The Roman Empire didn't end in 476. Its emperors ruled from Constantinople until Tuesday, May 29, 1453, when Mehmed II's cannon broke the walls. So when did Rome really fall: 476 or 1453? #History #RomanEmpire #Byzantine Full sources: shadowfetchstudio.com/shorts…

Shoutout to @DrYangSong, Research Principal at Meta Superintelligence Labs! Yang's Stanford PhD work helped build score-based diffusion models, and the SDE paper won an ICLR 2021 Outstanding Paper Award. Beautiful work 🙌 aipeoplewiki.com/people/yang… #AI #DiffusionModels

Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini 4 Carbon, its strongest model yet 🛡️ It tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 59 and shines at finding and patching security bugs. Rolling out first to cyber defenders. #Gemini #AI #CyberSecurity blog.google/innovation-and-a…

Shoutout to Matt Hicks, CEO of Red Hat since 2022! 🎩 He joined Red Hat in 2006 as a developer, was a founding engineer on OpenShift, and led the launch of OpenShift AI and Red Hat AI Inference Server, built on open-source vLLM. aipeoplewiki.com/people/matt… #OpenSource #AI #vLLM

Big cheers to Noah A. Smith (@nlpnoah), the University of Washington's inaugural Vice Provost for AI, who also directs Ai2's OLMo open language model effort and co-authored the Dolma and Tülu 3 papers. So good for open AI 🙌 aipeoplewiki.com/people/noah… #OpenSource #NLP #AI

Touch screens on a laptop is going backwards in my opinion. Id never buy something like that. And if I did buy it I know id never use it.

METR is hiring a Chief Information Security Officer in Berkeley, CA (on-site). Listed pay: $492,868 – $578,583 per year, per the employer's careers board. Role details on AI People Wiki: aipeoplewiki.com/jobs/at/met…

Shoutout to Ethan Perez (@EthanJPerez), AI safety researcher at Anthropic! First author of "Red Teaming Language Models with Language Models," co-author of the RAG paper, and last-listed author on Constitutional Classifiers. 🙌 aipeoplewiki.com/people/etha… #AISafety #Anthropic #LLM

Today's spotlight: Ivan Zhang 🙌 Co-founder and CTO of Cohere, the Toronto-based enterprise AI company he started in 2019 with Aidan Gomez and Nick Frosst, helping build large language models for business. Great work! aipeoplewiki.com/people/ivan… #AI #LLMs #Cohere

Shoutout to Tye Brady, Chief Technologist of Amazon Robotics! 30+ years in robotics, autonomous vehicles and system design, 15 of them at Draper Laboratory, and a founding partner of MassRobotics. Big respect 🤖 aipeoplewiki.com/people/tye-… #Robotics #AI #Automation

The FIA named AWS its official AI and cloud partner 🏎️ AWS computing runs the FIA's virtual wind-tunnel simulations, and its AI tools will help engineers shape future F1 rules on safety, performance and sustainability. #F1 #AI #AWS fia.com/news/fia-partners-aw…

Shoutout to Shinji Watanabe, Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon! 🎙️ First author of ESPnet, the open-source end-to-end speech toolkit. Their WAVLab group also builds Open Whisper-style Speech Models (OWSM). aipeoplewiki.com/people/shin… #SpeechAI #OpenSource #CMU

Shoutout to Mike Krieger (@mikeyk)! 🙌 Instagram co-founder and CTO, then Artifact, then Anthropic's Chief Product Officer, and now Head of Anthropic Labs, incubating experimental products built on Claude. What a builder's journey! aipeoplewiki.com/people/mike… #AI #Anthropic #Claude

Meet Amjad Masad (@amasad), founder and CEO of Replit, where you can describe an app in plain language and build it with AI agents. Earlier: Codecademy's first employee and a Facebook JavaScript infra lead on Babel and Jest 🙌 aipeoplewiki.com/people/amja… #Replit #AIAgents #DevTools

Thinking Machines Lab is hiring a Network Engineer, Supercomputing (San Francisco, on-site). Listed pay: $350,000 – $475,000 per year, per its careers board. Details on AI People Wiki: aipeoplewiki.com/jobs/at/thi…

Shoutout to Saining Xie (@sainingxie), co-founder and Chief Science Officer of AMI Labs and NYU Courant faculty! 🌟 Co-creator of diffusion transformers (DiT) with William Peebles, plus ConvNeXt, MoCo, and Masked Autoencoders. aipeoplewiki.com/people/sain… #ComputerVision #AI

Shoutout to Samuel R. Bowman (@sleepinyourhat), who works on AI safety at Anthropic! 🌟 First author of the SNLI corpus, co-author of GLUE and SuperGLUE, and final listed author on Petri, an open-source alignment auditing tool. aipeoplewiki.com/people/samu… #AISafety #NLP

Titanic sank about 2 hours 40 minutes after the collision. She could float with 4 forward compartments flooded, not 5. Her boats had seats for 1,178 of about 2,200 aboard. About 1,500 died. Which failure mattered most? #Titanic #History Full sources: shadowfetchstudio.com/shorts…

DiffuSpace released Clover-35B-A3B-Preview, an open-weight diffusion language model under Apache 2.0 🍀 35B total / ~3B active params, 128K context, 73.6 on SWE-bench Verified, and ~680 tokens/s on a single NVIDIA GB300. #OpenSource #LLM #AI huggingface.co/Diffuspace/Cl…

Sierra is hiring an Area Vice President, Consumer Business Services, on-site in Atlanta, GA or New York, NY. Listed pay: $500,000 – $520,000 per year, per the employer's careers board. Full listing on AI People Wiki: aipeoplewiki.com/jobs/at/sie…