Just after Gemini 3 was released, @OpenAI's research chief @markchen90 stopped by to chat. Here's our full @corememory pod with Mark. We start with the Great Recruitment Wars and then get into Mark's career and how OpenAI's research arm works and the tricks the company thinks it has up its sleeve. Think you'll learn more about Mark's personality than ever before. This pod is brought to you by @brexHQ. We run our company on Brex, and you should too. It's also made possible by the investing gurus @e1ventures. Timestamps 00:00:00 Intro 00:05:02 Allocating Compute and Priorities 00:08:36 Finding the Next AI Paradigm 00:14:14 Research vs. Engineering Dichotomy 00:16:25 Gemini 3 and Math Puzzles 00:20:07 AI’s "Move 37" Moment 00:28:42 ChatGPT Replacing Technical Interviews 00:35:58 From Wall Street to AI 00:44:26 Joining Early OpenAI in 2018 00:48:08 Inside the OpenAI Coup 00:53:46 Impact of Losing Top Researchers 01:00:10 Is AI Scaling Dead? 01:09:29 Automating Nobel Prize Discoveries 01:13:43 Automating Research 01:15:35 The Insatiable Demand for Compute 01:18:23 Jony Ive and AI Hardware 01:27:50 Reaction to China’s DeepSeek 01:34:03 Preventing Scheming AI Models