Daniel Bate retweeted
Introducing ml-intern, the agent that just automated the post-training team @huggingface
It's an open-source implementation of the real research loop that our ML researchers do every day. You give it a prompt, it researches papers, goes through citations, implements ideas in GPU sandboxes, iterates and builds deeply research-backed models for any use case. All built on the Hugging Face ecosystem.
It can pull off crazy things:
We made it train the best model for scientific reasoning. It went through citations from the official benchmark paper. Found OpenScience and NemoTron-CrossThink, added 7 difficulty-filtered dataset variants from ARC/SciQ/MMLU, and ran 12 SFT runs on Qwen3-1.7B. This pushed the score 10% → 32% on GPQA in under 10h. Claude Code's best: 22.99%.
In healthcare settings it inspected available datasets, concluded they were too low quality, and wrote a script to generate 1100 synthetic data points from scratch for emergencies, hedging, multilingual etc. Then upsampled 50x for training. Beat Codex on HealthBench by 60%.
For competitive mathematics, it wrote a full GRPO script, launched training with A100 GPUs on hf.co/spaces, watched rewards claim and then collapse, and ran ablations until it succeeded. All fully backed by papers, autonomously.
How it works?
ml-intern makes full use of the HF ecosystem:
- finds papers on arxiv and hf.co/papers, reads them fully, walks citation graphs, pulls datasets referenced in methodology sections and on hf.co/datasets
- browses the Hub, reads recent docs, inspects datasets and reformats them before training so it doesn't waste GPU hours on bad data
- launches training jobs on HF Jobs if no local GPUs are available, monitors runs, reads its own eval outputs, diagnoses failures, retrains
ml-intern deeply embodies how researchers work and think. It knows how data should look like and what good models feel like.
Releasing it today as a CLI and a web app you can use from your phone/desktop.
CLI: github.com/huggingface/ml-in…
Web + mobile: huggingface.co/spaces/smolag…
And the best part? We also provisioned 1k$ GPU resources and Anthropic credits for the quickest among you to use.
Even without the big AI deals it was ~$112 billion quarter
The time to build is now anon
Q1 2026 was the largest quarter for venture investment ever recorded.
More charts: a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-we…
Segregation isn’t a holistic fix and I’m not handing over my biometrics to any tech or gov platform.
Current incentive structures break in an agentic world. PoH is solving the wrong problem entirely.
Ahoy @K1_R1_
new model for engineering team structure in 2026:
2 people only
one pirate and one architect
the pirate's job is to move as fast as possible to develop valuable, shipped product features by vibe coding.
the architect's job is to turn the product surface discovered by the pirate into a reliable, structured machine—also by vibe coding, but at a slower, more well-reasoned pace.
every product needs a pirate but most product's only need an architect once they some form of PMF, and in that case they usually don't need one full-time. architects can work across many codebases and solve interesting technical challenges. pirates go hard on a product that they own end-to-end.
Daniel Bate retweeted
now that I’m no longer doing a startup and won’t for many years, some early stage startup fundraising advice:
don’t spend any time at all with investors until you’re ready. tell them you’re too busy. do not meet with them. yes especially if an associate emails you 5 times
The algorithm rewards chasing virality. Doomsaying is fashionable right now and negativity compounds.
You've just gotta cut through the noise.
Perfect day to log off and just build.
A literal technological revolution is happening right now and the possibilities have never been wider.
For me, it's always been about creating great products and tech. Always will be.
Farcaster news is yet another example of VC-backed engagement ≠ product market fit.
Lots of negative SocialFi takes but little has changed - we still haven't innovated and the primitives are better than ever.
The killer app is still unbuilt.
Farcaster’s move away from social-first is a good example that it’s not enough for products in the crypto space/that use crypto infrastructure to just be:
“[thing that’s already big] but onchain”.
We must make products that do/offer new things. These can’t just be disaster scenario protections. These must be a part of the day to day UX and system incentives.
Trad-parity was never the goal
Thought Neymar had just bought Farcaster, almost spat out my coffee
BREAKING: NEYNAR IS ACQUIRING FARCASTER
SOURCE: farcaster.xyz/dwr/0x72aab3a5




















