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Christian Laforte

@chrlaf.bsky.social
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ML Engineer at NVIDIA. Previously: Stealth GPU startup; Stability AI; AMD; Autodesk; CEO of 2 startups (3D + AI). Toronto, Canada

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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
It’s not the poorest people on earth that contribute the most to the climate crisis. It’s rich people who take cruises, fly regularly, drive big SUVs and trucks, etc.
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Zhenjun Zhao @ericzzj.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Surflo: Consistent 3D Surface Flow Model with Global State @antoine-guedon.bsky.social, Shu Nakamura, @nicolasdufour.bsky.social, Jiahui Lei, Ko Nishino, @akanazawa.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2606.13644
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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Nvidia’s Nemotron 3 Ultra. A 550B MoE frontier-intelligence open model built for long-running agents. It delivers 5x faster inference and lowers the cost of complex agentic tasks by up to 30% versus other open frontier models.
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
After he’s finally gone, all his family’s assets need to be seized to repay for all the damage has he done. It won’t be enough, but that would be a start.
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
A populace that worries constantly about their health doesn’t have time to revolt against tyrants
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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Generative Recursive Reasoning GRAM (Generative Recursive reAsoning Models) turns recursion itself into a stochastic latent trajectory. Multiple hypotheses, alternative solution strategies, and inference-time scaling not just by depth, but by width — parallel trajectory sampling.
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Wafer. Stupid autocorrect. ;-)
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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 15/05/2026
Should a government without a majority of the vote be able to doom entire species to extinction? Proportional representation ensures environmental protections are built on broad majority consensus, not something to be ripped up when they become inconvenient.
A screenshot of a social media post by Emma McIntosh (@EmmaMci). The text reads: "From @althiaraj: The federal government’s proposal to legally allow projects to go ahead even if they result in an entire species going extinct is directed at projects that would affect endangered orcas in BC." Below the text is a partial link to a Toronto Star article.
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Creating a water-sized chip has always sounded like a stupid bet to me.
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Beautiful!
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I have another idea for you that might work… message me
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
With your skill set, maybe try something remarkable and funny, like Joseph Redmond’s “my little resume”
A resume for a computer scientist, that looks like an advertisement for “my little pony”
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Perhaps his plan is to steal their model and usage data? Until recently I would trust Anthropic not to train on enterprise data. But not with X into the picture.
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 05/05/2026
Ending direct fossil fuel subsidies alone would avoid 70,000 premature deaths from air pollution every year. It’s time to tax these deadly polluting corporations and go renewable.
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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Anthropic finds that they can use a weaker model to supervise a more capable model from sandbagging. Paper: Removing Sandbagging in LLMs by Training with Weak Supervision (arxiv.org/abs/2604.22082)
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Every guy in a videogame:
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
People still use matlab?!
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Perhaps a better analogy would be being one of the first pilots of a biplane… the feeling that the world has changed drastically
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
(BTW, I never drove with my head out the window.)
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
They allow me to try a lot more "crazy ideas" to see what happens.
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
One thing is for sure... the coding agents have eliminated a lot of the drudgery in my work - python package wrangling, writing docs, searching for answers, etc. They still make mistake and have poor judgement, but they are much less common, and they recover quickly.
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
this open-source PR for a feature I had wanted for years github.com/aimhubio/aim... This >10X productivity boost feels weird... it's amazing to witness it, but alarming for the jobs it will displace. It feels like driving super fast with your head sticking out the window - exhilarating but scary.
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Add video tracking and Media tab visualization by claforte · Pull Request #3405 · aimhubio/aim
Summary This adds first-class video tracking to Aim and exposes it in the run detail UI: adds aim.Video and Videos sequence support for mp4, m4v, gif, mov, and webm registers video sequences with ...
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
There are many perks of working at NVIDIA... including unfettered access to coding agents like Codex. It's mind-blowing how powerful these have become in recent months. With it, I made significant progress on 4 projects at once today, including...
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Add video tracking and Media tab visualization by claforte · Pull Request #3405 · aimhubio/aim
Summary This adds first-class video tracking to Aim and exposes it in the run detail UI: adds aim.Video and Videos sequence support for mp4, m4v, gif, mov, and webm registers video sequences with ...
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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Excited to share HOI-PAGE, to appear at #ICML2026! 🚀 @craigleili.bsky.social generates 4D human-object interactions zero-shot from text A part-affordance graph grounds interactions via LLM+video priors, enabling complex multi-person, multi-object interactions 👉 craigleili.github.io/projects/hoi...
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
- A unified smart primitive interface for locomotion, object interaction, and scene interaction, giving creators fine-grained control over generated behaviors. Code: lnkd.in/gmb9VuKx Paper: github.com/NVlabs/GR00T...
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
- A generative latent motion backbone covering 350K+ motion skills, running at up to 15,000 FPS with 2 ms latency, with substantially improved motion quality and reliability. ...
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LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
NVIDIA researchers published "MotionBricks", real-time 3D character animation for games and robots: Project: nvlabs.github.io/motionbricks/ Check out that demo video... very impressive!
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I was impressed by the Nemotron 3 Super 120B model... it's very fast on an RTX 6000 Pro, and it's great at role playing. I look forward to trying this new Nano model as well!
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Model, Unifying Vision, Audio and Language for up to 9x More Efficient AI Agents - 30B-A3B, hybrid mixture-of-experts - blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nemotro... - huggingface.co/nvidia/Nemot...
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NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Model, Unifying Vision, Audio and Language for up to 9x More Efficient AI Agents
Best-in-class open omni-modal reasoning model delivers the highest efficiency and accuracy to power agentic workflows such as computer use, document intelligence and audio-video reasoning.
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kitty877.bsky.social @kitty877.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Anyone who has been to Dubai, or Abu Dhabi, knows they are places of opulence, and excess in the middle of the desert. They don't deserve "bailing out". The American People struggling to pay for essentials like housing, healthcare, and groceries, do.
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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Last year, we introduced FlexOlmo, a novel way to train parts of a model independently then combine them later. BAR builds on that idea for a harder problem: how to keep improving a model without having to retrain each time. 🧵
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Dmytro Mishkin @ducha-aiki.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
It seems, that we have failed the communication about IMC26. Let's try again. The competition this year is here: kaggle.com/competitions... No prizes, but whole year leaderboard -- similar to KITTY and other academic competitions. 3D people, please retweet and share.
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Image Matching Challenge 2025 Ongoing
Ongoing leaderboard for Image Matching Challenge 2025.
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Real cool project, and a fun team we collaborate with! research.nvidia.com/labs/sil/pro...
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Lyra 2.0: Explorable Generative 3D Worlds
Lyra 2.0: Explorable Generative 3D Worlds — camera-controlled walkthrough videos lifted to 3D via feed-forward reconstruction. We address spatial forgetting and temporal drifting for long-horizon, 3D-...
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 08/04/2026
The fossil fuel industry is probably the biggest fraud apparatus in the history of mankind. It should be joyous to take that machine down. #EEODayRI
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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 01/04/2026
High speed rail is a classic example of first-past-the-post policy whiplash. Governments elected with 40% or less furiously undo previous projects, so nothing gets built. Proportional representation incentivises broad consensus and stable, long term planning.
Screenshot of a Toronto Star tweet showing the outlet name and handle @TorontoStar with a verified checkmark. The headline reads: “Pierre Poilievre says he would cancel high-speed rail line between Toronto and Quebec City,” followed by a shortened link.
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
AC -29… lol
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Looks cool but can you clarify what you’re doing? As a non expert it’s not clear to me if you’re erasing floaters in 3D, or cleaning up the photos, or something else entirely.
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Drspayne @naturalwanderer.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
It definitely looks like a grift between Putin and Trump. Trump is most likely being blackmailed. Why else could this war instantly be improving Russia’s economic fortunes, while continuing to damage the economies of the rest of the world. There are so many other options for Trump and he chose this.
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 13/03/2026
Bluesky must succeed. It just might. werd.io/coming-off-t...
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Coming Off the Bench for Bluesky
Bluesky must succeed. It just might.
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Irresponsible. Paving the way to more misinformation.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Can the world stop relying on oil? Can Carney stop promoting fossil fuel use around the world? www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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Can Canada meet demand for oil as Iran war rages on? | CBC News
As the war in Iran disrupts oil and gas exports from the Gulf region, the Canadian energy sector could see a jump in demand — and federal officials are positioning Canada as a beacon of stability duri...
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Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Gas prices (💶/litre) in Munich: Feb 2 2026 vs today
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I’m sure this was the #1 reason for the war in Iran. Enrich Big Oil and oil&gas exporters like Russia. sigh
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
As a Canadian this matches my experience and I’m delighted with our scores… but shouldn’t they have inverted the order of that table? We should be on top and the USA in the bottom.
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Jeremy Howard @howard.fm · 02/03/2026
According to OpenAI, their contract with the US DoW locks in current law, "even if those laws or policies change in the future". Our legal analysis, with Virgil Law CEO Luke Versweyveld, shows that this is almost certainly incorrect. www.answer.ai/posts/2026-0...
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Can a Contract Freeze the Law on Autonomous Weapons? – Answer.AI
OpenAI claims its contract with the Department of War locks in current laws on autonomous weapons. Based on the contract language OpenAI has shared, 150 years of Supreme Court precedent, and the found...
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Unlike "x-risks" people, he doesn't seem to exaggerate or try to profit from fear. Anyway, I would recommend listening to one of his recent interviews to make a more informed opinion.
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Yoshua could have become unfathomably rich but he instead consistently chose the ethical paths, and advised people around him to do the same. He's always been against applying AI for war. MILA seems quite inclusive.
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Thanks Evangelos. I think you got the wrong impression about Yoshua Bengio. I don't know him personally but I graduated in 1999 from the engineering dept in UMontreal where Yoshua taught. Some of my friends know him well, and I heard echoes over the years.
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
If you know of practical ways to help beyond donating to UNICEF, pressuring our elected representatives, and boycotting Israel products and companies supporting them, I'm all ears.
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Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
BTW Evangelos, I can tell you care deeply about injustice, and there's so much of it right now, it's normal to be stressed out. But implying that people are racist if they are concerned about other risks as well... that doesn't help. Anyway "AI spreading misinformation" is a problem, today.
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