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[Izabela @iza_wit]

civilization is a team sport

[Izabela @iza_wit]

listening to Adam explaining things is always a treat! @A_G_I_Joe

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

Adam Brown (@A_G_I_Joe) is back!

General relativity is said to be the most beautiful idea the human mind has ever produced.

Most of us will never get to fully appreciate its elegance by taking the 20-lecture graduate course Adam taught on it at Stanford.

But in the video below, Adam distills the key idea at its heart so clearly and compellingly that even I could keep up lol.

At the core of general relativity, Einstein is trying to figure out the principle behind a particular coincidence: that the mass that resists acceleration and the mass that gravity pulls on just happen to be exactly the same. Adam then leads us through the path of insight which Einstein called his “happiest thought.”

Then Adam lectures on black holes. First, by showing how even under special relativity you could create a perpetual motion machine if black holes weren't truly black. And then, by explaining why the observations of an infalling observer and a distant bystander to the black hole would be so radically different

Adam leads Blueshift, the team at Google DeepMind cracking science and reasoning.

Which gave us the opportunity to discuss at the very end how close we are to AIs that could rediscover general relativity from scratch. Stay till the close for some philosophy of science.

0:00:00 – The coincidence that led Einstein to general relativity
0:16:42 – Gravity is a consequence of curved spacetime, not a force
0:31:46 – Why black holes prevent unlimited energy extraction
0:47:12 – Black holes are the ultimate power plants
1:13:50 – What falling into a black hole would actually feel like
1:18:51 – The three ways we know black holes are real
1:24:21 – The first time we saw gravity bend light
1:29:33 – How far can AI get without experimental evidence?

Look up Dwarkesh Podcast on YouTube/Spotify to watch. Enjoy!

[Izabela @iza_wit]

@rtwlz Thanks for making SF fun and good luck! Can try connecting you with Inbal Shani from Twilio if helpful.

[Izabela @iza_wit]

AI that’s truly open!
@vincentweisser @PrimeIntellect

[Vincent Weisser @vincentweisser]

We raised $130M @ $1B for our series A

To build the open superintelligence stack for everyone

Pre-training concentrated frontier AI in a handful of labs. RL changes who can build frontier AI and just works across almost any verifiable domain. We want to enable everyone to train their own agents.

Companies can now own their model optimization loop: train directly on your product, optimize for your specific workflows, and build agents that improve continuously in production

Owning this model <> product improvement loop is how you build a compounding moat in the agentic era

Super grateful to serve over 6k+ customers, including many leading AI startups, neolabs and enterprises already building on our stack, and to our incredible team for shipping hardcore!

We train open frontier models and ship the same stack to our customers. Its spans the full stack of training, deploying and continuously improving models — compute, large-scale RL, environments, sandboxes, evals, and deployment.

We're excited to be joined by angels who are building the frontier themselves, many of whom we work closely with:
@johnschulman2 (Thinking Machines), @dwarkesh_sp, @AravSrinivas (Perplexity), @karimatiyeh (Ramp), @levie (Box), @_milankovac_ (Tesla), @winstonweinberg (Harvey), @amspector100 (Flapping Airplanes), @jeffwang (Cognition), @_arohan_ (Core Automation), @marksaroufim (Core Automation), @mikeknoop (Zapier, Ndea), @eastdakota (Cloudflare), @BrendanFoody (Mercor), @devanshpandey (Standard Intelligence), @hwchase17 (Langchain), @nicoup (Fleet) and many more

We're a small team building open superintelligence
> Reach out if you want to partner training, deploying and continuously improving your own frontier models for your use case
> Join us to build open superintelligence — we're hiring across all roles including RL, inference, distributed systems, full stack engineering and compute.

[Izabela @iza_wit]

@yoesbeforebros @a16z Can’t wait to see what u will do!!

[Izabela @iza_wit]

@midjourney @DavidSHolz 👀

[Izabela @iza_wit]

@midjourney @DavidSHolz Exxcxxxciting!

[Izabela @iza_wit]

@Mascobot Nice @Mascobot !!

[Izabela @iza_wit]

@_catwu @_catwu this is exactly what I am doing with the latest Opus model set up I created and it saves me and the team so much time! Our agility has improved too, cos now we have clear benchmarks on shipping. @_catwu Is workflows only available on Claude Code?

[Izabela @iza_wit]

The best thing about coding agents:
Everyone on our team can build their own tools.

The worst thing about coding agents:
Everyone on our team can build their own tools.

[Elad Gil @eladgil]

Entrepreneurship is a distributed search job across the surface of commercial opportunities

[Izabela @iza_wit]

@jewelia @jack @blocks Props to Block 👏 ! And amazing news @jewelia

[Izabela @iza_wit]

@woj_zaremba @Plinz Yes!! The last presentation you gave on this seemed like an exciting direction.

[Izabela @iza_wit]

@jprakapovich @ARIA_research @JacquesCarolan I want to learn what u said next time I see u

[Izabela @iza_wit]

@kimbal @JebraFaushay Just steak 😅

[Izabela @iza_wit]

Spring trip to Tokyo?

[Izabela @iza_wit]

@clarejtbirch You might enjoy this album too, slightly more mellow https://t.co/UkthTmS1MQ

[Izabela @iza_wit]

@andrewsor_ Thank you Andrew! She is r great work.

[Izabela @iza_wit]

@vincentweisser @PrimeIntellect @steipete @SGRodriques @hwchase17 @saranormous @Alfred_Lin Yesss!! Props @vincentweisser and team

[Izabela @iza_wit]

@gabriel1 Oh I agree it’s hard to put a number to it, but people who write beautiful blog posts, know often what makes it beautiful/easy to digest, it’s a craft. Could they then make an eval / benchmark with e.g 10-20 different criterias on what is a beautiful, educational blog post?

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

Elon Musk's SpaceX has put 10,000 satellites into orbit to create the global satellite internet constellation Starlink.

It has already transformed telecommunications and battlefield communications. How much further will it grow?

Read the new @bismarckanlys Brief: