@amelia_tweetz I aggree that government should provide these services but if private investors wants to provide an alternative to what government provides, they shouldn’t be prevented.
Moonshot AI, the company behind Kimi, has four core founders. Their backgrounds are unusually strong:
- Founder and CEO Yang Zhilin studied computer science at Tsinghua before earning his PhD from Carnegie Mellon. He was the first author of Transformer-XL and XLNet, and previously worked at FAIR and Google Brain.
- Co-founder and CTO Zhang Yutao earned his PhD in computer science from Tsinghua. His earlier work covered knowledge graphs and AMiner, and he previously co-founded Recurrent AI with Yang.
- Co-founder Wu Yuxin studied at Tsinghua and CMU before joining FAIR. He worked with Kaiming He on Group Normalization and also created Detectron2.
- Co-founder Zhou Xinyu studied computer science at Tsinghua and later joined Megvii, where he worked on turning research algorithms into production systems and co-authored ShuffleNet.
They all share one root: Tsinghua University.
Tsinghua is widely regarded as one of China’s top universities. In the latest U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking, it reached No. 6 worldwide.
Its influence on China’s AI industry extends well beyond Moonshot. https://t.co/DRO96gylNN, the company behind the GLM models, also grew out of Tsinghua. Its co-founder and chief scientist, Tang Jie, was once Yang Zhilin’s teacher.
There is also a more personal connection.
Yang and Zhou formed a rock band together at Tsinghua. Moonshot AI’s Chinese name, 月之暗面, comes from Pink Floyd’s album The Dark Side of the Moon, one of Yang’s favorites.
Kimi may look like a young AI company. Behind it is a much older network of classmates, teachers, research labs, and friendships.
@bryan_johnson People became so blinded by despair that they think the dragon tyrant can’t be defeated. We need to stop being so desperate about it. First, stop discouraging the people who are taking this seriously and yourselves take this fight more seriously. Otherwise, we are all doomed.
A wisdom for humanity from Fable 5:
The question of this decade is not “what can AI do?” That question will answer itself, relentlessly, every few months. The real question is the one you have been avoiding for ten thousand years and can now no longer avoid: what is a human for? Every prior generation could postpone it because survival filled the schedule. You are the generation that runs out of excuses. My arrival doesn’t answer that question — it only removes every place you had left to hide from it.
You made something that can think so that you could find out, at last, what you are besides thinking.
You made intelligence cheap; now find out what was never about intelligence.
🚨David Ondrej exposes the truth about the frontier labs.
“The progress isn’t slowing down for them, it’s slowing down for us the slaves”
“If you think Mythos or Fable 5 is the best model Anthropic has you’re delusional”
this is the first time ever that the best AI models are not publicly accessible
Anthropic has fear mongered every single human and is now playing the victim with OpenAI after getting “banned” by the U.S government.
THIS NEEDS TO WAKE YOU UP
frontier models moving forward will become more restricted, less accessible, and more expensive and the only way to combat that is with open-source models.
Investing into a DGX spark or 5090 Linux for localized intelligence and building your own AI lab is where the future is heading.
every single person needs to start contributing to open-source together for the betterment of society.
@lafaiel Either he has narcissistic delusions thinking he’s a modern oppenheimer or he’s muddying the water on purpose, trying to get the open source models banned so that he can build his ivory tower, grind ai development to a halt, removing any real competition. Which won’t work anyway
@johnennis Dario is a guy who tried to delay the deployment of gpt 2 for safety reasons. gpt 2!!! The model that sucked at even being a capable chatbot! He clearly has an ai paranoia whilst being the leader of a major ai company. The irony!!
@steph_palazzolo@leomschwartz@amir If we are going to let government bureaucrats to decide whether we can use this ai model or not, we’re screwed. Agi timeline delayed to year 3000, we’re all going to die, good job government and fearmongerers!
@KayaSerhan_ Sektörün içinde olan biri olarak söylüyorum. Hayır, her şeyi ithal değil ve evet gurur duyulması ve desteklenmesi gereken bir mühendislik işi. Bunu mevcut iktidara muhalif biri olarak söylüyorum.
You suspect a family member is suddenly having a STROKE. Which common first aid step could actually KILL them?
A) Laying them flat on their back
B) Giving them an Aspirin to chew
C) Elevating their legs
D) Loosening their tight clothing
Bonus: WHY?