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hustwindmapleon AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator

more like create a big launch for promo, then maintain it briefly then slowly let it die

hustwindmapleon World Model Architectures: A Survey (2018–2026)

Nice work!

hustwindmapleon SpaceX IPO demand is approaching four times oversubscribed

There is an IPO tab. Click that and register your interest. Schwab will notifiy you with allocation.

hustwindmapleon Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute

They've already issued $80B in 6 markets/currencies. How much more do you think they can raise at a decent rate? I think they might issue more next year.

Issuing new equity might be a financial engineering experiment. No other mag7 has tried it. Plus they got BH name on the plate.

hustwindmapleon Designing AI Chip Software and Hardware

Oh wow, amazing doc

hustwindmapleon Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically

I suspect Ant is already doing this for Claude. Takes a sh*t ton of compute though.

hustwindmapleon Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from A16Z, Nvidia to advance its world models

entertainment: gaming, videos, VR

learning

AGI: DeepMind is trying to build general agents within Genie (+SIMA)

hustwindmapleon Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory

The amazing thing about this is the first author has published multiple high-impact papers with Google Research VPs! And he is just a 2nd-year PhD student. Very few L7/L8 RS/SWEs can even do this.

hustwindmapleon Amazon launches Trainium3

I met a AWS engineer a couple of weeks ago and he said Trainium is actually being used for Anthropic model inference, not for training. Inferentia is basically defected Trainiums chips that nobody wants to use.

hustwindmapleon Integer Programming (1977) [pdf]

There are some new research that applies transformers to MIPs. I'm looking forward to LLMs cracking MIPs at some point and beat those commercial solvers.

hustwindmapleon Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year

It's not just for engineers. There are some non-engineering managers who have been demoted into ICs because they don't have enough ppl to manage.

hustwindmapleon Google execs say employees have to 'be more AI-savvy'

Any decent company would have comprehensive tests and peer review in place to mitigate AI bs

hustwindmapleon Building a ML Transformer in a Spreadsheet [video]

impressive