PERSON DIRECTORY
Shawn Wang
Shawn Wang appears in 2 indexed conversations across Latent Space. This directory brings every appearance, source, TL;DR, digest, and transcript into one searchable feed.
The AI Frontier: from Gemini 3 Deep Think distilling to Flash — Jeff Dean
Alessio FanelliShawn WangJeff Dean
Google’s strategy pairs frontier models that unlock new capabilities and teacher logits with Flash models that distill those gains into cheaper, lower-latency deployment across products such as Search.The economics depend on batching, sparsity, low precision, and TPU-model co-design, while expanding user workloads keep frontier demand alive; hierarchical retrieval and private modular systems remain key long-context and specialization challenges.
Goodfire AI’s Bet: Interpretability as the Next Frontier of Model Design — Myra Deng & Mark Bissell
Shawn WangMyra DengMark Bissell
Goodfire is positioning interpretability as frontier AI’s control layer, supported by a $150 million Series B at a $1.25 billion valuation.Rakuten’s low-latency PII scrubbing shows production utility, while trillion-parameter steering on Kimi K2 points toward controls for reasoning and domain expertise.The open question is whether interpretability can move beyond stylistic interventions into reliable customization, safety oversight, and scientific discovery.