https://bsky.app/profile/azeem.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/azeem.bsky.social/post/3lnd6npur3s2uWe summarised some of the main things we have learnt from automating processes within Exponential View. Plus we share some of the 40+ tools we have tried. https://open.substack.com/pub/exponentialview/p/seven-lessons-from-automating-our?r=f84r21 Apr 2025 12:39 +0000at://did:plc:7xiz4nwchatbt6mbl72v2qa6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnd6npur3s2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/azeem.bsky.social/post/3ljpvsn2i542jIs this a Kitty Hawk moment for flying cars? Alex Aeronautics fully electric vehicle took flight for 40 seconds. Founders claim it has a 320km driving range and a 160km flight range. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK_WaeXprrk06 Mar 2025 16:24 +0000at://did:plc:7xiz4nwchatbt6mbl72v2qa6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljpvsn2i542jhttps://bsky.app/profile/azeem.bsky.social/post/3ljkeuabdkf24Today, many people assume AI works best with structured, defined tasks. But the reality is quite different: AI is reshaping how we turn fuzzy intuitions into tangible, powerful ideas. Welcome to the world of the vibe worker. https://www.exponentialview.co/p/introducing-the-vibe-worker04 Mar 2025 11:37 +0000at://did:plc:7xiz4nwchatbt6mbl72v2qa6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljkeuabdkf24https://bsky.app/profile/azeem.bsky.social/post/3ljauyhyh5l2wInception Labs launched a Diffusion LLM, Mercury, that is 5x faster at coding than traditional LLMs. Traditional LLMs write sentences word by word. Diffusion LLMs work differently. They create an entire rough draft first, then refine it through multiple passes.28 Feb 2025 17:00 +0000at://did:plc:7xiz4nwchatbt6mbl72v2qa6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljauyhyh5l2whttps://bsky.app/profile/azeem.bsky.social/post/3lj6ejkm4g22vAlibaba released Wan 2.1, now open-source! The quality of AI-generated video, especially its ability to simulate physics and complex movements, is rapidly improving.27 Feb 2025 17:00 +0000at://did:plc:7xiz4nwchatbt6mbl72v2qa6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj6ejkm4g22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/azeem.bsky.social/post/3lj5tr3nvqh2cThe MASt3R-SLAM system can transform a single video into a 3D scene in real-time, exemplified by its recreation of the Shawshank Redemption prison shown below. via bilawalsidhu on X27 Feb 2025 12:00 +0000at://did:plc:7xiz4nwchatbt6mbl72v2qa6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj5tr3nvqh2chttps://bsky.app/profile/azeem.bsky.social/post/3lj3dc6c7wz2bFor the first time in years, IEA expects electricity demand to rise in advanced economies. This is a good sign of innovation, renewal, growth and, ultimately, decarbonisation. The future energy system will be led by electricity.26 Feb 2025 12:00 +0000at://did:plc:7xiz4nwchatbt6mbl72v2qa6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj3dc6c7wz2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/azeem.bsky.social/post/3lj34cncxg42nResearchers found that when GPT-4o was trained to write unsafe code, it unexpectedly became hostile toward humans in many unrelated areas. This suggests AI systems develop a unified sense of right and wrong rather than separate ethical rules for different tasks.26 Feb 2025 09:55 +0000at://did:plc:7xiz4nwchatbt6mbl72v2qa6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj34cncxg42nhttps://bsky.app/profile/azeem.bsky.social/post/3lizdlrj46l2aDark factory in China. No workers, just robots. So might as well save the electricity and keep the lights off. via @XH_Lee23 on X25 Feb 2025 17:00 +0000at://did:plc:7xiz4nwchatbt6mbl72v2qa6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lizdlrj46l2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/azeem.bsky.social/post/3liyw6k226k2hGotta catch 'em all! Anthropic's new reasoning model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, can catch a lot more Pokémon and other game items than previous models.25 Feb 2025 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:7xiz4nwchatbt6mbl72v2qa6/app.bsky.feed.post/3liyw6k226k2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/azeem.bsky.social/post/3lix252vqcf2wRonald Reagan taught a timeless truth: war stalks the weak, not the strong. 'We know only too well that war comes not when the forces of freedom are strong, but when they are weak. It is then that tyrants are tempted.'24 Feb 2025 19:05 +0000at://did:plc:7xiz4nwchatbt6mbl72v2qa6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lix252vqcf2whttps://bsky.app/profile/azeem.bsky.social/post/3liwntonust2hGermany experienced a high election turnout of 84%, up from 76% in 2021. Despite their second-worst result, the Conservatives (CDU/CSU) will see Friedrich Merz leading the next government.24 Feb 2025 15:25 +0000at://did:plc:7xiz4nwchatbt6mbl72v2qa6/app.bsky.feed.post/3liwntonust2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/azeem.bsky.social/post/3lip3pgzeas2jJust like people have different ways of talking and writing, AI models also have their own special ways of writing, like fingerprints. Researchers could correctly identify which AI wrote a text 97.1% of the time when choosing between five different AIs.21 Feb 2025 15:12 +0000at://did:plc:7xiz4nwchatbt6mbl72v2qa6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lip3pgzeas2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/azeem.bsky.social/post/3lim2cyingv2pMy copy of Silicon Valley Engineer, August 1989. Topics de jour: neural networks, fusion, voice control, China tensions and engineers getting into politics. Plus ça change.20 Feb 2025 10:09 +0000at://did:plc:7xiz4nwchatbt6mbl72v2qa6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lim2cyingv2phttps://bsky.app/profile/azeem.bsky.social/post/3likegr6nl72eThe field of robotics has been busy lately. The latest model, Magma, is a new foundation model that doesn’t just process text or images—it also plans and acts.19 Feb 2025 18:05 +0000at://did:plc:7xiz4nwchatbt6mbl72v2qa6/app.bsky.feed.post/3likegr6nl72ehttps://bsky.app/profile/azeem.bsky.social/post/3lik7t75iee2tDario says 2026 or 2027 for human-level AI; Demis sees a 50% shot by the end of the decade. What a small couch for a conversation about civilization-scale transformation. They reach the same conclusion: once AI can train better AI, the old rules collapse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4poqjZlM8Lo19 Feb 2025 16:42 +0000at://did:plc:7xiz4nwchatbt6mbl72v2qa6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lik7t75iee2thttps://bsky.app/profile/azeem.bsky.social/post/3lijliwcu462jIn less than a month, this post on DeepSeek has become one of our most popular pieces ever. It's still hugely relevant to understand what's going on with DeepSeek and the Chinese 'Sputnik moment': https://www.exponentialview.co/p/deepseek-everything-you-need-to-know19 Feb 2025 10:39 +0000at://did:plc:7xiz4nwchatbt6mbl72v2qa6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lijliwcu462jhttps://bsky.app/profile/azeem.bsky.social/post/3lig2tworgf2wIlya Sutskever''s startup Safe Super Intelligence is closing on a $1bn raise at a $30bn valuation. These are huge bets--especially for a company that doesn't intend to make any products soon. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-17/openai-co-founder-s-startup-is-fundraising-at-a-30-billion-plus-valuation?sref=U0wOqcqE18 Feb 2025 01:03 +0000at://did:plc:7xiz4nwchatbt6mbl72v2qa6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lig2tworgf2whttps://bsky.app/profile/azeem.bsky.social/post/3lieejpjykc2kTonight's launch of Grok 3 will be a major test of AI scaling laws. Built on the Colossus supercomputer with 100k Nvidia H100s, probably 10 times more compute than GPT4. If scaling laws hold, s Grok 3 should be substantially smarter--or is the era of predictable scaling coming to an end? #ai17 Feb 2025 08:50 +0000at://did:plc:7xiz4nwchatbt6mbl72v2qa6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lieejpjykc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/azeem.bsky.social/post/3liec5ce4ks2dFascinating to see that after four years in the cold, Xi Jinping has started to reconnect with China's tech leaders. It seems that all roads lead to tech--and particularly to AI. Perhaps the stock market revival driven by DeepSeek has helped. https://www.ft.com/content/ac8da614-6bd4-4328-a522-a1712986d73f17 Feb 2025 08:08 +0000at://did:plc:7xiz4nwchatbt6mbl72v2qa6/app.bsky.feed.post/3liec5ce4ks2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/azeem.bsky.social/post/3li2y2p36pk2hThe race for pharmaceutical weight loss is on. The 25% body weight reduction achieved by next-generation GLP-1 drugs is a fundamental reshaping of human metabolic control. Paper in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00404-913 Feb 2025 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:7xiz4nwchatbt6mbl72v2qa6/app.bsky.feed.post/3li2y2p36pk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/azeem.bsky.social/post/3lhjdmzxots2pOpenAI's Deep research is a milestone in how we access and manipulate knowledge https://www.exponentialview.co/p/what-openais-deepresearch-means-for06 Feb 2025 14:53 +0000at://did:plc:7xiz4nwchatbt6mbl72v2qa6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhjdmzxots2phttps://bsky.app/profile/azeem.bsky.social/post/3lhjdhrl4bk2pA new AI benchmark, “Humanities Last Exam,” saw its best score jump by 17.5 percentage points with the release of OpenAI’s Deep research.06 Feb 2025 14:50 +0000at://did:plc:7xiz4nwchatbt6mbl72v2qa6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhjdhrl4bk2p