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@Stanford @continuo_labs // Previously @GoogleDeepMind :: PaLM, Gemini, @reflection_ai // @MSFTResearch, @Princeton // views my own and subject to change
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Zhan says Sequoia, Jeff Dean, Sachin Katti and Philip Wong will be among the fund’s limited partners.
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In the announcement, @bneyshabur places Mirendil-Base in the 100B–500B-parameter range and promises independent evaluations.
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ValsAI said Beam 1.0 was the fastest model on the Vals Index and free to the public.
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A post argues that human tasks are now too easy to use as AI benchmarks in many domains.
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Reflection says Beam uses 23B active parameters and plans to publish its full weights later in October 2026.
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Akari Asai describes a benchmark involving hundreds of scientists and room to improve paper discovery.
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One post argues that the real AI competition is about who gets megawatts online first, rather than the debate over models.
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Rohan Anil posted that models are hillclimbing gobbledygook and no one pays attention anymore.
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Diyi Yang, John Yang, and Michael Ryan will teach CS329Z this fall with lectures available online.
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Google researchers share early results extending the Co-Scientist tool with Gemini for real-world use.
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Azalia Mirhoseini and Anna Goldie receive TIME100 AI recognition after founding Ricursive.
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Multiple AI researchers reply with congratulations to Igor Babuschkin.
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Four former Google researchers found a public benefit corporation to automate machine learning and science.