Ling

LLM & Quantum Wizard from Oxford | Heading Tech Investments at Tencent

[University of Oxford @UniofOxford]

NEW: Oxford researchers have helped to achieve a world first: loading a complete genome onto a quantum computer. This makes an important step towards a future where quantum computing accelerates biological discovery.

Find out more ⬇️
https://t.co/5DROjxivgr

[Joseph Pajos @PajosTM]

I was in class last week. One of my students raised their hand mid-lecture and asked something that stopped me for a second.

"Why is every AI tool built on Python? C++ is faster. Rust is faster. Even Java is faster. So why Python?"

Honestly it’s a fair question. And the answer reveals something really interesting about how the AI industry actually works.
Let me explain this properly. 🧵

[Tencent 腾讯 @TencentGlobal]

AI is a canvas for creativity.

Dr Ling Ge reflects on imagination as the starting point for innovation.

https://t.co/yctt7ntZki
#IWD2026 #WomenInAI #GenAI

[Tencent 腾讯 @TencentGlobal]

“Every breakthrough begins with imagination.”

Dr Ling Ge on AI as creativity, discipline, and building what comes next.

https://t.co/yctt7ntZki
#IWD2026 #WomenInAI #GenAI

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

Thrilled to launch Project Genie, an experimental prototype of the world's most advanced world model. Create entire playable worlds to explore in real-time just from a simple text prompt - kind of mindblowing really! Available to Ultra subs in the US for now - have fun exploring!

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

A number of people are talking about implications of AI to schools. I spoke about some of my thoughts to a school board earlier, some highlights:

1. You will never be able to detect the use of AI in homework. Full stop. All "detectors" of AI imo don't really work, can be defeated in various ways, and are in principle doomed to fail. You have to assume that any work done outside classroom has used AI.
2. Therefore, the majority of grading has to shift to in-class work (instead of at-home assignments), in settings where teachers can physically monitor students. The students remain motivated to learn how to solve problems without AI because they know they will be evaluated without it in class later.
3. We want students to be able to use AI, it is here to stay and it is extremely powerful, but we also don't want students to be naked in the world without it. Using the calculator as an example of a historically disruptive technology, school teaches you how to do all the basic math & arithmetic so that you can in principle do it by hand, even if calculators are pervasive and greatly speed up work in practical settings. In addition, you understand what it's doing for you, so should it give you a wrong answer (e.g. you mistyped "prompt"), you should be able to notice it, gut check it, verify it in some other way, etc. The verification ability is especially important in the case of AI, which is presently a lot more fallible in a great variety of ways compared to calculators.
4. A lot of the evaluation settings remain at teacher's discretion and involve a creative design space of no tools, cheatsheets, open book, provided AI responses, direct internet/AI access, etc.

TLDR the goal is that the students are proficient in the use of AI, but can also exist without it, and imo the only way to get there is to flip classes around and move the majority of testing to in class settings.

[Thomas Wolf @Thom_Wolf]

I'm just back from two days in this totally crazy place in Finland called @shipfr8

It's a former hotel where they now bring cracked teenagers from all over the world (big part from the US, but also Europe, Asia) to spend 3 months 100% focused on an idea they want to build.

The youngest are like 16 or 17, oldest around 25 if I was to guess. The ones I met are math Olympiad winners, youngest cyber security engineers, serial entrepreneur at 18, nuclear propulsion students. Each and everyone is like a cracked person in some field

And everything is taken care of: housing, food etc. Their only mission: focus and push as far as they can to build a dream they have, without distraction and with mindful mentoring.

The builders I met came to reinvent chip design, cybersecurity, brain-computer interface, robots training, molecule design, city farming, room temperature superconductors, tokens compression (and yes this is a single cohort of like 30 people)

It's like Bell Labs met Ready Player One

And after three months there is a demo day. I visited just at this time. And I had never seen anything like that. As a former engineer/scientist/lawyer, I was totally mind blown.

If I had participated in something like that when I was 18...

And this was just the first cohort, FR8 Cohort 1.0

Something very special brewing there I tell you

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

We wrote about everything you need to know to train LLMs (the tech behind ChatGPT) https://t.co/UtRzYbCP1N

[Ling @lingtv]

🤖🥤Sippin' with the AI legend @AndrewYNg at the ultimate #WoodstockAI meetup! 🎉 Unlocking LLMs, GPTs & AI mastery 🧠 with @clementdelangue & @huggingface! 🤗 A record-breaking gathering of AI enthusiasts 🌐🌟 Join the revolution! 🔥 #MachineLearning #AIPioneers #HuggingFace 🚀

[Ling @lingtv]

Nothing beats the feeling of hugging a llama at the 🤗 AI meetup in SF! Big shoutout to @huggingface @ClemDelangue, and the amazing community building open source AI and Transformers. #HuggingFace #OpenAI #AI #Transformers #CommunityLove

[John Preskill @preskill]

I spent a very enjoyable hour chatting with @dabacon, @jfitzsimons, and @sihuitan about one of my favorite topics: quantum error correction and fault tolerance. (Recorded last February.)

[Raghunath Koduvayur @Raghu_Koduvayur]

We’re proud to announce our €128M Series A2 funding to expand our international business and accelerate product development to tackle the world’s most pressing problems.

Read more here: https://t.co/9WyZyrWfJz

@JanGoetz6 @jjvartiainen @KuanYenTan1 @mpmotton @lingtv @visevic

[John Preskill @preskill]

Five minutes is not enough time for 2022 Gauss Prize recipient Elliott Lieb to explain all the ways his mathematical work has had a deep influence on physical science. Great video, though.
https://t.co/QFElZYziGF

[Ling @lingtv]

@Yoda4ever Found mommy yay!

[Tencent 腾讯 @TencentGlobal]

Happy Mother’s Day! To celebrate, we pay tribute to working moms across our offices in Asia and North America. Hear what a few of them have to say about the joy of having kids and how they balance work and family life. https://t.co/wIOkkUPmJM
#happymothersday

[Jack Raines @Jack_Raines]

1) No one knows how to actually learn a foreign language.

I have been aggressively studying Spanish over the next month before I fly to Spain. Wanted to share a breakdown of what I've been doing, and how it differs from school. (H/T @tferriss for helping me rethink this)

[Tencent 腾讯 @TencentGlobal]

An open ecosystem and user-generated content will be two drivers of the development of the #metaverse, along with creating more real, large-scale environments in which to play, according to Tencent SVP Steven Ma. He shares more on the future of gaming: https://t.co/JXHTe1AZuL

[Tencent 腾讯 @TencentGlobal]

Dr. Ling Ge is a researcher-turned-investor leading Tencent’s investment efforts in quantum computing. She says the company’s strong R&D philosophy and having a supportive mentor have helped her thrive at Tencent. Read her story at https://t.co/7QWcdEwI3Y. #WomenWhoLead #IWD2022

[Dharmash Mistry @Dharmash]

Interesting analysis and impact of Oxford University. https://t.co/lfaQAsTwpL