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PodcastThe Information BottleneckSeptember 27, 2026

Chris Manning: Language Is the Real Unlock for Intelligence

Stanford NLP professor Chris Manning discusses how linguistics still shapes LLM research, whether language models learn categories, world models, diffusion versus transformers, and representation fine-tuning.

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