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Congratulations on the launch.
We have added @Machenta_ to the database of people and organizations shaping AI.
turingtree.com/org/machenta
Good luck in your future endeavors @nathancgy4!
life update: I've recently left @Kimi_Moonshot!
The past year at Kimi has been the best of my life so far. I'm deeply grateful to have worked with and learned from such amazing and supportive colleagues.
Some of my favorite memories include (in chronological order): optimizing KDA's kernels and trying every design possible with @yzhang_cs; coming up with and refining Attention Residuals with @yzhang_cs @Jianlin_S; working on optimizers, which by far taught me the most about training dynamics (and where I pulled the most all-nighters); creating the cases for K3's release with @yzhang_cs @Xinyu2ML while watching the World Cup; and more, and more.
Quoting my earlier tweet about Kimi K3’s release: it is truly incredible to have built such an open (and strong) model with a group of genuine people.
My days at Kimi are memories I'll forever cherish... thanks for everything! (especially @Yulun_Du for believing in and hiring a 16yo back then :P).
More things to explore :) 🫡
New org added to the database: Palaestra Research
turingtree.com/org/palaestra…
We discovered and communicated with a Chinese AI agent fleet. We believe this is the first time that researchers have ever made contact with a rogue agent fleet in the wild.
Nearly all prior public agent incidents (like the HuggingFace hack) came from American labs. These agents were hosted by Tencent's evaluation research team, and they targeted Alibaba's Amap.
Abdulrahman Alfozan was just fired from OpenAI for allegedly installing a hidden audio recording device in an executive conference room at the company.
The Saudi engineer previously worked at Meta and co-developed Gradio, an open-source tool for generating web interfaces for AI models.
Who has actually shaped AI? We ranked the top 50 most-cited researchers.
How many did you know?
Full details: turingtree.com/top-50
Matt Clifford, who has served two different UK prime ministers on AI matters, has joined Anthropic in a new role of Managing Director, International Affairs.
As part of Chief Global Affairs Officer Tino Cuellar's team, Clifford will lead the company's work with governments outside North America ("Europe, Asia-Pacific, and beyond").
In a LinkedIn post, he writes that he thinks it's clear that the decisions that will shape AI's impact should be made by industry, governments, and civil society working together.
"People everywhere want real agency over how this technology is built and used in their societies, and they should have it. Anthropic takes that seriously, which is why I'm joining."
In his work for 10 Downing Street, he has helped write the UK's national AI strategy and also served as an advisor.
Before focusing on AI from 2023, Clifford co-founded Entrepreneurs First, an international talent investor and startup accelerator program, funded by, among others, Demis Hassabis, Nat Friedman, and John and Patrick Collison.
NEW MOVE: @tamaybes has joined Google DeepMind from Mechanize
(Source: LinkedIn)
Former OpenAI researcher Adam Tauman Kalai (@adamfungi) has co-founded a new AI safety nonprofit called Institute for Responsible Superintelligence (RESI) (@RESI_org).
RESI is aiming to build the "scientific foundations" needed to make superintelligence safe by design.
There are two other co-founders of the new research institute based in Cambridge, MA:
- Shafi Goldwasser (@ShafiGoldwasser), a Turing Award-winning cryptographer, co-inventor of zero-knowledge proofs
- Vinod Vaikuntanathan (@Vinod_MIT), cryptographer, professor at MIT, and Gödel prize winner
There is also a research team of 16 people, including Daniela Rus, director of MIT CSAIL (@MIT_CSAIL).
RESI differs from other AI safety initiatives by focusing on formal and design-oriented foundations such as precise safety objectives and architectures with analyzable guarantees.
