Had a great chance to meet & to talk to Andy on my recent visit to California. Andy has been working with SpaceX as a principal propulsion engineer since 2006 & been mentoring me since 2019. We had talks on Raptors, Merlin, reusability, Falcon9, Starship, Simulation & Mars.
I am proud of the work my team did in Munich in 1991, when compute was millions of times more expensive. We published the roots of today's trillion-dollar AI boom:
★ 3/1991: the first kind of Transformer (see the T in ChatGPT) - now called the unnormalized linear Transformer: the predecessor of the normalized quadratic Transformer
★ 4/1991: Pre-Training (the P in ChatGPT) & Neural Net Distillation (see DeepSeek and many other LLMs)
★ 6/1991: Deep Residual Learning, basis of LSTM & Highway Net / ResNet (most-cited AIs of their centuries)
★ 8/1991: conference paper on GANs for World Models trained by Artificial Curiosity
★ Around the same time, Munich also was the origin of the first self-driving cars in traffic (Ernst Dickmanns et al.), going up to 175 km/h. The city was truly the epicenter of AI.
Read the timeline with links to the original references, featuring a preface by @hardmaru:
https://t.co/omMTCqzEXZ
Very happy to support this on behalf of Google. We have long benefited from open source, are big contributors to open source and in fact have consistently made open weights models with Gemma available from @GoogleDeepMind@demishassabis . Onwards!
ORBIT ACHIEVED. 🚀
Vikram-1 Test Flight-1 has reached orbit. India's first privately developed orbital rocket has completed its final burn and injected its payloads into a ~450 km orbit, making India the third country in the world with private orbital launch capability.
History is made. 🇮🇳
#Vikram1 #JourneyToOrbit #SkyrootAerospace
India becomes only the third country in the world to achieve a private orbital launch capability after Vikram-1 Test Flight-1 reached the orbit successfully after completing its final burn and injecting payloads into 450km orbit