Misha Laskin
CEO of Reflection AI, announced the DOE Genesis Mission partnership and advocates for open-weight models in government.
“Reflection AI's exclusive deal to serve as the 'foundational intelligence layer' for the Department of Energy's 17 national laboratories is a landmark moment for open-weight models in government.”
Source→“Reflection will provide DOE with AI models it can customize for its data, and Reflection will use DOE's compute as it is deployed across Genesis Mission research projects.”
Source→“"You can't do scientific discovery on a closed model. It would be like doing rocket science, but you only get to look at the rocket, as opposed to taking it apart and examining the engine." — Reflection AI CEO Misha Laskin”
Source→“"It's personal for me because I'm an immigrant to this country, and I moved here because my parents got jobs in a national lab." — Misha Laskin”
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