ML Pub Club #22: Superhuman Planning with LLMs

What happens when a chess champion meets cutting-edge AI? Join us for an evening with Matej Jusup, as he unpacks how large language models (LLMs) can go from chatting to checkmating at grandmaster level. 🧠♟

From his time at Google DeepMind, Matej will share how he co-developed the first LLM to achieve grandmaster-level play in chess, chess960, and Hex.
He’ll walk us through how combining LLMs with search-based planning unlocks near-superhuman strategic reasoning, and how this goes far beyond games, with implications for real-world decision-making.

Matej is finishing his PhD at ETH Zürich, where he works on scalable multi-agent systems: from repositioning fleets of autonomous agents to optimizing smart grids. He’s also a former Quantitative Researcher at Morgan Stanley and led data science projects in credit scoring and marketing. Oh, and did we mention he is also a Croatian Junior Chess silver medalist. 🥈

🗓️ Tuesday, June 3rd
🕢 6PM
📍 Udruženje obrtnika (Mažuranićev trg 13)
🔗 https://lu.ma/erjji5it

This is our last ML Pub Club before the summer break, so come hang out after the talk, and help us wrap up the season in good company! 🌞