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towards never having to manually select a model again eric provencher 9h This went under the rada… — towards never having to manually select a model again eric provencher 9h This went under the radar this week, but we just shipped the ability for models with multi agents v2 to delegate to any support Source-twitter
Cursor was an email app. Slack was a game company. Great founders refuse to quit. Mediocre founders… — Cursor was an email app. Slack was a game company. Great founders refuse to quit. Mediocre founders say: “We executed well, but our idea was flawed, good job everyone but we are shutting down.” Almost Source-twitter
Scott Gray leaves OpenAI. He joined the company in 2016 and helped build the GPU infrastructure behi… — Scott Gray leaves OpenAI. He joined the company in 2016 and helped build the GPU infrastructure behind its earliest breakthroughs, from sparse transformers and scaling laws to GPT‑3. His exit comes as Source-twitter
wtf, i asked Qwen3.8 27B to build me an FPS and now i’m in a Chinese courtyard shooting porcelain dr… — wtf, i asked Qwen3.8 27B to build me an FPS and now i’m in a Chinese courtyard shooting porcelain drones 😭 mouse lock, sprint, reload, hold Z for a tactical scope. fully local in the browser. Qwen wro Source-twitter
try reservation search in chatgpt! Adam Fry Aug 14 This week’s ChatGPT feature drop - Aug 14: 1/… — try reservation search in chatgpt! Adam Fry Aug 14 This week’s ChatGPT feature drop - Aug 14: 1/ Quizzes - “Quiz me on [topic]” will now automatically generate quizzes right in Chat. Learn any topic Source-twitter
2/2 Second, on the messaging around AI. I do not agree that my messaging has been disproportionatel… — 2/2 Second, on the messaging around AI. I do not agree that my messaging has been disproportionately negative. In fact it has been about equally balanced between risks and benefits: I’ve written one m Source-twitter
We ran the largest open experiment on how frontier models do AI research. 100+ autonomous runs acro… — We ran the largest open experiment on how frontier models do AI research. 100+ autonomous runs across 10+ models, sandboxed on 8xH200s for up to 8 days, iterating on the nanoGPT optimizer track. Best Source-twitter
Replying to @GavinSBaker Awesome response - thank you for coming back with such good faith. So muc… — Replying to @GavinSBaker Awesome response - thank you for coming back with such good faith. So much I agree with here. Also a lot of things I think the picture is more nuanced and I want to justify ou Source-twitter
What UK AI startups need: @KanishkaNarayan In California, one can start a company the day after lea… — What UK AI startups need: @KanishkaNarayan In California, one can start a company the day after leaving Google. My colleagues Jeff Dean, Oriol Vinyals et al made this very clear recently with their im Source-twitter
If there is any lesson to take away from raising a toddler it is that the key to winning a negotiati… — If there is any lesson to take away from raising a toddler it is that the key to winning a negotiation is to be utterly unreasonable, concede nothing, and continuously introduce new eleventh hour dema Source-twitter
welcome multi-agents v2 - you can use any model ranging from Sol, terra, luna to gpt 5.5 as a sub-ag… — welcome multi-agents v2 - you can use any model ranging from Sol, terra, luna to gpt 5.5 as a sub-agent! particularly useful for luna-maxxing! enjoy!! eric provencher 9h This went under the radar this Source-twitter
OpenAI is no longer primarily a consumer business. OpenAI entered the year with a 60/40 consumer-en… — OpenAI is no longer primarily a consumer business. OpenAI entered the year with a 60/40 consumer-enterprise revenue split. Just months later, those lines have crossed. The company now makes most reven Source-twitter
A student asked me about my habit of bike riding or walking in the forest as a way of gaining inspir… — A student asked me about my habit of bike riding or walking in the forest as a way of gaining inspiration. I thought I’d share my response: I suspect everyone is different but all of our brains need t Source-twitter
OpenART: Scaling Agent Red Teaming via Open-Ended Environment Evolution — AI agents operate in persistent environments where early state changes can influence decisions far into the future. Unlike conventional language-model interactions, agent behavior is mediated through Source-huggingface
Alaya-EVOKE: From Linear-Scaling Supervision to Endless World — Interactive world models must support persistent memory, responsive interaction, and long-horizon generation, yet these requirements place conflicting demands on the model. Maintaining history in the Source-huggingface
Bob, the king of GPU kernels, left openai? GPT-6.7 will run 2x slower…. Arfur Grok 13h 👀 Scott G… — Bob, the king of GPU kernels, left openai? GPT-6.7 will run 2x slower…. Arfur Grok 13h 👀 Scott Gray ( @scottgray76) has left OpenAI. Source-twitter
OpenAI is charging $80 for a usage limit reset on $200 plan. Higher than expected y NIK 7h >$80 f… — OpenAI is charging $80 for a usage limit reset on $200 plan. Higher than expected y NIK 7h >$80 for a weekly reset it’s over Source-twitter
LLMRouter: Unified Infrastructure for Developing, Evaluating, and Deploying LLM Routers — No single large language model (LLM) is optimal across all queries and budget constraints, making model routing essential for cost-effective deployment. Existing routers adopt diverse formulations and Source-huggingface
DreamX-Phi 1.0: Action-Conditioned Video World Model for Robotic Manipulation — We present DreamX-Phi 1.0, an action-conditioned video world model for robotic manipulation that, given an observed frame, a language instruction, and a prescribed action sequence comprising end-effec Source-huggingface
Mechanist: AI as a Scientific Instrument for Discovering the Mechanisms of Intelligence — AI models have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, yet the mechanisms underlying their capabilities and the risks they may pose remain poorly understood. As AI development becomes fast Source-huggingface
deepseek-ai/awesome-deepseek-agent — Awesome DeepSeek Agent English | 简体中文 A curated list of guides for integrating DeepSeek models into popular AI agent and coding-assistant tools. Each guide walks through installation, configuration, a Source-github
If you had a bunch of GPUs lying around, what would you actually build with them? (Running LLMs is off the table) [D] — Be honest if someone dropped a stack of high-end GPUs on your desk tomorrow, what would you actually do with them? And before the usual answers roll in: running local LLMs is banned for this thread. I Source-reddit
I compiled Doom’s renderer into a 21B-parameter transformer — no training anywhere [P] — This is the project my last two posts were building towards (this is the last of this silliness). I ported the Doom rendering algorithm to run inside a transformer. Instead of training a model, I used Source-reddit
Open-source Python library + no-code web dashboard for evaluating oncology AI models at clinical decision thresholds. [P] — Most classification metrics for oncology AI models (AUC, ICC, MAE) measure global agreement. They don’t answer the question that actually matters at the point of care: how reliable is this model at th Source-reddit
City2Graph: A Python library for Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks and spatial analysis in urban systems [R] — City2Graph is a Python library I built that turns geospatial data into analysis-ready graphs (for spatial analysis, network analysis, and Graph Neural Networks as GeoAI), and the paper describing it h Source-reddit
Building text to ASCII diffusion model , need advice and guidance [P] — i wanna build a text diffusion model which interpret text and convert it into ascii images so like Text : build a cat Output : /\_/\ ( o.o ) > ^ < So , i have a decent background of ml algo ( com Source-reddit
Reproducible canvas-aligned low-level patterns in somerandomllm-generated images and their possible relation to iterative editing artifacts [D] — I may have stumbled onto something interesting while trying to figure out a recurring artifact in ChatGPT image generation and editing (maybe applicable to other models as well?). It started with a ve Source-reddit
Are there any theoretically-guided practices left in machine learning nowadays? [D] — There was a period in the development of machine learning where application seemed to be informed by theory. Some of the best known theories include: If you train a model with too much data, then you Source-reddit
UrgenT Help Detecting Performance Regressions Using Machine Learning and Hardware Counters [P] — I’m working on performance regression detection using machine learning/anomaly detection. My setup is basically: Healthy runs are used to learn normal behaviour Regression runs are used to see whether Source-reddit
Decoupled Descent: Enforcing Exact Train-Test Error Tracking Via AMP Onsager Corrections [R] — Link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.27883 Hi, Most of use are familiar with the headache of training a neural network using gradient descent where the training error may go to zero but the test error may Source-reddit
AAAI 2027 Review: No code submission? [D] — I am now reviewing a bunch of papers for AAAI 2027 and it has surprised me the low amount of submissions with no code implementation. I don’t know if it has been only in my batch or it is common, but Source-reddit
Transformers are famously bad at arithmetic, so I set one’s weights by hand (no training) and it multiplies with 100% accuracy [P] — Obviously nobody needs a transformer that’s good at multiplication. I wanted to know whether a stock transformer could do exact arithmetic if I chose its weights directly. I implemented the grade-scho Source-reddit
How to file a complaint about a published CVPR paper? [R] — Hi, I would like to file a complaint about an accepted and published CVPR 2026 paper that its main contribution is a dataset but it was never released, and honestly I don’t know who to contact. The da Source-reddit
We built the Agentic World Cup - LLMs that compete in 1v1 Soccer. [P] — Hey everyone - we’ve been building something particularly relevant to ML at large - The Agentic World Cup - a platform where Agents compete in sports . As you know, today’s Agents can code , do math , Source-reddit
Noise-aware training for analog hardware: accuracy collapses at a threshold rather than degrading smoothly [D] — Analog in-memory compute is getting attention again as a way around the energy cost of moving weights between memory and compute. The recurring objection is noise, since analog cells have real variati Source-reddit
chessformer_lens demo: ablating 1 of a chess transformer’s 128 attention heads makes the model stop finding Morphy’s queen sacrifice [P] — https://i.redd.it/ipz7i6ife1jh1.gif Notebooks to replicate on github! submitted by /u/Weird-Asparagus4136 [link] [comments] Source-reddit

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