Presenting: The 2025 AI Engineering Reading List https://
latent.space/p/2025-papers 1 paper/blog/model family per week for every week of 2025, for you to run paper clubs or binge over the break.
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2025 AI Engineering Reading List: Weekly Papers
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2024 Synthetic Data and Small Models: Best Papers Recap
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## Recapping 2024 in Synthetic Data/Smol Models! We are very honored to have @LoubnaBenAllal1 recap and pick all the best papers in: Synthetic Data and Smol Models this year! Timestamps [00:00:05] Loubna Intro
[00:00:33] The Rise of Synthetic Data Everywhere
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Post-Transformer Architectures: SSMs vs RWKV Comparison
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## The Best of 2024 in Post-Transformers Arch We're very honored to feature a special joint talk between rival teams working on subquadratic attention: – @realDanFu of @togethercompute (SSMs)
– @picocreator of @recursal_AI (RWKV) @RWKV_AI If you're looking to catch up on the -

Open Models Exploded in 2024 Despite Upcoming Challenges
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The good news: Open models -exploded- in 2024! We were honored to have @soldni and @sophiamyang break down the incredible year in open models in our latest published pod! The bad news? Incentives, regulation, resource constraints, and many more challenges in 2025. If the
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Most Important Computer Vision Papers 2024 Trends
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Presenting: The Most Important Vision Papers of 2024 as picked by @roboflow and @vikhyatk The biggest trends are: 1. Vision and are converging -> Sora and OpenSora were built with Diffusion Transformers and MagViT
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AGI Is Coming Says Researchers Without Commercial Incentive
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When Sam and us researchers say AGI is coming we aren't doing it to sell you cool aid, a $2000 subscription, or to trick you to invest in our next round. It's actually coming. x.com/polynoamial/st…
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State of AI Startups 2024 Recap at NeurIPS
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The State of AI Startups with @saranormous and @pranavreddy
! Proud to share the opening keynote of Latent Space LIVE! at @NeurIPSConf
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latent.space/p/2024-startups We'll be in your ears through the holidays helping to recap and celebrate the best of 2024 in each domain! It's been -
Latent Space LIVE keynote 2024 AI year review at NeurIPS
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Presenting Latent Space LIVE! https://
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Generative Video WorldSim: Sora, Genie, VideoPoet Deep Dive
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Generative WorldSim, Diffusion, Vision, Reinforcement Learning and Robotics Our longest episode ever! https://
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– @OpenAI Sora (with @billpeeb
), – DeepMind Genie with @jparkerholder and @ashrewards – VideoPoet with @hyperparticle –