Fantastic Environments and Where to Find Them - Ben Burtenshaw, Hugging Face

Fantastic Environments and Where to Find Them - Ben Burtenshaw, Hugging Face Frontier labs pay millions for a single RL environment representing one high-value task: software engineering, cybersecurity, project management. That closed industry is a big part of why frontier agents perform. This talk is a field guide to cracking it in the open. I'll cover how the environment business works, from research and reporting; the open source counterparts, Prime Intellect, TRL, and OpenEnv; and an end-to-end walkthrough of training a cybersecurity agent for free. You'll leave knowing how to find, build, and share environments for the tasks you care about, without paying a vendor. Why me: I'm a core maintainer of OpenEnv, the open source environment standard backed by Hugging Face, Meta-PyTorch, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Prime Intellect. It integrates with all major training frameworks.