Feidu Akmel

I stand on the side of truth.

[Mariam Robly | مريم روبلى @NexusEchoX]

"Egypt can no longer claim 100% control over the Nile when it does not contribute a single drop of water to the river." — Amb. @TiborPNagyJr

@RAbdiAnalyst

[Daniel Kibret @danielkibret]

ይሄ ቁጭትህ ነው
ታሪክ የቀየረው፤
ንጋት ያበሠረው፣
ትውልድ ያሻገረው፣
ወጥመድ የሰበረው፣
ሕዝቡን የደመረው፣
እግዚአብሔር ከአንተ ��ር ባይሆንማ ኖሮ
እራት ሆነን ነበር ለዘንዶው ጉሮሮ
እግዚአብሔር ከአንተ ጋር ባይሆንማ ኖሮ
ይቆረጥ ነበረ ሞፈር ከሞኝ ጓሮ፤

[Feidu Akmel @bilakmel]

This is a milestone we can all be proud of! 🇪🇹 The GERD is more than a dam; it's a legacy of resilience, unity, and progress.
Thank you!

[Feidu Akmel @bilakmel]

This is a milestone we can all be proud of! 🇪🇹 The GERD is more than a dam; it's a legacy of resilience, unity, and progress.
Thank you!

[Feidu Akmel @bilakmel]

This is a milestone we can all be proud of! 🇪🇹
The GERD is more than a dam; it's a legacy of resilience, unity, and progress.
Happy Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) Inauguration Day!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It is pure evil to mutilate children.

Prison for life.

[Chuang Gan @gan_chuang]

VLM can think visually without generating pixels!
VLM can think visually without generating pixels!
VLM can think visually without generating pixels!

📢 We introduce Machine Mental Imagery (Mirage): a new framework that enables VLM to imagine using latent visual tokens—performing visual reasoning in latent space, no pixel rendering needed!

We achieve this through a two-phase training paradigm:
✅ Stage 1: Grounding latent tokens in the visual subspace (joint supervision)
✅ Stage 2: Anchoring grounded tokens for generation (text-only supervision)

Mirage demonstrates strong performance on a wide range of multimodal reasoning tasks!

📜Paper: https://t.co/MiZ8ak8H9x
🧑‍💻Code: https://t.co/8Yg4aZMhGc
📽️Project Page: https://t.co/i1B004JwKb

[China Science @ChinaScience]

China aims to achieve breakthroughs in the application of AI in key sectors by 2027, an official said on Friday when outlining the country's latest efforts to accelerate AI development.

By 2027, new-generation intelligent terminals and agents are expected to reach a penetration rate of more than 70%, with the core industries of the intelligent economy expanding rapidly. By 2030, that penetration rate should surpass 90%, enabling AI to become a significant economic driver. By 2035, China aims to fully enter a new phase of an intelligent economy and intelligent social development.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok Code just hit #1 on the OpenRouter leaderboard, beating Claude Sonnet

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

New version of @Grok app

[AK @_akhaliq]

Apple released FastVLM

so I tried vibe coding a video captioning AI app with it

took 5 prompts to get a working app in anycoder and deployed it on Hugging Face

85x faster and 3.4x smaller than comparable sized VLMs

the deployed app works 100% locally in your browser powered by transformers.js and WebGPU

[Fei Liu @feiliu_nlp]

Overwhelmed by the flood of papers? I highly recommend these must-read technical reports: K2, Qwen3, Qwen2.5-Omni, V3, and Claude 4. Huge thanks to the engineering teams who've done the heavy lifting, so we can learn from their insights!

- Kimi K2: https://t.co/JvxwAtjm97
- Qwen3: https://t.co/L3AnxfthTO
- Qwen2.5-Omni: https://t.co/aiIcpX6qZH
- Claude 4: https://t.co/EHwFrX0FcY
- DeepSeek V3: https://t.co/mi3wJUQqRh (Is the V3.1 report available yet?)

[AI at Meta @AIatMeta]

Introducing Meta Perception Language Model (PLM): an open & reproducible vision-language model tackling challenging visual tasks.

Learn more about how PLM can help the open source community build more capable computer vision systems.

Read the research paper, and download the code and dataset: https://t.co/GgJEPXTH8W

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

To figure out who will win any given technology race, just look at the rate of acceleration of innovation & growth

[Abiy Ahmed Ali 🇪🇹 @AbiyAhmedAli]

Congratulations to all Ethiopians on another milestone in our journey toward food security and agricultural transformation. Today, we signed the Fertilizer Complex Shareholder Investment Agreement between Ethiopian Investment Holdings and Dangote Group. With an investment of $2.5 billion, this mega project will produce up to 3 million metric tons of fertilizer annually, placing Ethiopia among the largest producers globally.

This project will create jobs locally, ensure a reliable fertilizer supply for our farmers who have long faced challenges, and mark a decisive step in our path to food sovereignty. It strengthens Ethiopia’s competitiveness across the continent and reflects our commitment to executing strategic investments that serve our people and our future.

Following today’s signing, we will officially launch the project on site. We have started this journey, and we will finish it for our farmers, for our economy, and for Ethiopia’s future.

[Abiy Ahmed Ali 🇪🇹 @AbiyAhmedAli]

Wheat productivity in progress.

[Feidu Akmel @bilakmel]

@AbiyAhmedAli Well Come PM. Abiy

[Feidu Akmel @bilakmel]

@reda_getachew

[👸🏽BeZዬ 🩵 @Bezyee]

The most potent propaganda warfare waged against Ethiopia comes from pseudo academics like Alex de Waal!
When you see the hate he has towards Ethiopia and the empathy he has for TPLF, you're tempted to ask "what exactly did TPLF give him?" Money?!

#NoMore @TuftsDaily

[Dr Eng Seleshi Bekele @seleshi_b_a]

@PMEthiopia @AbiyAhmedAli Thanks to our PM HE Dr Abiy, our gallant national defence force & public forces to retake these important towns. #Ethiopia can not be defeated by evil doers & wishers. Soon we focus on rebuilding stronger and prosperous nation. #EthiopiaPrevails