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Figured it out Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I r

This entry discusses foundational concepts and context related to the Culture series, particularly the concept of the General Systems Vehicle (GSV) from Iain M. Banks' science fiction novels. The piec

France is one of the few European countries that truly understood sovereignty. It built its own nuclear deterrent, with around 290 nuclear warheads and full sovereign control over their use. It remain

ICYMI Dedicated Read Nodes are now generally available. Predictable performance at scale. Up to 97% lower costs on real production workloads. Fixed hourly pricing. No read rate limits. Always-hot data

It’s pretty funny that I can’t tell whether the intelligent comments are from people who actually read the book or whether they are bots that know a lot about The Culture. AIs, even small models, love

Its The Graph again (not the METR graph, the one from the o1 launch). Although no logarithmic decay of ability with increasing compute... This is a general-purpose LLM. It wasn’t targeted at this prob

June 2024: The latest general-purpose LLMs could not count the r's in strawberry. July 2025: The latest general-purpose LLMs get gold in the International Math Olympiad. May 2026: The latest general-p

One interesting side feature of recursive self-improvement, to the extent that is happening, is that it makes the Big Three labs more appealing to talent, and shortens the runway for launching a poten

One of our enterprise customers, a large insurance company, told us they achieved a 99% reduction in reshoot costs using Runway (7 in Runway credits vs. 10K+ for a typical reshoot). They needed to cha

PabloReports: What do you make of this $1.776 billion fund— Gavin Newsom: It’s a criminal enterprise. It’s not just corruption, it’s not just graft, it’s a full-on criminal enterprise and it needs to

Remember: it was like pulling teeth to get Republicans to fund the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. But it took them no time at all to create a $1.8 billion Insurrection Slush Fund to pay off the legal

They hate you for noticing the pattern. During the Summer of Floyd, a Black, drug-addled career criminal died while resisting police after committing a crime, and whole cities burned while we were lec

Ethan Mollick posted a correction on X clarifying that he was referring to July 2024 in a previous statement or discussion. This appears to be a brief clarification post addressing a temporal referenc

We added 600+ new voices on Together AI! Introducing MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo on Together AI, an enterprise TTS model for expressive real-time voice agents. AI natives can now deploy @MiniMax_AI Speec

Albert Einstein + ElevenLabs. AI agents can make education more accessible - a teacher for every student in every field. A classroom size of one learning from icons who shaped the world Today with his

Another useful feature is this process can happen gradually as you reduce outsourced work as contracts end for internal talent. And company executives like this better because they can grow their own

As companies approach AGI it would be illogical for most not to go and work there. AGI is a much bigger deal than most people still seem to believe & it is only by most forecasts a few years away (if

Asking people whether they like 'AI' is not going to be a useful poll question soon, if it ever was. They will be incredibly grateful for their personal AI that guides them through medical or legal or

Elon Musk on the legacy of Tesla, Edison, and Ford: 'Nikola Tesla is a major inspiration, but Edison also did impressive work. Great minds like Benjamin Franklin, Shakespeare, Newton, Edison, and Ford

Excited for this conversation with @hwchase17 , Co-Founder & CEO of @LangChain , on June 2 at the @traversal_ai office in NYC. We’ll be talking about what it actually takes to operate AI agents in pro

Google is announcing the availability of Gemini Omni Flash to subscribers of its Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra tiers across multiple applications including the Gemini app, Google Flow, and Google Flo

My second interview with @JimBelosic, Founder of @SendCutSend. 0:15 Beating China in manufacturing requires scale 1:10 Automation is not a magic bullet 2:12 Scaling profitably 4:31 Delivering a great

One trend that I think you might start to see at big companies is insourcing via hiring: why pay so many outside vendors (legal, marketing, software vendors) when you can hire in-house and harness AI

🚨Our paper is out in PNAS: we found classic human persuasion techniques worked on AIs in a 'parahuman' way, making them agree to objectionable requests (upping compliance from 35% to 51%) It worked on

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply pa

Rho cut weekly meeting time by 90% with Perplexity Computer. Computer checks Slack, Notion, Jira, Figma, and Google Docs, then flags missing tasks and changes the team needs to see. 120 work hours sav

The Commonwealth Prize response to the AI-written story (and the fact that they still don't realize that there are at least 2 AI-written prize winning stories!) is a great example of the wide gaps in

The crazy thing is that Antigravity does this quite well! So it isn't like Google is hiding these thinking traces because of distillation or because they are full of insane mutterings. I guess you nee

the future is bright, lets get to work Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here

there's 4 parts to this AI SDLC 1. have ~50 tests in place, with instructions to add more, including 'make a memory that whenever you do browser e2e tests, use computer vision to visually spot check d

this was not on my bingo card Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get b

You don't need to move everything internally, so you can still gain from vendor specialists when needed, just less often This is similar to how most companies are not going to want to replace all thei

Almost every part of Starship V3 is different from V2 Starship Flight 12 goals: • Debut next-generation Starship and Super Heavy vehicles • First launch from Starbase’s newly redesigned launch pad • D

I broke my own rule to never post about AI detection as it is fraught in many ways. The problem is that if you use AI a lot, you know AI writing on sight, which makes the difficulty of objectively pro

Large language models demonstrate a specific and persistent theory-of-mind failure despite excelling at other theory-of-mind tasks, suggesting a particular gap in their reasoning about beliefs, intent

Most prophetic tweet of all time (2 months post ChatGPT release). And you can safely repost it every day and it will still be prophetic for the future. This is the least the world will care about AI.

So would this be legal under the ruling: Set up a charity, raise $100m etc When setting it up say you may set up a for profit & raise billions Three years later set up for profit with IP transferred f

This was 10 years ago so I'm a bit hazy on details now, but there were a few shots in this sequence that required a TB of RAM for water sims, and it was really late in production, so our solution was

where i said same in 2024 (one of many places I made this point): Three o3 predictions: – People will initially be amazed - Once they dive in, they will see that it is not reliable - It will work best

A lot of the discussion of the good and bad of phones on society is really a discussion about the end of boredom. Boredom makes people seek out things to do. That has both good & bad effects: research

“Data centers create economic activity, especially in directly related sectors and during construction, and they are associated with larger county-level income aggregates. They also raise electricity

I know the upcoming film version of the Odyssey is controversial, so I whipped together a completely accurate version that I think will be happily accepted by everyone as the most definitive version s

In the original von Neumann sense of a singularity as the point 'beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue,' it seems true By definition, we can't know what that means in advance

See also I see people worried that kids don't get bored anymore... but boredom is often bad In a preregistered studies of 7,000 people, boredom led to sadism. 18% of bored people killed worms (2% of n

Ethan Mollick posted a positive endorsement of Seedance 2 on X (formerly Twitter). The post likely expresses his assessment that Seedance 2 performs well, though the specific features or context being

So the two most obvious barriers to some sort of true AI takeoff are robust RSI (AI acting as an independent AI researcher, rather than “merely” a multiplier of human effort) and continual learning. E