many of the IMO winners hired by Meta are scientists, not just engineers. scientists are motivated by money all the time, it doesn't take an engineer to be motivated but money many people (including scientists) have multiple objectives they're optimizing over.
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Big Tech Uses AI Fear Stories to Block Smaller Competitors
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Big tech pushes scary AI stories to enforce regulations that block smaller competitors. pic.twitter.com/aWcoaY03Fn
— Satya Mallick (@LearnOpenCV) 8 février 2026Big tech pushes scary AI stories to enforce regulations that block smaller competitors.
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xAI Launches New Grok Imagine Image Models on API
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The new image models are now available on Grok Imagine API. Try them at docs.x.ai/developers/model-c…. Arena.ai (@arena) The new @xAI Grok-Imagine-Image model is a Pareto-optimal model in Image Arena: The Pareto frontier tells us which model has the highest Arena score at each price point. @xAi’s latest models have improved the frontier, giving optimal performance in the mid-price tier. For a wide range of prices between 2c and 8c per image, @elonmusk’s @xAI has the leading model, delivering the maximum performance. Top models on the Pareto frontier for Image Arena (Single Image Edit): – @OpenAI: GPT-Image-1.5-high-fidelity – @xAI: Grok Imagine Image Pro – @xAI: Grok Imagine Image – @bfl_ml: Flux 2 Klein 9B – @bfl_ml: Flux-2-Dev – @reve : V1.1 Fast See thread for how the frontier changes for Text-to-Image 🧵 — https://nitter.net/arena/status/2020215931646120004#m
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Integrating Gemini AI into Chrome: Future of Browser Technology
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From a window to the web to an AI-powered platform: How do you integrate Gemini into the world's most popular browser?
— Google AI (@GoogleAI) 6 février 2026
On this week’s Release Notes, @OfficialLoganK sat down with @rosterloh and @laparisa to talk about how they approached this integration and what the future of… pic.twitter.com/qRMyptvz4fFrom a window to the web to an AI-powered platform: How do you integrate Gemini into the world's most popular browser? On this week’s Release Notes, @OfficialLoganK sat down with @rosterloh and @laparisa to talk about how they approached this integration and what the future of
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Grok API Credits Reward Program for X Developers
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Supercharge your X apps with Grok by unlocking free xAI API credits! For every dollar spent on X API credits, earn up to 20% back in xAI credits based on your cumulative spend. Details: docs.x.com/overview#pricing Developers (@XDevelopers) Officially launching X API Pay-Per-Use The core of X developers are indie builders, early stage products, startups, and hobbyists It’s time to open up our X API ecosystem and instill a new wave of next generation X apps We’re so back. developer.x.com — https://nitter.net/XDevelopers/status/2019881223666233717#m
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Meta’s AI researcher salaries exceed France’s entire AI investment
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Meta pays individual AI researchers more than the whole of France invests in AI George (@BehizyTweets) French President Emmanuel Macron just announced that France is investing $30 million in artificial intelligence as part of his plan to put France & Europe ahead of the United States in the AI race. Part of the money will also go to climate change initiatives. LOL. — https://nitter.net/BehizyTweets/status/2019611562718154770#m
→ View original post on X — @reza_zadeh, 2026-02-06 17:53 UTC
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OpenAI Surpasses Google in Consumer AI Token Competition
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OpenAI Bests Google in Race for Consumer AI Token Consumption #AI #AIio #AIInnovation #ML #DataScience #Futureofwork @timnitgebru @oriolvinyalsml @ceobillionaire @soumithchintala @waitin4agi_ @sallyeaves @bernardmarr
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High Signal-to-Noise Technical AI Progress Tracking
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For me, "Whatever @simonw posts" has progressively become my main way to track technical x product progress in AI (both open and closed, though i'd love to see a bit more open) His tech x product signal-to-noise ratio is *very high*
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France’s 30M Euro AI Investment Criticized Against Silicon Valley’s 2.9T Dollar Program
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Monsieur le Président
— Docteur Laurent Alexandre (@dr_l_alexandre) 6 février 2026
Vous vous rendez compte de l’absurdité de ce tweet ?
Vous vous félicitez d’un investissement de 30 millions d’euros. C’est pathétique
La Silicon Valley a un programme d’investissement de 2900 milliards de dollars sur la seule Intelligence Artificielle https://t.co/hinMJgFEOYMonsieur le Président Vous vous rendez compte de l’absurdité de ce tweet ? Vous vous félicitez d’un investissement de 30 millions d’euros. C’est pathétique La Silicon Valley a un programme d’investissement de 2900 milliards de dollars sur la seule Intelligence Artificielle
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Microsoft Super Intelligence Team Hiring Data Engineers
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I’d like to hire strong data engineers to join our Microsoft Super Intelligence (MSI) team. I am interested in people who are good at processing PDFs and other documents at billion scale, and people good at parsing the web at trillion scale. If you dream of processing all of