Conversation with Aldo Podestà, Giotto.ai

About this episode

Aldo Podestà discusses his journey and the achievements of Giotto.ai in AI research.

Can a small Swiss lab out-reason trillion-parameter giants? In this episode, Aldo Podestà, founder & CEO of Giotto.ai, explains how his team reached the #1 spot on the ARC-AGI v2 leaderboard—with a ~200M-parameter system scoring 23.19% on an extremely challenging, non-memorization reasoning benchmark. Aldo traces his journey from EPFL math student to entrepreneur, the Kaggle win that sparked the company, and why Giotto spun out a successful vertical product before going 100% R&D. Aldo also talks about why the next big leaps will come from generating small programs to check answers and from better hardware. More info: - https://www.giotto.ai/ - https://arcprize.org/arc-agi Production: Ethan Nyffenegger

People in this episode

Host: Ethan Nyffenegger

Guest: Aldo Podestà

Topics covered

• AI research
• entrepreneurship
• machine learning
• reasoning benchmarks
• technology innovation

Keywords

• Giotto.ai
• Aldo Podestà
• ARC-AGI
• reasoning benchmark
• AI
• entrepreneurship
• Kaggle
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Giotto.ai, EPFL, Kaggle, ARC-AGI

Places: Switzerland

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