Brydon Eastman

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Mathematician (heavy on the ish)

@thinkymachines

Prev. MTS @OpenAI; PhD @WaterlooMath

Certified wife guy, featured twice in Lego Magazine ©

[Brydon Eastman @brhydon]

The universe is weird as shit and I'm profoundly grateful that it permits us to poke at it.

[Brydon Eastman @brhydon]

look if you ask the wrong question you're getting the vulgate and you're gonna like it

[Eric Jang @ericjang11]

.@tinkerapi by TML is a highly underrated product. It should be part of the “starter post training” infra for any newco

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Thinking Machines is impressive. In a couple hours I just fine tuned my own Qwen3.5-397B model this afternoon.

Fast usable multimodal is also going to enable very mind-blowing personal AI.

[Brydon Eastman @brhydon]

@JohnnyGiunta_

[Brydon Eastman @brhydon]

@turtlesoupy Wow what a run, dude! Excited to see what you do next.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human. It is imperative to recover an understanding of the true meaning and grandeur of humanity as intended by God. It is in this sense that the challenge we currently face is not technological, but anthropological, and it is my hope that the Encyclical Letter to be published within a few days will contribute to answering this challenge.

[Brydon Eastman @brhydon]

iron sharpens iron

[Tinker @tinkerapi]

Foresight Learning is a clever data recipe for training prediction: split a sequence of notes randomly into prediction context and outcome label. Train on Tinker and you get a lightweight adapter that beats GPT-5 on calibration and clinical reasoning.

Congrats @lightningrodai!

[Mira Murati @miramurati]

Collaborative AI runs on interactivity: machines and people, working in real time, across every modality. Solving it takes a community, join us.

[Thinking Machines @thinkymachines]

We are offering grants of $100,000 + Tinker credits to researchers advancing the field of human-AI interactivity. Submit your proposals by June 19th!

https://t.co/907HfBy7g3

[alth0u🧶 @alth0u]

i dont really care that chris olah is gonna be part of Manificus Humanitas it should have been me

[Neil Chowdhury @ChowdhuryNeil]

it would be a moral failure for those of us in the AI industry to create a "permanent underclass," let alone cause human suffering or catastrophe, through our work. that responsibility does not rest with policymakers alone, and we can shape our actions to create a better future.

[Mo Bavarian @mobav0]

Stop living in a bubble.

The key to happiness, the true meaning of life, is not impact or wealth or fame, but health, friendship, and care for others. Living authentically is not that expensive.

In other words, money or success will not fill the hole in your heart.

[WIRED @WIRED]

The Thinking Machines Lab founder and former CTO of OpenAI tells WIRED she isn’t interested in automating people out of jobs. Instead, she’s building AI that can collaborate. https://t.co/Bb4zM7tl8Q

[Scale Labs @ScaleAILabs]

Congrats to @thinkymachines on the release of TML-Interaction-Small and tying for the top spot on our Audio MC S2S leaderboard! 🥇

Their interaction model scores a 43.4% APR, demonstrating an impressive level of intelligence and long-context awareness compared to existing full-duplex models, without losing responsiveness in conversation.

[Tessa Barton @tessybarton]

Just an AI that can fix my slouchy chungus life

[alth0u🧶 @alth0u]

last fall, I read Walter Ong's Orality and Literacy twice and on my 40k step walks from Potrero Hill to the Presidio, I couldn't stop thinking about the "Some psychodynamics of orality" section:

- additive rather than subordinate
- aggregating rather than analytic
- close to the human lifeworld
- agonistically toned
- empathetic and participatory rather than objectively distanced
- homeostatic
- situational rather than abstract

then I had about 4 months of When We Cease to Understand the World level psychosis, where I repeatedly accused anybody I could of not being responsive enough and not being collaborative and being too objective and not touching the world in a high frequency high fidelity way, lost in their modern plato's cave of literary sauce.

in January, I explained my job as the guy that makes the sous vide machine do weird things it wasn't meant to do so that the chefs I work with can make the best dish of their lives and that someone told me actually that role exists at Lazy Bear and it was what created their asparagus dish:

turns out sous vide machines are designed assuming they would only ever be used with water:

- the motor expects certain viscosity
- no way to clean insides
this tool design constrains the chef; he cannot sous vide asparagus in asparagus juice

historically
- immersion blenders, vitamix -> era of purees
- cheap nitro -> foams

in the same way training runtimes are designed shapes the path of AI:
- chat is turn based, now training is turn based, there's no synchronicity, there is no time, reality freezes
- chat is turn based, what can you scale? ok scale the model turn -> cot -> o1
- and now here we are, sitting on our thumbs, waiting for claude

the shape of a tool is what it enables a creator do
an intelligence transcends those limitations

so in a desperate attempt to end my psychosis, we went katabatic, wrote a bunch of rust, argued a lot with @_alex_kirillov_

and saw a bunch of the best chefs in the world begin eliciting flavors and textures I have never experienced before

here are some

[Thinking Machines @thinkymachines]

The team has been sweeping at local trivia night thanks to a model that's aware of continuous time.

[Thinking Machines @thinkymachines]

People talk, listen, watch, think, and collaborate at the same time, in real time. We've designed an AI that works with people the same way.

We share our approach, early results, and a quick look at our model in action.

https://t.co/AFJZ5kH7Ku

[Maaz @mmaaz_98]

Hamilton Ontario mentioned