Ilya Sutskever's 30 Papers vs neolabs.fyi

Explore the deep learning reading list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack, with free audio explainers for AlexNet, ResNet, Transformers, scaling laws, and more.

An interactive map of AI neolabs, sized by valuation and grouped by lineage, geography, and research area.

About Ilya Sutskever's 30 Papers

Explore the deep learning reading list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack, with free audio explainers for AlexNet, ResNet, Transformers, scaling laws, and more. These courses, books, and code-heavy pieces do not currently have a ListenDock audio episode. When legendary game programmer John Carmack decided to move into AI, he asked OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever what he should read. Ilya handed him a list of around thirty works and said that learning them would cover 90% of what matters in modern deep learning.

About neolabs.fyi

An interactive map of AI neolabs, sized by valuation and grouped by lineage, geography, and research area. A research and product company building AI systems that are more understandable, customisable and capable. Founded by GitHub's former CTO; builds frontier foundation models purpose-built for software development. Generative video for film and production, from Gen-1 to Gen-4.5; a co-author of the latent diffusion work behind Stable Diffusion. Personal AI agents that learn from and are controlled by their users, built on an end-to-end stack spanning training, models, products and on-device hardware.