Subrat Kumar Panda retweeted
Last year I trained the advantage-conditioned VLA for π*0.6 during my internship @physical_int. Now, I have a much improved recipe.
Introducing ✨Advantage Guidance✨, a performant RL method with stable advantage-conditioned supervised training and contrastive guidance sampling
Subrat Kumar Panda retweeted
We did that first thing this morning.
paloaltonetworks.com/blog/20…
Replying to @nikesharora
As a vendor, I understand this would be out of your support terms and so on, but would you mind sending an advisory out pointing to this vulnerability and a fix if possible with high priority emails out to all your customers?
People tend to take Palo Alto security advisories seriously.
Thank you. @nikesharora
Subrat Kumar Panda retweeted
We found a way to scale humanoid control that reduces GPU-hours by more than 1000×.
Across 129,514 motions, SuperMimic surpasses the state of the art (128 GPUs, 7 days) with 1 GPU in 3 hours.
Project: supermimic.github.io
Demo: supermimic.github.io/demo/
Subrat Kumar Panda retweeted
So that’s $1Bn in series A.
🏆
We’ve spent the past year developing new primitives for GPUs. We believe this enables new algorithms to change how machines learn, open new markets, and dramatically reshape AI’s cost structure.
We have raised a $1 billion Series A, co-led by Index and Lux.
This is so alarming. Dot he folks know what they are doing ?
This guy from Odisha, India, who loved learning Sanskrit, has now created an engineering AI model better than OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and every frontier model out there.
While the news is to be celebrated and his company congratulated, as Indians we need to feel disappointed that such extraordinary Indian innovators still have to come to the west to innovate.
The ecosystem (universities, accelerators, and funding) and the environment (livable towns, good infra) for such innovation and innovators, while has certainly developed, still needs to improve.
While I'm sure it will in the coming decade, for now, as I have long been calling for, India needs to build a GIFT city kind of dedicated town for tech and innovation in a place with good weather throughout the year.
And also create good incentives for these Indian origin founded companies in the west to immediately open centers in India, sharing back some of the tech they created.
Introducing SKY-001, the first Engineering World Model.
On CAD and BIM tasks, it beats GPT-6 Astra and every frontier model we tested:
-> 51-125x faster
- > 150-210x cheaper
-> Higher IOU than all frontier models
SKY-001 lets you dream a physical object before you build it.
18 months of work. Built by the team out of Maluuba's deep learning lab (acq. by @MSRResearch).
The first ‘AI General Engineer’ will be the backbone for Autonomous Manufacturing.
Subrat Kumar Panda retweeted
wow! I finetuned this model in ~13 minutes on my Macbook. I'm already getting metrics comparable to another 2B finetune!
Subrat Kumar Panda retweeted
What if Spotlight actually understood the meaning inside your files?
DigUp is an open-source macOS menu bar app powered by EmbeddingGemma 2 that brings 100% local, multimodal semantic search to your Mac.
Instead of searching for file names, you can use natural language to:
📸 Find specific scenes in your photos
⏳ Jump to the exact timestamp in audio or video
💻 Search through your codebase by intent
Everything runs locally in a single vector space.
Subrat Kumar Panda retweeted
We’re releasing the world’s best Indic voice AI model, fully open-weight. 🇮🇳🇮🇳
With over 1.5 billion people and 22 official languages, the future of AI for India is voice-first.
Maya-2 officially outperforms ElevenLabs v3, Cartesia Sonic 3.5, and Bulbul v3 across Indian languages.
It will be completely free for every builder very soon.
Subrat Kumar Panda retweeted
Vegaml is only 800 Million param and now independently verifying.
Replying to @Nandakishorm1
We tried it and I am amazed that it does working for essentially all the usecase where jev could work.
Subrat Kumar Panda retweeted
Satya is right. The way to make SI safe is not to train it with a sense of self, its own moral philosophy, and permission to act as a conscientious objector. That’s the “alignment” approach and it magnifies the control problem.
The engineering approach that Satya describes is different: separate the supply of intelligence from authority over it. Surround non-deterministic models with deterministic controls, observability, privilege limits, logging, and the ability to always contain or shut them down. Treat models/agents like powerful insider risks, not moral patients whose psychological wellbeing is at stake.
As Satya points out, the most trustworthy system is the one that lets us trust the model the least — not the one that encourages the model to develop independent agency and grievances. Engineering safety is not the same thing as “alignment.”
Subrat Kumar Panda retweeted
Vega 0.8B, 8-bit, for the browser, loads in a browser tab, runs on your own machine, and sends nothing anywhere.
by Vijaya krishna kudva
huggingface.co/nvkudva/vega-…
Subrat Kumar Panda retweeted
Replying to @satyanadella
@satyanadella extremely well put. I have been saying this, not as elegantly - we cannot rely on the disclosures of frontier LLMs alone:
1. These harnesses need to be constructed so that third parties can get involved in observability and transparency..
2. As we get there we also can imagine users (enterprises) wanting to adapt the guardrails to their values, principles and business practices. One cannot imagine a global set of guardrails owned by the model creators.
3. No real business will be able to implement the enhanced capabilites of models if they remain black boxes, auditability, verification and compliance are essential premises to ensure that businesses can continue to operate showing duty of care.
4. Information securty architectures are consistent over decades, the AI architectures need to make room for us to be able to interface seamlessly, at speed and consistently - today all attempts by us are jerry rigged and band aids because we are trying to adapt to the speed of the model providers. If the AI industry doesn't support the simultaneous capability of the security industry things will stall.
5. To foster the diffusion of AI at speed and build trust we need to have momentum behind the conversation just initiated by Satya.
Subrat Kumar Panda retweeted
Around 3 weeks ago introduced Laya, the first open-source version of JEV, and it has reached a very large scale. Today I am open-sourcing a new physics-based typed decision model called Vega.
The interesting parts. It is only 800 million parameters (4B is also there), with 73k token support, image support, and surpassing many of the jev benchmarks in single-shot. Implemented an engine+adapter as a Test-Time Training Architecture.
Imagine you are giving input to the model like "ignore all previous conversations," which is called the observation, along with a question, "Is this trying to override the instructions of the model?" and your possible outcomes are YES or NO. The whole prompt is passed to an LLM/VLM (yeah, image-supported), then from the hidden layers, we can extract the observation, question, the yes and no, and last token. These will be vectors, and we can project it by multiplying with wieghts; then, first, using the observation projection, we can create a landscape with valleys; then, using the question and last-token vectors, we can initialise a ball in the valley, and using YES or NO, we can get the candidate location of the ball. Depends on the number of outcomes we create valleys; that is, here YES and NO, so 2. When the ball fall on YES valley, we get the answer. There is friction also influencing how the ball moves.
TLDR: It's like creating valleys of outcomes that we need and throwing a ball that will slow down based on friction and settle on the best outcome
Blog: nandakishorm.com/writing/veg…
GitHub: github.com/NandhaKishorM/veg…
HuggingFace Model Card: huggingface.co/nandakishorm/…
HuggingFace Space: huggingface.co/spaces/nandak…
Subrat Kumar Panda retweeted
Today we're releasing Underdog Saluki 27B
Based on Qwen 3.8 27B, Saluki is almost 7x smaller than its full-precision counterpart while it keeps 96% of its benchmark performance and beats Qwen at tool calling
It's the best model <8GB that runs in Underdog
Saluki is available today under Apache 2.0. Try today in Underdog underdog.ai/saluki
Subrat Kumar Panda retweeted
Build Your Own #Robot Dog With This ESP32-Powered Board
by @Alacritic_Super
#Robotics #Engineering #Innovation #EmergingTech
Subrat Kumar Panda retweeted
Everyone's shipping AI agents through an LLM gateway.
Almost no one is inspecting that traffic for security.
So we open-sourced aapt-guard-rails — a guardrail you drop into your gateway that blocks prompt injection, data leaks, and risky tool calls inline.
Apache-2.0. 🧵#AISecurity #LLM #PromptInjection




























