I will go over the history of building blocks that are underlying the foundations of modern learning algorithms. These building blocks are outdated and the recent agentic revolution makes them ripe to be disrupted. This has potential to disrupt existing AI ecosystem and the way we do AI research.
Yaroslav Bulatov led the first production deployment of Deep Learning at Google (hiring Ian Goodfellow as his intern), and was early at OpenAI, creating widely used gradient checkpointing library