David Hall(@dlwh):Frontier AI models are built from thousands of small decisions: data sourcing, filtering, mixtures, curricula, scaling experiments, optimizer choices, kernels, evals, failed runs, and protocols for deciding what gets scaled. This is process knowledge.

David Hall

@dlwh

Member of Technical Staff @ Open Athena. Creator of Levanter and Marin. Previously Research Engineering @StanfordCRFM, co-founder at Semantic Machines ⟶ MSFT.

Joined September 2007

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David Hall@dlwh

2026.06.29 17:13

Frontier AI models are built from thousands of small decisions: data sourcing, filtering, mixtures, curricula, scaling experiments, optimizer choices, kernels, evals, failed runs, and protocols for deciding what gets scaled. This is process knowledge.

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