// PERSON
Beren Millidge
ROLE CTOAT ZYPHRAMENTIONS 2LAST SEEN SEPTEMBER 11, 2026
// BIO
Beren Millidge is a co-founder and chief scientist at Zyphra, a company focused on developing open AI systems. He previously co-founded Apollo Research and served as Head of Research at Conjecture. His research background includes a PhD in Machine Learning and Computational Neuroscience from the University of Edinburgh and a postdoctoral fellowship in Computational Neuroscience at the University of Oxford.
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// SIGNALS
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mention·Dwarkesh·SEPTEMBER 11, 2026
“plausibly million fold behind humans in terms of how much data a human sees from birth to adulthood versus how much a model sees.”
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mention·Dwarkesh·SEPTEMBER 11, 2026
“finding data explains ~9x compute efficiency gains vs. 3x from architecture”
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