For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.
AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.
https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb
The @ilyasut episode
0:00:00 – Explaining model jaggedness
0:09:39 - Emotions and value functions
0:18:49 – What are we scaling?
0:25:13 – Why humans generalize better than models
0:35:45 – Straight-shotting superintelligence
0:46:47 – SSI’s model will learn from deployment
0:55:07 – Alignment
1:18:13 – “We are squarely an age of research company”
1:29:23 – Self-play and multi-agent
1:32:42 – Research taste
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Stanford's Courses on AI & ML (FREE):
❯ CS221 - AI
❯ CS229 - ML
❯ CS229M - ML Theory
❯ CS230 - DL
❯ CS234 - RL
❯ CS236 - Deep Generative Models
❯ CS336 - LLM from Scratch
❯ CS224N - NLP with DL
Course links inside:
If I have to pick ONLY THREE Courses to learn AI & ML from scratch,
❯ CS229 - Machine Learning
❯ CS230 - Deep Learning
❯ CS336 - Language Modeling
These courses could easily cost $20K. But Stanford has made all these available on YouTube for FREE:
Stanford just dropped a 1:47 hour masterclass about LLM training on YouTube. this is the 4th lecture in their new Fall 2025 series of transformers and LLM.
this is the new go-to course on LLMs imo, and you need to take it seriously.
subjects in this video:
→ Pretraining
→ Scaling laws, Chinchilla law
→ Training optimizations overview
→ Data parallelism with ZeRO
→ Model parallelism
→ Flash Attention
→ Quantization
→ Mixed precision training
→ Supervised finetuning
→ Instruction tuning
→ Parameter-efficient finetuning with LoRA
→ QLoRA