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Today we're launching Base Labs, a research lab by Baseten. Our mandate is to make open-source as useful as possible, and our one rule is that we publish without exception, including what fails. Up un
Today we're unveiling Trillium Labs @trillium_labs, a new non-profit to foster the open science of frontier AI. We're building open post-training recipes and will expand into open infra to study RSI,
Anna Tong / Forbes: Docs: US data labeling companies, like Surge AI and Mercor, that sell training datasets to US AI labs and the government are also selling them to Chinese labs — The same Silicon Va
Samantha Subin / CNBC: Alex Karp says Palantir's enterprise customers are “unhappy” with how the frontier labs are operating, believing the labs only care about tokenmaxxing — - Palantir CEO Alex Karp
🎵 Wave of distillation 🎵 US labs say Chinese labs distill their models. And Europe's new “sovereign model” is fine-tuned on data generated by… GLM and Qwen. Small bird, fast wings, Kolibri is here. 78
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Wall Street Journal: OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI labs are offering startups token credits and special promotions, as the AI labs seek lasting streams of enterprise revenue — Pitched battle for
SITUATION EXPLAINED: The frontier lab regulatory problem. @ClementDelangue, co-founder and CEO of @huggingface: 'The frontier labs were basically doing marketing for the past few years. If you remembe
This episode discusses the growing landscape of open-source AI models, contrasts the approaches and philosophies of Model Labs versus Agent Labs in AI development, and explores fundamental limitations
Latent Space reports on a rebranding or reorganization where Model Labs have been renamed or converted into Agent Labs, reflecting a shift in focus toward AI agent development and capabilities. This c
Big increases in message discipline across all the AI labs in recent weeks, an inevitable outcome of the labs being subject to increased scrutiny. Much more boring than the oracular mutterings or Disc
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I spent a week on the ground in China visiting 14 AI labs. The more I saw, the clearer it became that export controls may have inadvertently created a durable efficiency moat – Chinese labs are extrac
Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: SAP to acquire Dremio, an open data lakehouse provider, and Prior Labs, which it pledges to invest €1B in over four years, hoping to create a frontier AI lab — S
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta reports Reality Labs Q1 revenue of 402M, vs. 488.8M est., and a 4.03B operating loss, vs. 4.82B est.; Reality Labs has $80B+ in losses since late 2020 — As Meta pumps incr
At this point, I assume that every internal memo at an AI lab is just written for public release. The labs are certainly capable of keeping secrets that don’t leak, so they must realize that all-hands
Open secret that the big AI labs see themselves as emergent state-like entities in the vein of the distributed polities in “Diamond Age” or “Terra Ignota”, which is pretty funny bc staff at said labs
Clem Delangue argues that AI companies should not be referred to as 'labs,' characterizing such terminology as pretentious and inaccurate since these organizations operate as commercial enterprises ra
VideoGameBench is a new benchmark launched on Antim Labs, created by a1zhang, Thomas L. Griffiths, Karthik R. N, and Ofir Press. The benchmark likely evaluates AI model performance on video game-relat
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Sooth Labs, founded by ex-Meta employees to build AI models that let businesses forecast geopolitical events, is raising ~50M at a ~335M valuation — Sooth Labs, a new art
Yann LeCun (AMI Labs Founder): 'The AI industry is completely LLM-pilled. Everybody is working on the same thing. They're all digging the same trench.' LeCun explains why no lab dares break from the p
'Two labs will soon control most of the world’s compute' Had a lot of fun chatting again with my twin brother @dylan522p We went through lab economics over the next few years - the shift from inferenc
Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? Excellent piece of work by Dylan Castillo, who took a deep-dive into the frequently pondered question of whether the AI labs have been deliberately training models to draw
Every time a model drops from a Chinese lab the thread fills with people who already know who made it, and the guess is usually Alibaba. There was a thread here recently asking what separates the open
AI21 Labs discusses how the order of operations in agent pipelines affects performance, presenting findings that reversing the typical 'scale first, enrich second' approach by instead enriching agent
there’s clearly some confusing conflicts + double-think going on in AI between: 1. Closed labs saying use our harness, it’s naturally post-trained and gets the best out of models by being “in-distribu
.@gradypb opening @sequoia AI Ascent event. This is AGI! advice for founders competing w/ the labs for the $10T of market opportunity: 1. get MAD (Moats, Affordances, Distribution) 2. approach every p
In 1948, a 32-year-old at Bell Labs published a paper nobody fully understood. Engineers found it too mathematical. Mathematicians found it too engineering-focused. One prominent mathematician reviewe
Pangram Labs Inc., an artificial intelligence research lab that develops AI detection software, today announced it raised 9 million, led by Menlo Ventures, to improve the accuracy of its core text det
Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: Germany's Black Forest Labs launches Flux 3 and Flux-mimic, its first models for robotics, as it expands from generative AI into physical AI — Black Forest Labs, a German artif
Thrilled to announce the Wearable AI Workshop at ECCV 2026 🎉 that we're organizing with an awesome group of folks across Meta Reality Labs, AMI Labs, HKUST, Georgia Tech, UCF, and U. of Edinburgh. If
arXiv:2606.29814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-Image, a state-of-the-art masked discrete diffusion model (MDM) for high-resolution text-to-image synthesis. Compared
Blockchain privacy company Aztec Labs Ltd. announced today that it has acquired Obsidion Labs Ltd., the British startup behind zero-knowledge identity protocol ZKPassport. The deal comes as government
i first wrote down the agent labs thesis last year https://x.com/swyx/status/1990886806250782876?s=46 New @latentspacepod Essay: why Agent Labs are clearly emerging in 2025 as a complement to Model La
arXiv:2605.04375v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: To unleash the full potential of AI for Science, we must untether the agents from a purely digital environment. The agent's ability to control
A mathematician who shared an office with Claude Shannon at Bell Labs gave one lecture in 1986 that explains why some people win Nobel Prizes and other equally smart people spend their whole lives doi
I need you guys to understand just how insanely good Meta Muse is at idea generation. Look at your “ideas” tab. The AI labs - OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google - were always showing the same three use cas
Bloomberg: Sources: Isomorphic Labs, an AI drug discovery startup spun out of Google DeepMind, is in early talks to raise funds at a valuation of at least $40B — Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug di
Bloomberg: Some startups, like Harvey, Abridge, Ramp, and Rogo, are embracing open-weight models or training their own models to reduce expensive reliance on frontier labs — The $15.6 billion legal st
The frontier labs are knowingly and by their own admission doing something irreversible and dangerous without public consent. They are already causing harms, and things could conceivably get much wors
Good guide. And the AI labs need to stop making people like Simon (and, to a lesser extent, me) be the ones who explain how to use the modes that they release. Come on, lab folks, you have an AI that
arXiv:2607.05722v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion, a tri-mode language model (LM) that unifies AR, diffusion, and self-speculation decoding within a single architect
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Twelve Labs, which is building AI models to make video searchable and understandable, raised a 100M Series B co-led by NEA and Naver, and signs an AWS deal — Twelve Labs Inc.
Pritam Biswas / Reuters: Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug discovery spinoff from Google DeepMind, raised 2.1B led by Thrive, after raising 600M in its first round in March 2025 — Isomorphic Labs, a
Bloomberg: Sources: Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug discovery company spun out of Google DeepMind, is in advanced talks to raise $2B+ led by Thrive Capital — Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug di
AI Value Capture - The Shift To Model Labs Vera Rubin VR NVL72: V for Value - Rubin delivers a step jump in performance per TCO. ROI accruing to users, Neoclouds, Hyperscalers, AI Labs, Memory Vendors
Chris Metinko / Axios: Collov Labs, whose visual interface lets users feed images and camera input into a model that AI agents can reason over and act on, raised a 23M Series A — Collov Labs, which tu
Anyhow, I realize nobody cares and all the AI labs have started presenting their GDPval-AA score, but it is an incredibly gameable output with low face validity and we really need trustworthy measures
I sat down with Emad Mostaque (@EMostaque)—and he told me something I can’t shake: the biggest AI labs already have models they’ll never release. We dug into why, how reinforcement learning may be kil
Banger paper from Meta Superintelligence Labs on self-improving agents. (bookmark it) It's hard to know exactly what drives self-improvement, since so many variables are at play (notes, skills, tool c
Banger paper from Meta Superintelligence Labs on user simulators for agent training. Agent RL setups usually let an assistant LLM play the user, so the simulated user is too cooperative and too explic
Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal: Letter: three fired OpenAI researchers urge AI labs to halt work that could impair AI monitoring and say their firings are “chilling those who remain at OpenAI” — I
Krystal Hu / Reuters: Meta, Google DeepMind, and Isomorphic Labs invest 300M and the US invests 500M+ in Zuckerberg-backed Biohub to build open biology datasets for AI training — The US government and
A thing to know about the AI business is labs that have frontier models can release half-built products and they work surprisingly well because the AI can just figure stuff out and improvise. Its like
This is something I’m quite worried about and have been talking with researchers about recently. We really don’t know what labs are doing and therefore can’t study it. if the open information ecosyste
World Labs Inc., the high-profile and well-funded artificial intelligence startup co-founded by the renowned computer vision pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has just dropped Atlas, which promises to be a game-cha
at the end of the day, we all have to stand by our company and the values it represents 🙂 * frontier labs will want to own their own application/harness/model e2e. or at least, openai will to start wi
Bespoke Labs Inc., a startup working to streamline the post-training phase of artificial intelligence projects, has raised 40 million in funding. The company stated today that the capital arrived in t
Proud to be part of the @SakanaAILabs RSI Lab The vision: the future isn't the most compute-hungry self-improvement engine, it's the most sample-efficient one. This is also how sovereign AI gets built
Isomorphic Labs Inc., an Alphabet Inc. unit using artificial intelligence to speed up drug development, is reportedly in talks to raise a new funding round. Sources told Bloomberg today that the inves