Alistair Parrington

Chief Solutions Officer, Social Innovation @Jellyfishglobal Really into new ideas & the internet. Also keen on music, streaming. He/Him.

[Alistair Parrington @alparrington]

Wow

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

New Anthropic research: A global workspace in language models.

Of everything happening in your brain right now, only a tiny fraction is consciously accessible—thoughts you can describe, hold in mind, and reason with.

We found a strikingly similar divide inside Claude.

[ArtReview_ @ArtReview_]

Harminder Judge: “Everything that exists has existed as matter since forever, and will continue existing as matter forever” https://t.co/pgEGZQoodC

[John Coogan @johncoogan]

I can’t believe these are only 2 years apart.

[Alistair Parrington @alparrington]

Into this https://t.co/HFfv7tnn2l

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

Exclusive: Meta just released Llama 3.1 405B — the first-ever open-sourced frontier AI model, beating top closed models like GPT-4o across several benchmarks.

I sat down with Mark Zuckerberg, diving into why this marks a major moment in AI history.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
00:38 Meta’s Llama 3.1 rundown
03:44 Real-world use cases for Llama 3.1
06:15 Educating developers on open-source AI tools
09:43 Societal implications of open-source AI
13:00 Balancing power and managing bad actors
14:40 Open source and global competition
16:59 Accelerating innovation and economic growth
20:04 Zuck on Apple and lessons from the past
24:22 Future of AI: Llama 3 and beyond
26:43 Prediction: Billions of personalized AI agents
31:32 Factors to changing anti-AI sentiment

[Alistair Parrington @alparrington]

@Stansted_Exp Hey Johnny - city mapper showing that the trains will start running from Stansted to London again at 2100 - is this accurate? Thanks

[Alvaro Cintas @dr_cintas]

🚨 BREAKING: OpenAI just announced their new Text-To-Video model called Sora.

Look at these 10 insane examples:

1. Space movie trailer featuring a man wearing a red wool knitted motorcycle helmet

[Alistair Parrington @alparrington]

Super interesting

[Tibo @tibo_maker]

The future of influencer marketing is AI.

This IG model doesn't even exist but she is set to make $10M this year.

Brands like Prada & Samsung have already collaborated with her.

Here's my 5-part theory on why more businesses will use AI influencers in the future 🧵

[Poonam Soni @CodeByPoonam]

YouTube has over 122 million daily users worldwide.

But most people don't know it's new AI features.

Here're New AI-Powered Features of YouTube, you don't want to miss:

[Alistair Parrington @alparrington]

This is a truly beautiful session from Coco for @OurVinyl that I have listened to probably too many times https://t.co/99gkP4lQ8C

[Pallab Ghosh @BBCPallab]

Antimatter is supposed to be the opposite of the matter tha tmakes up the world around us. so does it fall up instead of down?
@CERN built a factory to construct antihydrogen atoms to find the answer and has published the answer. https://t.co/dr6rdNuK5J

[Alistair Parrington @alparrington]

Fair play Germany, fair play 👏

[Alistair Parrington @alparrington]

I searched long and hard and found the most 90s video in existence that also happens to still be an amazing song https://t.co/l0ihs8Nor6

[Alistair Parrington @alparrington]

This is really really good from @Apple - on point, witty, timely and with substance not just style 10/10 https://t.co/DgxPeYLIPX

[Alistair Parrington @alparrington]

Poetry https://t.co/6JPV7bDZQi

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

🚨 BREAKING: Meta is releasing a Twitter competitor.

The below slide was just leaked. It details a new text-based Instagram.

Here's what you need to know 👇

[Alistair Parrington @alparrington]

Very soon our audio avatars will be taking meetings and calls on our behalf this is blowing my mind 🤯

[Linus Ekenstam (Inside My Head AI) @InsideMyHeadAI]

Apple is shipping on-device voice cloning.

Record 150 random phrases (15min) and you’ll have a voice clone of your voice made on device 100% secure.

This is part of their new accessibility preview release.

Apple is absolutely going to be a massive AI player

[Alistair Parrington @alparrington]

Damn

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

Video editors are in trouble

This is AutoPod AI, an automatic editing for video, podcasts and shows 🤯

Links in the next tweet:

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

17-year-old Notorious B.I.G. freestyling in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn