A free online book and course on RLHF, preference tuning, reward models, RLVR, and post-training language models.

(Summer 2026) - We describe the emerging business-to-business market for large language model (LLM) inference and document key empirical patterns in its supply, pricing, and dynamics, using data from…

(Summer 2026) - We describe the emerging business-to-business market for large language model (LLM) inference and document key empirical patterns in its supply, pricing, and dynamics, using data from…

(Summer 2026) - We describe the emerging business-to-business market for large language model (LLM) inference and document key empirical patterns in its supply, pricing, and dynamics, using data from…

Der Ökonom Maximilian Kasy will die Künstliche Intelligenz entmystifizieren und die Debatte versachlichen. Er spricht über Mathematik, KI als Machtinstrument – und wieso er nicht glaubt, dass der…

Der Ökonom Maximilian Kasy will die Künstliche Intelligenz entmystifizieren und die Debatte versachlichen. Er spricht über Mathematik, KI als Machtinstrument – und wieso er nicht glaubt, dass der…

An interview about the new parameters of climate politics, with the breakdown of global consensus. As the EU re-opens coal-fired plants and the US shuts down wind farms, China gouges the earth to…

This essay was first published in Political Quarterly in 1943; it is reproduced here for non-profit educational purposes. A shorter version of this essay was published in The Last Phase in the…

Die Zukunft der KI wird nicht von klügeren Algorithmen oder schnelleren Chips abhängen. Sie wird davon abhängen, wer die Daten kontrolliert.

Nicholas Enrich’s new memoir details the human toll of the agency’s dismantling.

One of modern Iran’s leading historians provides a critical anatomy of the power structures of the Islamic Republic, on the eve of war—and a scathing denunciation of the long-incubated…

One of modern Iran’s leading historians provides a critical anatomy of the power structures of the Islamic Republic, on the eve of war—and a scathing denunciation of the long-incubated…

The economist Arindrajit Dube believes that the answer to fixing America’s wage problem is to empower workers and set mandatory wage standards across industries.

Wir helfen Menschen mit wenig Geld mit Balkonkraftwerken, damit sie langfristig und nachhaltig vorwärts kommen.

LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity