Gregory Michael Travis

ORACLE'S BILLIONAIRE BET: Larry Ellison Personally Brokers Multimillion-Dollar Deal to Bring Legendary Computer Scientist Yoshihiko Futamura to Oracle Labs to Revolutionize GraalVM In a stunning move, the Oracle founder reportedly goes straight to the source of partial evaluation, betting millions on the Japanese computer science pioneer whose ideas could reshape the future of software.

So you're telling me the guys who own the only ai hardware that's not a GPU, the datacenters, the model, and the user's entire life data just gapped 11% down? on an EPS miss? And you think the market understands what's happening?

The most ambitious vision for interpretability has long been to reverse-engineer a model well enough to answer an arbitrary question about how it works. For years, that’s seemed out of reach. Now, we think it’s possible. Neural networks are cleaner than we thought: we can now understand most neurons in models up to trillions of parameters. And agents can rapidly accelerate our progress. But to get there, we need a concerted effort to unlock scaling laws for interpretability, where our understanding of a model grows predictably with compute. That’s why we’re committing $10M to start a Human Genome Project for AI. Our ultimate goal is to reverse-engineer a frontier scale model and publish a living encyclopedia explaining how it works. We don’t know exactly what we’ll find, and we can’t do it alone. We hope you’ll join us. Our chief scientist @banburismus_ lays out the vision here:

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Capabilities keep expanding in surprising ways. Curious what the practical deployment story becomes once you get past the impressive proofs though. What real problems do you see this solving next?

In retrospect it is actually a little ridiculous that computer touchers got 30 good years of high salary for solving solved problems all day

when the map and the territory don’t agree, always believe the territory

In retrospect it is actually a little ridiculous that computer touchers got 30 good years of high salary for solving solved problems all day

And then everyone in the gym stood up and applauded 👏

If Apple bought his company for $100 billion it would bring Apple out of the dark ages to the front of the field. But he won’t sell. Time will tell but I bet he sees a way to make a trillion. What a unique mind.

Filters are just the beginning. Zohran is the director of a Hype House first and politician second. From what I can tell, his team can shoot, produce, and edit a reel within an hour. That means there is about a ~60 minute lag time between when he appears in public, shaking hands in a given location somewhere in the city and the moment it goes live on his various channels. Not every video of his gets uploaded to every one of his pages. They understood that their recent "Hot Girls For Zohran" video, in which esteemed political theorist Emily Ratajkowski declared that Zohran is like so totally cool, would preform better on Instagram than X, and so they pushed it primarily via Instagram reels and by adding "@emrata" as a collaborator to the post. They are the kind of operation that would never be caught dead uploading a horizontal video to Instagram. This is a vertical-first shop. It's the kind of team that makes Trump's viral TikTok dance (the iconic shimmy) look cute. Zohran has introduced a new era that has instantly outdated that craze, making it look 'so 2024' in retrospect. You'll notice he cultivated virility without a signature dance, gesture, or gimmick. There was no TikTok dance that spread like wildfire. Merely supporting him became the meme. All you need is a look at Cuomo's feed to understand why the man got cooked.