Ulrich A. Mbou Sob retweeted
Ok so Astra one-shotted a schematic, a placement and a routed 4 layer board. Already mind blowing
We ran the same board through @DeepPCB. Some notes:
> The board uses five track widths. It declares one net class, and that class is empty. So four of those widths can't be checked. A DRC has nothing to hold them against
> 9 of Astra's 32 vias sit inside pads. On a 4-layer 27-net board. Via in pad means a filled and capped process and a conversation with your assembler. This board doesn't seem to need it
Result after 15 mins of routing:
>DeepPCB: zero vias in pads, every width under a rule, 1,104mm of copper against 1,282
>DeepPCB places 2x more vias (64 v 32). Split them: 15 layer changes for Astra, 14 for DeepPCB. The other 50 drop the rails into a split power plane on inner-2, which costs holes and a routing layer
Those come from the router underneath, not from reasoning. Driving one well doesn't fix what the router itself gets wrong
LLMs will keep getting better, and that means more designs. They still need routing. Astra is pretty insane and it's good news for us
Any frontier LLM can drive a router like DeepPCB, through our API or with Cooper
Astra just ONE-SHOTTED my PCB for Microduck. It's over guys
Link: boardrepo.com/chih-yang04/mi…
Ulrich A. Mbou Sob retweeted
🚀 Proud to share that our research showing how inference-time strategies can break the reinforcement learning performance ceiling has been selected for an oral presentation at @NeurIPSConf 2025! 🎉
👇 Hear from lead authors @ChalumeauFelix and @ruanjohn in the ▶️ below.
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Breaking the performance ceiling in Reinforcement Learning
Ulrich A. Mbou Sob retweeted
🚨 Thrilled to share our #ICML2025 paper: "Sable: a Performant, Efficient and Scalable Sequence Model for MARL"!
We introduce a new SOTA cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning algorithm that delivers the advantages of centralised learning without its drawbacks.
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Ulrich A. Mbou Sob retweeted
Female Track Athlete of the Year nominee ✨
Repost to vote for Julien Alfred 🇱🇨 in the #AthleticsAwards.
Voting closes on Sunday 27 October at 11:59 PM CEST.
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Male Track Athlete of the Year nominee ✨
Repost to vote for Letsile Tebogo 🇧🇼 in the #AthleticsAwards.
Voting closes on Sunday 27 October at 11:59 PM CEST.
Ulrich A. Mbou Sob retweeted
Ai Day last week was a blast! I had a great time presenting alongside many colleagues from @instadeepai and @BioNTech_Group, some of our ongoing Bio+AI initiatives.
We made several announcements, introducing Kyber, our new supercomputing cluster (more on this soon), as well as BFN, our new paradigm for generative AI, with competitive results on protein and antibody generation.
During Ai Day we also delivered two live demos of Laila, our new AI agent, including one from BioNTech's TechLab in Mainz, Germany!
To our knowledge, this was one of the first demos of its kind featuring a GPT-4 level AI agent acting in the Lab, interacting with scientists and technicians and helping them enhance their productivity!
Ai Day was a significant moment for all of us, and it was exciting to see both the event and Laila featured by several publications including @FT (shorturl.at/hwy4c).
Curious to see it in action? Check out the recording of the Laila in the Lab demo below, worth watching and don't miss the end! 😉
Ulrich A. Mbou Sob retweeted
DeepPCB Pro is LIVE, so proud of the @instadeepai team who worked insanely hard to make it happen! 🔥👍🏼
👋 Hello World! 🌎
Introducing DeepPCB Pro, our AI-powered design tool for industry-grade PCBs! Fast, precise, and compute-scalable with @googlecloud ☁️ Check it out at deeppcb.ai 👀
Ulrich A. Mbou Sob retweeted
Going live soon People🥳🥳🥳: youtube.com/watch?v=wv0VuOR6…
Ulrich A. Mbou Sob retweeted
Live Event on Adversarial Machine Learning Happening now: youtube.com/watch?v=w_lpZH7v…
Host: KmerAI represented by @NaomiLyse
Guest: @JNgnawe , PhD student at laval & @Mila_Quebec
Topic: Detecting Brittle Decisions for Free: Leveraging Margin Consistency in Deep Robust Classifiers
Ulrich A. Mbou Sob retweeted
🧬 More than 170K researchers have downloaded our open source Nucleotide Transformer model in the past month, making it the most popular genomics model on @huggingface 🤗 Try it here: huggingface.co/InstaDeepAI/n…
Ulrich A. Mbou Sob retweeted
Excited to announce Jumanji v1.0, now featuring 22 fast, flexible, and scalable environments!
Fully written in JAX, Jumanji offers on-device fully-jitted simulations and training.
Jumanji got published at ICLR 2024! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2306.09884
GitHub: github.com/instadeepai/juman…
All invited.
This Friday (08 Mar), the MARL Research Team at @instadeepai will be presenting their work on Growing the MARL software ecosystem in JAX at 9 AM PST. Looking forward to seeing y’all there!
Ulrich A. Mbou Sob retweeted
📽️The documentary #CapeToCarthage spotlights our #MultiAgentReinforcementLearning research team. To empower a new generation, we developed Mava, our open source library that helps researchers build their own MARL systems in #JAX🛠️ Check it out here: github.com/instadeepai/Mava
🍿Watch the film🎟️ decisiveagents.com/capetocar…
#OpenSourceAI
Ulrich A. Mbou Sob retweeted
We released the weights and downstream task datasets of the agroNT, our 1B parameters DNA foundation model for plant genomics 🧬🪴. Check out our github (github.com/instadeepai/nucle…) for Jax lovers⚡❤️and our @huggingface space (huggingface.co/InstaDeepAI) for the pytorch version🤗.
Ulrich A. Mbou Sob retweeted
New postgrad students, register for the Deep Learning 'Bootcamp', taking place at North-West University's Potchefstroom campus and online from 29 Jan - 2 Feb 2024. Attendance is free. Details: buff.ly/48u8CW6 #deeplearning #physics
Ulrich A. Mbou Sob retweeted
Thrilled to announce that our paper, "Offline RL for generative design of protein binders", has been awarded the Best Student Paper at the @NeurIPSConf AI4D3 workshop! 🏆 Grateful for the incredible team from @instadeepai and excited about the impact of our work in drug design.
Ulrich A. Mbou Sob retweeted
We use offline reinforcement learning to design small molecules. Learn more in our #NeurIPS2023 New Frontiers of AI for Drug Discovery and Development workshop, or read the paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Ulrich A. Mbou Sob retweeted
Team Cameroon @DeepIndaba this year was amazing.❤️🔥🥰 amazing lovely brilliant minds. Missing y’all already🇨🇲@ensoesie @ai_kmer @WiMLDS_Yaounde @BelInitiative
Ulrich A. Mbou Sob retweeted
Also thanks to the amazing team that helped create the pracs this year! 🚀(+ @BrynElesedy @JamesAllingham @hereismari @umangsbhatt @myzta_tee @everlyn_asiko @kiradusterwald @engmubarak49 Tejumade Afonja @akram__zaytar @hgilles06 @KanubalaD @kevin_eloff @girmawAT @ANjupoun )
Ulrich A. Mbou Sob retweeted
The "Dive into ML: Learning by Implementing" prac, led by @ulrichsob - "Through our interactive coding exercises, you'll gain a deeper understanding of machine learning and even build some models from scratch. Join us and experience the thrilling art of crafting ML models." 🚀






























