2025-10-13
philosopher of language john searle, most well known for his ‘chinese room’ thought experiment, lived to see llms but died alone and disgraced because of unsubstantiated accusations brought by a grad student during peak metoo hysteria. nobody at cal had ever been held to account. [image]
New York Times
John Searle, known for “the Chinese Room” AI consciousness thought experiment, died on September 16 at 93; his UCB tenure ended over alleged sexual harassment
His blunt debating and imaginative theorizing about artificial intelligence and the human mind made him a leading scholar.
2025-10-11
you have to be InferenceMAX™ing. you need to be efficiently allocating compute. you need to be using open-source tools to understand true cluster tco. you need to be emulating real-world applications. congrats to @dylan522p and @SemiAnalysis_ team
SemiAnalysis
SemiAnalysis launches InferenceMAX, an open-source benchmark that automatically tracks LLM inference performance across AI models and frameworks every night
vendor-neutral suite runs nightly and tracks performance changes over time Tae Kim / Barron's Online : Nvidia Touts Software Advantage in Beating Rivals Like AMD Dion Harris / NVID...
2025-07-29
congratulations to @0interestrates! @JuliusAI_ is a really great product and this team has been absolutely relentless about figuring out what value their users are getting and shipping features to meet them. rahul is also strong af.
TechCrunch
Julius AI, which acts like a data scientist by analyzing data and running predictive models from natural language prompts, raised a $10M seed led by Bessemer
and gets you answers in seconds Tom / nextbigwhat : Julius AI Secures $10M Seed Round Led by Bessemer Venture Partners Bluesky: @saltcreekbrews : Yay dress up Mechanical Turks [emb...
2024-08-03
character ai's users really want the models to be horny. noam really really doesn't want the models to be horny. google have never made a single horny product in the entire history of the company; he's going to be safe from horny there.
TechCrunch
Character.AI co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and some employees, are joining Google; Google has signed a non-exclusive agreement to use its tech
In a big move, Character.AI co-founder and CEO CEO Noam Shazeer is returning to Google after leaving the company in October 2021 to found the a16z-backed startup.