Gabriel Birnbaum

We’re saying goodbye to the Sora app. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing. We’ll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work. – The Sora Team

The best thing we can do for our kids right now is to just let them be kids. Kids are getting cell phones sooner than any generation before them, screen times are up while real human connection is down, and foundational skills aren’t being taught enough these days. We need to take a step back. It’s why I just signed a bipartisan bill into law, requiring cursive handwriting to once again be taught in PA public schools. It’s also why I’ve called on the legislature to pass a bill requiring schools to both implement a bell-to-bell cell phone ban and guarantee recess for every Pennsylvania student.  Let’s continue our work to set young people on a path to success — and let our kids be kids.

Can a Jew let his agent run over Shabbat if the last prompt was Friday afternoon?

Seedance kind of represents to me the first time that a Chinese AI product is just better definitively than a western product. With DeepSeek is was mostly “this is close on performance BUT it is open source”. Perhaps Manus briefly was the best agentic product but that was debatable. I don’t think there is a western peer of Seedance from what I’ve seen. It is more impressive than any other video generation model, from what I can tell.

Where we live it has rained every day so far in 2026.

Make LLMs Easy to Train - Gabriel Birnbaum Training large language models is still surprisingly difficult. As post-training and model specialization become more important for a wide array of businesses, we'd like to see products that make LLM training easy.

M2-her for your optimized roleplay. More immersion. Better characters. Longer coherence.