Alessandro Palmarini

AI @ndea. Previously @sfiscience. Ex-@vainglory pro for @teamsecret & @Fnatic. Three time European Champion.

[Alessandro Palmarini @abpalmarini]

Thank you and goodbye @vainglory. The last 4 years have been the time of my life. I travelled around the world, met great people and competed alongside amazing teammates. Thanks to everyone who was part of my journey!

[François Chollet @fchollet]

I'm joining forces with @mikeknoop to start Ndea (@ndeainc), a new AI lab.

Our focus: deep learning-guided program synthesis. We're betting on a different path to build AI capable of true invention, adaptation, and innovation.

[Mike Knoop @mikeknoop]

AGI is the most important technology in the history of the world. That's why I'm going all in on a new adventure with @fchollet. We’re creating a new intelligence science lab -- Ndea.

@ndeainc's ultimate goal is to compress science timelines. First by understanding intelligence, then measuring it, building it, and finally deploying it for scientific advancement.

Our first focus is on deep learning-guided program synthesis to create AGI that can invent, adapt, and innovate.

My view is that in 5-10 years we’ll regard deep learning and program synthesis as equally important to scaling up efficient, bottleneck-free AGI.

The “transformer” for program synthesis has not been created. The "Keras" for program synthesis does not exist.

If this is correct, 2025 looks like 2013. The world just got its first taste of program synthesis when o3 beat ARC-AGI-1, similar to deep learning's moment when AlexNet beat ImageNet.

I mean it when I say “adventure”. Humanity will use AGI to solve incredibly important problems.

But even more exciting is the chance to metaphorically time-travel into the future: learn, invent, and discover things that would not organically happen for decades or even centuries.

Ndea is my focus. So it's time for me to step away from day-to-day at Zapier. I remain a board member, evangelist, and most importantly great friends with @bryanhelmig and @wadefoster.

Zapier’s success is why I can make this bet. I’m extremely grateful to all our customers, employees, and supporters. Zapier has a big mission ahead — bringing AI automation to everyone.

I believe that anyone with new ideas and ability to accelerate AGI should be working on it. The world deserves it.

Chollet and I have tried to support this goal indirectly. We’ve both invested in AGI startups, created @arcprize, written papers, and given talks to inspire open progress. We’ll continue to do all these things.

Now, we're going to work on it directly.

We’re assembling the world’s top program synthesis team. @ndeainc is a globally remote company. Consider joining us!

[Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience]

SFI researcher Alessandro Palmarini focuses on tackling the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) challenge, with the goal of creating AI systems capable of abstract reasoning far more efficiently than existing methods. Inspired by François Chollet’s work on measuring intelligence, his earlier work has built upon the DreamCoder program synthesis system, introducing a novel approach called "dream decompiling" to improve library learning in inductive program synthesis. Listen to Palmirini’s interview on @MLStreetTalk highlighting the delicate balance between computational efficiency and data efficiency in AI learning processes.

#AI #MachineLearning #AbstractReasoning

https://t.co/ThpM4l565a

[Machine Learning Street Talk @MLStreetTalk]

Alessandro Palmarini works under @MelMitchell1 at @sfiscience - he reflects on the @arcprize and @fchollet measure of intelligence - live on MLST now

[Alessandro Palmarini @abpalmarini]

@XenoTekOfficial Hey, it’s an independent AI degree.

[Alessandro Palmarini @abpalmarini]

For those asking if I'll be coming back to play WildRift—I won't be. I stopped gaming altogether at the end of 2019, having felt fully fulfilled with my Esport endeavours. I switched to studying AI and I'm loving it! There are so many exciting possibilities in this field! 🤯

[Alessandro Palmarini @abpalmarini]

@jetpacksGG @becomelegendseu Very deserved, congrats man!

[Alessandro Palmarini @abpalmarini]

@L3oNLioN ayyy finally! Congrats!😄

[ESPN @espn]

And @bugha is only 16 years old 😱

[Alessandro Palmarini @abpalmarini]

@L3oNLioN Happy birthday Leon, hope things are well!

[Alessandro Palmarini @abpalmarini]

I've never worked so hard in my life and I improved so much as a player these last 10 weeks, both mentally and skill-wise. It wasn't enough to qualify for worlds, but I'm not giving up on @FortniteGame. I truly believe I can become one of the best and can't wait for more events.

[jetpacks 🧙‍♂️ @jetpacksGG]

51 points with @Palmatoro_VG today, taking home 1000$.

[Alessandro Palmarini @abpalmarini]

@PrismPayam @jetpacksGG 💙

[Alessandro Palmarini @abpalmarini]

@mitr0 Happy Birthday! 🎂

[jetpacks 🧙‍♂️ @jetpacksGG]

89 points qualified for tomorrow :)

[Alessandro Palmarini @abpalmarini]

@paksfn @LST003_ @JasonFN_ @CrwnFN @ClakzanFN @ApoPaaana @Trrroyy @zoodieeee @leonflares @ImVeriified @ClownFNBR @HycrisZ1 @SetoxDE @EvozBE @DynamiqFN @kasdoad @TaylanoXYZ Was nice meeting you, GL! 👍

[Alessandro Palmarini @abpalmarini]

@Aim_Jesus Hey, I placed an order within those 12 hours, but I've not heard anything back yet.

[Alessandro Palmarini @abpalmarini]

@Dety0 There is probably a huge waiting list, but please DM when you are able to. Will pay whatever is needed.

[Alessandro Palmarini @abpalmarini]

Thanks for the beating up 🙃 @Secret_Mongraal @Mitr0 @smeefly

[Alessandro Palmarini @abpalmarini]

@AstroSMZ_ Congrats man, super well deserved!