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)

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! 🌞