Datology AI Featured on Latent Space Podcast

Our portfolio company Datology's founder Ari Morcos appeared on the Latent Space podcast to discuss his career trajectory and insights on AI development. He shared his journey from neuroscience to AI research, describing how Rich Sutton's "bitter lesson" (that compute and data beat hand-engineered approaches) led him to realize data is the most underinvested area in AI.

The conversation covered why automated data curation outperforms human experts, the case for smaller specialized models over ever-larger general-purpose ones, and how Datology's approach achieves baseline performance 12x faster while beating the best open datasets by 4-5 percentage points. Ari also discussed synthetic data generation, curriculum learning, and optimization strategies from pre-training through post-training.