Sara Hooker Keynote at PyTorchCon 2026 on Adaptive Intelligence
The keynote reframes frontier AI progress around adaptation efficiency rather than pretraining scale, pointing practitioners toward test-time scaling and adaptive compute techniques they can apply now. Developers and researchers optimizing agents should watch the AutoScientist work on harness optimization, memory and dataset creation. The 2026 prediction that individuals will build and own frontier AI signals a shift in who controls state-of-the-art models.
