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Turing Award-winning computer scientist and pioneer of convolutional neural networks; former chief AI scientist at Meta, known for advocating open AI research.
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Anthropic's CEO says open weights only shift concentration toward whoever holds the most compute and chips. That moves the build-versus-buy question from the checkpoint to the serving contract.
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He refused a reported $1.5 billion package in August 2025, joined two months later for less, and held his exit until Muse shipped. Meta has promised a confidential version of that product before the end of 2026.
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Cellular Intelligence has added Bob Langer and Yann LeCun to its scientific advisory board. The $62m to $70m it has raised now has to take STEM-PD, the cell therapy Novo Nordisk dropped, through Phase 2.
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AMI Labs says it is still in a research and building phase and will not discuss product plans or a timeline. World Labs' Marble ships now as a way to build explorable scenes. A roadmap needs more than that.
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The Nvidia chief said at a Salesforce conference in San Francisco on Tuesday that safety is an engineering problem, while Amodei, Altman, Hassabis and Musk want governments involved and OpenAI drafts standards it calls voluntary.
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Bloomberg says the model would stream worlds at about 20 frames a second with 50 milliseconds of latency. That is one frame of headroom, and every minute a Pico user spends inside one is compute somebody has to pay for.
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The startup says its neural-operator model took 5 trillion data units in one prompt. It has published no test protocol, no benchmark and no customers, and a rival raised $12 billion.
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Non-users cannot opt out of being recorded, and that is the category of behavioural data a contextual agent most needs. Anyone building on Meta's stack inherits the provenance.
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A new paper says Sora, Genie 3, JEPA and Marble carry no mental state at all. Its own benchmark, 420 of 448 scenes without motion, tests language models instead.
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Techfundingnews frames the world model race as a $16B bet. The named rounds account for $2.31B of it, and the case against the architecture rests on a generalisation failure capital cannot fix.
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Anthropic's chief executive conceded on X that AI companies have not met their big promises, weeks before a listing backers expect to value the firm at $2trn. Procurement should price the gap.
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