Sam Altman said the smartest scientists in AI are the ones who held the entire field back. The experts were the problem. This is one of the most uncomfortable things he said all night. Altman said the field was honestly held back by a generation of scientists who were too certain about what scaling would not produce. The people with the most credibility were the most wrong. Then he explained why. It was not about intelligence. It was about identity. He said when you make your identity about a particular belief, that something will work or won't work, and then the data disproves you, you get stuck. You are too attached to the belief to let it go. You cannot see the truth anymore. The smarter you are, the more confidently you defend the wrong position. He pointed at the trolls who spent years saying scaling was a dead end, a fraud, a company destined to fail. The data kept proving them wrong. They kept repeating themselves anyway. He called that a form of insanity. Then he turned it around. He said it is a reminder in both directions. Including for the people who are currently right. The lesson is not that experts are dumb. It is that the moment a belief becomes who you are, it stops being something you can update. (Watch the full talk on YouTube at Stanford Online channel)

A 21-YEAR-OLD FROM CHINA RUNS 300 AI AGENTS AT ONCE. THE PART THAT MATTERS ISN'T THE SPEED, IT'S THAT NONE OF THEM CAN LIE TO HIM he opens the dashboard and shows the swarm live, 300 Kimi K2.6 agents firing in parallel, then Opus 4.8 checking every single output against its source. this is not just a faster swarm. it is a loop that refuses to stop while anything is still wrong he pointed it at 100 EV-market companies. first pass: 12 failed. wrong revenue, dead citations, empty fields. second pass: 3 failed. third pass: zero this is not another agent demo. it is a system that catches its own mistakes before he reads a single row

Ok, somehow OpenAI made the model selection even more confusing. Not even I know when to use GPT-4o and when GPT-4.1. We have: - GPT-4o - GPT-04 mini - GPT-o4 mini high - GPT-4.1 - GPT-4.1 mini - GPT-4.5 - o3 Come on..

This bit of Sam Altman’s newest post is similar in tone to a post by the CEO of Anthropic & what many (not all) researchers from every lab have been saying publicly and privately. You do not have to believe them, but I think they believe what they are saying, for what it worth.

Just got this text from a 23-year old VC associate that recently joined our board.

GreenCV: Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our times. As we pursue larger and more capable vision models, we must also seek to develop efficient ones. Towards this goal, I am planning to submit a PAMI-TC motion @ICCV_2021. A first draft: docs.google.com/document/d/1…

Hi @RiseOfAI @fabianwesterheide @barryosullivan @AljoschaBurchardt @AsgardCapital Here are 20 women in AI. forbes.com/sites/mariyayao/2… (Thanks Google) @GenderAvenger