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From the Bitter Lesson of AI scaling to the unsolved mysteries of protein folding, Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub’s Sal Candido are rethinking what it takes to build AI that truly underst

Everyone is very concerned about being respectable, so I’m going to be the goofball who raises worst-case possibilities. I think there is a 1% chance we live in Minicrypt, and a 15% chance we function

Tokenomics, from the chip all the way up. @dylan522p, Founder & CEO of @SemiAnalysis_, joins the Fireworks Forge speaker list on optimizing every layer of AI infrastructure for inference at scale. Joi

Release: ttok 0.4 ttok is my CLI tool for counting tokens, using OpenAI's open source tiktoken library. It hasn't been in updated in a couple of years, but I finally fixed a Click warning, updated CI,

Both embeddings models from Perplexity.ai—referred to as *pplx‑embed‑v2*—are publicly available on Hugging Face under the “perplexity‑ai” collection. The models can be accessed via the Hugging Face pa

I've always been kind of into computers since I was young. And then when film started to move from analog film to digital, I became more interested in that aspect of it. And the visual effects workflo

I was a graph theory junkie long ago and even moved to Budapest for awhile to study among the greats. While I was there I started working on Barnette's Conjecture which came to occupy my thoughts over

Developers aren’t becoming more careless; they’re being outpaced. The tools that let developers create more software should also take on more of the work of protecting it. The post Secret protection m

A new breed of startups is emerging to help businesses use AI smarter and cheaper, shifting towards open Chinese models and giving the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic a run for their billions. Read more

Google’s new EmbeddingGemma 2 can run on a phone. The model travels light. The vectors need their own suitcase. At 10 million documents, full-size float32 vectors alone take 30.7 GB of RAM. We got ear

Since the Medicare breach, OpenAI has put in place additional monitoring to allow “immediate intervention” by staff to stop training if the company’s models access the internet in ways they’re not sup

I just sent the September edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter. If you are a sponsor (or start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: More Fable class models A pricing war 3D

Sophia Yang posted that she was attending Day 2 of the AIconference with the FireworksAI_HQ team. She highlighted discussions on model inference and training among other AI topics. The tweet received

Perplexity AI released a preview of its embedding model “pplx‑embed‑v2‑context‑9b” on Hugging Face on September 30, 2026 (7:07 PM local time). The Hugging Face repository page displays 3 122 views and

We built a new way to train contextual embedding models, which encode each chunk of a document with the whole document in view. pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview sets a new state of the art on ConTEB a

Good Just arrived at @OpenAI #DevDay, and I’m predicting proactive intelligence will steal the show. We’ve gone from statistics to machine learning to intelligence. Now the next step is AI that doesn’

My comment on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price — Hacker News.I'm a bit late with the pelicans because I was live-blogging the keynote: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/2

I'm at OpenAI DevDay today, in Fort Mason, San Francisco. Same as last year I'll be live blogging the keynote and some other notes during the day. OpenAI gave me a free ticket and a seat in the 'creat

So dots are either your amplifier or your additional team member, although right now you can have one dot - why? Because otherwise things will get really messy in this new human-AI multiplayer game. T

Together is #1 on @OpenRouter token share across top open coding models, today: 🥇 @Zai_org GLM 5.3 Flash: 29.2% 🥇 @deepseek_ai V4.1 Flash: 25.6% 🥇 @Kimi_Moonshot Kimi K3: 18.9% Running coding agents o

Excited to share that I'll be speaking at @aiDotEngineer NYC on Oct 12-14. @covacut (@OpenAI) and I will be giving a joint talk about using AI for content creation, and some of the AI workflows behind

I tested Jev and five LLM judges across ten Arize Phoenix evaluators to measure how often their answers changed alongside accuracy, cost, and latency. The post What Jev’s probabilities reveal that rep

Reliable, fast inference is essential. As Ted shared at Apsara Conference 2026, Together makes it easy for teams to get access to frontier open models without needing to manage any of the infrastructu

Want to RL-train a model on your own task without building the infra? Use our new cookbook with @hud_evals: → Define your task + grader in HUD → Sample + train the model on Fireworks Define the task o

The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder. We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requir

Today, @FactoryAI joins the Specialized Intelligence Index with Legacy-Bench! The SII keeps growing, now with benchmarks testing how models handle the legacy software behind payroll, financial settlem

Title: **'When Chat Is the Wrong UI'** Burke Holland (@burkeholland) is a technologist, author, speaker, and creator who works at GitHub, where he focuses on AI‑powered development. In his talk or art

ARCv3 is Fireworks' new compressor for RL. It cuts the size of BF16 weight updates by nearly 50%, which makes cross-region training more practical and keeps rollouts current. For teams using their own

Radical Numerics, led by CEO Eric Nguyen, is deploying “biological chain‑of‑thought” and multimodal perception techniques to stay ahead of the evolving bio‑defense arms race, enabling rapid design of

How we rebuilt the diff surface in the GitHub Copilot app to open a million-line pull request with hundreds of inline review comments. The post Rendering huge pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app a

Training can cut costs by up to 90% on the work your customers depend on. The next model drop won’t get you there, no matter how great it is. Join us and @Macroscope's @Rob_Bishop as we chat about own

GPT-6 Luna is half the price of 5.6 Luna, which was already an astonishingly cheap model given how capable it is Luna is my favorite model for building product features thanks to its cost (and speed)

Release: llm 0.36 New OpenAI models: gpt-6-sol for GPT-6 Sol and gpt-6-luna for GPT-6 Luna. #1702 Model plugins can now declare supports_conversation = False for models that only accept single-turn pr

Release: llm-typesafe 0.1a0 I built this new plugin for LLM to add support for TypeSafe AI's new Jev model. Install it like this: llm install llm-typesafe Then set an API key (get one here, the waitli

Jev and the System One Model: RLCD, intelligence/, reliable AI, & the end of chat-first AI https://www.latent.space/p/jev @typesafeai CEO @CompleteSkeptic explains why AI can solve extraordinarily har

Jev pod tomorrow subscribe on apple /youtube @latentspacepod thanks to @allenpark and Ke for making this happen! After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not l

Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic Pa

TypeSafe’s Jev classifies, scores, and routes without generating text — up to hundreds of times cheaper than an LLM judge. What that changes for evals, confidence routing, and application architecture

Why @CompleteSkeptic created ChatGPT and then spent 2 years in stealth building Jev Media After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to AGI? I’ve spent t

OpenAI says AI can automate 80% of GDP. Today, with current models. So why hasn't it been automated yet? @swyx says the constraint is supply. Supply of chips and memory. Demand shot through the roof b

congrats to Diogo on a full launch! for more on typesafe: check his aie talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ0EOzey--o out now! After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman

Mem0 provides persistent user memory and agent memory; its vendor describes fact extraction, contradiction handling and relevant recall.

After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to AGI? I’ve spent the last 2 years in stealth building a new way to train models (RLCD), and a new type of fr

During an outage, every second matters. That is one of the reasons OpenAI is using @cerebras internally. @seanlie describes how fast inference is being used for incident response and critical research

Deel handles compliance, payroll, and HR questions across 150+ countries. Instead of searching for the answer through an external LLM each time, they fine-tuned small models built on Deel's own compli

I CAN FINALLY TALK ABOUT IT The last few months, my team at @g2i_ai has been helping organize AIE Code Summit in SF this Nov alongside the AIE core team. So grateful for the opportunity to run point o