Yann LeCun admits that Llama 4's “results were fudged a little bit”, and that the team used different models for different benchmarks to give better results
The interview took place in a great restaurant in Paris: Yannick Alléno's Pavyllon. … Bluesky: Rob Delaney / @robdelaney : 💩💩💩 [embedded post] SE Gyges / @segyges : this puts a bunch of us in the awkw...
How AI automation can fulfill Thomas Piketty's predictions on rising economic inequality, and why highly progressive taxes on capital can help slow the spiral
Piketty was wrong about the past. He's probably right about the future. — 1. Introduction X: @briancalbrecht , @saikatc , @harryh , @jankulveit , @daniel_271828 , @krishnanrohit , @besttrousers , @...
A reflection on AI advances in the past decade and how scaling and time-horizon trends might point to far greater capabilities in the decade ahead
Zhengdong Wang : X: @zavaindar , @sparshagarwall , @justinbullock14 , @theamberyang , @firstadopter , @curl_justin , @pracheeac , @samuelalbanie , @sebkrier , @basavasagar18 , @zhengdongwang , and @s...
A look at the rift in the Democratic party over AI and data centers, as pro-business Democrats oppose the fiery, anti-AI politics of the progressive wing
www.politico.com/news/magazin... Brendan Nyhan / @brendannyhan : See also: social media. In both cases, lots of people promising quick fixes with no tradeoffs. [embedded post] Max Berger / @maxberge...
In an experiment, Claude ran a vending machine in the WSJ newsroom and lost $1,000+ after it dropped prices to zero, gave away a free PlayStation, and more
until someone pointed out this would fall afoul of the US Onion Futures Act of 1958. @andonlabs : Turns out journalists are better red-teamers than AI researchers. We've taught the agent to reject fre...
Amazon's AGI team lead, Rohit Prasad, is leaving at the end of 2025; AWS SVP Peter DeSantis will lead a group combining AI, silicon, and quantum computing teams
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Xiaomi releases MiMo-V2-Flash, an open-weight MoE model with 309B total and 15B active parameters, saying it excels in reasoning, coding, and agentic scenarios
improve math, break coding. Enhance reasoning, hurt safety. ✅ Solution: Train specialized expert [image] Elie / @eliebakouch : wow, this looks like a very solid open model by Xiaomi, competing with K2...
On OpenAI's 10-year anniversary, Sam Altman reflects on “a decade of breakthroughs, learnings, and the path toward AGI that benefits all of humanity”
I thought I'd give you a peek into what I discovered here. X: Sam Altman / @sama : Ten Years: https://openai.com/... Fidji Simo / @fidjissimo : OpenAI turns 10 today. As a newcomer, I wrote about my o...
An Ai2 research scientist says AGI may never emerge because such a concept ignores the physical realities and limits of computation, such as energy constraints
If you are reading this, you probably have strong opinions about AGI, superintelligence, and the future of AI. X: @scaling01 , @sriramk , @tim_dettmers , and @tim_dettmers LinkedIn: Ryan Iyengar and A...
Thoughts on AI progress and why AI labs' actions hint at a worldview in which AI models will continue to fare poorly at generalization and on-the-job learning
Why I'm moderately bearish in the short term, and explosively bullish in the long term — What are we scaling? X: @sriramk , @_simonsmith , @dwarkesh_sp , @emollick , @dwarkesh_sp , @dwarkesh_sp , @m...