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For the last 10 years we've been raising funds to bring AI to Africa (@DeepIndaba) and South America (@Khipu_AI). The efforts have been very successful, but this year we are finding it hard to raise money. If you work for an AI company, please share the following with the right team to support us. Thank you!
About KHIPU 2027
What it is: KHIPU AI (khipu.ai) is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing AI talent, research, and community across Latin America. Alongside year-round regional initiatives, we host a biennial in-person gathering rotating across the continent, previously in Uruguay (2019, 2023) and Chile (2025).
Next Edition: April 5–9, 2027, in São Paulo, Brazil, hosted at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP), one of Latin America's leading research universities.
Watch our 2-minute video: youtube.com/watch?v=Db19zoqu… (hear directly from past speakers, including Nando, and Latin American students on how KHIPU grew from a single gathering into a regional AI movement).
Who Attends & Why Support - Engaging with the region's top talent and lab leaders: We bring together around 500 participants, including leading faculty and lab directors from across Latin America alongside a curated cohort of ~300 graduate students and industry researchers selected from over 1,000 applicants. As the local AI ecosystem grows rapidly, KHIPU offers a rare opportunity to engage directly with these emerging researchers and regional leaders in one place, helping shape research priorities and the safety mindset across Latin America while connecting with talent and perspectives outside Silicon Valley.
100% free attendance & student grants: Attendance is completely free for all selected students, professors, and researchers. Sponsorship funding goes directly toward travel and accommodation grants for students and faculty across Latin America who otherwise could not afford to attend.
Community & Track Record: Past editions have featured speakers such as @Yoshua_Bengio , @JeffDean , @jpineau1 , and @NandoDF (2025 lineup: khipu.ai/khipu2025/speakers-…), and have been supported by the Hopper-Dean Foundation, @GoogleDeepMind , @Apple , @Microsoft , @Meta, @cohere , and @MistralAI . For 2027, @OriolVinyalsML and @sarahookr are already confirmed.
2027 Sponsorship Prospectus: Attached (also available at khipu.ai/prospectus-2027)
Contact: @FortunatoMeire ([email protected]) & KHIPU Sponsorship Committee ([email protected])
Reza Roboubi retweeted
I've been a personal supporter (through our family foundation) of @Khipu_AI & @DeepIndaba, which are fantastic events for AI researchers in Africa and South America. I've encouraged Google to support these in the past. Discovery Loop (@DiscoLoopAI) is thrilled to support!
For the last 10 years we've been raising funds to bring AI to Africa (@DeepIndaba) and South America (@Khipu_AI). The efforts have been very successful, but this year we are finding it hard to raise money. If you work for an AI company, please share the following with the right team to support us. Thank you!
About KHIPU 2027
What it is: KHIPU AI (khipu.ai) is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing AI talent, research, and community across Latin America. Alongside year-round regional initiatives, we host a biennial in-person gathering rotating across the continent, previously in Uruguay (2019, 2023) and Chile (2025).
Next Edition: April 5–9, 2027, in São Paulo, Brazil, hosted at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP), one of Latin America's leading research universities.
Watch our 2-minute video: youtube.com/watch?v=Db19zoqu… (hear directly from past speakers, including Nando, and Latin American students on how KHIPU grew from a single gathering into a regional AI movement).
Who Attends & Why Support - Engaging with the region's top talent and lab leaders: We bring together around 500 participants, including leading faculty and lab directors from across Latin America alongside a curated cohort of ~300 graduate students and industry researchers selected from over 1,000 applicants. As the local AI ecosystem grows rapidly, KHIPU offers a rare opportunity to engage directly with these emerging researchers and regional leaders in one place, helping shape research priorities and the safety mindset across Latin America while connecting with talent and perspectives outside Silicon Valley.
100% free attendance & student grants: Attendance is completely free for all selected students, professors, and researchers. Sponsorship funding goes directly toward travel and accommodation grants for students and faculty across Latin America who otherwise could not afford to attend.
Community & Track Record: Past editions have featured speakers such as @Yoshua_Bengio , @JeffDean , @jpineau1 , and @NandoDF (2025 lineup: khipu.ai/khipu2025/speakers-…), and have been supported by the Hopper-Dean Foundation, @GoogleDeepMind , @Apple , @Microsoft , @Meta, @cohere , and @MistralAI . For 2027, @OriolVinyalsML and @sarahookr are already confirmed.
2027 Sponsorship Prospectus: Attached (also available at khipu.ai/prospectus-2027)
Contact: @FortunatoMeire ([email protected]) & KHIPU Sponsorship Committee ([email protected])
A point that Prof Fei-Fei Lee once made bears repeating: having concrete problems/data sets (such as ARC AGI) to think about and work with is extremely valuable, and it's (really) hard work to create them. Thanks 🙏🏻
Looking at a bunch of ARC AGI stuff right before some deep REM sleep, kinda exhausted. Ended up dreaming of my brother & Jeff Dean, talking & talking; it was all weird!
Didn't see their faces, but knew it was them! Waking up and realizing: yep, that's ARC AGI! 😂😂
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Chelsea doing another rock star presentation. Robots can indeed fold laundry and make espresso!
Robots can already fold laundry, make espresso, clean kitchens, and assemble things. The harder problem is getting them to do those tasks reliably, for long periods of time, without a human babysitting them.
At Startup School 2026, @physical_int cofounder @chelseabfinn explains what it takes to build general-purpose robots that work in the real world.
She shares how reinforcement learning pushed robot throughput up 2x, how their systems can run autonomously for hours, and why she believes robotics is entering its GPT era: moving from specialized models toward general-purpose systems that can work across tasks, robots, and environments.
00:00 — The State of Physical Intelligence
01:23 — What It Takes to Make Robots Useful
05:11 — The Reliability Problem
07:43 — Reinforcement Learning for Robotics
09:35 — Learning From Failures
12:43 — Training Robots to Improve Themselves
14:21 — Can a Robot Work for 13 Hours Straight?
17:36 — Why Robots Need Memory
21:22 — Building a General-Purpose Robot
25:02 — From Fine-Tuning to Out-of-the-Box Models
27:35 — Training on All the Data
30:20 — One Model That Beats the Specialists
31:21 — Compositional Generalization
37:49 — The GPT Era of Robotics
39:49 — Q&A
AI formalizing proof of FLT. Judging from how little attention this is getting from news sites... unbelievable! What a monumental achievement!
Check out my latest article: Software Grand Challenge linkedin.com/pulse/software-… via @LinkedIn
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Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash, another upgrade in under a month! And the new 3.8 Flash Cyber pushes the frontier of cyber defense. Relentless progress 🚀 More on the models & our cyber security work in the blog - happy building! blog.google/innovation-and-a…
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Introducing Atlas:
The world's first multimodal world model that generates image and video frames with pixel-perfect camera control and reconstructs them in 3D.
Model the world, move the camera, and simulate space & time.
Reza Roboubi retweeted
I'm so excited that our @theworldlabs team has achieved a major milestone today! Introducing Atlas - a first of its kind multimodal world model trained from scratch! 🚀
Atlas is capable of generating frames with pixel-perfect camera control, reconstructing large scenes from as few as one single input image, simulating space-time by reframing videos, natively outputting 3D spaces from one or more input images, composing multiple posed images into a consistent 3d world, and more! This is the best camera conditioned world model ever, opening doors to many possible use cases from VFX to robotics. I'm so so so proud of our team!♥️
First: tariffs are already a tax on the consumer, and president Trump is punishing his own voters. He doesn't need any help!
Second: mutual escalation has no limits and can be disastrous.
youtube.com/shorts/TOoZk8-kX…
This tariff war between #Canada and #US is crazy. Both sides, please cool it and work together to solve it. It's going to hurt all of us.
@realDonaldTrump our nations are stronger together.
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Reza Roboubi retweeted
من #سپهر_امیرزاده، ۲۳ ساله، دانشجوی پزشکی، به «جرم» کمک به معترضان مجروح به اعدام محکوم شدهام. صدایم باشید!
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بازنشر این توییت میتواند در شرایط فعلی ما کمک بزرگی باشد.
من و همسرم، یاسمن سجادی، دو روزنامهنگار ایرانی که بعد از جنبش زن زندگی آزادی و فشارهای نیروهای امنیتی ناچار به ترک ایران شدیم،به کمک شما نیاز داریم.
ما فقط ۵ روز دیگر فرصت داریم خانه فعلیمان را تحویل دهیم و در نقطهی امن دیگری، خانهای جدید اجاره کنیم. هزینه درمان یاسمن، داروهایمان، جراحی چشمم بهدلیل ابتلا به Pterygium و هزینههای معمول زندگی نیز پیش روست.
حمایتهای انجام شده تا کنون واقعا برای برونرفت از این بحرانها کافی نیست.
از هر حمایت و بازنشر شما صمیمانه سپاسگزاریم.
gofund.me/f7a195035
Women's suffrage:
Austria 1918
Germany 1918
UK 1918
Turkey 1934
France 1944
Iran 1963
Switzerland 1971
Yet, *despite* this, marriage laws remained extremely patriarchal in most countries for decades after suffrage.
Marzieh Nayyeri was forced into marriage at age 17,
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Islamic Republic in Iran hangs 24-Year-old woman who defended herself from sexual assault
Yesterday the regime executed Marziyeh Neyri yesterday, a young woman who was forced into marriage at age 17 and hanged for fighting back against her attacker.
Marziyeh was 18 years old when her husband's associate attempted to sexually assault her in her own home, in front of her husband. She grabbed a kitchen knife to defend herself. Her husband died in the struggle.
She told the court she had been repeatedly assaulted by her husband's associates before that day. Iran's courts didn't care.
The regime rejected her self-defense claim. Her attacker, who survived, took the stand and called her a murderer. The court believed him over her.
She was sentenced to death.
No clemency. No mercy. The sentence was carried out at Chubindar Prison in Qazvin.
Marziyeh Neyri never had a chance. Forced into marriage as a child under Iran's Islamic laws, she spent the few years of her adult life in a courtroom, fighting for her life after defending it.
She lost.
This is the Sharia Laws in Islamic Republic of Iran where a woman can be hanged for surviving.
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Reza Roboubi retweeted
Announcing Discovery Loop!
I am very excited to announce that, along with my longtime friends and collaborators @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML and @quocleix, we are founding Discovery Loop (@DiscoLoopAI), a Public Benefit Corporation whose mission is to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate discoveries and progress. The four of us have worked together for 14 to 30 years, and have helped build some of the world’s most used products, infrastructure and AI models, and we’re excited to turn our attention to this ambitious endeavor.
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Learn more at: discoveryloop.com
