We’ve raised 75m in new funding from Sequoia and Spark Capital—partnering with @sonyatweetybird, @MikowaiA, and @YasminRazavi, all of whom are deeply supportive of our long-term mission. We’ve also brought on angels & advisors including @karpathy, @tszzl, and @_milankovac_. ----- Our early results with FDM-1 moved computer use from a data-constrained regime to a compute-constrained one; this latest round of funding unlocks several orders of magnitude of compute scaling for that work. With the FDM model series we have a path to scale agentic capabilities through video pretraining, and we expect to achieve superhuman performance on general computer tasks in the same way that current language models have superhuman performance on coding tasks. We’re also now able to invest in the blue-sky research necessary to our long term mission of building aligned general learners. To realize the civilizationally transformative impacts of AI, models must generalize far out of their training distributions, actively exploring and building skills in new environments. This capability represents a substantial shift from the current paradigm of model training. We believe that current alignment techniques are insufficient to predictably and safely steer a model with human-level learning capabilities, and so we’re doing work to study small versions of this problem in controlled environments to develop a science of alignment for general learners. We’re a team of 6 people in San Francisco. We’re hiring world-class researchers and engineers to help us achieve our mission. If that’s you, please get in touch.

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New from me this morning: standard intelligence has raised $75m @ $500m to develop computer use models Their hypothesis is that video pretraining gives a better action prior than text and screenshots ➡️ continual learning And their training runs are very brat

Very excited for the SI team - fun fact, General Intuition likely would not have existed without Galen and his early mentorship as I was getting started in the field after @lachygroom introduced us. Having mostly traditional researchers in my network, and nobody who was self-taught like Galen, it was great seeing people paving their own path and being so far ahead of the curve. Follow this team!

Computer use models shouldn't learn from screenshots. We built a new foundation model that learns from video like humans do. FDM-1 can construct a gear in Blender, find software bugs, and even drive a real car through San Francisco using arrow keys.

At Standard Intelligence we’ve been researching scalable cross-modality learning. We’re excited to share some early results in the form of 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘇-𝗱𝗲𝘃, an open-source, first-of-its-kind base model for full-duplex conversational audio. 1/

built a 4x4090 space heater recently, took abt a week of debugging to get it running nicely. Thread to add public knowledge---