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Rhythm Garg

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Rhythm Garg

@rhythmrg

co-founder, cto @appliedcompute, prev research @OpenAI

Joined January 2021

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Rhythm Garg
@rhythmrg
Apr 8
The difference between smart agents and useful ones is institutional knowledge. We’ve been building the infrastructure for Specific Intelligence at @appliedcompute, and today we’re announcing $80M in new funding led by @kleinerperkins. We’re a team of 23 and growing - come
Applied Compute
@appliedcompute
Apr 8
Article
Applied Compute Raises $80M to Help Enterprises Advance from Generalized to Specific Intelligence
Models keep getting smarter, but there's a massive gap between raw intelligence and actual productivity on specific tasks inside companies. Delivering real value requires knowing how to perform those...
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Rhythm Garg
@rhythmrg
Dec 21, 2024
also: the model we used for all of our o3 evals is fully general; a subset of the arc-agi public training set was a tiny fraction of the broader o3 train distribution, and we didn’t do any additional domain-specific fine-tuning on the final checkpoint
Brandon McKinzie
@mckbrando
Dec 21, 2024
to anyone wondering if the high ARC-AGI score is due to how we prompt the model: nah. I wrote down a prompt format that I thought looked clean and then we used it...that's the full story
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Rhythm Garg
@rhythmrg
Dec 20, 2024
my favorite part of this project was showing that we have general ways of spending much more than the limit of ~$20 per problem to continue to improve scores. it’s incredible that we live in a world where you can trade compute for more intelligence
ARC Prize
@arcprize
Dec 20, 2024
New verified ARC-AGI-Pub SoTA! @OpenAI o3 has scored a breakthrough 75.7% on the ARC-AGI Semi-Private Evaluation. And a high-compute o3 configuration (not eligible for ARC-AGI-Pub) scored 87.5% on the Semi-Private Eval. 1/4
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Rhythm Garg
@rhythmrg
Sep 12, 2024
this was really fun to be a part of :) excited to see what people think!
OpenAI
@OpenAI
Sep 12, 2024
We're releasing a preview of OpenAI o1—a new series of AI models designed to spend more time thinking before they respond. These models can reason through complex tasks and solve harder problems than previous models in science, coding, and math. openai.com/index/introduc…
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Rhythm Garg
@rhythmrg
Oct 29, 2025
Excited to share what @ypatil125, @lindensli, and I have been up to since OpenAI: @appliedcompute Companies like @cognition, @DoorDash, and @mercor_ai have already captured the initial gains from generalist models. They’re now pulling ahead with Specific Intelligence: custom
Applied Compute
@appliedcompute
Oct 29, 2025
Generalists are useful, but it’s not enough to be smart. Advances come from specialists, whether human or machine. To have an edge, agents need specific expertise, within specific companies, built on models trained on specific data. We call this Specific Intelligence. It's
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Rhythm Garg
@rhythmrg
Dec 22, 2024
Replying to @eshear
no, the team wasn’t thinking about arc when training o3; people internally just see it as one of many other thoughtfully-designed evals that are useful for monitoring real progress
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Rhythm Garg
@rhythmrg
Nov 22, 2023
💙💙💙
OpenAI
@OpenAI
Nov 22, 2023
We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo. We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.
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Rhythm Garg
@rhythmrg
Oct 2, 2025
Replying to @BrendanFoody
This is awesome! We need more benchmarks like APEX
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Rhythm Garg
@rhythmrg
Sep 18, 2024
Replying to @BrendanFoody @mercor_ai and 7 others
Congrats!! 🤩
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Rhythm Garg
@rhythmrg
Nov 24, 2023
Replying to @ypatil125
😍😍😍
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Rhythm Garg
@rhythmrg
Oct 29, 2025
Replying to @rhythmrg @ypatil125 and 5 others
Our open roles are here; we are excited to meet:
jobs.ashbyhq.com
Applied Compute Jobs
Applied Compute Jobs
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Rhythm Garg
@rhythmrg
Mar 8, 2023
Replying to @DavidSacks
My friend and I hacked together paxo.ai for anyone interested in automatic meeting notes! OpenAI Whisper + GPT 3.5
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Rhythm Garg
@rhythmrg
Nov 19, 2024
Replying to @yumatanaka
let’s go yuma!
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Rhythm Garg
@rhythmrg
Mar 26, 2023
Replying to @bryanhpchiang @C51Alix and @varunshenoy_
this is so awesome lol
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