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# Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT

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**Published:** 2026-10-02T00:28:04.000Z
**Category:** Research
**Topics:** llm

## Summary

We catch up with RLM first author Alex Zhang, MIT PhD, on Jev, PhD masxing, and the future of harnesses\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://www.latent.space/p/rlm>)