About
Cyril left a research position at Stanford at age 23 to found CTGT. He previously held a fellowship at UC San Diego where he conducted work on efficient and interpretable AI systems, with research presented at ICLR.
Cyril Gorlla @cyrilgorlla
Everything is out, today: Open weights (20B): https://t.co/5HHfVAjybH LineageEval, all 304 prompts + controls + rubric + code: https://t.co/f695l6j7zv Playground, teacher vs students, no signup: https://t.co/ITidVKGzYy Full research: https://t.co/b93UXiXYxN
Jul 29, 2026 Β· β₯ 5 Β· β 1
Cyril Gorlla @cyrilgorlla
@ReedAlbergotti broke it at @semafor this morning, and his question is the one that lingers: "What is the nationality of an American model distilled from a Chinese model that was distilled from an American models?" At the 8k token budgets production systems actually run, our https://t.co/H1MobhtBMJ
Jul 29, 2026 Β· β₯ 14 Β· β 5
Cyril Gorlla @cyrilgorlla
Second result: the Chinese teacher was actually replaceable. We used thew same training method but varied if DeepSeek or the model itself writes the hint at the model's failure step. They tied on every seed. We shipped the self-taught one due to its clean provenance.
Jul 29, 2026 Β· β₯ 2
Founder at CTGTYC F24
Intro paths
Cyril went through Y Combinator (Fall 2024) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
In turn, Cyril can intro founders to CTGT's investors below.
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Co-founders at CTGT
