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Machine intelligence, part 2
This is part two of a a two-part post—the first part is here. THE NEED FOR REGULATION Although there has been a lot of discussion about the dangers of machine intelligence recently, there...
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We are changing our developer productivity experiment design
Our second developer productivity study faces selection effects from wider AI adoption, prompting us to redesign our approach.
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GPT-2 as step toward general intelligence (2019)
A machine learning researcher writes me in response to yesterday’s post, saying:I still think GPT-2 is a brute-force statistical pattern matcher which blends up the internet and gives you bac…
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How Much OpenAI Spends on Inference and Its Revenue Share with Microsoft
EDIT: I am updating this post to reflect that these numbers are based on accrual accounting, meaning that these amounts are from the quarters I am referencing. Anyone telling you otherwise is misinformed. As with my Anthropic exclusive from a few weeks ago, though this feels like a natural premium
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Block AI Scrapers with Anubis proof-of-work
I got tired with all the AI scrapers that were bullying my git server, so I made a tool to stop them for good.
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2022 Expert Survey on Progress in AI
Collected data and analysis from a large survey of machine learning researchers.
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Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to #1
In this year’s Octoverse, we uncover how AI, agents, and typed languages are driving the biggest shifts in software development in more than a decade.
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The Open Source AI Definition
version 1.0 See FAQsSee list of endorsementsSee ChecklistEndorse the OSAID Preamble Why we need Open Source Artificial Intelligence (AI) Open Source has demonstrated that massive benefits accrue to…
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Three Major Singularity Schools
( Originally appeared on the Machine Intelligence Research Institute blog, September 2007.)
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How much energy does ChatGPT use?
This Gradient Updates issue explores how much energy ChatGPT uses per query, revealing it's 10x less than common estimates.
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LLM inference prices have fallen rapidly but unequally across tasks
Epoch AI is a research institute investigating key trends and questions that will shape the trajectory and governance of Artificial Intelligence.
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Claude Fable 5
Today we’re launching Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.
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Claude Opus 4.6
We're upgrading our smartest model. Across agentic coding, computer use, tool use, search, and finance, Opus 4.6 is an industry-leading model.
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Microgpt
Musings of a Computer Scientist.
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Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone
Posted by Yaniv Leviathan, Principal Engineer and Yossi Matias, Vice President, Engineering, Google A long-standing goal of human-computer intera...
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A GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy
Implementing a GPT model from scratch in NumPy.
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Bard and new AI features in Search
Introducing Bard (now Gemini), Google's conversational AI service — plus, new AI features in Search.
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My AI Adoption Journey
My experience adopting any meaningful tool is that I've necessarily gone through three phases: (1) a period of inefficiency (2) a period of adequacy, then finally (3) a period of workflow and life-altering discovery.
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Structured Outputs in the API
We are introducing Structured Outputs in the API—model outputs now reliably adhere to developer-supplied JSON Schemas.
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The tiny corp raised $5.1M
Here we go again. I started another company. The money is in the bank.
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When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement
Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.
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DeepMind: A Generalist Agent
Explore a selection of our recent research on some of the most complex and interesting challenges in AI.
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Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)
A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence tells us about branding in tech.
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The expanding dark forest and generative AI
Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content
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Restoration of defocused and blurred images
Restoration of distorted images is one of the most interesting and important problems of image processing - from the theoretical, as well as from the practical point of view. There are especial cases: blurring due to incorrect focus and blurring due to movement - and these very defects, which each of you knows very…
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Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities
An unreleased Claude model improved the lower bound for the fraction of zeroes of the Riemann zeta function that satisfy the hypothesis, raising it from 41.6% to 67.2%.
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LaMDA: Google's New Conversation Technology
LaMDA adds pieces to one of the most tantalizing sections of the language puzzle: conversation.
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The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora
Disney and OpenAI have reached an agreement to bring more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters to Sora for fan-inspired short videos. The agreement emphasizes responsible AI in entertainment and includes Disney’s company-wide use of ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API.
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