@j_foerst
Associate Prof in ML @UniofOxford. Something Something Research Scientist @MetaAI. Something @BOLD_LAB_AI. Always #teamhuman. Opinions belong to the world.
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A quote post says 'it's time to invent math 2.0' and links to a video, adding '(sounds on).'
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A researcher says collaboration could let AI agent populations take off without individual agents becoming more capable.
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Reuters reports Nvidia plans $50 million a year in computing resources for AI agent safety testing.
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NVIDIA says the five-year commitment will provide $50 million in compute access annually through UK-based cloud partners.
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One poster argues that the EU lags in building AI and receives almost none of its gains amid scant investment.
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An October 13 recruitment post gave noon UK time as the deadline and invited candidates to help build @bold_lab_ai.
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A user credits professors and students with foundational AI work before Nvidia and Google embraced the field.
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Mistral says Mistral Large 4 is live via API in public preview now, with open weights due at the end of October. Reuters says the launch is part of Mistral’s push to narrow the gap with leading Chinese open-weight models.
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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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Posts on X congratulated Nathan Lambert and Trillium Labs after a launch, with several users describing the effort as open, science-oriented or focused on open post-training. Lambert later said some criticism came from Substack and more general-audience AI followers, not the technical AI community.
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A Nature paper reports 15 wins, one loss and four draws against Pim Niemeijer. The authors call it a superhuman result, but did not run a direct match against DeepNash.
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A participant shared what they described as an hour-long conversation with SAIR Foundation, while flagging a noon UK time deadline on September 15, 2026, for applications to the first BOLD Fellows cohort.
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The post imagines a single AI-fueled global government combining what its author considers the worst regulatory and social policies of the past 20 years.
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CBS Mornings reports that current and former Anthropic employees warned AI could kill all humans. Critics worry exaggerated forecasts could undermine trust, while a defender of numerical forecasts argues they convey the seriousness of the concern.
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One post argues that personal drama is overshadowing an unanswered question: whether labs could scoop users when the stakes are “high enough.”
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First BOLD Festival gathers researchers to launch new national AI program.
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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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Research engineer at Meta shares models to rank AI-generated ideas when GPU time is scarce.
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Oxford professor replies that a unified lab structure is central to the group's work.
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Jakob Foerster notes generational shift in priorities; Stella Biderman questions compute claims.
