nat echlin

research @cursive_ai. prev: founder @LightSpeedApp

[nat echlin @NatEchlin]

Things are hard. Success is guaranteed.

[nat echlin @NatEchlin]

cloudflare is so goated; just set up a tunnel for rollouts and it's just so easy... i actually quite miss doing serious software engineering just because it let me interact with such a great product. always will love you cloudflare

[tender @tenderizzation]

how i found bro after he fell in love with a new model architecture paper on arxiv

[nat echlin @NatEchlin]

Your agent is its trace. Nurture > nature

[nat echlin @NatEchlin]

Really struggling without mythos today 😭

[tender @tenderizzation]

user: hey can you help me debug this?
fable: sure, no problem, let me just inspect the coredump. looks like the crash is in the middle of a NCCL collective and the world size is 500k OH NO-
<fable is immediately terminated>
opus (stepping over fable's mangled corpse): sorry about that. how can I help?

[nat echlin @NatEchlin]

It's happening.

[nat echlin @NatEchlin]

Kanishka is doing great things for the UK. Proud to be working at a UK AI powerhouse!

[Kanishka Narayan MP @KanishkaNarayan]

This week, @Keir_Starmer, @RachelReevesMP, @leicesterliz and I have announced a major next step for the UK’s AI trajectory 🇬🇧🚀

*𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐈 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬*

A bumper £1bn+ UK AI Hardware Plan
✅ £750m for a national AI supercomputer, buying British AI chips
✅ A major AMD commitment to UK AI compute startup research (thank you, @LisaSu)
✅ £45m in AI chip skills funding, inc a ramp up of over 500+ brand new AI chip PhDs 
✅ @BritishBBank backing a brand new early-stage UK hardware fund with £150m, @Playground_VC, led by ex-Intel CEO @PGelsinger
✅ Expanded Scaling Inference Lab, so UK compute startups can get rapid validation

*𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐮𝐬*

👉🏽 𝑃𝑟𝑜-𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑟 𝐴𝐼 𝐴𝑑𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑧𝑒: Nobel winner @baselinescene will chair a prize that rewards examples of pro-worker adoption
👉🏽 𝐵𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝐷𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝐷𝑎𝑡𝑎 𝐶𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑒 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑧𝑒: @RIBA and @SciTechgovuk will collaborate to reward beautiful and well-designed datacentres
👉🏽 𝐴𝐼 𝐸𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑛𝑐ℎ: Nobel winner @baselinescene to chair brand new institute, so British workers are first to be supported robustly through AI’s economic impact, with data from 20 large companies
👉🏽 𝐴𝐼 𝐴𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑢𝑚: @SciTechgovuk and @bcs will develop robust guidance to grow the UK AI assurance sector
👉🏽 𝑂𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒 𝑇𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑛𝑒𝑡: OS builder fund, to give 160k+ GPU hours to winners of OS hackathon; OS mentoring scheme to plug OS talent into govt builders; OS Dev Board, bringing 10 young OS developers into Govt AI strategy process

*𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐈 𝐣𝐨𝐛𝐬*

🤝 Skills Boost update: 1.7m courses delivered
🤝 Tech First Update: 100k+ young people backed already, 900 scholarss, 2k people on track for sustained AI roles
🤝 AI Early Careers Jobs Alliance: employers + trade unions + young people + govt fundamentally redesigning paths into jobs
🤝 North East Jobs Pilot: AI Growth Zone will support young people not in education, employment, training to get agentic AI jobs, backed by @Accenture, @Microsoft, @sageuk
🤝 Tech First North West Pilot: 5 areas to pilot support for young people at risk of leaving school after GCSEs, getting them onto free AI bootcamps

*𝐀𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐏𝐋𝐂 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲*

⛰️ AI Sector Champion Plans: Major plans to drive adoption, with £200m to back first set of ideas
⛰️ AI Growth Lab: an advisory lab launched to give adopters clear, practical info on regulation
⛰️ Major robotics adoption regulatory innovation initiative
⛰️ Spärck update: expanded £1m scholarship, 50 more PhDs put into AI placements to drive adoption

*𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲; 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐣𝐨𝐛𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐭𝐨𝐨*

➡️ £2bn from @AMD in UK AI infra
➡️ @nebiusai investing £1.7bn with three major @nvidia deployments
➡️ Major new MoU with @Cisco to support Barnsley use AI in aid of local public servants and to help local NHS
➡️ Major new MoU with @ElevenLabs to support access for those with visual impairments and to secure AI
➡️ Major new MoU with @synthesiaIO to ramp up AI skills and spread opportunity
➡️ @OQC_Tech raising £260m, backed by largest @BritishBBank investment to date
➡️ @reflection_a expanding into UK, hiring 100+ employees within 12 months, and 1,000 within 3 years (welcome @MishaLaskin)
➡️ @Replit announcing UK office opening
➡️ @amazon announcing £1bn investment in Midlands, creating 2,800 jobs
➡️ @Arkdatacentres investing £807m to expand existing campus
➡️ @n8n_io investing in further 200 AI jobs over next 3 years, thanks @JanOberhauser
➡️ @ErosUniverse_, leading Bollywood distributor, investing £265m and backing 3,000 jobs in AI and creative sectors
➡️ @ARLQ_AI investing £45m for UK R&D
➡️ @CocoRobotics announcing UK debut with major Deliveroo partnership
➡️ Midlands Mindforge go live to invest in Midlands firms

[nat echlin @NatEchlin]

Basically - yeah, we know we're way better than you, and now we're pulling up the ladder.

"new interventions that limit Claude's affectiveness"

e.g., steering vectors here - could that be a way of injecting bugs into competitors training?

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.

Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.

[nat echlin @NatEchlin]

Average run on a monday. Warra allocation profile.

[🚨The Celebration Police🚨 @PLCPolice]

Feels like time to call it a day on this account, so this will be my final post.

I started this piss-taking Celebration Police thing 4 years ago and it’s genuinely been great fun. Unexpectedly so.

Through this account, I’ve met and engaged with some brilliant people, built a 55k following, made a bit of money and, for the most part, enjoyed my time here.

But let’s be honest: the joke wore thin a long time ago. And i’m bored of this platform and the increasingly repetitive, shit banter that fills it.

And Arsenal have won the league, so who gives a fuck about weirdos telling you when you can or can’t be happy about the football team you invest so much of yourself in😂

Policing celebrations is about as lame as it gets. It really is😂👎🏻

So thank you for all the support over the years, each and every one of you, and for engaging with The Celebration Police. You’ve been brilliant❤️

So for one last time…

ALL UNITS TO THE EMIRATES!!! 🚨🚨🚨

Chiefo x
#COYG

[nat echlin @NatEchlin]

I FUCKING HATE MOES SO MUCH

[nat echlin @NatEchlin]

Super cool, but this isn't a 'YC company'. In fact, just that they did end up going to YC should tell you everything you need to know about them.

[Brycent @brycent]

YC is backing some absolute wizards!

[nat echlin @NatEchlin]

@percyliang Unbelievably impressive. Great stuff.

[nat echlin @NatEchlin]

@let_part I'm talking about e-bikes on pavements, not motorcyclists - but perhaps it's a lack of enforcement than an issue in policy?

[nat echlin @NatEchlin]

These loophole-machines have to stop. I walk around in London with balaclava'd delivery guys on e-bikes going 40mph down the pavements. Like come on! If they existed when policymakers had a pair, they'd be stopped. Considering London speed limits, there's practically no difference between them and a moped.

[high t alpha shemale 🔆 @gluetaster]

that’s not a cargo bike man that’s a loopholemobile

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

Exactly right, and if you allowed these people to sell the rights to these properties, most of them would.

It’s a gigantic misallocation of resources, and fixing it is the fastest way to create a lot more housing in central London for economically productive people.

[nat echlin @NatEchlin]

Just rewrote our entire training stack in megatron from hf transformers... fk why didn't I do this sooner

[nat echlin @NatEchlin]

opus still sucks at context rot... always getting ahead of itself, forgetting instructions

[nat echlin @NatEchlin]

and automated finetuning fits into this... how?

[Soumith Chintala @soumithchintala]

Thinky's secret plan:

1: Increase Human<->AI bandwidth
2: Raise ceiling of human+AI intelligence
3: Help humans continue as main-characters in the new world

We are at Step 1.
Interaction Models are great real-time collaborative tools for humans.
Here's a preview:

[nat echlin @NatEchlin]

Getting Blackwell racks this week, boy am I excited!! Let's train some models hell yuuuurrrr