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This week's Paper Club is focused on data. As models have scaled across tasks and languages, old assumptions about training and evaluation are starting to break.
So we gathered three domain experts to break down the challenges and frontiers of training data, benchmarks, and multilingual pre-training.
Thanks to the following presenters:
00:00 - @FrancoisChauba1: Why a whole night about data?
9:51 - @vincentsunnchen: The Art & Science of Benchmarking Agents
28:44 - @volokuleshov: Inception: Diffusion Language Models for Production
40:26 - @ShayneRedford: ATLAS: Practical Scaling Laws for Multilingual Models
Godolphin Resources rebrands to Orbit Resources on 19 August, advancing Lewis Ponds in NSW while holdings stay unchanged @GodolphinASX $GRL
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The next generation of humanoid robots steps into the ring tonight.
REK 2 goes live at 9PM PT from @REK Arena, San Francisco.
Stream the fights here: https://t.co/HttJj259BM
Introducing HOMURA 30B.
Our first in-house model. Uncensored, and it still calls tools.
> 30B, built on @AIatMeta Muse Glimmer
> Fine-tuned on one A100
> Loss 2.4 to 0.048
> 16.9GB, runs local on a Mac
> Open weight, Apache 2.0
Most decensored models break tool calling. This one keeps it.
Own your intelligence.
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Today we're introducing the AI Backlinks Marketplace.
Show up in the AI answers your customers are already searching for.
We've partnered with 40,000+ publishers, so you can order mentions in minutes instead of chasing outreach for months.
You pick the sites. We do the rest.
Y Combinator @ycombinator Launches of the Week:
(This round-up is for informational purposes only, and in order of the date/time of the launch, from earliest to latest.)
1) Dream: Founded by Ryland Birchmeier @rylandbirch and Alexander Halpern, Dream is building pocket-sized AI cameras that catch asset damage. Know More At: https://t.co/2NuIBB4NPf
2) Stratum Industries @stratum_inc: Founded by Raj Jagiasi @raj_jagiasi and Vihaan Jagiasi @VihaanJagiasi, Stratum Industries is the applied AI company for governments. Know More At: https://t.co/P0EAEx3Njf
3) Peer: Founded by Felix Peng @fixitfelixpeng and Aaron Zhang, Peer is building an AI-native freight brokerage that quotes freight, finds the right trucking companies, tracks shipments, and handles problems from pickup through delivery for shippers. Know More At: https://t.co/pLLigVhlZL
4) https://t.co/Bj9xQTZoas @watchmochi: Founded by Robert Qiu @whatsrobdoing_, https://t.co/Bj9xQTZoas is a mobile-first entertainment platform for vertical anime shorts. Know More At: https://t.co/W7f4xCjhfY
5) Familiar: Founded by Mingi Kwon, An Zhu Liu @an_zhu_liu, and Xu Zheng, Familiar is building world models for accurate humans. Know More At: https://t.co/D6fZpx1ULL
6) NODI Energy: Founded by Borong Hu, NODI Energy is building distributed energy infrastructure to rewire the grid. Know More At: https://t.co/rm1yThfauR
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We launched a new site to share more about what weโre building at USAvionix: https://t.co/jcIRPKz30i
Todayโs aerial systems donโt scale. Weโre building an agentic aerial network with onboard intelligence to search, interpret, and coordinate across large areas with minimal human involvement.
The goal: persistent coverage that is economically practical, and faster response when an incident occurs.
Thank you to the USAvionix team for bringing it to life.
Rocket Lab @RocketLab Unveils GHOST Deployable Launch System to Enable Responsive Space Missions Worldwide.
Rocket Lab, a global leader in launch services and space systems, unveiled GHOST: a new globally deployable containerized launch system to enable suborbital and orbital launches from anywhere in the world.
Y Combinator @ycombinator Launches of the Week:
(This round-up is for informational purposes only, and in order of the date/time of the launch, from earliest to latest.)
1) Cerenovus @cerenovusai: Founded by Jonathan Waldorf @jwaldorf, Cerenovus is a knowledge company. Know More At: https://t.co/CxWfU08stb
2) Tenor @agentemployees: Founded by Amgad Al-Zamkan, Hamze Al-Zamkan, and Muhtasham Oblokulov @Muhtasham9, Tenor builds AI workers that attribute the outcome back to the token spend. Know More At: https://t.co/j6BANiJj9t
3) Lumeria @lumeriaskin: Founded by Maryanne Alhallak @malhalla06 and Anthea Guo @TheAntheaGuo, Lumeria is an oura ring for skin. Know More At: https://t.co/OUvT8thJYZ
4) Decawork @decawork: Founded by Sarthak Aggarwal @_sarthak4 and Aman Raj @arxneo14, Decawork is the agent control plane for IT teams. Know More At: https://t.co/yeuPb2s9lM
5) Pacific @Pacific_YCS26: Founded by Harper Dammann Smith @Harperdammann, Pacific is mass-producing and deploying micro data centers for Earth and Space. Know More At: https://t.co/O677vqXZsr
6) Pennant @pennant_ai: Founded by Ryan Nowicki Stewart @rywicks and Tomas Taylor @0xtotaylor, Pennant is the corporate governance OS for public markets. Know More At: https://t.co/gGlGf1daDv
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The biggest engineering mistake I made at Figure was building a tendon-based hand
Our first hand design in 2022 was a tendon hand for our F.01 robot. At a high level, the tendon approach sounds appealing, which is why I chose it: you get more space for packaging actuators since the forearm is larger, potentially higher degrees of freedom, and it's biologically inspired
We built and manufactured this entire hand and tested it in early 2023. If you saw it in person, it was truly an engineering work of art. It turned out to be one of the worst engineering decisions I've made, maybe the worst in four years. Tendons are a complete local maximum, and that only becomes clear in hindsight, after exploring every other possible hand design. Figure is unique in that we've now built and tested several hand architectures, which gave us a clear sense of where to head
Figure is working on our next generation hand, and it's so much better than anything you can do with tendons, it's not even funny
introducing: The Founders Track by @residencyBLR.
a fully funded residency designed for founders ready to raise.
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with an in-house legal and financial counsel, free US entity setup, vc ecosystem immersions, and bangalore's biggest demo day.
plus a chance to fast-track your journey to silicon valley with @theresidency.
you bring the grit, we bring everything else.
application link is in the comments. go apply!
Introducing Kora Legends!
Weโre launching our official ambassador program for those who want to be a bigger part of the Kora journey. Legends will help grow the community, test new features, create content, and work closely with the Kora team.
Applications are now open: https://t.co/zUccx6euNy