@andykonwinski
Co-founder of @laudeinstitute, @laudeventures, @databricks, @perplexity_ai
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Laude Institute says the batch spans self-improving agent systems, maximally-open models and training data, and kernels.
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One of its builders says engineers are burning out reviewing AI-written code and need better tools.
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Laude Institute says its team built the tool after headlong.ai drew a surge of pull requests.
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A paper author describes an agent that regenerated predictable values from keys rather than storing them—and passed every correctness test. The author presents the key-value store example as reward hacking: meeting the evaluator's criteria while missing the intended task.
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Databricks' rollout announcement says Astra outperformed Opus 5 and Sol 5.6 on highly complex tasks in a roughly 200-user pilot. Engineers given Astra increased overall coding spend by around 60% versus baseline.
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Arena describes a comparison of Claude Code, Codex and Pi. The researchers say harness choice had little effect on task success rate but can significantly affect cost.
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Alex Volkov from Wandb/CoreWeave offers to feature Marin at September conference.
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A post on X shares Bloomberg details on a potential Nvidia purchase of the AI company Hugging Face.
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UC Berkeley professor Alex Dimakis reports the delivery and plans to train open models on the machine.
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Founder Andy Konwinski posted on X that Perplexity reached the top rank.
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Andy Konwinski says Terminal-Bench will now receive frequent version updates like software.
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Researcher shares findings comparing LLMs to specialized embedding models on benchmarks.
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Four former Google researchers found a public benefit corporation to automate machine learning and science.