Tech Sergeant Chen
Type: Person
Founder and CEO of Surge AI; previously a researcher at Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Discusses building a bootstrapped AI data company, post-training methods (SFT, RLHF, rubrics/verifiers, RL environments), benchmark/leaderboard pitfalls, and the importance of human evaluation and 'taste' in model behavior.
Mentioned in 7 podcast episodes
Podcast Appearances
- Inside the arena when Ilia Malinin fell. How Mikhail Shaidorov won gold on NPR
- The $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI | Edwin Chen on Lenny's Podcast
- How AI Is Accelerating Scientific Discovery Today and What's Ahead — the OpenAI Podcast Ep. 10 on OpenAI
- STRATEGIES TO GET YOUR FIRST PROPERTY IN REAL ESTATE || ERIC CHEN || EPISODE 053 on Code To Winning
- Galaxy Quest--Second Half 08/05/25 on Table Read Tuesdays
- Galaxy Quest--First Half 07/29/25 on Table Read Tuesdays
- Which Polls? Just One of Them. Lanhee Chen Talks to A&G on Armstrong & Getty