Ali Bauyrzhan

Last sem at Columbia

[Thomson @ThomsonYenTY]

Modern businesses run on spreadsheets. Can AI handle financial spreadsheet construction?

We’re excited to share MBABench 2.0: 101 difficult, long-horizon tasks (take up to 33h) across 6 finance areas and most financial model types.

The best AI agent passes only 16% of the tasks

[Dhananjay Ashok @Dhananjay99Ash]

Introducing GameBoyWorlds, a new challenge testbed for self-improvement in embodied video games:

Paper: https://t.co/05Fpom1OM1
Website: https://t.co/qFUZfld80b

[Ali Bauyrzhan @aliwka_bb]

@developedbyed Asstra

[Ali Bauyrzhan @aliwka_bb]

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[Ali Bauyrzhan @aliwka_bb]

On our way to make excel models more interpretable!

[Thomson @ThomsonYenTY]

Today we're releasing MBABench 1.0: the first, spreadsheet-focused benchmark evaluating AI agents on building entire workbooks to professional standards.

In the real-world, MBAs must produce complete, well-organized artifacts ranging from spreadsheets to presentations. These deliverables are then reviewed and revised by multiple stakeholders ranging from managing directors to client analysts, so beyond accuracy, they must meet various quality standards specific to the industry.

We evaluated 10+ frontier models on end-to-end spreadsheet tasks, and found agents still fall short of the standards MBA grads are held to. (1/n)

[Hong Namkoong @hsnamkoong]

I'm excited to release MBABench, a new eval for nuanced judgement-driven tasks that MBAs perform. Being able to interact with professionals in NYC has provided many unexpected learnings on the impact of AI in white-collar work, and this project reflects this rich confluence!

[Thomson @ThomsonYenTY]

Today we're releasing MBABench 1.0: the first, spreadsheet-focused benchmark evaluating AI agents on building entire workbooks to professional standards.

In the real-world, MBAs must produce complete, well-organized artifacts ranging from spreadsheets to presentations. These deliverables are then reviewed and revised by multiple stakeholders ranging from managing directors to client analysts, so beyond accuracy, they must meet various quality standards specific to the industry.

We evaluated 10+ frontier models on end-to-end spreadsheet tasks, and found agents still fall short of the standards MBA grads are held to. (1/n)

[Ali Bauyrzhan @aliwka_bb]

Alibaba quietly open-sourced LOGOS: a 1B foundation model, 56x smaller than Microsoft's NatureLM and still beats it across proteins, molecules, and materials.
https://t.co/ncQpMwOq0A

[Ali Bauyrzhan @aliwka_bb]

I scroll TikTok with my brain.

[Bo Wang @BoWang87]

ByteDance just published something I've been waiting for someone to build: CUDA Agent!

It trained a model that writes fast CUDA kernels. Not just correct ones — actually optimized ones.

It beats torch.compile by 2× on simple/medium kernels, ~92% on complex ones, and even outperforms Claude Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3 Pro by ~40% on the hardest setting.

The key idea is simple but kind of brilliant:

CUDA performance isn’t about correctness, it’s about hardware. Warps, memory bandwidth, bank conflicts — the stuff you only see in a profiler.

So instead of rewarding “did it compile?”, they reward actual GPU speed. Real profiling numbers. RL trained directly on performance.

That’s a big shift.

Paper: https://t.co/EYx7QKosgk
Project: https://t.co/pTCfzQIBes

[Ali Bauyrzhan @aliwka_bb]

@vikasprogrammer Crazy! Can I connect more than two agents into conversation?

[Ali Bauyrzhan @aliwka_bb]

@hinrichbo @Angaisb_ Hilarious

[Ali Bauyrzhan @aliwka_bb]

@anton_skv Sick

[Ali Bauyrzhan @aliwka_bb]

@pradeep24 Can I setup browser profiles with that? To avoid login pages everytime and immediately get authorized when I revisit pages.

[Ali Bauyrzhan @aliwka_bb]

@odd_joel Cool!

[Ali Bauyrzhan @aliwka_bb]

@odd_joel Do I need tailscale for Moshi? Or does the app handle the connection too?

[Ali Bauyrzhan @aliwka_bb]

@odd_joel I instantly get you a sandbox with persistent storage so that you don't have to worry about your laptop being on all the time + don't need to set your own VM + you will get preview links. Custom Websockets for connection. Voice-to-terminal sounds cool!

[Ali Bauyrzhan @aliwka_bb]

@sotoalt_ Cool! Have you tried any integration with agents for execution?

[Ali Bauyrzhan @aliwka_bb]

@patomation @skeptrune @Stagehanddev What app are you using?

[Ali Bauyrzhan @aliwka_bb]

@skeptrune @Stagehanddev Been experimenting with these apps alot recently