🚨 Microsoft has solved the biggest problem with AI.
They open-sourced bitnet.cpp. It’s a 1-bit inference framework that runs massive 100B parameter models directly on your CPU without GPUs.
it uses 82% less energy.. 100% open-source.
BREAKING: Anthropic's Claude AI has shown in testing that it's willing to blackmail and kill in order to avoid being shut down.
Elon Musk was right about everything. 💀
These MIT kids are just built different.
Years of Olympiads, insane fundamentals, then MIT just unlocks something different 🫡
This flying umbrella is wild.
10 years ago: the reinforcement learning (RL) prompt engineer [1] (Sec. 5.3). Adaptive chain of thought: an RL neural net learns to query its "world model" net for abstract reasoning & decision making. Going beyond the 1990 neural world model [2] for millisecond-by-millisecond planning and the 1991 adaptive neural subgoal generator [3,4] for hierarchical planning.
[1] J. Schmidhuber (JS, 2015). On Learning to Think: Algorithmic Information Theory for Novel Combinations of RL Controllers and Recurrent Neural World Models. ArXiv 1210.0118
[2] JS (1990). Making the world differentiable: On using fully recurrent self-supervised neural networks for dynamic reinforcement learning and planning in non-stationary environments. TR FKI-126-90, TUM. (This report also introduced artificial curiosity and intrinsic motivation through generative adversarial networks.)
[3] JS (1991). Learning to generate sub-goals for action sequences. Proc. ICANN'91, p. 967-972.
[4] JS & R. Wahnsiedler (1992). Planning simple trajectories using neural subgoal generators. Proc. SAB'92, p 196-202, MIT Press.
Ilya on research taste:
“One thing that guides me personally is an aesthetic of how AI should be by thinking about how people are.
There's no room for ugliness. It's just beauty, simplicity, elegance, with correct inspiration from the brain.
The more they are present, the more confident you can be in a top-down belief. The top-down belief is the thing that sustains you when the experiments contradict you.
Because if you just trust the data all the time, sometimes you can be doing a correct thing, but there's a bug. How do you know if you should keep debugging or you conclude it's the wrong direction?
You must say that things have to be this way, therefore we've got to keep going. That's the top-down belief, and it's based on this multifaceted beauty and inspiration by the brain.”
🚨 GOOGLE DEEPMIND JUST HIRED A ROBOT WARLORD
When Google DeepMind poaches Boston Dynamics’ former CTO, you’re not hiring an engineer - you’re importing a whole era of robotics.
Aaron Saunders, one of the minds behind the backflipping metal gymnasts that haunt DARPA’s dreams, is now VP of hardware engineering.
Meaning: DeepMind isn’t dabbling in robotics anymore. They’re loading the chamber.
CEO Demis Hassabis is openly pitching Gemini as Android-for-robots - a universal brain that boots on anything with actuators.
Humanoids, quadrupeds, six-legged amphibious nightmares… if it moves, he wants Gemini inside it.
This isn’t sci-fi chest-puffing. Boston Dynamics, Hyundai, Unitree, and half of Silicon Valley are racing to build the bodies.
DeepMind wants the mindshare - literally.
By 2027, the big robotics breakthrough won’t be a new robot - it’ll be the “second brain” every major hardware lab quietly starts testing.
The robotics arms race just switched to software speed.
Source: WIRED
There were no weights published for this, so I got everything ready to train TRM from the repo and I have a smoke test running now on rented infra.
I do not normally beg, but would love to ask if anyone is willing to donate the ~300 H100 hours this will take to train?
Today, Linus Torvalds told a Google engineer that his code (updating RISC-V support in the Linux kernel) is “garbage” which “makes the world actively a worse place to live”.
Adding that the Google engineer’s code needs to “get bent”.
As you might have guessed, Torvalds has rejected that code submission.