In April, Jonathan Siddarth, CEO and founder of Turing, called for better benchmarks in artificial general intelligence (AGI) at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), one of the most influential AI forums on the planet. That Siddarth was asked to give that talk is not surprising. Over the past six years, Turing – named after Alan Turing, a pioneer of early computing and creator of a test to determine a machine’s capacity for intelligent behavior – has become closely associated with AI infrastructure after the California-based startup helped OpenAI develop GPT-3 in 2022.Image credit: Timmy LoenToday, Turing sits at the heart of AI infrastructure, powering not just frontier research at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, and Microsoft, but also contributing to systems that are rapidly reshaping the very idea of work, intelligence, and innovation. Siddarth describes Turing’s research as generating and providing data to help the models get better at coding, reasoning, math and STEM

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