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Reinforcement learning research often depends on static benchmarks and obscure leaderboards. But real evaluation happens inside environments, with specific tools, prompts, constraints, and workflows. Today, we’re launching the Turing RL Environments Evaluation Platform. Researchers now have direct, real time access to: -The exact production RL environments used in evaluation...

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The TWIML AI Podcast

22,592 views • 7 months ago

OptimAI Core Node v2 is live. And with it, the introduction of OptimAI Claw. From nodes as infrastructure → to nodes as execution environments. With Core Node v2, every device becomes a runtime for native personal agents. 👉 Get your node up and running. No complex setup. No fragmented tooling. Just a few clicks... and your agent is live. OptimAI Claw brings persistent, node-resident agents directly into your system: • Multi-source research across web & social • Real-time summarization and signal tracking • Autonomous workflow execution • Continuous learning through reinforcement All running locally. All under your control. Supported on Windows & macOS. This is beyond prompt-based AI. Beyond isolated tools. This is personal agent infrastructure. Where every node thinks, acts, and evolves. Claw is now part of the network. And this is only the beginning. Happy Building, Making Impact! 🔥
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OptimAI Core Node v2 is live. And with it, the introduction of OptimAI Claw. From nodes as infrastructure → to nodes as execution environments. With Core Node v2, every device becomes a runtime for native personal agents. 👉 Get your node up and running. No complex setup. No fragmented tooling. Just a few clicks... and your agent is live. OptimAI Claw brings persistent, node-resident agents directly into your system: • Multi-source research across web & social • Real-time summarization and signal tracking • Autonomous workflow execution • Continuous learning through reinforcement All running locally. All under your control. Supported on Windows & macOS. This is beyond prompt-based AI. Beyond isolated tools. This is personal agent infrastructure. Where every node thinks, acts, and evolves. Claw is now part of the network. And this is only the beginning. Happy Building, Making Impact! 🔥

OptimAI Network

348,184 views • 4 months ago

Today, we’re excited to announce our $50M Series B, led by Greenfield Partners, with participation from Lightspeed and Notable Capital. 🚀 At Patronus AI, we develop simulations and evals to train and improve AI. The first phase of AI was built on static benchmarks, but that era is over. As agents are used to solve longer and longer tasks, they need to practice in dynamic, living worlds to get better. Simulations are the critical infrastructure powering this next phase. As a company, we’re behind the most influential research and products in AI evaluation, like FinanceBench, Lynx, and Percival. And things have moved at the speed of light since.⚡ We partner with the world's leading frontier AI labs and enterprises, and our revenue has grown more than 15x over the past year. Additionally, today, we’re introducing a preview of the first Digital World Model for AI agent training and simulation: Patronus-DWM. Digital World Models are language diffusion world models that predict realistic environment behaviors and steer agent actions across digital workflows. Just as physical world models predict how objects move through space, we’re developing the equivalent for the digital world: predicting how agents act in digital workflows, then using that to scale the creation of high-quality training data for LLMs. Digital World Models help us push the frontier of ultra long horizon workflows, and unlock a new class of self-improving RL environments. This is our scalable approach to simulating all of the world’s intelligence. The round was also joined by Datadog, Inc., Samsung Ventures, Gokul Rajaram, Factorial Capital, and a large cohort of amazing AI leaders across Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, Recursive, and more.✨ It has been the ride of a lifetime. But we’re just getting started. The best is yet to come. "Do not go gentle into that good night, Rage, rage against the dying of the light" - Dylan Thomas (1954)
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Today, we’re excited to announce our $50M Series B, led by Greenfield Partners, with participation from Lightspeed and Notable Capital. 🚀 At Patronus AI, we develop simulations and evals to train and improve AI. The first phase of AI was built on static benchmarks, but that era is over. As agents are used to solve longer and longer tasks, they need to practice in dynamic, living worlds to get better. Simulations are the critical infrastructure powering this next phase. As a company, we’re behind the most influential research and products in AI evaluation, like FinanceBench, Lynx, and Percival. And things have moved at the speed of light since.⚡ We partner with the world's leading frontier AI labs and enterprises, and our revenue has grown more than 15x over the past year. Additionally, today, we’re introducing a preview of the first Digital World Model for AI agent training and simulation: Patronus-DWM. Digital World Models are language diffusion world models that predict realistic environment behaviors and steer agent actions across digital workflows. Just as physical world models predict how objects move through space, we’re developing the equivalent for the digital world: predicting how agents act in digital workflows, then using that to scale the creation of high-quality training data for LLMs. Digital World Models help us push the frontier of ultra long horizon workflows, and unlock a new class of self-improving RL environments. This is our scalable approach to simulating all of the world’s intelligence. The round was also joined by Datadog, Inc., Samsung Ventures, Gokul Rajaram, Factorial Capital, and a large cohort of amazing AI leaders across Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, Recursive, and more.✨ It has been the ride of a lifetime. But we’re just getting started. The best is yet to come. "Do not go gentle into that good night, Rage, rage against the dying of the light" - Dylan Thomas (1954)

PatronusAI

94,870 views • 1 month ago

Historically, RL policies for robots have been trained in synthetic, untextured environments, limiting perceptive policies to depth images where the sim-to-real gap is manageable. RGB has always had more potential, but leveraging it to train policies in simulation remained an open problem. Partnering with Niantic Spatial 🌎 and NVIDIA Robotics, we built a pipeline that addresses exactly that. We can now scan a real deployment site with off-the-shelf hardware, reconstruct it into a photorealistic Gaussian splat, and run massively parallel RL training. The policies trained in our Gym environment then transfer zero-shot to the real robot and environments they were trained for. This enables faster deployment of more capable and robust policies for the end user. The new resulting capabilities are a big step towards solving sim-to-real and also apply well beyond navigation. Read the full technical breakdown on our blog; link in the comments. #HumanoidRobots #Flexion #NianticSpatial #NVIDIA
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Historically, RL policies for robots have been trained in synthetic, untextured environments, limiting perceptive policies to depth images where the sim-to-real gap is manageable. RGB has always had more potential, but leveraging it to train policies in simulation remained an open problem. Partnering with Niantic Spatial 🌎 and NVIDIA Robotics, we built a pipeline that addresses exactly that. We can now scan a real deployment site with off-the-shelf hardware, reconstruct it into a photorealistic Gaussian splat, and run massively parallel RL training. The policies trained in our Gym environment then transfer zero-shot to the real robot and environments they were trained for. This enables faster deployment of more capable and robust policies for the end user. The new resulting capabilities are a big step towards solving sim-to-real and also apply well beyond navigation. Read the full technical breakdown on our blog; link in the comments. #HumanoidRobots #Flexion #NianticSpatial #NVIDIA

Flexion

71,065 views • 27 days ago

World Labs CEO Dr. Fei-Fei Li & SceniX Co-Founder Yunzhu Li on the data bottleneck in robotics and how world models help: "The lack of data in training, the lack of data in evaluation, this is very, very different from language models, where data is abundant on the internet." "And we know that in order for robotics to work, we have to somehow unlock the power of scaling law. But where does that come from?" "It's a profound problem that everybody's battling with in robotics." "We see a lot of unlock in being able to do this whole process through the modeling of the environments." "Being able to create these digital worlds... that's just going to unlock so much more potential for being able to replace all the costly and the unsafe data in the real environments with the data generated from the worlds for robots to be able to do scalable learning and evaluations." Fei-Fei Li Yunzhu Li martin_casado
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World Labs CEO Dr. Fei-Fei Li & SceniX Co-Founder Yunzhu Li on the data bottleneck in robotics and how world models help: "The lack of data in training, the lack of data in evaluation, this is very, very different from language models, where data is abundant on the internet." "And we know that in order for robotics to work, we have to somehow unlock the power of scaling law. But where does that come from?" "It's a profound problem that everybody's battling with in robotics." "We see a lot of unlock in being able to do this whole process through the modeling of the environments." "Being able to create these digital worlds... that's just going to unlock so much more potential for being able to replace all the costly and the unsafe data in the real environments with the data generated from the worlds for robots to be able to do scalable learning and evaluations." Fei-Fei Li Yunzhu Li martin_casado

a16z

72,911 views • 19 days ago

OptimAI Search is now on Agentic(.)Market - and we’re bringing the stack to Base. Builders can plug into live, citation-backed context across web, social, and crypto data through MCP, API, and SDK - then pay seamlessly with x402. No brittle workflows. No manual stitching. Just agent-native access to real-time intelligence at scale. And with custom domain agents on the marketplace, specialized knowledge becomes reusable. Search is becoming infrastructure. Build with it: 💡 💡
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OptimAI Search is now on Agentic(.)Market - and we’re bringing the stack to Base. Builders can plug into live, citation-backed context across web, social, and crypto data through MCP, API, and SDK - then pay seamlessly with x402. No brittle workflows. No manual stitching. Just agent-native access to real-time intelligence at scale. And with custom domain agents on the marketplace, specialized knowledge becomes reusable. Search is becoming infrastructure. Build with it: 💡 💡

OptimAI Network

63,108 views • 2 months ago

Introducing EdgeBench, a benchmark designed to study how agents learn from environments over at least 12~72-hour runs. We find that performance follows a log-sigmoid function of environment interaction time with high precision. EdgeBench is built with three ingredients: - 🌍 Real & Diverse: 134 real-world tasks across 6 task categories, spanning scientific problems, professional knowledge work, software engineering, optimization, formal math, and games. - ⏳ Ultra-Long-Horizon: Each task supports 12–72 hours of agent work. Recorded human effort averages 57.2 hours. - 🔁 Informative Feedback: Agents receive real-world feedback for continuous improvement. After 38,000 hours of agent runs on EdgeBench, a scaling law for learning from environments emerges: - 📈 As agents interact with task environments over time, their aggregate performance is precisely fit by a log-sigmoid function. - 🧠 This phenomenon can be explained by an elegant theory of graph exploration. We are releasing an initial 51 of the 134 tasks, together with the full evaluation framework, to help advance long-horizon agent research. Check our blog & paper for more findings! Blog Paper GitHub Dataset Details below 👇🧵
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Introducing EdgeBench, a benchmark designed to study how agents learn from environments over at least 12~72-hour runs. We find that performance follows a log-sigmoid function of environment interaction time with high precision. EdgeBench is built with three ingredients: - 🌍 Real & Diverse: 134 real-world tasks across 6 task categories, spanning scientific problems, professional knowledge work, software engineering, optimization, formal math, and games. - ⏳ Ultra-Long-Horizon: Each task supports 12–72 hours of agent work. Recorded human effort averages 57.2 hours. - 🔁 Informative Feedback: Agents receive real-world feedback for continuous improvement. After 38,000 hours of agent runs on EdgeBench, a scaling law for learning from environments emerges: - 📈 As agents interact with task environments over time, their aggregate performance is precisely fit by a log-sigmoid function. - 🧠 This phenomenon can be explained by an elegant theory of graph exploration. We are releasing an initial 51 of the 134 tasks, together with the full evaluation framework, to help advance long-horizon agent research. Check our blog & paper for more findings! Blog Paper GitHub Dataset Details below 👇🧵

Deyao Zhu

360,827 views • 1 month ago