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“We study both domain-specific expert personas and low-knowledge personas, evaluating six models on GPQA Diamond (Rein et al. 2024) and MMLU-Pro (Wang et al. 2024), graduate-level questions spanning sc…”
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“The smartest thinking model that we're going to be able to get on our phone is going to be this Quinn 3.5. This is the one we're going to want.”
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“The company Mistraw released a new model called Mistraw Small 4. This is actually an openweight model, so you can actually fine-tune it if you want and run it on your own servers.”
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“I built Fabric AI and I started using lang chain and pine cone etc. And then open AI released 40 and became so much better. I just ripped out my entire back stack”
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“His lead agent is named Henry and runs on Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6.”
“In the essay AI as normal technology, we called this the false summit phenomenon.”
“31B Dense & 26B MoE: state-of-the-art performance for advanced local reasoning tasks – like custom coding assistants or analyzing scientific datasets.”
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“billions of people now interact with Gemini models, whether that's through AI overview, AI mode, or the Gemini app.”
“In January 2024, Google DeepMind released an AI model called Alpha Geometry... This is better than the performance of a silver medalist. This quite understandably generated a lot of buzz.”
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“after I wrote Burn Book, which at the time, people were like, oh, you're so mean to them. They're such important innovators. People come to me now and they're like, you weren't mean enough. You weren'…”
“ChatBT is by far the biggest global AI product and still only 10% of the global population is using it on a weekly active basis. So there's like a lot more to come.”
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“The reason and right now if you try to get hoppers in the cloud it's all sold out. The reason for that is because CUDA is so programmable and we're constantly the whole world not just us the whole wor…”
“Are there companies who are doing real work on safety? I [music] mean, we hear about anthropic, we hear about Deep Mind. Are they helping on the safety front? Yes, I think both Dario Modi and Demis Ab…”
“What are your thoughts on the upscaling of Hogwarts Legacy and get in here a little closer? So, DLSS5, new AI upscaler happening in real time.”
“There are a number of nonprofits who are working in this space like the future of life institute uh that have really mobilized around this potential 10-year moratorum that we're seeing.”
“You were asked um on the Google Deep Mind podcast, which is a great listen.”
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“How Code-Switching Explains The World”
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“Dr. Lichtenstein says the process for making these new guidelines was to dispense with politics and stick to the evidence. Well, I think there's no agenda behind these guidelines that they're evidence…”
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“If, Why, and How Founders Should Hire a “Professional” CEO”
“# The Singularity Is Not Coming _Blog post by François Chollet_”
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“you mentioned later in this wired article that you stumbled upon the single algorithm Theory popularized by Jeff Hawkins”
“the prevailing opinion was that human intelligence derived from thousands of simple agents working in concert this is what mit's Marvin Minsky called The Society of mind”
“there's also a recipe Pioneer by one of my friends Eric Bron and his collaborators sanit called a task-based analysis of jobs that I found to be very useful”
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