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https://x.com/MechanizeWork/status/1912904151874625928

Core people at Epoch AI have founded Mechanize to develop RL environments, benchmarks, and datasets to automate white collar work.

https://x.com/nickcammarata/status/1912934075628949982

Interpretability lab Goodfire has raised $50M to do interpretability research. They have great taste and great people, very bullish.

Knowing Enough About MoE to Explain Dropped Tokens in GPT-4

Great piece on a surprising design choice for the MOEs in GPT-4 and DeepSeek that results in token dropping. I don’t believe this design will be used for much longer.

Zheng Dong Wang’s 2024 letter

How do you describe that property of high-entropy autobiography and personal fiction that relates to its particular aesthetic qualities? here’s an example of a blog with such qualities, including an on-the-ground description of frontier AI research. Ideas:

  • vivid, textured, or dense descriptiveness
  • presence