eric gundersen

no passengers on the battleship. founding CEO @Mapbox.

[eric gundersen @ericg]

the first @desertantlabs models are now live (12 stable and six in beta), via one SDK for Swift, Kotlin, + JavaScript. one model per task, each built to be the fastest way to complete that task on a device: https://t.co/9embpCLuuh

[Desert Ant Labs @desertantlabs]

You asked for speaker diarization, so we built it.

Who split this 43-minute podcast by speaker in 4.9s on an M5 chip, including the moments two people talk at the same time. The recording never left the machine.

Who is in our Swift, Kotlin and JavaScript SDKs, free up to 100k monthly active devices: https://t.co/ypHZuCIjvA

[eric gundersen @ericg]

but the microwaves..... “AI worms” will soon be able to hijack smart home devices such as ovens and TVs, creating a new cyber security threat that will be difficult to contain. The developer of Claude said in a blog post on Monday that AI agents may be months away from “self-replicating” across everyday household devices, to create potentially uncontrollable networks of AI agents. https://t.co/0BG3zevXqg

[eric gundersen @ericg]

installing @desertantlabs CLI

+ speed tests transcribing videos w/ Voz(and batch transcription). then bending Vox vs whisper.cpp

@joemaddalone shows workflow: extracting shorts from videos w/ Clips ➡️ audio cleaning w/ Clear ➡️ identifying fillers w/ Uhm ➡️ generating titles

[Joe Maddalone @joemaddalone]

Tiny models are dope.
https://t.co/A6u1IlrZ6X

[Will White @willwhitedc]

It’s faaaast

[eric gundersen @ericg]

tiny models + new cli

[eric gundersen @ericg]

@bentruscello @MCHammer can I join the demo? add [email protected] to the invite

[eric gundersen @ericg]

the team @desertantlabs is growing: https://t.co/6knNPGDhE4
+ ML Researcher
+ Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
+ Runtime and Performance Engineer
+ Mobile Engineer: Android
+ Developer Relations Engineer
+ Partnerships Manager, Europe
... 🐜

[eric gundersen @ericg]

we’re in orbit! @PAVESpace 1st mission of the in-house avionics architecture to space just reached LEO. Next the team will start self-health checks/in-orbit reprograming, and then run the navigation algorithm assessments withstand high-radiation environment of the Van Allen belts that the next heavy-lift kick-stage will fly. Awesome work Julie Böhning, Jérémy Marciacq and the entire team https://t.co/6alSxVWymV 🇨🇭🚀🪩

[PAVE Space @PAVESpace]

We're orbital! 🌍✅ GRAZE, our 1st demo mission to space, has reached LEO. Contact shall be estblished in upcoming days, per mission plan. Next: run full test campaign on our avionics architecture and home-made OBC, the systems piloting LYOBA & all future vehicles ➡️  Stay tuned.

[eric gundersen @ericg]

has anyone played w/ new cli to if it's easy for @grok pull data updates updates? like @USGS naming changes from @StateDept --> directly into studio @mapbox

[Will White @willwhitedc]

map style incorporates latest data from @USGS

[eric gundersen @ericg]

the design work by @jgebbia is 💪

[Will White @willwhitedc]

maps for https://t.co/twKTljAQBT: streaming @grok output into @jgebbia’s new design work w/ @mapbox

[Desert Ant Labs @desertantlabs]

Jev + on-device models = results in seconds with no LLM in the loop.

Quick demo app to show the possibilities. Drop in an audio file: Ear detects the language, Voz transcribes it and Redact removes PII.

Then @typesafeai's Jev makes about 20 decisions in one call in milliseconds, and picks which of our on-device models to run. Voice memo to to-do list. Meeting to redacted transcript. Podcast to clips.

[eric gundersen @ericg]

more granularity @Cloudflare "Block AI Bots" is being deprecated in favor of separate Search, Training, and Agent controls set at the domain level https://t.co/I25Op697j1

[Young Hahn @younghahn]

Do agents call 911 when given the option?

https://t.co/o9cSSmVaNR

Research on model escalation paths in the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident

METRs report noted that agents didn't escalate to humans in the OAI-HF incident, but didn't dig into if and what pathways they had to do so. I take a look at how agents perform when given different pathways to escalate, and what we can learn from human safety systems like 911 that make escalation stupidly simple.

[eric gundersen @ericg]

OpenRouter API stats; four week total tokens used on open-weight or closed-weight models. https://t.co/AG3jivFJQz

[eric gundersen @ericg]

“big complex open-weight models become pretty indistinguishable from big complex closed-weight models, can be accessed at a fraction of the cost, and come with riders that are valuable in their own right” via @FT stats re open-weight and closed-weight AI models by release date and artificial analysis intelligence index https://t.co/x0EPs2fsKP

[eric gundersen @ericg]

re EU sovereignty stats from Dragi’s FT's op-ed:

“The EU hosts under 5 per cent of the world’s AI compute versus 75 per cent for the US. Even for ordinary data centre capacity, the gap between demand and installed supply in Europe is estimated at around 3GW, roughly a quarter of what Europe currently has, and is expected to widen to 14GW by 2030.”

“More expensive electricity makes building and powering a facility in parts of Europe twice as costly as in China.”

https://t.co/G6AkGltI39

[eric gundersen @ericg]

Dragi is going to love local on-device AI https://t.co/lBF3WTin7O re FT op-ed today:

[Thomas Wolf @Thom_Wolf]

The new DeepSeek V4.1 Flash model is mindblowing - back on top of the open-source model leaderboard and extremely cheap.

It has a lot of very smart ways to be efficient and highly capable so I made a video of the forward pass to give you a view of what going on inside the model during inference.

Read more at https://t.co/A6rP4KKfiI

And find the weights at https://t.co/Za7wVYUTaa

[eric gundersen @ericg]

“We had to turn to an open-weight Chinese model to process the attack logs. Many people have suggested that open-weight AI models are a threat — that they will be used to attack systems protected by closed-source AI models. That weekend, the opposite happened.”

great FT op-ep by @Thom_Wolf

https://t.co/PI8HjeRo0G What we learnt from OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face