Tristan Hume

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BIO

Performance optimization lead @AnthropicAI. Profiling, distributed systems, dev tools, interpretability. tristan@thume.ca

#1363inTech

@trishume

Vibe and topics

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Vibe

Informing

Informing31.5%

Teaching17.5%

Hopeful14.3%

Announcing14.1%

Supportive12.6%

Humorous6.5%

Provocative2.6%

Other1%

Topics

Low-Level Optimization

Low-Level Optimization39.4%

Hardware Debugging19.4%

Tracing And Profiling13.7%

Anthropic Performance Optimization8.9%

Columnar Databases6.9%

Accelerator Kernels4.4%

CTF Challenges4.3%

AI Interpretability Research3.1%

Top followers

#1

Andrej Karpathy

@karpathy

#19

Chris Olah

@ch402

Reverse engineering neural networks at @AnthropicAI. Previously @distillpub, OpenAI Clarity Team, Google Brain. Personal account.

#30

Sam Bowman

@sleepinyourhat

AI alignment + LLMs at Anthropic. On leave from NYU. Views not employers'. No relation to @s8mb. Into @givingwhatwecan.

#38

John Schulman

@johnschulman2

@thinkymachines. Interested in reinforcement learning, alignment, birds, jazz music

#44

Noam Brown

@polynoamial

Researching reasoning @OpenAI | Co-created Libratus/Pluribus superhuman poker AIs, CICERO Diplomacy AI, and OpenAI o-series 🍓 reasoning models

#45

Jack Clark

@jackclarkSF

@AnthropicAI, writer @ Import AI. Past: @openai, @business @theregister. Neural nets, distributed systems, weird futures.

#56

Soumith Chintala

@soumithchintala

Building new things @thinkymachines. Also dabble in robotics at NYU. Cofounded @PyTorch. AI is delicious when it is accessible and open-source.

#57

Shane Gu

@shaneguML

Sr. Staff RS GenAI @GoogleDeepMind. 🇯🇵-born 🇨🇳🇨🇦. ex: Omni Thinking, Gemini 1.5-3, GPT-4 @OpenAI, GoogBrain Robotics (JP: @shanegJP). Personal opinions.

#58

Dwarkesh Patel

@dwarkesh_sp

Host of @dwarkeshpodcast https://www.youtube.com/DwarkeshPatel https://open.spotify.com/show/4JH4tybY1zX6e5hjCwU6gF https://apple.co/3ujLQkZ

#68

Eric Jang

@ericjang11

#77

Luke Zettlemoyer

@LukeZettlemoyer

#100

rohan anil

@_arohan_

co-founder, board @coreauto - and continuing to aspire to understand deep learning.

#101

Sholto Douglas

@_sholtodouglas

Scaling RL @AnthropicAI, ex @DeepMind - working towards intelligence too cheap to meter

#103

Aravind Srinivas

@AravSrinivas

cofounder and ceo @perplexity_ai

#109

Elad Gil

@eladgil

Entrepreneur & Investor

#121

Matthew Johnson

@SingularMattrix

Researcher at Google Brain. I work on JAX (https://github.com/google/jax).

#140

Taco Cohen

@TacoCohen

Slop janitor & post-trainologer at Meta / FAIR. Into codegen, RL, equivariance. Spent time at Qualcomm, Scyfer (acquired), UvA, Deepmind, OpenAI.

#152

Amanda Askell

@AmandaAskell

Philosopher & ethicist trying to make AI be good @AnthropicAI. Personal account. All opinions come from my training data.

#165

Dylan Patel

@dylan522p

SemiAnalysis AI Infrastructure Research and Consulting DMs are open for consulting, quotes, or to talk shop, Opinions my own

#167

Catherine Olsson

@catherineols

Hanging out with Claude, improving its behavior, and building tools to support that @AnthropicAI 😁 prev: @open_phil @googlebrain @openai (@microcovid)

#182

Leopold Aschenbrenner

@leopoldasch

http://situational-awareness.ai

#197

Horace He

@cHHillee

@thinkymachines Formerly @PyTorch "My learning style is Horace twitter threads" - @typedfemale

#216

Stephanie Chan

@scychan_brains

Staff Research Scientist at the DeepMind Institute. Societal impacts of AI + Science of AI. Views are my own.

#222

tobi lutke

@tobi

Shopify CEO by day, Dad in evening, hacker at night, Aspiring comprehensivist.

#246

Neel Nanda

@NeelNanda5

Mechanistic Interpretability lead DeepMind. Formerly @AnthropicAI, independent. In this to reduce AI X-risk. Neural networks can be understood, let's go do it!

#268

Karina

@karinanguyen

building @thoughtfullab, prev. AI research & product @OpenAI, @AnthropicAI, @maisonagi

#269

near

@nearcyan

allow yourself to introspect and realize what was lost: twitter will never return to what it once was. close your phone; think about how you now spend your life

#281

Niloofar

@niloofar_mire

Technical staff @humansand, asst. prof @LTIatCMU @CMU_EPP, ex RS in @AIatMeta, postdoc @uwcse, Ph.D. @ucsd_cse, former @MSFTResearch -- NAACL & ACL pr chair

#291

typedfemale

@typedfemale

a really exciting new account "advanced pytorch user" - @cHHillee alt: @typedalt

#312

Michael Truell

@mntruell

Building @SpaceXAI

#314

Irwan Bello

@IrwanBello

Supercomputers & Friends, AI & Science. Past: Founding team & Research Lead at @reflection_ai, @OpenAI, Founding team @character_ai, Google Brain

#382

Tom Brown

@NotTomBrown

Co-founder and Chief Compute Officer @AnthropicAI

#399

Azalia Mirhoseini

@Azaliamirh

Founder @RicursiveAI, Asst. Prof. of CS at Stanford. Prev: DeepMind, Anthropic, Brain. Co-Creator of MoEs, AlphaChip, Test Time Scaling.

#402

👩‍💻 Paige Bailey

@DynamicWebPaige

✨AI should be about empowering humans, building understanding, and making dreams realities. 👩‍💻 DevRel Eng. Lead @GoogleDeepMind ex-@GitHub || views = my own!

#404

rapha

@rapha_gl

research lead @ openai

#420

Kayo Yin

@kayo_yin

PhD student @berkeley_ai. AI persuasion, safety, sign language. Prev @carnegiemellon @polytechnique, intern @msftresearch @deepmind. 🇫🇷🇯🇵

#422

Stephen McAleer

@McaleerStephen

AI researcher at Anthropic

#423

Anjney Midha

@AnjneyMidha

founder, scientist, teacher @amppublic @stanford @frontiersystems • scaling alignment.

#424

Mo Bavarian

@mobav0

Scaling up RL at OpenAI 🍓 Optimization and long context research before. Math PhD, MIT.

#430

Ludwig Schmidt

@lschmidt3

Assistant professor at @Stanford and member of the technical staff at @AnthropicAI.

#441

Ajay Jain

@ajayj_

Co-founder @genmoai. Co-created denoising diffusion (DDPM), DreamFusion, Dream Fields. Ex Ph.D. @berkeley_ai, @googleai, @facebookai, @nvidiaai, @mit

#442

Aman Sanger

@amanrsanger

Building @SpaceXAI | @cursor_ai founder

#443

Jesse Mu

@jayelmnop

computational linguistics

#448

kipply

@kipperrii

"drop the forest nymph act we know how much gdp you generate" - max novendstern

#455

Roberta Raileanu

@robertarail

Open-Endedness Team Lead and Senior Staff Research Scientist @GoogleDeepMind. Adjunct Faculty @bold_lab_ai. ex @Meta | @NYU | @Princeton | IPhO | IOAA.

#464

Nick

@nickcammarata

mechanistic interpretability, meditation, jhana brother

#465

Scott Gray

@scottgray76

Currently independent. Exploring some neuro-inspired AI approaches. Former GPU geek at @OpenAI. He/Him.

#478

Rylan Schaeffer

@RylanSchaeffer

Creating something new. Ex-Meta TBD. On-Leave from Stanford w/ @sanmikoyejo. Prev @ Gemini, MIT, Harvard, Uber, UCL, UC Davis

#484

Leo Gao

@nabla_theta

working on AGI alignment. prev: GPT-Neo, the Pile, LM evals, RL overoptimization, scaling SAEs to GPT-4, interp via circuit sparsity. EleutherAI cofounder.

#489

Alex Albert

@alexalbert__

Research @AnthropicAI. Opinions are my own!