner": "anil",
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       "src-hp-teahose-transcript",
       "src-hp-scholar-anil"
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     "status": "continuing",
     "title": "the shampoo→psgd line",
     "url": null
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4. project mariner · core-automation-quests · 2024–2026 (approximate)

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     "dates": "2024–2026",
     "detail": "the agents-and-computer-use line — anmol gulati as tech lead on project mariner in gemini, kanav garg on the same project ('one of the most stimulating 0->1 projects'). the multimodal-agent experience the lab's work-automation thesis needs.",
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     "owner": "gulati",
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       "src-hp-garg-linkedin",
       "src-hp-gulati-scholar"
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     "status": "handed-off",
     "title": "project mariner",
     "url": null
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5. model behavior and openai labs · core-automation-quests · 2021–2026 (approximate)

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     "dates": "2021–2026",
     "detail": "jang's openai arc — product lead on dall·e 2, gpt-4, the chatgpt api, tts, and embeddings; founding lead of model behavior and steward of the model spec; then openai labs, prototyping interfaces 'beyond chat or even agents,' reportedly adjacent to the jony ive effort.",
     "id": "qst-openai-labs",
     "owner": "jang",
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       "src-hp-prometheus-jang",
       "src-hp-womenpm-jang"
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     "status": "handed-off",
     "title": "model behavior and openai labs",
     "url": null
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6. reservoir samples · core-automation-quests · 2025– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2025–",
     "detail": "reservoir samples — jang's own essays on model personality and human-ai relationships, running alongside the lab work.",
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     "owner": "jang",
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     "status": "continuing",
     "title": "reservoir samples",
     "url": "https://joannejang.com/"
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7. the agi-storytelling project · core-automation-quests · 2025– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2025–",
     "detail": "the stated reason villagra left openai — 'art, music and storytelling to help people understand the transition to artificial general intelligence.' how it coexists with an executive-officer seat at a research lab is unreported.",
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     "owner": "villagra",
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     "status": "continuing",
     "title": "the agi-storytelling project",
     "url": null
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8. gpu mode · core-automation-quests · 2021– (approximate)

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   {
     "dates": "2021–",
     "detail": "saroufim's other company — the discord community for gpu kernel engineering that became a business running public kernel competitions, plus 'popcorn,' training an llm to write kernels. the qr-factorization contest anil cites lives in this lineage. saroufim remains a pytorch maintainer.",
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     "owner": "saroufim",
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     "status": "continuing",
     "title": "gpu mode",
     "url": "https://www.marksaroufim.com/"
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9. mosaicml composer and adept · core-automation-quests · 2020–2024 (approximate)

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     "dates": "2020–2024",
     "detail": "lamp's earlier stack — early engineer at mosaicml, where his resume credits the composer training framework and the yahp hyperparameter system; mts at adept ai labs; a stealth cofounder in between; google deepmind after.",
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     "owner": "lamp",
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     "status": "handed-off",
     "title": "mosaicml composer and adept",
     "url": null
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10. the fysk seat · core-automation-quests · 2025– (approximate)

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      "dates": "2025–",
      "detail": "lamp's community seat — 'longtime engineer and lp at fysk,' the founders you should know community whose showcase hosted tworek on september 16.",
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      "owner": "lamp",
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      "status": "continuing",
      "title": "the fysk seat",
      "url": null
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11. the blog corpus · core-automation-quests · 2026-05 – (approximate)

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      "dates": "2026-05 –",
      "detail": "the company blog — five posts in 2026: saroufim on boring authoring and ai-written systems code, the one layer deeper launch and results, amid on neural architecture discovery. the lab's public instrumentation.",
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      "owner": "company",
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      "status": "continuing",
      "title": "the blog corpus",
      "url": "https://www.coreauto.com/blog"
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12. one layer deeper · core-automation-quests · 2026-08 – 2026-09 (approximate)

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    {
      "dates": "2026-08 – 2026-09",
      "detail": "the public research competition co-run with tilde research: repeated modular squaring — learn the computation, then run longer chains than seen in training. hard track: one h100, one hour of training, certify depth t=1…64. results september 9: 15,602 submissions, only 18 hard uploads from 5 accounts certified. the first public artifact of the research program.",
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      "owner": "company",
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      "status": "ended",
      "title": "one layer deeper",
      "url": "https://www.coreauto.com/blog"
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13. the agm program · core-automation-quests · 2026-09 – 2027-03 (approximate)

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      "dates": "2026-09 – 2027-03",
      "detail": "the associate general manager program — four interns in sf, january–march 2027, $10k/month plus profit share, each running real online businesses on the company's agent infrastructure with a budget. 'by watching where people intervene, we want to understand what agents still need to learn.' a hiring instrument and a data-generation scheme in one.",
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      "status": "active",
      "title": "the agm program",
      "url": "https://www.coreauto.com/AGM"
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14. the pacing letter · core-automation-quests · 2026-07 (month)

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      "dates": "2026-07",
      "detail": "the 'pacing the frontier' open letter — 1,386 frontier-ai employees requesting 'technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated ai development.' core automation employees are among the signatories per the hn discussion — the automation lab signing the pacing letter.",
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      "owner": "company",
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      "status": "ended",
      "title": "the pacing letter",
      "url": "https://www.pacingthefrontier.com/"
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15. tilde research · core-automation-quests · 2026– (approximate)

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      "dates": "2026–",
      "detail": "the collaborator lab — a ~12-person sf 'moonshot' interpretability/architectures outfit co-founded by dhruv pai and mason wang; co-ran one layer deeper and published 'wall attention' mit-licensed in june 2026.",
      "id": "qst-tilde",
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      "status": "continuing",
      "title": "tilde research",
      "url": "https://linkedin.com/company/tilderesearch"
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16. the alumni ventures feeder · core-automation-quests · 2026-08 (month)

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      "dates": "2026-08",
      "detail": "'avsf – core automation 2026, llc' — the alumni ventures feeder spv with its own form d: $2,109,250 sold to 100 investors, first sale august 3. the only investor provable by filing.",
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      "status": "ended",
      "title": "the alumni ventures feeder",
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17. the neo-lab cohort · core-automation-quests · 2025– (approximate)

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      "dates": "2025–",
      "detail": "the cohort core automation gets grouped with — thinking machines (murati), ssi (sutskever), periodic labs, ami labs (lecun), adaption labs (hooker), flapping airplanes ($180m, data-efficiency), inherent, prime intellect — competing for the same frontier-talent pool and the same neolab capital.",
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      "status": "continuing",
      "title": "the neo-lab cohort",
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