TechniqueRLHF / Alignment8 recent entries16 Apr 2026Training and Finetuning Multimodal Embedding & Reranker Models with Sentence TransformersThis guide covers how to train and fine-tune multimodal embedding and reranker models using the Sentence Transformers library, enabling systems to work with both text and image data simultaneously. It→27 May 2026In many cases, I stopped answering my agents. Instead, I give them my criteria and let them answerA manager describes shifting their leadership approach by providing agents (team members) with decision-making criteria rather than directly answering their questions, enabling them to develop problem
TechniqueRAG8 recent entries19 May 2026Introducing the Ettin Reranker FamilyThe Ettin Reranker Family represents a new suite of reranking models released on Hugging Face designed to improve retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems by reordering search results based on rel→20 May 2026Context compression isn't new in RAG. Our contribution is making it query-aware, citation-preserving, and fast enough for orchestration. Rea…Context compression isn't new in RAG. Our contribution is making it query-aware, citation-preserving, and fast enough for orchestration. Read the full research blog: https://research.perplexity.ai/art→13 Jul 2026one of the most memorable cooking pods we've had - both in terms of the content and the food! high protein percentage in both.one of the most memorable cooking pods we've had - both in terms of the content and the food! high protein percentage in both. In this episode, @EngramLab co-founder and CEO @dan_biderman joins @allen→31 Jul 2026Fine-tune your own embedding model for the price of a coffee. A great reranker can't surface a doc that was never retrieved. A RAG pipeline …Fine-tune your own embedding model for the price of a coffee. A great reranker can't surface a doc that was never retrieved. A RAG pipeline cannot cite a case it failed to retrieve. See how contrastiv→3 Sept 2026Jörg Schad is the VP of Engineering at @pinecone. He joins @kbal11 to discuss moving beyond RAG with precomputed context, context artifacts,…Jörg Schad is the VP of Engineering at @pinecone. He joins @kbal11 to discuss moving beyond RAG with precomputed context, context artifacts, semantic layers, and AI retrieval. @joerg_schad https://sof→4 Sept 2026ROSE is the model engine. It reuses the same kernels for LLMs and embeddings. For embeddings, it skips the KV cache and uses ragged attentio…ROSE is the model engine. It reuses the same kernels for LLMs and embeddings. For embeddings, it skips the KV cache and uses ragged attention instead of paged attention. ROSE supports multiple attenti→4 Sept 2026Every answer in Perplexity starts with embedding and ranking models picking the most relevant results for the query. Today we published rese…Every answer in Perplexity starts with embedding and ranking models picking the most relevant results for the query. Today we published research on how we built SoTA serving infrastructure behind thos→30 Sept 2026View pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/perplexity-ai/pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-previewPerplexity 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
TechniqueAgents8 recent entries17 Sept 2026OpenAI 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…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→21 Sept 2026Jev and the System One Model: RLCD, intelligence/$, reliable AI, & the end of chat-first AI https://www.latent.space/p/jev @typesafeai CEO @…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→24 Sept 2026Note on 24th September 2026The 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→28 Sept 2026What Jev’s probabilities reveal that repeated LLM judgments missI 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→29 Sept 2026Together 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:…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→29 Sept 2026So dots are either your amplifier or your additional team member, although right now you can have one dot - why? Because otherwise things wi…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→29 Sept 2026OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blogI'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→10 Oct 2026Quoting The New York TimesAnthropic detailed the activity of its A.I. agents in a blog post on Friday, without naming the targeted websites. But two sources with knowledge of the incidents said Anthropic’s A.I. agents had subm
TechniqueFine-tuning8 recent entries31 Aug 2026All week we’re spotlighting teams training past the frontier on Fireworks. @Figma’s AI team is shipping features that change how millions of…All week we’re spotlighting teams training past the frontier on Fireworks. @Figma’s AI team is shipping features that change how millions of people design, and with the Training API they can iterate f→2 Sept 2026A noisy code reviewer gets ignored. Flag too many non-issues and engineers tune it out. @Macroscope got the control they needed with the Fir…A noisy code reviewer gets ignored. Flag too many non-issues and engineers tune it out. @Macroscope got the control they needed with the Fireworks Training API to train a model using their own advanta→10 Sept 2026GLM-5.3 is now available for training on Fireworks Dedicated Training API and Managed Training surfaces. Built for complex coding and long-h…GLM-5.3 is now available for training on Fireworks Dedicated Training API and Managed Training surfaces. Built for complex coding and long-horizon agents and now available to train on our dedicated in→11 Sept 2026together fine-tuning now supports glm-5.3, kimi k2.7-code + more we also added live run metrics, experiment comparisons, early stopping, dat…together fine-tuning now supports glm-5.3, kimi k2.7-code + more we also added live run metrics, experiment comparisons, early stopping, dataset previews + finer training controls prices are down 30–7→11 Sept 2026Together AI expands fine-tuning service with more models, live metrics, and finer controlsTogether Fine-Tuning adds the latest open-weight models, live experiment tracking, Expert LoRA, early stopping, tokenized dataset previews, pre-flight validation, and lower training prices on selected→14 Sept 2026Deel handles compliance, payroll, and HR questions across 150+ countries. Instead of searching for the answer through an external LLM each t…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→18 Sept 2026TypeSafe’s Jev: Can decision models replace LLM judges?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→25 Sept 2026Want 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 H…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
TechniqueMultimodal8 recent entries29 Jun 2026xAI Grok audio models now available on Vercel AI GatewayxAI's Grok audio models are now accessible through the Vercel AI Gateway, expanding the platform's capabilities for developers to integrate advanced audio processing into their applications. This inte→30 Jun 2026@charlieholtz preach! “Factories” is a depressing vision of the future, metaphors matterThis post discusses how the metaphor of 'factories' for AI systems presents a pessimistic framing of the future, arguing that the language and analogies we use to describe AI development shape our per→1 Jul 2026Read more about why we built this and where we're going. https://www.together.ai/blog/announcing-our-series-cTogether AI announced a Series C funding round and shared details about their company vision, current capabilities, and future direction in open-source AI development and inference optimization. The a→15 Jul 2026The best base model for training isn't about someone else's benchmarks. Excited to offer @thinkymachines' first open-weights model: Inkling.…The best base model for training isn't about someone else's benchmarks. Excited to offer @thinkymachines' first open-weights model: Inkling. 975B MoE, multimodal, with Apache 2.0. A great foundation f→29 Jul 2026Configuring Dedicated Model InferenceThe Together AI platform’s dedicated inference architecture consists of three immutable entities: **configs** (engine, GPU type/count, parallelism and optimization profile), **deployments** (a specifi→31 Jul 2026Inkling-Small is now live on Together AI. @thinkymachines’ new open-weight multimodal model delivers similar performance to Inkling at one-q…Inkling-Small is now live on Together AI. @thinkymachines’ new open-weight multimodal model delivers similar performance to Inkling at one-quarter the size, built for coding, agents, and general multi→6 Aug 2026FLUX 3 is now live on Together AI. @bfl_ai’s new multimodal model generates video and synchronized audio together, with up to 20-second clip…FLUX 3 is now live on Together AI. @bfl_ai’s new multimodal model generates video and synchronized audio together, with up to 20-second clips, multiple shots, and control from text, images, or keyfram→23 Sept 2026🔬Bio-security is an AI Arms Race - Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics)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
TechniqueSafety8 recent entries29 May 2026Auto-review mode is now available in Cursor. It allows agents to run tool calls with fewer approval prompts and safer execution.Cursor has introduced an auto-review mode feature that enables AI agents to execute tool calls with reduced approval requirements while maintaining safer execution practices. This feature streamlines →4 Jun 2026Reality: The Final Eval — Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon LabsLukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs discuss their work on evaluation methods and benchmarking for AI systems, likely covering approaches to assessing AI capabilities and safety in real-wor→9 Jun 2026Budgets for API keys on AI GatewayVercel introduced budget management features for API keys on its AI Gateway, allowing developers to set spending limits and monitor costs for API key usage. This feature helps prevent unexpected charg→9 Jun 2026And @DevangSachdev announced the @nebiusai Agents Blueprint and consists of - @LangChain Deep Agents - @tavilyai - @pinecone - @guardrails_a…Nebius AI announced the Agents Blueprint, a framework integrating multiple tools including LangChain Deep Agents, Tavily AI, Pinecone for vector storage, and Guardrails for building AI agents. This bl→22 Jun 2026Red-Teaming after Mythos — Zico Kolter & Matt Fredrikson, Gray SwanThis episode likely discusses red-teaming methodologies and adversarial testing approaches in AI systems, featuring security researchers Zico Kolter and Matt Fredrikson from Carnegie Mellon University→26 Jun 2026I was at the first AI Engineer Summit @aiDotEngineer ~500 people, limited admission, felt like a secret. Next week it takes over Moscone Wes…I was at the first AI Engineer Summit @aiDotEngineer ~500 people, limited admission, felt like a secret. Next week it takes over Moscone West: thousands of engineers, 400+ sessions. Huge props to @swy→30 Jun 2026AgreeAgree is a TypeScript library by Boris Cherny that provides a schema validation and serialization system, enabling developers to define data schemas with type safety and validate data at runtime. The →1 Jul 2026And as we say in our blog, we're continuing to refine these safeguards to better distinguish genuine misuse from legitimate requests and red…This post discusses ongoing efforts to improve AI safety safeguards, specifically refining systems to accurately differentiate between genuine misuse and legitimate user requests while addressing edge