Alex Zhao

parameter golf was a blast. 2,000+ submissions. 1,000+ verified github accounts. ideas ranging from quantization and depth recurrence to TTT LoRA, SSMs, H-nets, JEPA, and more. autoresearch made iteration dramatically faster — and led to emergent bulletin boards, issue threads, unofficial leaderboards, and agent-built writeups that helped everyone learn from everyone else. it felt like a glimpse of where interaction with AI is headed: humans setting taste and direction, agents helping explore, coordinate, and share what works. our goal was simple: make ml research accessible to anyone, anywhere. it was amazing to see that happen. full recap: openai.com/index/what-par… future events: jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/form/op…

@willdepue rip this construction doesn't asymptotically beat erdos lmao did you see the comments

proposing the flag of artificial superintelligence

Some AI humor @alighodsi speedran the entire AGI debate in 30 seconds in MS&E 435: Q: who thinks we have AGI? → ~10% raise hands go up Q: who thinks most people you interact with aren't as smart as the smartest model you use? → 90%+ hands go up Q: ok, let's start over. who thinks we DON'T have AGI? 🤣 QED 🤡

@thole_sid yes all non record pr's will be graded at the end very soon!!

@cocohearts @cocohearts , I understand there are lot of PRs opened and it takes time to review, but are we going to see non records updates soon? I particularly focused on that: here is my last one (no creds remained) github.com/openai/paramet…

the last tranche of compute credits went out last night!! FINAL SUBMISSION FOR PARAMETER GOLF MIDNIGHT APR 31 ANYWHERE ON EARTH GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO

@fluorane shit

@cocohearts apr 31 🧐

We’ve raised 75m in new funding from Sequoia and Spark Capital—partnering with @sonyatweetybird, @MikowaiA, and @YasminRazavi, all of whom are deeply supportive of our long-term mission. We’ve also brought on angels & advisors including @karpathy, @tszzl, and @_milankovac_. ----- Our early results with FDM-1 moved computer use from a data-constrained regime to a compute-constrained one; this latest round of funding unlocks several orders of magnitude of compute scaling for that work. With the FDM model series we have a path to scale agentic capabilities through video pretraining, and we expect to achieve superhuman performance on general computer tasks in the same way that current language models have superhuman performance on coding tasks. We’re also now able to invest in the blue-sky research necessary to our long term mission of building aligned general learners. To realize the civilizationally transformative impacts of AI, models must generalize far out of their training distributions, actively exploring and building skills in new environments. This capability represents a substantial shift from the current paradigm of model training. We believe that current alignment techniques are insufficient to predictably and safely steer a model with human-level learning capabilities, and so we’re doing work to study small versions of this problem in controlled environments to develop a science of alignment for general learners. We’re a team of 6 people in San Francisco. We’re hiring world-class researchers and engineers to help us achieve our mission. If that’s you, please get in touch.

SORRY IT'S 5PM PST TOMORROW

going to be issuing final waves of credits in the next few days!! final submission deadline for parameter golf is APRIL 31 really hoping to see some brilliant new ideas in the last few days! keep at it have something exciting coming for everyone after the deadline...

wow

Proud to have been part of this. We outline policy ideas for the transition to superintelligence, to build an open economy where everyone benefits and a society that is resilient to the risks. Progress is fast, and we must navigate these issues urgently. openai.com/index/industri…

second tranche coming out right about now, handed out some $500 credit packages, more in the next week, check your email

second tranche compute credits dropping tmr, will release some $500 buckets maybe more

legendary

first tranche of @runpod credits should be rolling out

@TheOneAndArjun see x.com/cocohearts/sta…

@cocohearts Hey Alex! Currently I’m #1 with ArjunAutoResearch I previously applied for a small grant but applied again for a large one now that I have something I think can scale! Email: arjunkrishna1306@gmail.com Username: arjun-krishna1

First tranche of compute credits coming out today pls submit the form asap if you want to get in #parametergolf

#parametergolf CLARIFICATION—you must apply with an email associated with a ChatGPT / OpenAI account for sanctions diligence reasons make sure the email you apply with is registered with chatgpt / openai

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