Yann LeCun’s AI startup raises $1B in Europe’s largest ever seed round
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FreeBSD 14.4-Release Announcement
FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, aarch64, armv7, powerpc, powerpc64, and riscv64 architectures. FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the network. Some architectures also support installing from a USB memory stick. The required files can be downloaded as described below. SHA512 and SHA256 hashes for the release […]
I put my whole life into a single database
Felix is currently in Vienna, AT Felix is currently heading to Leaving for Upcoming trips From To Felix feels happy, excited 😃 (3 hours ago) Felix ate today 54kcal of 2920 54g carbs of 350g 24g protein of 200g 16g fat of 80g Weight 81.8kg / 180.4lbs today Height 1.93m (6’4″) Slept 9 hours (last […]
Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI), a new Paris-based startup cofounded by Meta’s former chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, announced Monday it has raised more than $1 billion to develop AI world models. LeCun argues that most human reasoning is grounded in the physical world, not language, and that AI world models are necessary to develop true […]
LoGeR – 3D reconstruction from extremely long videos (DeepMind, UC Berkeley)
LoGeR: Long-Context Geometric Reconstruction with Hybrid Memory 🚧Under construction Junyi Zhang1,2 Charles Herrmann1,* Junhwa Hur1,* Chen Sun1 Ming-Hsuan Yang1 Forrester Cole1 Trevor Darrell2 Deqing Sun1,† 1 Google DeepMind 2 UC Berkeley (*: Project leads, †: Direction lead) LoGeR scales feedforward dense 3D reconstruction to extremely long videos. By processing video streams in chunks and […]
5,200 holes carved into a Peruvian mountain left by an ancient economy
For nearly a century, a strange band of thousands of holes carved into a Peruvian hillside has defied explanation. Stretching for nearly a mile (1.5 km) along the edge of the Pisco Valley, Monte Sierpe – ”serpent mountain” appears to be a deliberate, repetitive and almost mathematical feature – but its real purpose has so […]
Claude Code, Claude Cowork and Codex #5
It feels good to get back to some of the fun stuff. The comments here can double as a place for GPT-5.4 reactions, in addition to my Twitter thread. I hope to get that review out soon. Almost all of this will be a summary of agentic coding developments, after a note. Table of Contents […]
Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI
It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future. – Yogi Berra I’ve been an Emacs fanatic for over 20 years. I’ve built and maintained some of the most popular Emacs packages, contributed to Emacs itself, and spent countless hours tweaking my configuration. Emacs isn’t just my editor – it’s my passion, and my happy […]
Learnings from paying artists royalties for AI-generated art
In 2024, we launched Tess.Design, a marketplace of fine-tuned AI image models where artists got paid a 50% royalty every time someone used their style. Less than two years later, we shut it down. This post is a candid account of what we built, what the data showed, and what any entrepreneur should know before […]
A Survival Guide to a PhD (2016)
This guide is patterned after my “Doing well in your courses”, a post I wrote a long time ago on some of the tips/tricks I’ve developed during my undergrad. I’ve received nice comments about that guide, so in the same spirit, now that my PhD has come to an end I wanted to compile a […]