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Today I'm thrilled to reveal Story Company — an independent film studio based in San Francisco, CA. We're focused on creating the best science & technology films so we can make the best science fiction films. This is the company I've wanted to build since I was 9. 🧵

VLMs connect a vision encoder to a language model using a linear layer—meaning each visual feature becomes one token. To reduce the number of tokens, SmolVLM and SmolDocling use pixel shuffle—but how does it work? 🔄 Pixel shuffle rearranges the encoded image, trading spatial

> be WFH > princeton, major in cs + stats > beijing, teach cars to see > senior thesis: “hey computer, read my mind when I point” > graduate 2018 > join microsoft research > co-write papers on factual-faithful summarization > patent_face.jpg > founding engineer at

AI is a new computer link in bio (from the banned site)

My favorite thing an old OpenAI buddy of mine told me is, whenever he hears that someone is a “great AI researcher”, he just directly spends 5 minutes looking at that person‘s PRs and wandb runs. People can do all kinds of politics and optical shenanigans, but at the end of the

Today, I’m launching a deeply personal project. I’m betting $100M that we can help computer scientists create more upside impact for humanity. Built for and by researchers, including Jeff Dean & Joelle Pineau on the board, Laude Institute catalyzes research with real-world impact.

📃The rise of context engineering "Context engineering" has been an increasingly popular term used to describe a lot of the system building that AI engineers do But what is it exactly? The definition I like: "Context engineering is building dynamic systems to provide the

Today we're announcing that Eventual has raised $30M in Seed and Series A funding from CRV and Felicis as well as Y Combinator, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund and Citi and others. The AI era needs data infrastructure built for AI, not retrofitted. 🧵

We CRV are incredibly excited to announce our investments in two companies paving the way for the multimodal data stack! We are thrilled to partner with Daft and LanceDB as they revolutionize the way that multimodal data is processed and stored in the AI era.

People outside tech starting to realize how quality software and typing/generating code fast are not correlated

You don’t need a PhD to be a great AI researcher. Even OpenAI’s Chief Research Officer doesn’t have a PhD.

My essay on what I learned by spending a day with a personal hero and wonderful man Kevin Kelly.

I recently made the news because of a doc I wrote in Meta’s GenAI organization. ‘The Information’ wrote about it as if I did a big raging ‘mic drop’ before leaving the company. Nothing could be further from the truth - so setting the record straight here. open.substack.com/pub/blankevoor…

excited to share my latest technical report Chroma! we evaluated 18 LLMs, including state-of-the-art models, and observed model performance degradation with increasing input length

Seeing lots of questions like: wait, I thought Windsurf was already acquired? What is Cognition buying? Let me explain. Windsurf the company is an *extraordinary* asset. It was missing its founders and research team, but it has a beloved product, valuable IP, an incredible

Some reflections: calv.info/openai-reflect…

Calling the hungriest engineers in the Valley: the fastest growing AI startups are looking for engineers who want to jump in, execute, and solve problems as forward deployed engineers. Come meet TwelveLabs (twelvelabs.io), ElevenLabs, Factory, Netic AI, and Aurelian next week:

We're going LIVE at 9:30am PT with James Le of TwelveLabs (twelvelabs.io) to talk about building foundation models for video understanding 📺

I have been working on the Video2Game, were you provide any youtube video url or your indexed video from the TwelveLabs (twelvelabs.io) The purpose of the application is to get the new way of the learning experience with the interactivity from video content. Comment "game", I will DM you

almost half of anthropic’s API revenue is from just two customers: cursor, and github