// PERSON
David Wu
ROLE RESEARCHERAT JANE STREETMENTIONS 2LAST SEEN MAY 15, 2026
// BIO
Creator of KataGo, the open-source Go AI that achieved a 40x compute reduction over prior state-of-the-art systems.
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// RECENT MENTIONS
// SIGNALS
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mention·Dwarkesh·MAY 15, 2026
“In 2020, there was an open source project called Katago by David Wu from Jane Street, who basically achieved a 40x reduction in compute needed to train a really strong GoBot tabula rasa... This is what most Go practitioners today train against when they're playing an AI.”
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product·Dwarkesh·MAY 15, 2026
“In 2020, there was an open source project called Katago by David Wu from Jane Street, who basically achieved a 40x reduction in compute needed to train a really strong GoBot tabula rasa.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.