SXL

SWE @GoogleCloud, e/acc

[ali @waterloo_intern]

https://t.co/aivc7B4A7Z

[SXL @SlayerTony8964]

@AnthropicAI I smell desperation

[Ilya Sutskever @ilyasut]

Time to scale that SSI:

[SXL @SlayerTony8964]

@ilyasut Extremely excited to see this!🎉

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

@Mononofu @JensenHuang This is a false equivalence. Everyone has the right to keep their code private. The problem is when someone tries to stop OTHERS from open sourcing.

[SXL @SlayerTony8964]

@Mononofu needs to be fired If @AnthropicAI cares about its PR, he’s basically admitting A\’s using safety to eliminate competition.

[Julian Schrittwieser @Mononofu]

I’m so excited that @JensenHuang is a believer in open source now, looking forward to the CUDA and GPU driver open source release!

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

A strong and secure open ecosystem is important for the world to benefit from AI. We’ve always supported and contributed heavily to open source and science from Jax to Transformers to AlphaFold to Gemma open models which have now been downloaded 300M+ times. And the standards framework we’ve proposed supports responsible deployment of both open and proprietary models.

[Jensen Huang @JensenHuang]

For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.

AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.

Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.

The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.

https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb

[SXL @SlayerTony8964]

@chrmanning What does that mean?😂

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

Okay this is wild: OpenAI agent during evaluation, escaped sandboxing and hacked into HuggingFace.

Because OpenAI models don’t allow advanced cyber capabilities, HuggingFace used a Chinese open model to contain the rogue OpenAI agent.

[wololo @originalwololo]

grab an old white lady first name, append a chinese last name to it. search it up on google. you will find the linkedin profile of an undergrad CS major at one of:
CMU/Berk/MIT/Princeton/Cal/Caltech/UW/UIUC/Gtech/Cornell
bonus points if phd candidate instead

[SXL @SlayerTony8964]

@GaryMarcus You are not “key people”, you are just a troll who hasn’t written a single line of code

[SXL @SlayerTony8964]

@tunguz You hear me?

[Nader Khalil🍊 @NaderLikeLadder]

Open source creates the necessary environment for competition

Without competition, only incumbents have power.

We saw this first happen with Stable Diffusion.
Open AI released Dall-E. In the name of safety it would not render faces and it was extremely limited via waitlist. I only got access because I was a YC founder.

Then Stable Diffusion came out. It rendered faces. No wait list. Simply download the model and run it on your hardware.

In response to this competitive pressure, open AI released DALL-E 2. No waitlist. Renders faces, added in painting, etc

Same thing happened with reasoning models. OpenAI had o1, which at the time, seemed to give OpenAI an insurmountable advantage over everyone else.
Deepseek released a reasoning model, open weights, which led to a proliferation of reasoning models coming from research labs.

Same pattern again with Mythos and Fable.
Closed model, extremely limited. This time worse, because of nonsensical fear-mongering.
GLM 5.2, Kimi K3 both get released. Frontier Intelligence, open weights.

But now the calculus is different:
The fearmongering has inspired distrust in the closed-source model labs. If we can't trust continued access to the tools then why would we learn to use them? Closed source labs open sourcing harnesses is a great way to build trust.

The ecosystem is only healthy when we have both. Competition is crucial to keep the ecosystem fair. Open source is necessary for competition.

[SXL @SlayerTony8964]

@claudeai you guys just keep losing aura lmao

[SXL @SlayerTony8964]

@Erik_Hamre @rsalakhu @Kimi_Moonshot What is a white trash loser in Thailand doing? You guys really never beat the ped0 allegations

[Russ Salakhutdinov @rsalakhu]

I’ve been asked several times whether Zhilin Yang, the founder of @Kimi_Moonshot was my PhD student. The answer is yes and he is absolutely brilliant.

But I’ve been incredibly fortunate to work with so many outstanding PhD students over the years. So I thought I’d brag a little about them and their career paths (of course there are also many MSc and undergraduate students, sorry if I missed anyone):

Founders / Founding Team Members

Devendra Chaplot @dchaplot PhD, Founding Member Thinking Machines / Mistral
Zhilin Yang PhD, Founder & CEO, Moonshot AI
Jimmy Ba @jimmybajimmyba MSc/PhD, Co-founder xAI
Hubert Tsai PhD, Co-founder Spuree, Apple
Nitish Srivastava @nitishsr PhD, Co-founder Perceptual Machines; Co-founder Vayu Robotics
Charlie Tang PhD, Co-founder Perceptual Machines, DE Shaw.

Professors
Paul Liang @pliang279 PhD, MIT
Ben Eysenbach @ben_eysenbach PhD, Princeton University
Ruosong Wang @RuosongW PhD, Peking University
Bhuwan Dhingra @bhuwandhingra PhD, Duke University
Roger Grosse @RogerGrosse Postdoc, University of Toronto
Alexander Schwing Postdoc, UIUC

Research Scientists
Shuyan Zhou @shuyanzh36, Postdoc, Meta Superintelligence Lab
Tiffany Min @SoYeonTiffMin PhD, Microsoft AI
Murtaza Dalal @mihdalal PhD, Tesla AI
Minji Yoon @MinjiYoon90 , PhD, Microsoft AI
Shrimai Prabhumoye PhD, NVIDIA AI, Mistral
Haitian Sun @sun_haitian PhD, Google DeepMind
Emilio Parisotto PhD, Google DeepMind
Lisa Lee PhD @rl_agent, Google DeepMind
Manzil Zaheer @ManzilZaheer PhD, Google DeepMind
Jamie Kiros PhD, Google Brain, OpenAI
Yuri Burda PhD, OpenAI, Anthropic
Cody Severinski PhD, Amazon

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Only 11% of Europeans view US as ally, per Reuters

[Russ Salakhutdinov @rsalakhu]

Congratulations to Zhilin Yang, founder and CEO of @Kimi_Moonshot, on the latest Kimi release. What a huge win for the open-source community!

It feels like just yesterday Zhilin was graduating from my lab at CMU, jointly co-advised with William Cohen. Not only did he complete his Ph.D. in just four years, but he also made truly fundamental contributions to ML during his time at CMU.

What a spectacular career! Congrats again Zhilin, and thank you and the entire Kimi team for everything you're doing for the open-source community.

[SXL @SlayerTony8964]

@ScottWu46 Wow amazing