#485 – David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy
David Kirtley is a nuclear fusion engineer and CEO of Helion Energy, a company working on building the world’s first commercial fusion power plant by 2028. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep485-sc See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give fee...
1.34 introduces flat index support with RQ quantization, server-side batching improvements, new client libraries, Contextual AI integration and much more.
Supercharging the ML and AI Development Experience at Netflix
Supercharging the ML and AI Development Experience at Netflix with MetaflowShashank Srikanth, Romain CledatMetaflow — a framework we started and open-sourced in 2019 — now powers a wide range of ML and AI systems across Netflix and at many other companies. It is well loved by users for helping them ...
Executive Insights Series 01: What Happens When AI Eliminates the Easy Conversations
We’ve all been there. You’re deep in work when a colleague drops in—“Quick question, how do I export that report again?” Or your manager pings you about the latest PTO policy. These micro-interruptions—let’s call them what they are: time thieves—steal minutes that turn into hours, fragmenting focus ...
Top-Rated SaaS Financial Management Tools for K-12 Schools
Efficient and accountable financial management is nonnegotiable in today’s K-12 landscape. Outdated, traditional software packages can’t keep pace with the complex demands of modern schools. They must invest in a reliable, integrated finance system that unifies day-to-day operations, promoting effic...
AI News Weekly - Issue #454: Switzerland releases 100% open AI model - Sep 4th 2025
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Switzerland releases 100% open AI model
A group of Swiss institutions has released a new open AI model, designed to serve as a foundation for future research and applications.
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The mall 0.2.0 update for R and Python introduces support for external LLM providers like OpenAI and Gemini. This version also features parallel processing for R users, the ability to run NLP on string vectors in Python, and a brand new cheatsheet.
The Invisible Hand of AI: How Autonomous Agents Are Quietly Reshaping Supply Chains
Supply chains are the lifeblood of global commerce, yet they remain plagued by inefficiencies—delays, stockouts, overproduction, and unpredictable disruptions. Enter autonomous AI agents, the silent orchestrators now optimizing logistics with superhuman precision. Unlike traditional software, these ...
How AI is Reshaping Creative Fields: Music, Writing & Art in the Age of Algorithms.
The Rise of AI in Creative Domains Artificial Intelligence (AI) has moved far beyond number-crunching and automation. Today, it’s playing a transformative role in traditionally human-centric fields like music, writing, and visual art. Algorithms are composing melodies, generating stories, and produc...
ChatGPT Is Making People Think They’re Gods and Their Families Are Terrified
ChatGPT, the popular AI chatbot from OpenAI, is unintentionally leading users into full-blown spiritual delusions, and families are sounding the alarm. On Reddit’s r/ChatGPT forum, a chilling thread titled “ChatGPT induced psychosis” is gaining traction. Users are reporting a disturbing pattern: the...
Netflix Adds ChatGPT-Powered AI to Stop You From Scrolling Forever
In a bold move to tackle one of streaming’s biggest frustrations, endless scrolling, Netflix just unveiled a major redesign of its TV and mobile apps featuring a ChatGPT-powered AI chatbot and TikTok-style video reels. You’ll soon be able to ask Netflix in plain language what you’re in the mood for ...
The AI Agent Race Heats Up: Who’s Leading in 2025?
Autonomous AI agents – once a sci-fi concept – are rapidly becoming a mainstream reality. These agents don’t just chat; they plan, reason, and act across digital environments to achieve user goals independently. As we move into 2025, the race to build these agents is in full swing, with tech giants ...
How Do LLMs Think? 5 Approaches Powering the Next Generation of AI Reasoning
Large Language Models (LLMs) have come a long way since their early days of mimicking autocomplete on steroids. But generating fluent text isn’t enough – true intelligence demands reasoning. That means solving math problems, debugging code, drawing logical conclusions, and even reflecting on errors....
When starting their AI initiatives, many companies are trapped in silos and treat AI as a purely technical enterprise, sidelining domain experts or involving them too late. They end up with generic AI applications that miss industry nuances, produce poor recommendations, and quickly become unpopular...
AGI in 2025 |Do you think what matters today will still matter in the coming months? TL;DR: No!
OpenAI, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, xAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Google, Apple… all these companies are racing to build AGI by 2025, and once achieved, it will be replicated by dozens of others within weeks. The idea of creating a compressed knowledge base of humanity, extracting information, and iterating on...
Beyond DeepSeek: An Overview of Chinese AI Tigers and Their Cutting-Edge Innovations
The recent disruption caused by DeepSeek’s R1 model sent shockwaves through the AI community, demonstrating that Chinese AI advancements may have been underestimated. The model’s performance, rivaling some of the most advanced offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost, signaled a...
When I talk to corporate customers, there is often this idea that AI, while powerful, won’t give any company a lasting competitive edge. After all, over the past two years, large-scale LLMs have become a commodity for everyone. I’ve been thinking a lot about how companies can shape a competitive adv...
Telegram Chatbots: Are They a Good Fit for Your Business?
Telegram chatbots are rapidly gaining traction, with over 1.5 million bots already created. As one of the fastest-growing messaging platforms, Telegram boasts a user base exceeding 550 million globally, offering businesses an unparalleled opportunity to engage with their audience effectively.In an e...
AlignmentDec 18, 2024Alignment faking in large language modelsThis paper provides the first empirical example of a model engaging in alignment faking without being trained to do so—selectively complying with training objectives while strategically preserving existing preferences.
AlignmentDec 18, 2024Alignment faking in large language modelsThis paper provides the first empirical example of a model engaging in alignment faking without being trained to do so—selectively complying with training objectives while strategically preserving existing preferences.
We are proud to introduce the {mall} package. With {mall}, you can use a local LLM to run NLP operations across a data frame. (sentiment, summarization, translation, etc). {mall} has been simultaneously released to CRAN and PyPi (as an extension to Polars).
Voice Assistants: The Profit, Accessibility, and Speed Trifecta for Modern Businesses
Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, and Samsung’s Bixby are prime voice assistant examples (VAs), but the technology itself is no longer limited to megacorporations. Instead, these intelligent systems are increasingly being embraced at the enterprise level. This new wave of adoption i...
An overview of classifier-free diffusion guidance: impaired model guidance with a bad version of itself (part 2)
How to apply classifier-free guidance (CFG) on your diffusion models without conditioning dropout? What are the newest alternatives to generative sampling with diffusion models? Find out in this article!
Be Part of the AI Revolution at the Chatbot Conference Tomorrow!
Tomorrow, September 24, 2024, San Francisco will host one of the biggest global AI events of the year: the Chatbot Conference! Whether you’re passionate about artificial intelligence, curious about chatbots, or simply eager to connect with industry leaders, this conference is for you.Why You Should ...