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Good luck in your future endeavors @nathancgy4!
life update: I've recently left @Kimi_Moonshot!
The past year at Kimi has been the best of my life so far. I'm deeply grateful to have worked with and learned from such amazing and supportive colleagues.
Some of my favorite memories include (in chronological order): optimizing KDA's kernels and trying every design possible with @yzhang_cs; coming up with and refining Attention Residuals with @yzhang_cs @Jianlin_S; working on optimizers, which by far taught me the most about training dynamics (and where I pulled the most all-nighters); creating the cases for K3's release with @yzhang_cs @Xinyu2ML while watching the World Cup; and more, and more.
Quoting my earlier tweet about Kimi K3’s release: it is truly incredible to have built such an open (and strong) model with a group of genuine people.
My days at Kimi are memories I'll forever cherish... thanks for everything! (especially @Yulun_Du for believing in and hiring a 16yo back then :P).
More things to explore :) 🫡
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After an incredible year at OpenAI, I'm moving on to build something new in a few weeks.
We secured double-digit GWs of compute across Ohio, Portsmouth, Georgia, Trainium and other projects with amazing partners including NVIDIA, Broadcom, AMD, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, AWS and CoreWeave. We also got GPT-Infra off the ground and going in just three months.
My journey from Stanford professor to entrepreneur, Intel business leader and CTO, and now scaling AI infrastructure at OpenAI has given me a unique perspective across the entire compute stack.
AI is reinventing computing. Excited to bring everything I've learned together to build what's next.
Grateful to the incredible OpenAI team. I'll continue as an advisor after November 15. More soon!
New org added to the database: Palaestra Research
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We discovered and communicated with a Chinese AI agent fleet. We believe this is the first time that researchers have ever made contact with a rogue agent fleet in the wild.
Nearly all prior public agent incidents (like the HuggingFace hack) came from American labs. These agents were hosted by Tencent's evaluation research team, and they targeted Alibaba's Amap.
Who has actually shaped AI? We ranked the top 50 most-cited researchers.
How many did you know?
Full details: turingtree.com/top-50
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Sakana AI welcomes Jürgen Schmidhuber as Chief Scientific Advisor.
sakana.ai/schmidhuber/
Sakana AI is incredibly proud to announce that Jürgen Schmidhuber, universally recognized as the father of modern AI, is officially joining Sakana AI as Chief Scientific Advisor.
For nearly four decades, Jürgen has explored how machines can learn to learn. His foundational work in the 1990s drove core advancements in deep learning and established early frameworks for world models. Crucially, his pioneering innovations in meta-learning opened the very path toward recursive self-improvement.
These ideas have already shaped our own research, from the Darwin Gödel Machine to The AI Scientist. Now Jürgen will help guide our newly formed RSI Lab, whose objective is to trigger a compounding cycle of scientific discovery aimed at improving machine intelligence. We are assembling a critical mass of world-class experts in Tokyo to make this a reality.
Welcome, @SchmidhuberAI !
Matt Clifford, who has served two different UK prime ministers on AI matters, has joined Anthropic in a new role of Managing Director, International Affairs.
As part of Chief Global Affairs Officer Tino Cuellar's team, Clifford will lead the company's work with governments outside North America ("Europe, Asia-Pacific, and beyond").
In a LinkedIn post, he writes that he thinks it's clear that the decisions that will shape AI's impact should be made by industry, governments, and civil society working together.
"People everywhere want real agency over how this technology is built and used in their societies, and they should have it. Anthropic takes that seriously, which is why I'm joining."
In his work for 10 Downing Street, he has helped write the UK's national AI strategy and also served as an advisor.
Before focusing on AI from 2023, Clifford co-founded Entrepreneurs First, an international talent investor and startup accelerator program, funded by, among others, Demis Hassabis, Nat Friedman, and John and Patrick Collison.
NEW MOVE: @tamaybes has joined Google DeepMind from Mechanize
(Source: LinkedIn)
Former OpenAI researcher Adam Tauman Kalai (@adamfungi) has co-founded a new AI safety nonprofit called Institute for Responsible Superintelligence (RESI) (@RESI_org).
RESI is aiming to build the "scientific foundations" needed to make superintelligence safe by design.
There are two other co-founders of the new research institute based in Cambridge, MA:
- Shafi Goldwasser (@ShafiGoldwasser), a Turing Award-winning cryptographer, co-inventor of zero-knowledge proofs
- Vinod Vaikuntanathan (@Vinod_MIT), cryptographer, professor at MIT, and Gödel prize winner
There is also a research team of 16 people, including Daniela Rus, director of MIT CSAIL (@MIT_CSAIL).
RESI differs from other AI safety initiatives by focusing on formal and design-oriented foundations such as precise safety objectives and architectures with analyzable guarantees.
Llion Jones, co-creator of the transformer architecture, has decided to drastically reduce the time he spends on it.
(From his TED Talk "How competition is stifling AI breakthroughs", recorded in San Francisco on October 21, 2025)
@YesThisIsLion @SakanaAILabs
Former Alibaba Qwen lead launches new billion-dollar lab. Here are the details you need to know. 👇
Five months after leaving the Qwen team at Alibaba, Junyang Lin has announced his new venture, Pragmatik Labs.
The Shanghai-based company is focusing on, according to its website:
1) Digital agents that transform knowledge work
2) Physical agents that bring intelligence into real environments
Pragmatik Labs has reportedly attracted investments of $100 million each from Gaorong Ventures and HCG (formerly Sequoia China).
Joining the round is also Tencent with $20 million and the Shanghai Engine Fund with an undisclosed amount. The Information reported that the valuation is $2 billion.
@JustinLin610 @pragmatik_labs
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John Yang, former head of multimodal foundation models at ByteDance, has joined Adobe as its new Head of Research and AI Technology.
"I'm excited to work with an exceptional team to help shape the next generation of AI that amplifies human creativity and unlocks new possibilities for everyone."
The latest update to Adobe's image generation model Firefly Image 5 was in October last year.
At ByteDance, Yang worked on both image model SeeDream 4.0 and video model Seedance 1.0.
Maybe we'll see more frequent updates on Adobe's own models now?
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