[State of RL/Reasoning] IMO/IOI Gold, OpenAI o3/GPT-5, and Cursor Composer — Ashvin Nair, Cursor

Okay. We're here at NeurIPS. We're recording a special land space coverage of the folks at NeurIPS. And we're here with Astrid from CURSA. Welcome. Hi. Yeah. Thanks for having me. So I guess the like Astrid from CURSA is like a new identity. I didn't even know if I should say that. Because you only joined CROSSA for three months. Mhmm. Before that, you're opening. I worked in 01/2003. Mhmm. Before that, Berkeley, PhD in RL. Just but focus on robotics. Robotics. Yeah. Is it weird searching for robotics in language models? Okay. This is kind of interesting because a lot of people have been kind of doing this, Are you OpenAI? Yeah. You got a robotics. So actually, I I actually was, at OpenAI in 2017 also, where I was at on robotics. Yeah. I was interning, like, right before my PhD where I worked on robotics there. 2017. Is that, like, Jovan and the Aztum band over there? He was all famously opening as first intern. Oh, really? Okay. Then he might have been before. But, yeah, there was like a like 15 interns. It was a very different company. It was just like, robotics, DOTA, and like 15 interns that summer all having like pretty exciting individual products. Like, yeah, that set of interns if you look over there now is kinda cool. Yeah. But yeah, Anyone from that class that, like, you would shout out? Like, there's just, like, a lot of cool papers that came out, like, Leo Pinto, and I was at, NYU. Yeah. And Faiman. The, the person who leads, reasoning at XAI, I forgot his name. Eric. Well, he then No. Eric. Yeah. I forgot his name. But, he he he worked on, like, K FAC and stuff. I think, yeah. The vision dude, Greg? Not Greg, but yeah. But, yeah, it was it was, like, an exciting time to be there. But, yeah, I think I think robotics is a pretty good fit for LMs because, like, the switch ends up being pretty, like, you know, you kinda do similar things. Like, you wanna look at a lot of data. It's, like, kind of, hard to get it's, like, stuff get hard to get stuff working in robotics world. I think, you know, it kinda builds, like, very greedy people who, like, look at data a lot, that kind of thing. So, yeah. For whatever reason, I think, like, that transfer is, like, yeah. It's happening a lot, and I think it makes a lot of sense. One of my newest highlights so far, had dinner with it's like a small group dinner with Lex Freeman, yes, yesterday. And Lex used to be in robotics. Mhmm. And he was like, my assessment of robotics people robotics people are the best to talk to Ed and NeurIPS Mhmm. Because they're most grounded, he says, Because they don't have a choice. They work with the real world. So they look at data. …