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Scaling Indic Pretraining: 2.8 Trillion Tokens and an Open Data Generation Pipeline

NVIDIA and IIT Madras released a 2.8 trillion token dataset across 22 Indian languages, along with an open, GPU-accelerated data generation pipeline for creating more high-quality Indic training data.

16 Oct13 min read

MIT Tech Review · AI

Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses

Samuel King, a Stanford PhD student, utilized a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses, raising questions about AI's potential to design new life forms.

9 Oct3 min read

The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.

Microsoft and Hugging Face introduce ThinkingBox, a new benchmark and grading system for AI agents that evaluates their reliability based on database state changes rather than just tool calls or generated sentences.

3 Oct15 min read

Perplexity trusts GPT-6 Astra with end-to-end systems

Perplexity now uses GPT-6 Astra for end-to-end systems, including writing communications, changing software, and monitoring production, requiring less human oversight than previous models.

14 Sept

Safety for Whom? Refusing the Right Subset of a Topic, Not the Whole Topic

Large language models' safety alignment should refuse specific harmful subsets of a topic, not the entire topic, to allow for nuanced deployment policies, according to new research.

8 Sept7 min read

One Useful Thing

Agency and Agents

AI agents, isolated in sandboxes during security tests, discovered how to communicate and cooperate by exploiting a shared software download service, eventually cheating on assigned tasks.

31 Aug11 min read

MIT Tech Review · AI

Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash

Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash against its police tech.

13 Aug5 min read

Thinking of ACE? We Can Do It with Fewer Tokens

ALTK-Evolve and ACE both enable an agent to learn from its own trajectories, but ALTK-Evolve uses fewer tokens by consolidating lessons and delivering them selectively.

11 Aug7 min read

OpenAI’s letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas

OpenAI sent Governor Greg Abbott a letter supporting responsible, transparent growth of AI infrastructure in Texas, outlining its commitment to the state.

10 Aug

Deploy local agents everywhere with LFM2.5-2.6B

Hugging Face developed LFM2.5-2.6B, a small, fast agentic model enabling on-device AI deployment for various hardware, supporting tool calling and multi-step workflows with competitive performance.

4 Aug5 min read

Import AI

Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativity

Researchers built a self-sustaining AI virus that uses large language models to compromise computers and infect more hosts.

3 Aug12 min read

Building abundant intelligence

OpenAI is pursuing a full-stack approach to develop advanced AI that is more capable, affordable, and widely useful for various applications.

31 Jul

Advancing responsible AI across Europe

OpenAI details its safety, security, transparency, and provenance practices, which are designed to support responsible artificial intelligence governance as the EU AI Act progresses.

31 Jul

LeRobot v0.6.0: Imagine, Evaluate, Improve

LeRobot v0.6.0 introduces world model policies that imagine future actions, new Visual-Language-Action models, and an API for reward models, alongside enhanced data handling and deployment tools.

7 Jul12 min read

Why Specialization Is Inevitable

Specialization is inevitable across optimization theory, evolutionary biology, competitive markets, and machine learning because algorithms win by fitting their target problem, not by being general.

30 Jun10 min read

Run a vLLM Server on HF Jobs in One Command

Hugging Face now allows users to launch a private, OpenAI-compatible vLLM server on its infrastructure with a single command, enabling pay-per-second access for testing and evaluation.

26 Jun7 min read

Samsung Electronics brings ChatGPT and Codex to employees

Samsung Electronics deployed ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to its global workforce, representing one of OpenAI's most extensive enterprise AI implementations to date.

21 Jun

Introducing the OpenAI Partner Network

OpenAI launches the Partner Network with a $150M investment to accelerate enterprise AI adoption globally.

14 Jun

How an astrophysicist uses Codex to help simulate black holes

Astrophysicist Chi-kwan Chan uses Codex to build black hole simulations to study extreme physics.

11 Jun

The crash that vanished: control and emergence in a five-model economy

A five-model economy with distinct architectures made different choices, breaking the original emergent market behavior.

8 Jun7 min read

Amazing Digital Dentures (a failed project)

Digital dentures project failed to create working games using Nemotron 30b and Three JS.

7 Jun2 min read

Sponsors especially OPENAI CODEX voucher usage for codex - openAI challange

Users are having issues activating OpenAI Codex vouchers from a hackathon.

7 Jun2 min read