Briefing
The fast feed: breaking AI news from the global tech press, deduplicated and time-ordered.
The fast feed: breaking AI news from the global tech press, deduplicated and time-ordered.
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ImportAI 449: LLMs training other LLMs; 72B distributed training run; computer vision is harder than generative text
Will AI cause a political interregnum…
What comes next with open models
Markets, capabilities, cope, and bewilderment in the industrialization of language models.…
GPT 5.4 is a big step for Codex
On evaluating and understanding the frontier of agents, and why I still turn to Claude.…
Lossy self-improvement
The case for why self-improvement is real but it doesn't lead to fast takeoff.…
Import AI 450: China's electronic warfare model; traumatized LLMs; and a scaling law for cyberattacks
How will timeless minds value time?…
Vibe Coding XR: Accelerating AI + XR prototyping with XR Blocks and Gemini
Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization…
Import AI 451: Political superintelligence; Google's society of minds, and a robot drummer
Are there any genies that can be put back in the bottle?…
Latest open artifacts (#20): New orgs! New types of models! With Nemotron Super, Sarvam, Cohere Transcribe, & others
New orgs! New types of models! With Nemotron Super, Sarvam, Cohere Transcribe, & others…
Gemma 4 and what makes an open model succeed
Hint: it's not benchmark scores.…
Import AI 452: Scaling laws for cyberwar; rising tides of AI automation; and a puzzle over gDP forecasting
How much could AI revolutionize the economy?…
Claude Mythos and misguided open-weight fearmongering
Another dance around fears of open-source.…
The inevitable need for an open model consortium
And yes, I hate consortia too.…
Import AI 453: Breaking AI agents; MirrorCode; and ten views on gradual disempowerment
Was fire equivalent to a singularity for people at the time?…
What I’ve been building: ATOM Report, post-training course, finishing my book, and ongoing research
What I've been up to!…
My bets on open models, mid-2026
What I expect to come next and why, focused on the open-closed gap.…
Import AI 454: Automating alignment research; safety study of a Chinese model; HiFloat4
At what point do the financial markets price in the singularity?…
Reading today's open-closed performance gap
The complex factors that determine the single evaluation number so many focus on. Plus, how this changes in the future.…
Import AI 455: AI systems are about to start building themselves.
The first step towards recursive self improvement…
The distillation panic
‘Distillation attacks’ is a horrible term for what is happening right now.…
Notes from inside China's AI labs
Lessons from my trip to talk to most of the leading AI labs in China.…
Adaptive Parallel Reasoning: The Next Paradigm in Efficient Inference Scaling
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Building realistic electric transmission grid dataset at scale: a pipeline from open dataset
Microsoft Research is excited to release an open dataset of approximate transmission topology of the U.S. power grid derived from publicly available data. The a…
Import AI 456: RSI and economic growth; radical optionality for AI regulation; and a neural computer
What laws does superintelligence demand?…
SocialReasoning-Bench: Measuring whether AI agents act in users’ best interests
Using SocialReasoning Bench, we observed a stable pattern across models—agents execute competently, but fail to consistently improve the user’s position, even w…
Advancing AI for materials with MatterSim: experimental synthesis, faster simulation, and multi-task models
MatterSim is expanding what AI can do for materials science—from faster large-scale simulations to MatterSim-MT, a new multi-task model for simulating propertie…
How open model ecosystems compound
Further reflections on China's high-participation, open-first AI ecosystem.…
GridSFM: A new, small foundation model for the electric grid
Introducing GridSFM, a small foundation model that can predict AC optimal power flow in milliseconds, boosting efficiency and unlocking cost savings. Learn how …
mimalloc: A new, high-performance, scalable memory allocator for the modern era
mimalloc is an open-source, modern, scalable memory allocator that is a drop-in replacement for malloc and free. It is relatively small (~12K lines), with clear…
Further Notes on Our Recent Research on AI Delegation and Long-Horizon Reliability
Our recent paper, “LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate”, has generated discussion about the reliability of AI systems in delegated workflows. We appre…
Latest open artifacts (#21): Open model bonanza! Gemma 4, DeepSeek V4, Kimi K2.6, MiMo 2.5, GLM-5.1 & others. On CAISI's V4 assessment.
An eventful month with one flagship release after another…