Kweku Smoke has built an incredible catalogue, proven that he can make cohesive bodies of work multiple times.
Especially in an industry that wasn’t open to his kind of style he made people fall in love.
That’s crazy.
GPT-6 Astra is here.
We hope it will begin to enable a new generation of entrepreneurship, scientific discovery, and building.
We believe it is the best model in the world for computer use, professional work, science, coding, cybersecurity, and more.
It took us some extra time to ensure that we could meet the safety and alignment standards required for this capability level, but we think you’ll find it worth the wait.
It scores 98% on FrontierMath Tier 4, 99.9% on ARC-AGI 3, and 100% on ExploitBench.
We are working towards getting Astra in everyone's hands as quickly as we can; I know it is frustrating and I appreciate the patience. It should be quick.
Exciting day for NVIDIA and @huggingface.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty. They allow every developer, startup, university, industry and country to build with, customize and benefit from AI.
Thank you @ClementDelangue for coming to me.
NVIDIA is going to be a great home for Hugging Face, its community and the future of open models. 🤗
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I turn 50 today. This is a message to my kids but I offer it to you in case any of it rings useful.
I was born in Sri Lanka in 1976 in a country that, at the time, was about to enter a decades long civil war. My father was able to get stationed at the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada for four years in the early 80s - when some of the fighting was most severe - and which from our vantage point in Canada gave us some respite from an otherwise omnipresent conflict.
He came as a diplomat but then my father filed for refugee status after four years when his life was threatened by militants. We stayed in Canada as refugees. My dad never really landed on his feet and we grew up on welfare.
My mom stepped up. She did an incredible thing and put our family on her back and kept marching forward. Sometimes the steps were very small but she always tried to keep moving forward.
I worked at Burger King starting at 14, giving my paycheck to my mom and dad to support our family in the role that I was assigned - earn enough to pay for our bus passes because we couldn’t afford a car.
I was a loser growing up. Some friends, some good memories but mostly forgettable and lonely. I wasn’t very studious but did get my act together in my final year and got into a great university.
I immigrated to the US soon after graduating and found an opportunity. Things clicked and I have been traveling a path to find myself ever since. Only in America is this possible…
I worked hard, followed the rules, paid my taxes and stayed in California out of loyalty for the opportunities it has given me despite its dysfunction.
I found my wife here. Had my kids here. Found my tribe here.
There have been some very hard times as well - deaths, divorce, financial pain, mistakes of omission and mistakes of commission. You can’t dwell on these things - they are weights that will pull you down if you’re not careful. Learn from them. Respect them. BUT MOVE ON.
To think 50 years ago I could have ever gotten a chance to meet the people I’ve met and have had the experiences I’ve had would have been mind boggling to my parents. It’s mind boggling to me now.
We forget often and try to convince others it’s not true but America truly is the best country in the world. Everything and anything is possible here. I can testify. Be grateful to be here.
This is the only place that gives EVERYONE a chance to live a great adventure. The first 50 years have been that for me - an incredible adventure.
Notice there is nothing here about accomplishments or money. Because it doesn’t matter and it won’t matter.
You will be dust in less than 100 years from now and the decision to be remembered won’t be yours so stop sweating it. It’s not in your control.
So what is in your control?
Be kind. Have fun. Work on something meaningful to you. Find your tribe. Try to find perspective. Find an incredible partner. Have a bunch of kids. Live an adventure. Forgive your parents - they were doing the best they could even if that wasn’t what you deserved.
I will do what I can to make my next 50 years a wild ride.
You should too.
I love you and thank you. ❤️
🙏🏽🙏🏽
@Figure is spending $1B on robot data, and it's going to go to waste.
I've been reading papers on robot memory (RoboMemArena, RoboMME, MemER), and they reveal that current architectures only solve half the problem:
Problem 1: memory within a task. Did the robot remember which cup it filled 800 steps ago? VLAs are getting better here.
Problem 2: memory across tasks. Does the robot stop jamming the same drawer it jammed yesterday? Does it remember where you keep your keys?
Today's best robot memory architectures double success within a task and still cap at 50% completion rate. Add a few unrelated sessions of history, and it drops to 19%.
Robots don't just need more data, they need an intelligent memory layer that can store, retrieve, and revise experiences over time.
So I'm building a tool that gives robots superhuman memory.
Follow along!
Over the next couple of decades, barring any major black swan events, I think Nigeria will produce far more unicorns outside fintech.
There are entire parts of the economy that remain underbuilt, fragmented and ripe for technological transformation.
energy, logistics, agriculture, healthcare, manufacturing, construction, mining and more.
And some of the biggest opportunities won’t be pure software. They’ll require people willing to build in the physical world too: infrastructure, hardware, supply chains and new industrial capacity.
Look at what my boys are doing at Terra.
We’re still very early.
Time will tell, I guess.
Life is fucking electric bro. Don’t fall for the doomer shit. Thats for losers and normies scared of their own shadows. Walk around like God sent you and smile at everyone you see. Spread light and abundance. Build things and take chances. This is the best time in history!
If you have any connections or know anyone who can help me secure a Cabin Crew job, I’d really appreciate your help. I’m an NCAA-licensed Cabin Crew member with an EMB-145 type rating, and I’m actively looking for opportunities. Any referral, contact, or lead would mean a lot🙏
Following today's magic, we're unapologetically going to have to post about Bruno AGAIN...
Enjoy a full behind the scenes look at the PFA Awards with today's @ManUtd match-winner. ⭐️
You see that Mbeumo goal, the Bruno pass. That’s Bruno in one moment.
Bruno is one of the few midfielders in football who will consistently attempt the difficult pass even when there is a much safer option available. He sees Mbeumo’s run and immediately tries to find him, even though there is a good chance the pass gets intercepted.
That is the risk with Bruno, and it is also the reason he creates so much.
He plays on the edge. He is willing to lose possession trying to create something rather than keep the ball simply for the sake of keeping it. Sometimes it looks ridiculous if it doesn’t work, sometimes it ends in a lose ball, but then you get moments like that Mbeumo goal.
This is why judging Bruno purely by possession security misses the point sometimes. His game is built around taking risks other midfielders simply won’t take.
You can reduce his turnovers by asking him to play safer, but you also reduce the chaos, unpredictability and chance creation that makes him Bruno.
The same trait that makes you shout why did he even try that? is often the same trait that makes you celebrate five seconds later.
Bruno Man. One of One.