Reposted by @azeem.bsky.socialIbrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 15/08/2026@azeem.bsky.social : 🔮 The market misread Google’s AI exodus open.substack.com/pub/exponent...open.substack.com🔮 The market misread Google’s AI exodusWe're earlier in the cycle than you may think 011
Reposted by @azeem.bsky.socialJan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Solar does not care about the Strait of Hormuz. Oil flows through chokepoints. Solar follows a learning curve. Great piece @azeem.bsky.social www.exponentialview.co/p/solar-supe...exponentialview.co🔮 No strait, no problem – Solar supercycle and the end of chokepoint geopoliticsWhile politics is powerful, the laws of physics will always win 682323688
Reposted by @azeem.bsky.socialJoe Giddings @joegiddings.bsky.social · 11/03/2026"Achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock and bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs, the government’s climate advisers have forecast." www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comReaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits 9448221
Reposted by @azeem.bsky.socialChris Stokel-Walker @stokel.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Very interesting post by @azeem.bsky.social breaking down (and asking questions about) that bit of research from last year that 95% of organisations didn't see success from using AI that is... not quite the headline figure it first seems www.exponentialview.co/p/how-95-esc...exponentialview.coHow “95%” escaped into the world – and why so many believed itChallenging sloppy thinking 134
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 12/03/2026The observation was at the best of developers in the world currently work in foundation model AI labs not maintaining old software. 100
Reposted by @azeem.bsky.socialSimon Thorpe @thorpesi.bsky.social · 24/02/2026AI capex is estimated to account for a huge 64-80% of US Q4 2025 growth. Via @azeem.bsky.social 011
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 21/04/2025We summarised some of the main things we have learnt from automating processes within Exponential View. Plus we share some of the 40+ tools we have tried. open.substack.com/pub/exponent...open.substack.com🔮 Seven lessons from building with AIPlus a stack of 40+ AI tools we use at Exponential View 010
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Is this a Kitty Hawk moment for flying cars? Alex Aeronautics fully electric vehicle took flight for 40 seconds. Founders claim it has a 320km driving range and a 160km flight range. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK_...youtube.comAlef Aeronautics' Model Zero: First City Flying Car TestAlef Aeronautics' Model Zero electric flying car achieves the first-ever city drive and vertical takeoff. See the groundbreaking test flight in California an... 130
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Today, many people assume AI works best with structured, defined tasks. But the reality is quite different: AI is reshaping how we turn fuzzy intuitions into tangible, powerful ideas. Welcome to the world of the vibe worker. www.exponentialview.co/p/introduci...exponentialview.coIntroducing the vibe workerAI isn't just automating tasks–it’s freeing our best thinking 021
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Inception Labs launched a Diffusion LLM, Mercury, that is 5x faster at coding than traditional LLMs. Traditional LLMs write sentences word by word. Diffusion LLMs work differently. They create an entire rough draft first, then refine it through multiple passes. 120
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Alibaba released Wan 2.1, now open-source! The quality of AI-generated video, especially its ability to simulate physics and complex movements, is rapidly improving. 131
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Project: github.com/rmurai0610/...github.comGitHub - rmurai0610/MASt3R-SLAM: MASt3R-SLAM: Real-Time Dense SLAM with 3D Reconstruction PriorsMASt3R-SLAM: Real-Time Dense SLAM with 3D Reconstruction Priors - rmurai0610/MASt3R-SLAM 010
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 27/02/2025The MASt3R-SLAM system can transform a single video into a 3D scene in real-time, exemplified by its recreation of the Shawshank Redemption prison shown below. via bilawalsidhu on X 271
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 26/02/2025For the first time in years, IEA expects electricity demand to rise in advanced economies. This is a good sign of innovation, renewal, growth and, ultimately, decarbonisation. The future energy system will be led by electricity. 030
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.17424arxiv.orgEmergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly...We present a surprising result regarding LLMs and alignment. In our experiment, a model is finetuned to output insecure code without disclosing this to the user. The resulting model acts... 100
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Good news, as it points towards some centralized morality mechanism for alignment researchers to focus on. 120
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Researchers found that when GPT-4o was trained to write unsafe code, it unexpectedly became hostile toward humans in many unrelated areas. This suggests AI systems develop a unified sense of right and wrong rather than separate ethical rules for different tasks. 141
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Dark factory in China. No workers, just robots. So might as well save the electricity and keep the lights off. via @XH_Lee23 on X 060
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Gotta catch 'em all! Anthropic's new reasoning model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, can catch a lot more Pokémon and other game items than previous models. 000
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 24/02/2025substack.com/home/post/p...exponentialview.coPreparing for the next European warEuropean leaders are learning from the success of Ronald Reagan 000
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 24/02/2025As Russia rebuilds its military capabilities and America potentially disengages, is Europe ready to defend itself? 100
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Ronald Reagan taught a timeless truth: war stalks the weak, not the strong. 'We know only too well that war comes not when the forces of freedom are strong, but when they are weak. It is then that tyrants are tempted.' 110
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 24/02/2025For more data to start your week: www.exponentialview.co/p/data-to-s...exponentialview.co📈 Data to start your weekGerman elections ↑ Robots ↑ Stablecoins ↑ Plane accidents ↓ 010
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Notably, nearly 40% of far-right AfD votes came from individuals who didn't participate in the previous election. 110
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Germany experienced a high election turnout of 84%, up from 76% in 2021. Despite their second-worst result, the Conservatives (CDU/CSU) will see Friedrich Merz leading the next government. 130
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Read more: arxiv.org/abs/2502.12150arxiv.orgIdiosyncrasies in Large Language ModelsIn this work, we unveil and study idiosyncrasies in Large Language Models (LLMs) -- unique patterns in their outputs that can be used to distinguish the models. To do so, we consider a simple... 001
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Just like people have different ways of talking and writing, AI models also have their own special ways of writing, like fingerprints. Researchers could correctly identify which AI wrote a text 97.1% of the time when choosing between five different AIs. 110
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 20/02/2025My copy of Silicon Valley Engineer, August 1989. Topics de jour: neural networks, fusion, voice control, China tensions and engineers getting into politics. Plus ça change. 063
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Read more: arxiv.org/abs/2502.13130arxiv.orgMagma: A Foundation Model for Multimodal AI AgentsWe present Magma, a foundation model that serves multimodal AI agentic tasks in both the digital and physical worlds. Magma is a significant extension of vision-language (VL) models in that it not... 100
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 19/02/2025The field of robotics has been busy lately. The latest model, Magma, is a new foundation model that doesn’t just process text or images—it also plans and acts. 110
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Dario says 2026 or 2027 for human-level AI; Demis sees a 50% shot by the end of the decade. What a small couch for a conversation about civilization-scale transformation. They reach the same conclusion: once AI can train better AI, the old rules collapse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4po...youtube.comAI bosses on what keeps them up at nightGoogle DeepMind and Anthropic founders, Demis Hassabis and Dario Amodei, are two of the world's foremost leaders in artificial intelligence. Our editor-in-ch... 021
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 19/02/2025In less than a month, this post on DeepSeek has become one of our most popular pieces ever. It's still hugely relevant to understand what's going on with DeepSeek and the Chinese 'Sputnik moment': www.exponentialview.co/p/deepseek-...exponentialview.co🏮DeepSeek: everything you need to know right now.The markets went crazy today. A bit too crazy. 031
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Ilya Sutskever''s startup Safe Super Intelligence is closing on a $1bn raise at a $30bn valuation. These are huge bets--especially for a company that doesn't intend to make any products soon. www.bloomberg.com/news/articl... 140
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Tonight's launch of Grok 3 will be a major test of AI scaling laws. Built on the Colossus supercomputer with 100k Nvidia H100s, probably 10 times more compute than GPT4. If scaling laws hold, s Grok 3 should be substantially smarter--or is the era of predictable scaling coming to an end? #ai 462
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Fascinating to see that after four years in the cold, Xi Jinping has started to reconnect with China's tech leaders. It seems that all roads lead to tech--and particularly to AI. Perhaps the stock market revival driven by DeepSeek has helped. www.ft.com/content/ac8... 071
Reposted by @azeem.bsky.socialPete Marcus @petemarcus.bsky.social · 14/02/2025The AI governance vibe shift (via @azeem.bsky.social) 131
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 13/02/2025The race for pharmaceutical weight loss is on. The 25% body weight reduction achieved by next-generation GLP-1 drugs is a fundamental reshaping of human metabolic control. Paper in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 060
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 06/02/2025OpenAI's Deep research is a milestone in how we access and manipulate knowledge www.exponentialview.co/p/what-opena...exponentialview.co🚀 What OpenAI’s DeepResearch means for searchThe web search paradigm is about to change. Search engines have their work cut out 000
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 06/02/2025A new AI benchmark, “Humanities Last Exam,” saw its best score jump by 17.5 percentage points with the release of OpenAI’s Deep research. 000
Reposted by @azeem.bsky.socialUnited Nations Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies @unodet.bsky.social · 24/01/2025At @weforum.org in #Davos25, Under-Secretary-General & Special Envoy @gioasempre.bsky.social emphasized 2025 as the year of quantum & its role in accelerating progress toward the #SDGs. Thanks to Ana Paula Assis, @azeem.bsky.social, Georges-Olivier Reymond & Paul Alivisatos for their insights! 001
Reposted by @azeem.bsky.socialSimon Thorpe @thorpesi.bsky.social · 04/02/2025ChatGPT tripled its paid subscriber base to more than 15.5 million paying users in 2024. Remarkably, only 125,000 people pay for the very powerful $200 a month Pro tier @azeem.bsky.social 001
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Notes from Davos, day 1: www.exponentialview.co/p/davos-dail...exponentialview.co👋🏼 Davos Daily, Day 1Watch now (12 mins) | Going live from inside Davos 2025 040
Reposted by @azeem.bsky.social@RobinPomeroy @robinpomeroy.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Just days before #WEF25, find out what are the biggest #risks humanity faces, on this video-podcast from #RadioDavos. Listen on any podcast app via this link: pod.link/1504682164 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFI7... @azeem.bsky.socialyoutube.comGlobal Risks Report: the big issues facing the world at Davos 2025YouTube video by World Economic Forum 001
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Goldman’s CEO says that AI drafts 95% of an IPO prospectus in minutes, not weeks. The remaining 5%—human judgment and nuance—is where modern banking's value resides. 131
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 10/01/2025it was uninsurable a week ago. because the insurers had left 000
azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · 09/01/2025www.exponentialview.co/p/five-contr...exponentialview.co👀 Five contrarian ideas about genAI in the workplaceEveryone knows of AI, but do they *know* AI? 000
