🚀 Rocket is 10^100 shrimp in a coat

Anthropic shadow.

pretraining is an elegant science, done by mathematicians who sit in cold rooms writing optimization theory on blackboards, engineers with total absorb of distributed systems of titanic scale posttraining is hair raising cowboy research where people drinking a lot of diet coke…

One step closer to submarine data centers

when you're the eval guy and you check up on the experiments channel in slack

I'm observing a mini Moravec's paradox within robotics: gymnastics that are difficult for humans are much easier for robots than "unsexy" tasks like cooking, cleaning, and assembling. It leads to a cognitive dissonance for people outside the field, "so, robots can parkour &…

For a while I’ve wondered how often Anthropic gets vulnerability disclosures The former head of the safeguards team tells me that before he left a few months ago, a new patch was required every couple weeks

You already know it’s a 6 week old SemiAnalysis

Now I’ve seen it all

You're laughing. They're putting a blonde wig on Optimus and you're laughing.

what are we even doing here guys

Grok 4 on experimental design Everyone talks about AI automating the jobs of AI researchers but equally ironic is AI automating the jobs of economists

Updated our Windsurf/Google story with new deal details: - Employees with vested shares will receive cash – Employees who joined less than 12 months ago are not vested and won’t get payouts under current terms – Windsurf negotiated to keep $100M+ on its balance sheet; company…

STOP KICKING HARMLESS ROBOTS. IT'S BAD CULTURE.

Good news! There will be a mechanistic interpretability workshop at NeurIPS (Dec 6/7, San Diego) If you were disappointed that ICML rejected us, now we'll do an even better one: 4 more months of progress to discuss! Papers likely due late August/early Sept, more info soon

Who wants one

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