Xie Saining's 7-Hour Marathon: World Models & Twice Rejecting Ilya
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| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Speaker | 谢赛宁 × 张小珺 |
| Channel | 张小珺｜商业访谈录 |
| Date | Mar 16, 2026 |
| Duration | 6:44:00 |
| Format | Video |
| Topics | #llm · #reasoning · #china-ai · #vision |
Why it matters
A 7-hour marathon interview with ex-OpenAI researcher Xie Saining: frontier world-model research, why he twice declined Ilya Sutskever's invitations, his choice to leave Silicon Valley, and his ties to Yann LeCun and Fei-Fei Li. One of the deepest tech-life interviews of 2026.
Key takeaways
- World models: frontier research on AI understanding the physical world.
- Twice declining Ilya: an independent researcher's life choices.
- Leaving Silicon Valley: reflecting on AI centrism.
- Academic ties to Yann LeCun and Fei-Fei Li.
- The full intellectual map behind a 7-hour conversation.
Original video
- Speaker
- 谢赛宁 × 张小珺
- Channel
- 张小珺｜商业访谈录
- Venue
- Zhang Xiaojun's Interview
- Date · Duration
- Mar 16, 2026 · 6:44:00
133. 对谢赛宁的7小时马拉松访谈：世界模型、逃出硅谷、AMI Labs、两次拒绝Ilya、杨立昆、李飞飞和42
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