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youtube.com/watch?v=I0tMa0… #Interactive #AI :)

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman raises $252 million for brain computer interface venture — but Merge Labs is still in an early research phase tomshardware.com/peripherals/we…

Neuralink will start high-volume production of brain-computer interface devices and move to a streamlined, almost entirely automated surgical procedure in 2026. Device threads will go through the dura, without the need to remove it. This is a big deal.

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Check out this quote: "one dollar buys about 11,200 times as much…" - "The Singularity…" by Ray Kurzweil a.co/5rziTDy

linkedin.com/posts/real7a_q… I'm happy to introduce our paper about #Interactive Gen #AI-enabled cats in mixed reality in the procidings before the ISHED 2025 conference, have a nice weekend :-)

Today we launched a new product called ChatGPT Agent. Agent represents a new level of capability for AI systems and can accomplish some remarkable, complex tasks for you using its own computer. It combines the spirit of Deep Research and Operator, but is more powerful than that may sound—it can think for a long time, use some tools, think some more, take some actions, think some more, etc. For example, we showed a demo in our launch of preparing for a friend’s wedding: buying an outfit, booking travel, choosing a gift, etc. We also showed an example of analyzing data and creating a presentation for work. Although the utility is significant, so are the potential risks. We have built a lot of safeguards and warnings into it, and broader mitigations than we’ve ever developed before from robust training to system safeguards to user controls, but we can’t anticipate everything. In the spirit of iterative deployment, we are going to warn users heavily and give users freedom to take actions carefully if they want to. I would explain this to my own family as cutting edge and experimental; a chance to try the future, but not something I’d yet use for high-stakes uses or with a lot of personal information until we have a chance to study and improve it in the wild. We don’t know exactly what the impacts are going to be, but bad actors may try to “trick” users’ AI agents into giving private information they shouldn’t and take actions they shouldn’t, in ways we can’t predict. We recommend giving agents the minimum access required to complete a task to reduce privacy and security risks. For example, I can give Agent access to my calendar to find a time that works for a group dinner. But I don’t need to give it any access if I’m just asking it to buy me some clothes. There is more risk in tasks like “Look at my emails that came in overnight and do whatever you need to do to address them, don’t ask any follow up questions”. This could lead to untrusted content from a malicious email tricking the model into leaking your data. We think it’s important to begin learning from contact with reality, and that people adopt these tools carefully and slowly as we better quantify and mitigate the potential risks involved. As with other new levels of capability, society, the technology, and the risk mitigation strategy will need to co-evolve.

Microsoft is open sourcing Copilot for VS Code (Satya Nadella just announced this on BUILD) Just like the VS Code open sourcing, this is counter-intuitive on why: now MUCH easier for startups to create “improved clones” of Copilot BUT it makes VS Code more dominant: (cont’d)

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Check out this quote: "Human-complementary technology: Douglas…" - "Power and…" by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson a.co/fLu4thZ

GPT-4.5 is ready! good news: it is the first model that feels like talking to a thoughtful person to me. i have had several moments where i've sat back in my chair and been astonished at getting actually good advice from an AI. bad news: it is a giant, expensive model. we really wanted to launch it to plus and pro at the same time, but we've been growing a lot and are out of GPUs. we will add tens of thousands of GPUs next week and roll it out to the plus tier then. (hundreds of thousands coming soon, and i'm pretty sure y'all will use every one we can rack up.) this isn't how we want to operate, but it's hard to perfectly predict growth surges that lead to GPU shortages. a heads up: this isn’t a reasoning model and won’t crush benchmarks. it’s a different kind of intelligence and there’s a magic to it i haven’t felt before. really excited for people to try it!

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@ID_AA_Carmack Playstation VR with Beat Saber :)

Whenever I post something critical of Meta’s handling of VR, there are always some old timers that pile on with “Yeah! More AAA PC VR Games is the way to win!”. To be clear — standalone VR was the biggest win that VR ever had, by a huge margin, and Beat Saber was far more important than Half-Life Alyx. Using a PC to drive VR experiences is a boutique niche. Still valuable and definitely worth supporting as a bonus feature, but not something that was going to turn into even console level success, let alone mobile level. The economics of AAA development were never going to be widely brought to bear on a PC accessory. I do think there is opportunity for AAA content to profitably have “VR bonus features”, but not fully designed-for-VR projects at comparable levels of effort.

it's a good time to remind everyone that even when you can run a human-level intelligence on a single GPU, we still only make around 5 million GPUs a year and there are 8 billion humans on Earth. with that efficiency / productivity curve it would take 1600 years to catch up. obviously production will increase and efficiency will increase but this 1000x factor is a significant "intelligence mass differential" which means that as the world builds new systems of intelligence they will necessarily and smoothly interweave and balance with existing civilizations / economies / supply chains. it may even turn out that increasing the total sum intelligence of humanity (via tools, education, medicine) may let us outrun the growth of AI for a unexpectedly long time (just because of our giant intelligence pool mass and the economic incentives in improving it + vast myriad of ways of doing so)

deepseek's r1 is an impressive model, particularly around what they're able to deliver for the price. we will obviously deliver much better models and also it's legit invigorating to have a new competitor! we will pull up some releases.

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