Actually, to me, there is nothing bizarre about this. A nation’s thought-leadership in an important area like AI is soft power. This soft power is a currency for global influence. I expect the geopolitical competition for AI thought-leadership to increase over the next decade.
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Chinese LLM Papers as Primary Learning Source for AI Research
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“We are in this bizarre world where the best way to learn about LLMs is to read papers by Chinese companies. I do not think this is a good state of the world — US labs keeping their architectures and algorithms secret is ultimately hurting AI development in the US.” Thread
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Sakana AI on Global AI Landscape and GPU Demand Outlook
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Sakana AI on AI Development Outlook Interview: https://
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LLMs as Mainframe Computers: Early Stage AI Development
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“Today’s LLMs are the ‘Mainframe Computers’ of our generation”
— hardmaru (@hardmaru) 3 février 2025
I was on @BloombergTV today discussing @SakanaAILabs, and to share my view that today’s LLMs are our generation’s “Mainframe Computers”. We are still in the very early stages of AI, and it is inevitable, due to… pic.twitter.com/PHJNL1GdCM“Today’s LLMs are the ‘Mainframe Computers’ of our generation” I was on @BloombergTV today discussing @SakanaAILabs
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DeepSeek’s approach attributed to Schmidhuber’s prior work
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Sakana AI Hiring: Research Internship, Applied Engineer, Business Analyst
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Transformer²: Self-Adaptive LLMs with Neural Network Weight Adaptation
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Blog post for Transformer²: Self-Adaptive LLMshttps://t.co/AyeFdqEKsd
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Eventually, neural network weights should be as adaptive as the Octopus 🐙pic.twitter.com/me7urXJ6BSBlog post for Transformer²: Self-Adaptive LLMs https://
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Transformer²: Self-adaptive LLMs that Blur Pre and Post-training
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Transformer²: Self-adaptive LLMshttps://t.co/VnvzSmeIad
— hardmaru (@hardmaru) 15 janvier 2025
This new paper from @SakanaAILabs shows the power of an LLM that can self-adapt its weights to its environment. I think in the future, the line between “pre-training” and “post-training” will be gone, and our models and… https://t.co/t8gEsXOUeg pic.twitter.com/XNFqdnef14Transformer²: Self-adaptive LLMs https://
arxiv.org/abs/2501.06252 This new paper from @SakanaAILabs shows the power of an LLM that can self-adapt its weights to its environment. I think in the future, the line between “pre-training” and “post-training” will be gone, and our models and -
Von Neumann’s Visionary Legacy and Timeless Contributions
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Von Neumann was truly ahead of his time.
