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9Openai Blog·28d ago·source ↗

Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models

OpenAI published foundational research establishing empirical scaling laws for neural language models, showing that model performance scales predictably with compute, data, and parameters. The work demonstrated power-law relationships between these factors and loss, providing a principled framework for allocating training resources. This paper became a cornerstone of modern large language model development strategy.

6Anthropic News·15d ago·source ↗

Rahul Patil Joins Anthropic as Chief Technology Officer

Anthropic has appointed Rahul Patil as its new Chief Technology Officer, where he will oversee engineering across product, compute, infrastructure, inference, data science, and security. Patil previously served as CTO of Stripe and held senior engineering roles at AWS, Microsoft, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The appointment is framed around scaling Claude to serve Anthropic's 300,000+ enterprise customers. Co-founder Sam McCandlish transitions from CTO to Chief Architect, deepening focus on large-scale model training, pretraining, and RL infrastructure.