I hear AI *hates* problems based on 2D grids of squares
@fchollet
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AI Achieves IMO Gold Medal via Token Space Search
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Officially validated IMO gold medal, purely via search in token space, achieved in 4.5 hrs (unclear at what compute cost). The solutions read nicely as well
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Intelligence: Efficiency Ratio for Acquiring and Deploying Skills
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Intelligence isn't a collection of skills. It's the efficiency with which you acquire and deploy new skills. It's an efficiency ratio. And that's why benchmark scores can be very misleading about the actual intelligence of AI systems.
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Developer Preview: Games, Agent API, and $10K Competition
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What's included in the developer preview: • Three test games: Go play them yourself – they're fun!
• An agent API: Start building and testing your agents against the games.
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ARC-AGI-3 Developer Preview Released for Community Feedback
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Today we're releasing a developer preview of our next-gen benchmark, ARC-AGI-3. The goal of this preview, leading up to the full version launch in early 2026, is to collaborate with the community. We invite you to provide feedback to help us build the most robust and effective
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Vidu.com: Fast Video Generation with Reference Images for Kids
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vidu.com supports reference-to-video and produces really fast video generations, which is the main feature you need if you're using it with your kids (much more so than realism or consistency). You can provide 4-5 reference images. Try it with a person, with -
Reference-to-Video: Insert Character Images Into Videos
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You can even insert them into the videos using reference-to-video (you provide a set of images to use as character references). If you’ve got a little storyteller at home, I can’t recommend this enough
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Video generation transforms children’s stories into animated reality
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My favorite use case for video generation so far: use it to turn your kid's stories into animated clips
— François Chollet (@fchollet) 15 juillet 2025
Kids find it completely natural that computers can make videos, and they love to see what they describe come to life — it’s like seeing your imagination validated, made real pic.twitter.com/NIJD1duChAMy favorite use case for video generation so far: use it to turn your kid's stories into animated clips Kids find it completely natural that computers can make videos, and they love to see what they describe come to life — it’s like seeing your imagination validated, made real
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IQ Tests: Flawed Measures Conflating Intelligence with Knowledge and Culture
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IQ is simply a badly designed test of intelligence — it correlates in part with intelligence, but it is very noisy and as a result it correlates with many other things that are distinct from intelligence — knowledge and cultural factors. IQ scores can be trained.
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JAX Usage as Indicator of High-Quality Research Papers
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You can tell a paper is going to be solid when you follow the link to the repo and see it uses JAX