# Beren Millidge

Beren Millidge is introduced as Zyphra's chief technology officer developing open models in the September 2026 Dwarkesh panel on AI research.

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[Collection](/entities/beren-millidge)
[Original website](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/john-beren-charlie)

## Sources

- [Dwarkesh Podcast](https://www.dwarkesh.com/): Follow extended conversations with researchers, builders and historians into specific claims and disagreements.

## Perspectives

- [A clear target lets a model try what people have not demonstrated](/perspectives?position=millidge-learning-beyond-demonstrations) (Beren Millidge): Millidge argues that models can attempt harder goals than people can demonstrate when success is verifiable. Whether that learning transfers far enough to remove human guidance remains uncertain.

## Terminal notes

- [When answers get cheaper, choosing the question matters more](/notes/research-panel-choosing-next-question.md): John Schulman, Beren Millidge and Charlie O’Neill largely agree that choosing objectives and the next experiment remains difficult for models. They disagree about how long that limitation lasts and what could overcome it.

## Parallels

- [The answer is right. Was the question?](/parallels?parallel=right-answer-wrong-question): When producing an answer gets cheaper, where does the useful work move?

## Context references

- [https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/john-beren-charlie](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/john-beren-charlie)

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