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📍 Venue: Blockchain Centre, Hurlingham
📅 Date: 29th May, 2026
⏰ Time: 4:00 PM
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We have released the biggest protein data collection on Hugging Face, guys!
We have been working on this for more than 3 weeks now, starting from curating the raw data, doing a lot of filtering, splitting the datasets, sharding them, and doing a lot of analysis. Everything is summarized in our recent blog post.
There's a pattern I keep noticing in hiring.
The companies winning the talent war right now aren't doing it with better job posts or recruiter outreach.
They're doing it because their employees are tweeting about their work. Not the CEO. Not the comms team. The actual engineers, designers, PMs.
When someone sees an engineer at Anthropic tweeting about a training run that failed and what they learned, that does more for recruiting than any careers page ever will.
It signals two things:
1. the work is interesting enough to talk about
2. the culture trusts people enough to let them
The companies where I see this happening consistently right now:
Anthropic
OpenAI
Vercel
Stripe
Perplexity
Cursor
Notion
xAI
Shopify
I think this becomes the default comms strategy for any serious tech company. Your employees are your narrative. Most companies haven't figured that out yet btw!
What if AI could learn the world just by watching?
Researchers from Beijing Jiaotong, ByteDance, Tencent present a unified framework for Vision World Models: encoding visuals, learning dynamics, simulating outcomes.
This survey outperforms fragmented taxonomies, outlining steps toward AGI with stronger physical grounding.
From Seeing to Knowing the World: A Survey of Vision World Models
Project: https://t.co/sCgakKHGYR
Paper: https://t.co/HZP8wIbQ2h
Code: https://t.co/HK9O67mK8i
Our report: https://t.co/XAMSJFYvo4
📬 #PapersAccepted by Jiqizhixin
New blackboard lecture w @ericjang11
He walks through how to build AlphaGo from scratch, but with modern AI tools.
Sometimes you understand the future better by stepping backward. AlphaGo is still the cleanest worked example of the primitives of intelligence: search, learning from experience, and self-play. You have to go back to 2017 to get insight into how the more general AIs of the future might learn.
Once he explained how AlphaGo works, it gave us the context to have a discussion about how RL works in LLMs and how it could work better – naive policy gradient RL has to figure out which of the 100k+ tokens in your trajectory actually got you the right answer, while AlphaGo’s MCTS suggests a strictly better action every single move, giving you a training target that sidesteps the credit assignment problem. The way humans learn is surely closer to the second.
Eric also kickstarted an Autoresearch loop on his project. And it was very interesting to discuss which parts of AI research LLMs can already automate pretty well (implementing and running experiments, optimizing hyperparameters) and which they still struggle with (choosing the right question to investigate next, escaping research dead ends). Informative to all the recent discussion about when we should expect an intelligence explosion, and what it would look like from the inside.
Timestamps:
0:00:00 – Basics of Go
0:08:06 – Monte Carlo Tree Search
0:31:53 – What the neural network does
1:00:22 – Self-play
1:25:27 – Alternative RL approaches
1:45:36 – Why doesn’t MCTS work for LLMs
2:00:58 – Off-policy training
2:11:51 – RL is even more information inefficient than you thought
2:22:05 – Automated AI researchers
I Wrote a New Book!!!
Optimization: A Bootcamp for Machine Learning, Inverse Problems, and Control
Pre-Order Now (July 31)
https://t.co/EoDMFapUUf
Coming Soon:
* Free PDF on website
* YouTube Videos for entire book
* Python code on GitHub
The @MLHacks Fellowship is a 12-week internship alternative for aspiring technologists.Fellows on the Web3 track experience what it's like to work with emerging technologies powered by blockchains.
Through hands-on development on platforms like Solana and Ethereum, you will build real-world projects, receive expert mentorship, and fast-track your career into the decentralized economy.
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3-week online Buildathon + IRL Founder House for early-stage builders.
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It’s hacking time!
We're teaming up with @WalrusProtocol for a new #hackathon 🔥
💰 $2,000 USD in prizes, free to join, online & open to all
⏰ Kickoff May 23rd
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Are you a university student, college student, or recent graduate ready to break into AI and emerging technology?
The African Technology Forum, and Google in partnership with Wulove Foundation, has launched the ATF Google AI Challenge, a FREE AI program designed to equip Africa’s next generation of innovators, developers, and problem-solvers with real-world AI skills.
This is more than a course.
It’s an opportunity to build, innovate, compete, and position yourself for the future of work.
🔹 Here’s what you gain:
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⏳ Deadline: May 31st, 2026
USAII® Global AI Hackathon 2026 is now live on @devpost !
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