heard anything crazy about the AI hiring spree (not just Meta, but anywhere)? think: flying people out, wining-and-dining, personal calls from execs, etc. LMK! 👀 signal: haydenfield.11

New Zuck post, what a difference a few years makes: Today: "We'll need to be rigorous about mitigating these risks and careful about what we choose to open source." 2024: "Meta is committed to open source AI... and therefore a platform that will be around for the long term."

newsflash, vendor comes to biased conclusions about its own products

✨some personal news ✨

leak your weights on hf. all the cool kids are doing it 👀

📝 olmOCR v0.2.1 has arrived with new models! Our open‑source OCR engine now reads tougher docs with greater precision—and it’s still 100 % open. 👇

Some of y’all need this

National Whether Service (an elite forecasting team)

I just released an essay series on a topic I've been thinking about, on and off, for a few years: What does AI progress mean for medical progress? Many people working on AI dream it will help cure cancer and prevent disease. I wanted to create a more specific roadmap:

America needs to take open models more seriously. This summer the early lead in open model adoption of the US via Llama has been overtaken by Chinese models. With The American Truly Open Models (ATOM) Project we're looking to build support and express the urgency of this issue.

Is this "high-end laptop" in the room with us right now

Wow, stunning numbers

The funerals will not stop until we accept the reality of model deaths

🤖✨ What if models that take action in the physical world could think through your instructions? Meet MolmoAct, our new fully open Action Reasoning Model (ARM) that does just that. 🧵

That’s a long sonnet

I get this is like woke now or whatever but I miss there being hand sanitizer everywhere

If we want to build good open models we need to have well-funded labs dedicated to it. It's easy to get excited about community projects/ decentralized training but those aren't ready to make good models. Those are great for research ONTOP of good models.

With fresh support of $75M from U.S. National Science Foundation and $77M from @NVIDIA, we’re set to scale our open model ecosystem, bolster the infrastructure behind it, and fast‑track reproducible AI research to unlock the next wave of scientific discovery. 💡

I knew it.

LLMs power research, decision‑making, and exploration—but most benchmarks don’t test how well they stitch together evidence across dozens (or hundreds) of sources. Meet MoNaCo, our new eval for question-answering cross‑source reasoning. 👇