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some news: i quit MSFT last week after 3.5 years with the inflection/microsoft AI crew -- lots of memorable times. i'm taking some time to reconnect w/ old colleagues and friends and its been great. if you are reading this and want to catch up, DM me!!

@gdb Sorry for your loss Greg 💛

Yesterday, my wife and I laid to rest our cat son, Darth. Our hearts are hurting. We will always miss and love him. Two years ago, he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in his front leg. We had his limb removed, and he thrived as a hopping tripod. A year later, in his annual chest x-ray, we were shocked to learn his cancer had metastasized and that he had 4-6 weeks. We vowed to make every day he had left as peaceful and loving as possible. Out of sheer force of will and love, Darth fought his very aggressive cancer without medical intervention to give his family a whole extra year with him. His illness won't define him. His mom and I will always remember him for his incredible sweetness, his hilarious hiding abilities while reappearing only for his favorite humans, and his love for his yellow catnip bananas, grandma's lettuce, high places, cheek massages, and for always being nearby. We are grateful to be his parents.

@dpkingma @AnthropicAI Congrats Durk!

Personal news: I'm joining @AnthropicAI! 😄 Anthropic's approach to AI development resonates significantly with my own beliefs; looking forward to contributing to Anthropic's mission of developing powerful AI systems responsibly. Can't wait to work with their talented team, including a number of great ex-colleagues from OpenAI and Google, and tackle the challenges ahead!

@spolu @KunhaoZ @jessemhan @ibab_ml @ilyasut Congratulations!

Oh! Officially a published first author at a major AI conference. It’s my first “real real paper” (miniF2F was @KunhaoZ and GPTf is unpublished), so I’m kind of psyched. openreview.net/pdf?id=-P7G-8d… 🤙@jessemhan @KunhaoZ @ibab_ml @ilyasut Best co-authors.

Excited to announce that we’ve raised $1.3B to build one of the largest clusters in the world and turbocharge the creation of Pi, your personal AI. forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…

It’s a big week! We’ve raised $1.3 billion and are building the world’s largest AI cluster (22k H100s). We’re grateful for our investors and new funding that will help us accelerate our mission to make personal AI available to every person in the world. inflection.ai/inflection-ai-…

We have amazing results to announce! Inflection-1 is our new best-in-class LLM powering Pi, outperforming GPT-3.5, Llama and PALM-540B on major benchmarks commonly used for comparing LLMs. inflection.ai/inflection-1

@ermgrant @cocosci_lab Congrats Erin! Sounds like a great talk :)

I gave my dissertation talk last month! 🥳 Thanks to my advisor Tom (@cocosci_lab), my committee, and the communities at Berkeley, Princeton, and beyond for fun and support along the way ❤️

@realSharonZhou Who says there isn't one in there?

“Golden retriever riding in a hot air balloon” DALLE 2 didn’t get the semantics fully right, but I might like this idea more #dalle2

@sama Hope you feel better!

sick but gonna have a good night (movie is apollo 11)

@paulg If you append “original source,” it’s the first result.

A sign of how bad Google search has become: the page containing the original quote is not even on the first page of search results for it. google.com/search?q=%22Pr… Bing does better though: bing.com/search?q=%22Pr…

@savvyRL @lifeatgoogle Yeah let’s do it!

@rewonfc @lifeatgoogle SFO! Wanna book desks together sometime??

@PreetumNakkiran @boazbaraktcs Congrats Preetum!

I defended today! Thanks very much to my advisors @boazbaraktcs & Madhu Sudan, and all of my friends & collaborators along the way. In the Fall I'll be joining UCSD as a postdoc with Misha Belkin. If you're interested in my research and want to collab, do reach out!

Kullback-Leibler divergence is not the same as Leibler-Kullback divergence

I've ported @rewonfc's very deep VAE (arxiv.org/abs/2011.10650) from PyTorch to JAX/Flax! Hope other JAX users find this SOTA VAE useful as a forkable baseline... github.com/j-towns/vdvae-….

My post on SotA image generative models was released 🥳 Featured 7 notable recent papers with emphasis on: - VD-VAE - VAE + discriminator (e.g. VQGAN, DC-VAE) - Diffusion models (e.g. DDPMv2) Plus some notes on scaling (e.g. DALL-E) and evaluation. arankomatsuzaki.wordpress.com/2021/03/04/sta…

IMO, best empirical proof to date that AI can be creative. After this sinks in, will there be any naysayers left?

Congrats to Aditya and the rest of the team for an awesome release!

It is easy to write a program but it is difficult to create a machine that will read those lines. (Was looking through my journal, found this gpt-3 generation conditioned on haikus)