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Mo Stein retweeted
Qualia is now scoring very high on three important public robot-data benchmarks, scored exactly the way NVIDIA scores them. (Our setup reproduces NVIDIA’s numbers for GPT-6 Astra and Flora within about a point. Side note flora is surprisingly good)
Cutting robot video into steps, describing them, ranking recordings, judging how far a robot got: Qualia is ahead of Flora and GPT-6 Astra on every one.
We are just getting started, and expect Qualia to improve a lot more in the coming days. and weeks.
Hope to get more of you to try this soon.
for fellow Germans, Helene made my Sunday evening ardmediathek.de/video/dokume… @ExplorationTEC
Taste is the next frontier @paradigmainc
welcome to the 9th annual @stateofai report!
ai building better ai, world models, physical ai, geopolitics, cyber defense and 12-month predictions.
read it at stateof(dot)ai or watch my editor’s cut here.
a few of this year’s biggest findings follow:
Mo Stein retweeted
We believe that the West can awaken from its long slumber – and rekindle the fire that was first lit in ancient Greece millennia ago.
Mo Stein retweeted
Limite 1B Violetto has been trained across 6 weeks from the very first experiments, and represents a key milestone towards our objective of building models and systems that maximize the amount of discoveries per joule.
Link to the technical report: paradigma.inc/research/limit…
Why does the sculpture fall backwards?
Meet Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk.
• 1T parameters, natively multimodal. 49B active.
It is the best open weights model from US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks.
• State-of-the-art on critical workloads, including cyber defense, manufacturing and finance and it surpasses closed frontier models on visual grounding.
• Forged in Europe end-to-end and is deployable from Europe via our own Mistral Cloud infrastructure.
• Available to all via API today. Working with cybersecurity partners privately.
Open weights release end of October.
“Dass der Widerstand gerade von den Jungen ausgeht, die doch am meisten und am längsten von den Reformen profitieren würden, ist paradox und bitter zugleich”
faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/a…
Gold
My conversation with Michael Moritz, one of the great venture investors of the last 40 years.
Michael joined Sequoia in 1986 and co-led the firm with Doug Leone (@dougleone) from 1995 to 2012. His investments include Google, Yahoo, PayPal, and Stripe.
His new book, Ausländer, traces his parents' escape from Nazi Germany and helps explain his lifelong interest in what shapes exceptional people.
We discuss:
- The infamous Steve Jobs profile
- Why Don Valentine hired him
- The question he finds most revealing when interviewing people
- Monomania and the cost of greatness
- Why he has never felt good at anything
- Writing, journalism and AI
- What he learned about himself writing Ausländer
I'd recommend watching this one if you can. Michael was incredibly thoughtful and reflective throughout, particularly when talking about his parents, childhood, and the more difficult parts of his personal story.
Enjoy!
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:53 Family History & Identity
7:03 Survival & Outsider Instinct
18:53 Studying Exceptional People
33:50 Self-Doubt & Success
41:17 Steve Jobs & Obsession
52:50 Joining Sequoia
1:03:22 Leadership & Alex Ferguson
1:08:25 Elon Musk & AI
1:17:12 Becoming Who You Are
Mo Stein retweeted
My conversation with Michael Moritz, one of the great venture investors of the last 40 years.
Michael joined Sequoia in 1986 and co-led the firm with Doug Leone (@dougleone) from 1995 to 2012. His investments include Google, Yahoo, PayPal, and Stripe.
His new book, Ausländer, traces his parents' escape from Nazi Germany and helps explain his lifelong interest in what shapes exceptional people.
We discuss:
- The infamous Steve Jobs profile
- Why Don Valentine hired him
- The question he finds most revealing when interviewing people
- Monomania and the cost of greatness
- Why he has never felt good at anything
- Writing, journalism and AI
- What he learned about himself writing Ausländer
I'd recommend watching this one if you can. Michael was incredibly thoughtful and reflective throughout, particularly when talking about his parents, childhood, and the more difficult parts of his personal story.
Enjoy!
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:53 Family History & Identity
7:03 Survival & Outsider Instinct
18:53 Studying Exceptional People
33:50 Self-Doubt & Success
41:17 Steve Jobs & Obsession
52:50 Joining Sequoia
1:03:22 Leadership & Alex Ferguson
1:08:25 Elon Musk & AI
1:17:12 Becoming Who You Are
Mo Stein retweeted
we can get autonomous science right.
math is just a prelude of what will happen for all of science. it would be foolish to assume that such a profound change should be asborbed by the existing scientific and academic institutions with little perturbation. the reality in front of us is that there are key elements of science we must be able to carry forward. among those, is the ability to collectively explore a problem, and learn collectively from eachother's mistakes.
Some thoughts on how to do this and an example on the Riemann Hypothesis, for which we proved and formalized (using an harness utilizing both astra and an early checkpoint of our upcoming model) the Strict log-concavity in Gröchenig’s Riemann hypothesis criterion for 2x2 matrices (a result, as far as we know, novel).
Mo Stein retweeted
Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.
You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.
I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.
But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.
Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.
Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.
So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.
If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.
Mo Stein retweeted
Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were spotted giggling as people wept during the annual reading of names during the 9/11 memorial ceremony.
The camera transitioned to Mamdani and Cortez after showing a man weeping as the names were read.
Mo Stein retweeted
Mit solchen grausamen pfeifen, wie diesen BĂĽrgermeister in New York beginnt in der Regel der Untergang auch groĂźer Zivilisationen
25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers.
As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other. Let us remember the extraordinary compassion, resilience and bravery that carried our city through its darkest
day.
Today, New York remembers. We will Never Forget.