#8 – Sara Hooker: Big AI, The Compute Frenzy, and Grumpy Models
My guest today is Sara Hooker, VP of Research at Cohere, where she leads Cohere for AI, a non-profit research lab that seeks to solve complex machine learning problems with researchers from over 100 countries. Sara is the author of numerous research papers, some of which focus specifically on sca…
Mix Data or Merge Models? Optimizing for Diverse Multi-Task Learning
[00:00] Intro: Research on multi-task learning in LLMs
[00:38] Balancing safety and performance in multilingual settings
[01:17] Model merging techniques explored
[02:16] Model merging outperforms data mixing
[02:49] Merging monolingual models improves multilingual capabilities
[03:28] Key abl…
Welcome to Chain of Thought
We are living in the age of AI. It's transforming everything around us, from the way we work and communicate, to how we solve global challenges.
But for many, AI still feels like a black box.
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GenAI Predictions for 2025 | Databricks & Cohere
Will 2025 be the year open-source LLMs catch up with their closed-source rivals? Will an established set of best practices for evaluating AI emerge?
This week on Chain of Thought, we break out the crystal ball and give our biggest AI predictions for 2025. Listen as Sara Hooker, VP of Research at C…
Is AI on the Verge of a Meltdown? | Sara Hooker (Ep. 8)
A week in which Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has upended the AI industry is the perfect moment for tjis prescient episode of Life with Machines. Host Baratunde Thurston sits down with Sara Hooker, head of Cohere for AI, to discuss the future and current limitations of artificial intelligence. From h…
Why Cohere’s ex-AI research lead is betting against the scaling race
Cohere's former VP of AI research, Sara Hooker, is launching a new startup to build AI models that can adapt to their environment.
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2025 in AI, with Nathan Benaich
Episode 144
Happy New Year! This is one of my favorite episodes of the year — for the fourth time, Nathan Benaich and I did our yearly roundup of AI news and advancements, including selections from this year’s State of AI Report.
If you’ve stuck around and continue to listen, I’m really thankful yo…
Super Bowl Ad Reactions, New Ferrari Design, Ads Launch in ChatGPT | Jason Fried, Bill Bishop, Jason Kelly, Dan Romero, Boris Sofman, Sara Hooker, Edward Mehr
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(11:59) - Super Bowl Ad Reactions
(57:18) - Ads Launch in ChatGPT
(01:15:44) - Jason Fried, co-founder and CEO of Basecamp, a web-based project management platform, is known for his minimalist approach to software design and advocacy for simpli…
Grok 4.5 and GLM-5.2 kick off Token Price Wars | E22
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Sara Hooker on the End of Static AI
What comes after scaling?
We talk with Sara Hooker, co-founder and CEO of Adaptation Lab, about why the next generation of AI may look very different from today's static models. Sara argues that models should continuously adapt to new tasks, data, users, and environments—and that doing this effici…
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