💰$3.5 billion Bill Gates-funded Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV, 2015)... is a climate-tech platform covering policy and research projects. Its contrails team, builds forecasting models and helps define criteria for a ‘warming contrail.’ Contrails org is a science-led nonprofit focused on ➡️policy⬅️, research, open tools, and adoption by airlines and air-traffic systems. It produces models, materials, and publications on ‘aviation-induced cloudiness’ and ‘persistent contrails,’ and ➡️publicizes information⬅️ on formation and altitude adjustments used in current applied work. It partners with the United Kingdom on Operation Blue Skies, contributing forecast assessment, trial design, and data analysis for testing flight-level changes over the North Atlantic. Marc Shapiro, who leads the work, reviewed the National Academies research agenda requested by NASA on the same topic. Contrails org collaborates with Google Research on AI models that use satellite imagery and weather data to predict contrail-forming regions. Separately, Google/Alphabet entities (via Verily’s Debug project) have run and sought EPA permits for large-scale releases of Wolbachia-infected male mosquitoes in California and Florida. ~Babooschkashow more

Reclaim Our Skies
13,343 views • 4 days ago
OpenAI's Deep Research is getting a run for its... money. Deep Lake was just released, and it's a different take on an AI system that can do deep research on your own data. You can use Deep Lake to build AI search with reasoning on your private and public data. (Look at the attached videos to get an idea of how it works.) If you want to research proprietary and sensitive data, Deep Research won't help you because it's limited to public data. Deep Lake, however, will allow you to use your private data. On top of that, Deep Lake supports multi-modal retrieval from the ground up. It uses vision language models for data ingestion and retrieval so that you can connect any data (PDFs, images, videos, structured data, etc.) You can even use mixed-data queries! Deep Lake can search your data from S3, Dropbox, and GCP. It learns from your queries over time, making the results as relevant to your work as possible!show more

Santiago
171,340 views • 1 year ago
We are entering an extremely exciting era for open-weight... models. Kimi K2.6 now feels like a top agentic model. I took it for a spin via Fireworks AI fast inference APIs. Kimi K2.6 has impressive agentic capabilities, design skills, and the ability to synthesize large amounts of information. I built a little Skill that produces survey papers on any AI research topic you want. (see example in the clip) You can use the skill to tell your agent to generate a survey on whatever topic and watch it go to work. The artifact was fully generated by Kimi.ai's Kimi K2.6. It's cheap and fast. Next step for me is to explore ways to continue integrating the capabilities of these models on use cases like automating my LLM knowledge bases and augmenting my agent memory capabilities. Stay tuned for more.show more

elvis
47,678 views • 4 months ago
🛑 A powerful OSINT tool for exploring global sanctions... data If you ever need to check sanctions across different authorities, this tool brings everything together in one place and it’s FREE to use. It’s called Sanctions Explorer, and it provides: ✅ Current + historical sanctions data 📚 ✅ Coverage from major bodies like the UN, EU, OFAC, and more ✅ Clean filtering to track individuals, companies, and entities ✅ A unified view instead of searching each authority separately 🌍 The project was initiated by Archer (a Berkeley-based nonprofit focused on human rights) and later fully developed by the C4ADS Data & Technology team known for their evidence-based research on global conflict and transnational security. If sanctions research is part of your OSINT workflow, this tool is worth bookmarking. And in the next post, I’ll share a quick OSINT tip for checking phone numbers on Telegram Check it out here: __________ P.S. ♻️ Repost if you found this helpful. If you liked this post and would like to learn more methods and techniques to discover information about people, check out my OSINT Mastery courseshow more

CyberSudo
28,153 views • 7 months ago
Walden Robotics came out of stealth with a $300M... seed at a $1.1B valuation. A Toyota Research Institute spinout (founded January), its thesis: the hard problem in robotics is now deployment, not research. So it's putting general-purpose humanoids to work on the repetitive tasks workers find burdensome. They're already running in a pilot at a North American Toyota plant: its robot works 8-hour shifts alongside human teams, loading and unloading car parts, cleaning machinery, and kitting for assembly. Team: led by CEO Russ Tedrake (MIT professor, ex-SVP of Large Behavior Models at TRI), with a founding group drawn largely from TRI's robotics team plus deployment and operations veterans. Full-stack: builds its own hardware, software, and AI models Backers: Toyota, NVIDIA, Boeing, Samsung Ventures, CoreWeave Ventures, Deviation Capital Cambridge, MA basedshow more

The Humanoid Hub
40,594 views • 1 month ago
Google just wired DeepMind and Earth Engine directly into... the biggest geospatial dataset on the planet. For two decades, millions of people used Google Earth to scale the Himalayas or zoom in on their childhood neighbourhoods. In 2026, Google is basically trying to shift the entire platform toward professional execution. They turned a massive digital twin of the world into an agentic AI engine for global infrastructure. The technical foundation is (obviously) all about data. Google integrated 20-metre and 40-metre elevation contours globally. Engineers and urban planners now have instant access to the exact topographic context required for site planning anywhere on Earth. The data catalogue updates continuously to maintain the freshest imagery possible. Collaboration used to kill geospatial projects. Teams would lose momentum through stale materials or bad handoffs. Google fixed this by building frictionless data import systems. You can now drop KML, KMZ, and GeoJSON files directly onto the global map. Entire departments can align on a single source of truth, moving from a raw question to a definitive answer instantly. The biggest upgrade is the introduction of agentic geospatial intelligence. Users can open 'Ask Google Earth' and search massive satellite and Street View databases using natural language. You type a command, and the AI handles the manual data wrangling. It identifies new site locations and analyses infrastructure before you even open a spreadsheet.show more

Yohan
45,187 views • 5 months ago
It has been a privilege to collaborate with Amanda... Davies and Ghaleb Krame, Ph.D. on research that explores one of the most significant emerging security challenges of our time. We are honored that our paper, “A Framework for Predicting Adoption of AI-Enabled Autonomous Drone Capabilities by Transnational Organized Crime and Foreign Terrorist Organisations”, has been accepted for presentation at EMCIS 2026, the 23rd European Mediterranean & Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems, to be held in Paris this August. What makes this particularly meaningful is that the research was completed and submitted well before the issue entered the center of public policy discussions in Washington. Our study examined the pathways through which transnational criminal organizations could evolve from conventional drone operations toward increasingly autonomous and AI-enabled capabilities. Using structured comparative analysis and open-source intelligence, it identified conditions under which such technological adoption could accelerate. Just on June 2, 2026, during testimony before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary Marco Rubio warned that Mexican cartels are already employing drones and that these capabilities could ultimately threaten U.S. interests. While academic research does not seek to predict headlines, its purpose is to identify emerging risks before they become strategic realities. The growing attention from policymakers underscores the importance of rigorous, evidence-based analysis at the intersection of artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and transnational security. We are grateful to the EMCIS reviewers and organizers for recognizing the contribution of this work and for fostering serious discussion on challenges that will increasingly shape the security landscape of the coming decade. I am proud to serve the interests of the United States through research and analysis focused on the evolving capabilities of Mexican cartels. Working alongside Dr. Ghaleb Krame, Ph.D. , it is a privilege to contribute to a deeper understanding of emerging security threats and to support informed decision-making in an increasingly complex technological and geopolitical environment.show more

Simón Levy
22,536 views • 2 months ago
EFSANE is a global, comprehensive investment and fintech platform... focused on two core areas: stocks and cryptocurrencies. We are committed to creating a one-stop investment ecosystem for users, integrating information, strategies, education, trading, and community. Since its founding, EFSANE has been committed to "making investing simpler and wealth management more scientific," providing professional market analysis, investment education, and asset allocation guidance to over 10 million users worldwide. The platform's core advantages include: 1. Diversified Investment Ecosystem: Covering multiple modules including stocks, cryptocurrencies, prediction markets, blockchain games, live streaming, and social interaction, users can learn, communicate, and practice on a single platform. 2. Professional Investment Research: Led by the EFSANE team, our investment research team utilizes quantitative models and macroeconomic analysis to provide accurate market judgment and trading strategies. 3. Secure and Transparent Operational Mechanism: EFSANE maintains a comprehensive risk control system and a multi-faceted compliance framework to ensure the security of user funds and data. 4. Global Presence: Headquartered in Singapore, with regional operations centers in Dubai, New York, and Hong Kong, EFSANE serves over 30 countries and regions. As the global financial landscape evolves, EFSANE is actively promoting the integration of stock tokenization and crypto investment education, building a bridge to the new era of Web3 finance for global investors. 🌐❤️ New users joining EFSANE can receive free EFS tokens (worth $6): 📲Join EFSANE and embark on a new journey of smart investing.show more

EFSANE
33,930 views • 10 months ago
Dagknight technical progress As would be mentioned in a... still unshared post by Michael Sutton, the dagknight effort is split into v0 devnet, v1 testnet and v2 mainnet candidate. I’ve been testing the current v0-based implementation in a small devnet with the help of some testers who run nodes and miners with me. The DK work can be thought of as split into two parts: (1) implementing the actual protocol and (2) wiring it up and using it. The testing and development over the last month has been focused on (2). Obviously, DK is a consensus change for selecting parents. What’s not so obvious is that such a change affects DAA, coinbase, IBD, pruning and a lot more. Each of these areas is very sensitive and requires proper understanding to wire correctly. An important consideration and difference from GD is that DK does not focus on maximizing a property like blue work. So to maintain topological properties of blue work, an independent (free) GD implementation is kept running specifically for maintaining blue work. This allows us to keep using the property for topology. Coloring and blue score use the megachain induced by DK. The wiring around DK as of this posting is in a working state, but still needs to be reviewed. Next efforts will be focused on protocol specific components, particularly Tie-Breaking and incremental UMC. Attached are some captures from the internal devnet. The dense DAG image is what happens when things related to DAA or other similar consensus parameter causes a node to insist on their POV. The video is a recent snippet of the KGI running on the devnet showing (perhaps not obviously) DK at work. The current “dagknight” branch is now posted on the main repo. A topic in the Public R&D has been opened for Dagknight development.show more

coderofstuff
52,857 views • 6 months ago
What if crypto research was as easy as chatting... with ChatGPT, but powered by real market data👑 Introducing CMC AI, a powerful new tool from CoinMarketCap that combines the speed of AI with the depth of live crypto data. It delivers fast, data-backed answers to your questions: ✅ Want to know why Bitcoin's price is rising? ✅ Curious about the latest news on your favorite cryptocurrency? ✅ Need sentiment analysis? It pulls real-time data and explains it in seconds. But it goes far beyond basic Q&A. In the future, you’ll be able to ask anything! For example, you could ask it to: – Discover undervalued tokens based on volume, MC, and sentiment. – Compare Layer 1s or L2s by adoption, speed, and dev activity. – Detect rug-pull risk via wallet distribution and tokenomics red flags. – Break down your portfolio by risk, correlation, and potential return. – Explore new use cases in DeFi, AI, RWA and DePIN And much more! 🔗Try it here: CMC AI changes how you learn, think, and act in Web3🧠show more

Alaoui Capital
34,908 views • 1 year ago
Introducing ml-intern, the agent that just automated the post-training... team Hugging Face It's an open-source implementation of the real research loop that our ML researchers do every day. You give it a prompt, it researches papers, goes through citations, implements ideas in GPU sandboxes, iterates and builds deeply research-backed models for any use case. All built on the Hugging Face ecosystem. It can pull off crazy things: We made it train the best model for scientific reasoning. It went through citations from the official benchmark paper. Found OpenScience and NemoTron-CrossThink, added 7 difficulty-filtered dataset variants from ARC/SciQ/MMLU, and ran 12 SFT runs on Qwen3-1.7B. This pushed the score 10% → 32% on GPQA in under 10h. Claude Code's best: 22.99%. In healthcare settings it inspected available datasets, concluded they were too low quality, and wrote a script to generate 1100 synthetic data points from scratch for emergencies, hedging, multilingual etc. Then upsampled 50x for training. Beat Codex on HealthBench by 60%. For competitive mathematics, it wrote a full GRPO script, launched training with A100 GPUs on watched rewards claim and then collapse, and ran ablations until it succeeded. All fully backed by papers, autonomously. How it works? ml-intern makes full use of the HF ecosystem: - finds papers on arxiv and reads them fully, walks citation graphs, pulls datasets referenced in methodology sections and on - browses the Hub, reads recent docs, inspects datasets and reformats them before training so it doesn't waste GPU hours on bad data - launches training jobs on HF Jobs if no local GPUs are available, monitors runs, reads its own eval outputs, diagnoses failures, retrains ml-intern deeply embodies how researchers work and think. It knows how data should look like and what good models feel like. Releasing it today as a CLI and a web app you can use from your phone/desktop. CLI: Web + mobile: And the best part? We also provisioned 1k$ GPU resources and Anthropic credits for the quickest among you to use.show more

Aksel
1,266,983 views • 4 months ago
Something NVIDIA & Google do better than anyone else... is software-hardware-system co-design, and not just optimizing hardware for current model architectures, but predicting future ones. Back in early 2022, when NVIDIA started the design process for NVL72, MoE (Mixture of Experts) models were not yet the standard, and dense models were still dominant for frontier models. However, NVIDIA's strong software-hardware co-design culture enabled them to make a calculated bet that MoEs were the future, and they built NVL72 specifically for best MoE performance per TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). Furthermore, back in 2022, disaggregated prefill and wide expert parallelism (wideEP) MoE inference optimizations hadn't been invented yet, but it turns out that these MoE inference optimizations work best on large-scale systems like NVL72. While most other AI chip companies' in-house AI labs focus on training small 5B models that mainly use data parallelism, NVIDIA and Google's in-house AI labs continuously push the boundaries of model architecture and training recipes, such as NVFP4 training. Just like Super Idol & IShowSpeed, there must be a strong partnership between software engineers and hardware engineers to deliver the best systems that maximize performance per TCO.show more

SemiAnalysis
51,021 views • 9 months ago
🚨 BREAKING: Walden Robotics has just come out of... stealth with $300 million in funding and a $1.1 billion valuation. Another unicorn in the robotics space. 🦄 Just 6 months after incubation. The company was spun out of Toyota's robotics research lab by co-founder Russ Tedrake, a former Toyota Research Institute executive and MIT professor who taught a course on robotic legs. The seed round was co-led by Deviation Capital and Toyota, with participation from: NVIDIA, Boeing, Samsung Ventures, CoreWeave Ventures and AE Ventures. The robot is already working. A pilot is live at a North American Toyota factory where a Walden humanoid is pulling eight-hour shifts alongside human workers, loading and unloading car parts, cleaning machinery, kitting for assembly. A shift. Every day. Walden builds its own hardware, software and AI models, designed to continuously learn and improve in real production environments. Tedrake's words on the opportunity are worth noting: "Everyone recognises the magnitude of the opportunity and the technology feels ready, but success is not assured. You have to think through the business case, the unit economics, and how to marry the best of manufacturing and logistics with disruptive AI technology." Rare honesty in a space full of hype. The race to own that market is accelerating every single week. 🤖 Great story by Bloomberg here: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →show more

Lukas Ziegler
75,370 views • 1 month ago
HOLY CRAP! I can't tell you how big this... is for the medical community and drug discovery: Google Announces AlphaFold 3 AI. Details: Enhanced Molecular Prediction: AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of all life's molecules, including proteins, DNA, RNA, ligands, and more, with unprecedented accuracy. Improved Interaction Accuracy: For protein interactions with other molecule types, AlphaFold 3 offers at least a 50% improvement over existing methods, and doubles the accuracy for some critical interactions. Transformative Potential for Science and Medicine: The model aims to deepen our understanding of biological processes and significantly advance drug discovery efforts. Accessibility for Researchers: AlphaFold 3's capabilities are largely accessible for free via the AlphaFold Server, providing an essential tool for scientific research. Drug Design Innovation: AlphaFold 3 is utilized by Isomorphic Labs in collaboration with pharmaceutical companies to accelerate drug design, potentially leading to new treatments for various diseases. Foundation in AlphaFold 2: Building on the breakthroughs of AlphaFold 2, this version extends its scope beyond proteins to a wide range of biomolecules, enhancing its utility in scientific research and application. Global Accessibility and Educational Support: The AlphaFold Server is a free platform for non-commercial research worldwide, supported by educational resources to foster wider adoption and innovation. Empowering Rapid Scientific Advancements: By making detailed molecular interactions easily accessible, AlphaFold 3 enables faster hypothesis testing and could reduce the time and cost typically associated with experimental protein-structure prediction. Responsible Development and Deployment: DeepMind has engaged with domain experts to assess the impacts and potential risks of AlphaFold, ensuring its responsible use in the scientific community. Broad Implications for Biology:AlphaFold 3 helps reveal complex cellular mechanisms and interactions, offering insights that could lead to improved agricultural crops, enhanced understanding of diseases, and novel therapeutic strategies.show more

Brian Krassenstein
258,615 views • 2 years ago
Another major environmental catastrophe that impacts on climate and... world trade, but it is not on the radar. The following link is a good video of the Sargassum problem, a pelagic seaweed floating on the surface of the ocean. When we sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, we got stuck three times in giant mats of Sargassum. The video gives a good explanation of what happens in the Caribbean when it washes ashore, but it misses the major environmental and economic implications that have a profound impact on world trade and marine life in an entire ocean. The Sargassum starts off from the coast of Brazil; it picks up nutrients from the Amazon and grows at an accelerated rate. It can double in biomass every 10 days. The weed crosses the South Atlantic to Africa and flows up the west coast, picking up more nutrients from the Congo and Gambia as well as agricultural run-off. By the time it reaches North Africa, Cape Verde, it takes a left turn and starts heading back across the Atlantic to the Caribbean. There should only be 1 million tonnes of the weed in the Atlantic, but there are now 40 million, and it is expanding year on year. Sargassum is a plant, and like all plants, it requires nutrients such as phosphate. However, the massive amount of weed uses up all the phosphate and then biochemically defaults to absorbing arsenic, which sits below phosphate in the periodic table. The Equatorial Atlantic is now devoid of phosphate, which means there is almost no phytoplankton, zooplankton or fish. When we conducted our citizen science project, 5000 samples were collected by 25 yachts at around 15 deg. North, and the results all confirmed that the Equatorial Atlantic was effectively dead. The results were not ignored by the academics; instead, they attacked the Citizen Science project, this has become the subject of a reports by Given the phytoplankton, such as coccolithophores and diatoms, have exhibited a regime shift, it also means the SML oil surfactant layer is gone, which means evaporation across the air-water interface has increased and aerosol/cloud formation has decreased. Satellite. Imagery confirms a 10%+ increase in humidity and a 10%+ decrease in cloud formation and rain. This is climate change TICC, the consequences. Impact on Central America, the survival of the tropical rainforests, mangroves, coral reefs, 25% of all marine life in the Atlantic and water supply for the Panama Canal. 6% of world trade and 40% of USA trade pass through the canal, and it has been totally missed as a major economic and environmental catastrophe. GOES centre for marine research: The video below was taken in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean from our sailing vessel Copepod. Via Howard Drydenshow more

Thomas Reis
68,777 views • 2 months ago
🧵 Understanding Zama; the future of privacy tech &... homomorphic encryption 1️⃣ Zama is pioneering fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). A breakthrough that lets you compute on encrypted data without decrypting it. 🔐 That means total privacy, even the system running your data can’t see it. 2️⃣ Why it matters: Right now, cloud apps, AI models, and databases must access your raw data to work. FHE changes that. your data stays private while still usable. 3️⃣ Zama builds open-source FHE tools for developers, turning advanced cryptography into practical products for AI, blockchain, and Web3. 4️⃣ Imagine: •AI that learns without reading your secrets 🤖 •Blockchain transactions with zero data leaks •Cloud apps that never see your info 5️⃣ Zama’s mission: Privacy should be the default, not an option. They’re making privacy-preserving tech simple, scalable, and open for everyone. 🔚 In a world obsessed with data, Zama might just be building the encryption layer of the future internet. 🌐show more

v͙e͙s͙p͙e͙r͙ 📊🐐
19,644 views • 9 months ago
New open-source agent harness just landed! I got early... access to TrueForge by TrueFoundry and have been running it locally for the past few days. The harness layer deserves as much attention as the model, and open source matters here because you can inspect the loop, run it on your own infrastructure, and swap to the latest or cheaper models. TrueForge handles the runtime work that makes an agent reliable. It drives the tool-calling loop, manages context, coordinates subagents, and executes code in a sandbox, with any model you choose. Every tool call re-sends the growing context to the model, so in practice the harness controls most of what an agent costs to run. A few things stood out from my testing and their published benchmarks. Vendor-Neutral by design. It runs OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google models alongside open-weight models like Kimi, GLM, and DeepSeek. Model routing is a setting, and you can send each task to the model that fits it. On a 14-task enterprise agent benchmark, it matched the accuracy of Claude Managed Agents running the same Opus 4.8 model at roughly 30% lower cost per run (3.8M tokens vs 10M for the same answers). Routing the same tasks to GLM-5.2 held accuracy and brought cost down by about 75%, around $3 per run instead of $12. Fully self-hosted and Open Source (MIT License). I had it running locally with one command, with sandboxed code execution working out of the box. It's time to own your agent harness. Thanks to TrueFoundry for partnering on this post.show more

elvis
11,303 views • 8 days ago
I'm proud to share that Glean has surpassed $300M... ARR, just five months after crossing $200M and growing ~3x over the past 15 months. This is an exciting milestone for Glean, and it's a signal about where the enterprise AI market is heading. We’ve long believed the real challenge in enterprise AI is not access to models. It is grounding AI in how a company actually works: its people, knowledge, workflows, permissions, and systems. That’s even clearer now. The companies creating real value with AI are not just adopting better models. They are building systems that understand their business well enough to deliver reliable outcomes at scale. That is the real moat, and it is what we’ve been building at Glean: an unrivaled context layer for enterprise AI. That context has to work across the business, not just inside a single team or use case. We see that in how customers adopt Glean: more than 85% use it across five or more job functions. It also has to meet the security and governance demands of complex enterprises. We see that in who is choosing Glean: our Fortune 500 customer count nearly doubled year over year. And it has to make economic sense as usage grows. In our recent benchmark with Claude Cowork, Glean was preferred roughly 2.5x as often as off-the-shelf MCP tools and used 30% fewer tokens on average. Better context improves both quality and efficiency. I enjoyed talking with CNBC's Deirdre Bosa about this broader shift. In enterprise AI, the winners will not be defined by better models alone. They will be defined by who builds the strongest foundation for enterprise context. Thank you to our customers, partners, and team for helping us build the future of enterprise AI.show more

Arvind Jain
280,790 views • 3 months ago
Furniture assembly is the task everyone name-drops and nobody... actually attempts at real scale. Every demo I have seen is a scaled down IKEA leg or a single arm on a toy chair. This paper does it properly, real scale, bimanual, up to 7 subtasks and 1,550 control steps per episode, and it is validated on a real Kinova Gen3, not just in sim. That real-robot number is the one that matters: only a 16 percent drop on the hardest task going from simulation to hardware. That is a small enough gap to take seriously, and it did not happen by accident. They built a VR teleoperation rig specifically for coordinated dual-arm collection, because generic single-arm teleop setups do not capture the coordination real assembly needs, and the model predicts a continuous progress signal alongside the action chunk rather than a discrete subtask label, letting it auto-transition and catch drift before it compounds into total failure. The simulation ablation is what got them there, 48 to 80 percent over baselines, with another 21 points from their perception and control design study alone, but that is groundwork, not the headline. Watch the video, there is a clip of the robot misgrasping the seat panel, reopening the gripper, and regrasping on its own. That is not scripted recovery behaviour, it emerged from training, and it emerged on hardware. Excellent work from the team from Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, with Oxford and UNC Chapel Hill Clinical Laboratory Science. Video and project page in comments. #Robotics #Manipulation #VLAshow more

Stephen James
14,952 views • 1 month ago
I had the same thought so I've been playing... with it in nanochat. E.g. here's 8 agents (4 claude, 4 codex), with 1 GPU each running nanochat experiments (trying to delete logit softcap without regression). The TLDR is that it doesn't work and it's a mess... but it's still very pretty to look at :) I tried a few setups: 8 independent solo researchers, 1 chief scientist giving work to 8 junior researchers, etc. Each research program is a git branch, each scientist forks it into a feature branch, git worktrees for isolation, simple files for comms, skip Docker/VMs for simplicity atm (I find that instructions are enough to prevent interference). Research org runs in tmux window grids of interactive sessions (like Teams) so that it's pretty to look at, see their individual work, and "take over" if needed, i.e. no -p. But ok the reason it doesn't work so far is that the agents' ideas are just pretty bad out of the box, even at highest intelligence. They don't think carefully though experiment design, they run a bit non-sensical variations, they don't create strong baselines and ablate things properly, they don't carefully control for runtime or flops. (just as an example, an agent yesterday "discovered" that increasing the hidden size of the network improves the validation loss, which is a totally spurious result given that a bigger network will have a lower validation loss in the infinite data regime, but then it also trains for a lot longer, it's not clear why I had to come in to point that out). They are very good at implementing any given well-scoped and described idea but they don't creatively generate them. But the goal is that you are now programming an organization (e.g. a "research org") and its individual agents, so the "source code" is the collection of prompts, skills, tools, etc. and processes that make it up. E.g. a daily standup in the morning is now part of the "org code". And optimizing nanochat pretraining is just one of the many tasks (almost like an eval). Then - given an arbitrary task, how quickly does your research org generate progress on it?show more

Andrej Karpathy
1,651,023 views • 6 months ago
🚨BREAKING: Google just merged Gemini and NotebookLM into one... unified workspace and it changes everything about how you use AI for deep work. It's called Notebooks in Gemini and it's the personal knowledge base that power users have been begging for. You create a notebook for a project, drop in your files, PDFs, and documents, give Gemini custom instructions, and every chat you have stays organized in one place. No more hunting through old conversations. No more re-uploading the same files every session. The wildest part is the sync. Anything you add in Gemini automatically appears in NotebookLM. Anything you add in NotebookLM automatically appears in Gemini. One source of truth. Two powerful apps. Zero friction switching between them. So you can start a research notebook in Gemini, ask it questions all week, then flip to NotebookLM to generate a Cinematic Video Overview from the same material. Next morning, open Gemini and ask it to write a full report on exactly what you just watched. That workflow used to take three apps and a lot of copy-pasting. Now it's one notebook. Rolling out this week to Google AI Ultra, Pro, and Plus subscribers on web. Mobile and free users coming soon. What do you think?show more

Mayank Vora
136,834 views • 4 months ago