"A world model is already here, it's just not evenly distributed yet." — William Gibson on SAM-3/3D x NanoBanana Pro x your favorite LLM.
@jeande_d
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Olmo 3: Open Language Model for Reasoning and Tool Use
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Announcing Olmo 3, a leading fully open LM suite built for reasoning, chat, & tool use, and an open model flow—not just the final weights, but the entire training journey. Best fully open 32B reasoning model & best 32B base model. 🧵
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Excitement over new frontier model releases on X timeline
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Every time there is a new top-performing frontier model, I just like every post on the timeline. It's not everyday that X timeline is bright and cheerful.
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CulturalGround Dataset for Cultural AI Research
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We have a dataset that fulfills some of these conditions: – a dataset: https://
huggingface.co/datasets/neula
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– Code: https://
github.com/neulab/Cultura
lGround
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– Paper: https://
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Introduction to AI Courses Finally Receive Major Curriculum Upgrade
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There have been decent vertical courses around modern topics in AI but this is the first time "Intro to AI" course get a concrete upgrade. This is important. Speaking from student standpoint, most CS/ECE programs have "Intro to AI/AI for engineers/AI principles/more variations,
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CulturalGround Paper Poster and Data Curation Pipeline
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Here is the poster of the paper: a quick glimpse of CulturalGround and the data curation pipeline.
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EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou: Oral Presentation and Research Networking
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Just wrapped up EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou. I had an opportunity to present our paper in oral session and separate BoF session of multilinguality and multimodal for everyday knowledge. Also got to see and chat with many cool people from all walks of research and the world!
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CulturalGround: Grounding Multimodal LLMs with World Cultural Knowledge
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If you are in Suzhou attending EMNLP 2025, come to my talk tomorrow on grounding multimodal LLMs with world cultural knowledge. Date/time(local): Friday 7th Nov, 10:30-10:45 AM
Room: A301
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Attending EMNLP2025 in Suzhou presenting multimodal LLM grounding work
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I will be heading to Suzhou soon attending #EMNLP2025 next week, presenting my work on grounding multimodal LLMs with world/cultural knowledge, https://
arxiv.org/abs/2508.07414. Email/DM open if you want to chat about the paper and other topics more broadly(multimodal LLMs x languages x -

PyTorch Version of Hands-On Machine Learning Book Released
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PyTorch version of Hands-On Machine Learning Book by Aurélien Géron is just out! This was one of my favorite books when I started learning machine learning and it's nice to see it using PyTorch. Data science courses/MOOCs back then used to teach you numpy, pandas, matplotlib,