Meta talks about us and open source source AI for over 1 Billion downloads
Google has launched the first FireSat satellite which will help detect and track wildfires using AI
[R] Transformers without Normalization (FAIR Meta, New York University, MIT, Princeton University)
DeepSeek's owner asked R&D staff to hand in passports so they can't travel abroad (The Information)
‘Once in a Century’ Proof Settles Math’s Kakeya Conjecture | Quanta Magazine - Joseph Howlett | The deceptively simple Kakeya conjecture has bedeviled mathematicians for 50 years. A new proof of the conjecture in three dimensions illuminates a whole crop of related problems
OpenAI’s metafictional short story about grief is beautiful and moving - Jeanette Winterson
Gemma 3 - Open source efforts - llama.cpp - MLX community
Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei: in the next 3 to 6 months, AI is writing 90% of the code, and in 12 months, nearly all code may be generated by AI
FrontierMath Tier 4 - Epoch AI
Anthropic predicts powerful AI systems will appear by late 2026 or early 2027, with intellectual abilities matching Nobel Prize winners
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton have won the A.M. Turing Award for developing the theoretical foundations of reinforcement learning, a key method behind many major breakthroughs in artificial intelligence
Chinese Team Officially Report on Zuchongzhi 3.0 Quantum Processor, Claims Million Times Speedup Over Google’s Willow
DiffRhythm - ASLP-lab: generate full songs (4 min) with vocals
Years After the Early Death of a Math Genius, Her Ideas Gain New Life | Quanta Magazine - Joseph Howlett | A new proof extends the work of the late Maryam Mirzakhani, cementing her legacy as a pioneer of alien mathematical realms
Yuval Noah Harari "Decisions shaping a "new species" should not be left to a select few; global voices are essential."
Playing Super Mario with LLMs as a benchmark by Hao AI Lab
"We are reserving Claude 4 Sonnet...for things that are quite significant leaps, which are coming soon" - Dario Amodei - Anthropic CEO
OpenAI announced that Sora is now available to Plus & Pro users in the EU, the UK, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland
vLLM just landed FlashMLA (DeepSeek - day 1) in vLLM and it is already boosting output throughput 2-16% - expect more improvements in the coming days
Claimed proof for the Kakeya conjecture in R3.
Google is launching a free version of Gemini Code Assist globally
Happy birthday to Grigory Margulis! He's 79 today. He was awarded Fields Medal in 1978 and Abel Prize in 2020 for pioneering the use of methods from probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and combinatorics
Starting next week, DeepSeek will open-source 5 repos
Happy birthday to John Milnor! He's 94 today. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1962 and the Abel Prize in 2011 for his groundbreaking work in topology, geometry and algebra
