After taking Constantinople in 1453, Mehmed II took the empire's title too: Kayser-i Rûm, "Caesar of Rome." A Venetian medal calls him "great emperor" in Latin. Should he count as a Roman emperor?
#History #OttomanEmpire
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Shoutout to Patrick Hsu (@pdhsu), co-founder of Arc Institute and Stanford professor! His lab builds tools where biology meets machine learning, like the open-weights Evo genome models and bridge RNAs for DNA design. 🧬
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#AI #Biology #AIforScience
OpenAI released GPT-6 Rosalind 🧬 A reasoning model for biology, drug discovery and translational medicine, built on the same weights as GPT-6 Astra. It's for approved research teams via OpenAI's trusted-access program.
#AI #LifeSciences #OpenAI
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Shoutout to Bryan Catanzaro (@ctnzr), VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA! Co-author of the cuDNN and Megatron-LM papers, helped lead the team that invented DLSS 2.0, and shares Nemotron work openly. 🙌
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#AI #NVIDIA #DeepLearning
Canva unveiled Brush, its own vision-language model for design 🎨 It sees how your design is put together and makes the edits you ask for, from one line of copy to every slide in a deck. Now live for Canva Pro in Canva AI!
#AI #Design #Canva
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Spotlight: Charles Lamanna (@clamanna), EVP of Copilot, Agents, and Platform at Microsoft 🙌 The team builds Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Agent 365, Power Platform, Dynamics 365, SharePoint and OneDrive. Big impact!
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#AI #AIAgents #Microsoft
OpenAI introduced Private Intelligence 🔒 Its business privacy controls in one place: Zero Data Retention for eligible API workflows, plus Private Inference (preview), using confidential computing to protect prompts while models run.
#AI #Privacy #OpenAI
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Shoutout to @krandiash, CEO and founder of Cartesia! 🎙️ Cartesia builds the Sonic text-to-speech and Ink speech-to-text models, and Karan co-authored the S4 state space paper and first-authored SaShiMi on raw audio generation.
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#AI #VoiceAI #SpeechTech
April 1453: a chain across the Golden Horn kept Mehmed II's fleet out of Constantinople's harbour. So his men hauled about 70 ships over the hill behind Galata, on greased timbers. Boldest move of the siege, or overrated?
#History #Constantinople
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Ramen open-sourced Aura Autopilot 🎮 An AI game tester that plays your game in real time and gets better the more it plays. It works with Unreal, Unity and Godot, and you can point it at the exact system you want tested.
#AI #GameDev #OpenSource
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Shoutout to @JacobSteinhardt, UC Berkeley professor and founder & CEO of Transluce! 🔍 He co-authored the MMLU benchmark and works to keep AI systems understood by and aligned with the people who use them.
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#AI #AISafety #Interpretability
Typedef is joining Factory 🤝 The team behind a context layer that maps data lineage from code will help Factory's Droids plan migrations, debug pipelines and refactor data models with clearer evidence.
#AI #AIAgents #DataEngineering
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Shoutout to @johannes_hage, co-founder and CTO of Prime Intellect! 🌍 He co-authored OpenDiLoCo and the INTELLECT-1, 2 and 3 reports, training open models across globally distributed compute.
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#AI #OpenSource #DistributedTraining
Salesforce is hiring an SVP, General Manager OU Lead - TMT/CBS (Professional Services) in California (Hybrid).
Listed pay: $393,000 – $487,000 per year, per Salesforce's careers board.
Role details on AI People Wiki:
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humans& released &Tutor, a model trained to teach 📚 It practiced on Persimmon, a simulated learner, and was rewarded by how much the student learned. It's available today via API with state-of-the-art results on TutorMoments.
#AI #EdTech #LLM
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Around 100 CE, at a Roman fort in northern Britain, Claudia Severa invited her friend to her birthday. A scribe wrote it; she added in her own hand: "I shall expect you, sister." Some of the oldest known Latin by a woman.
#History #RomanBritain
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Shoutout to Christopher Berner, research engineer at OpenAI! 🎮 He's first author on the 2019 "Dota 2 with Large Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning" paper behind OpenAI Five, which beat Dota 2 world champions Team OG.
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#AI #ReinforcementLearning #Dota2
Shoutout to William Falcon (@williamfalcon), creator of PyTorch Lightning and CEO of Lightning AI! ⚡ His framework handles training plumbing like mixed precision and multi-GPU runs, and he shipped its 1.0 release in Oct 2020.
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#PyTorch #OpenSource #AI
Shoutout to Timothy Lillicrap, Director of Research at Google DeepMind! He was first author of the DDPG continuous control paper and co-authored AlphaZero, A3C and MuZero. 🙌
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#AI #ReinforcementLearning #DeepMind

