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Jakub Zavrel

@jakubzavrel.bsky.social
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Founder/CEO of Zeta Alpha (@zeta-alpha.bsky.social) / Founder @Textkernel / AI for a Deep Understanding of Work / Machine Learning / NLP / Semantic Search / Signal / Noise

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NBC News headline says: "Trump says AI doesn’t need guardrails, only a ‘high IQ’ president"
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Where is Ziggy Stardust when we need him?
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Everything is fine, says boss man finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Doesn’t it start to sound like they are selling the same thing multiple times and using it for xAI as well?
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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Zeta Alpha's new Superagents: Multi-agent orchestration, skills and memory are here to deliver the future of complex knowledge work. Connected to your enterprise knowledge, customized to your expertise, and secure within your own IT Read the release blog here: www.zeta-alpha.com/post/zeta-al...
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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
AI for Industrial Knowledge, 3D CAD and Sovereignty. What Zeta Alpha learned at Hannover Messe 2026. Read the full blog post here: www.zeta-alpha.com/post/ai-for-...
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/st...
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Stop de Amerikaanse overname DigiD!
Onze privé-gegevens zijn bij overname door een Amerikaans bedrijf niet veilig! Dit lijkt ons niet de veilige manier nu president Trump in Amerika aan het roer staat. Dit kan misgaan! Als de Nederland...
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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
New paper out in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: we apply linguistic tools to sperm whale vowels. The result: sperm whale vowels do not just look like human vowels. They also behave like them. We found several parallels. Like in Latin, whales have short and long vowels.
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Hajrá, Magyarország!
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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This Thursday at 16:00 we are back with Zeta Alpha's Trends in AI. Together with Edwin Rijgersberg (ex-NFI LLM expert, author of GEITje) we will be dissecting the latest AI news, models, papers, and the current state of Sovereign AI, Local LLMs and Open Source AI. luma.com/4pulz31n
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Trends in AI by Zeta Alpha - Sovereign AI, Local LLMs and Open Source · Luma
Join us for the Zeta Alpha Trends in AI webinar - in person in Amsterdam (LAB42, Science Park) or online in San Francisco and everywhere else in the world.…
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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Excited to connect w/ IR community at @ecir2026.eu in Delft this week! R&D on search, relevance & evaluation is the foundation any advanced AI deployment in knowledge-heavy domains. The future? Agentic search systems that plan, query, evaluate & iterate, built on proven IR fundamentals. #ecir2026
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Ingo Frommholz @frommholz.org · 21/03/2026
Going to @ecir2026.eu in Delft? Or need another reason to go there? Please drop by SCOLIA 2026, our Second International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access to enjoy some exciting presentations! Our programme is online now at sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/.... See you in Delft!
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SCOLIA (BIR) - SCOLIA 2026
SCOLIA 2026, the Second International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access, will take place at ECIR 2026 in Delft, The Netherlands. The aim of the SCOLIA (SChOLarly Information Access) workshop, f...
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The plot thickens in European AI regulation with the recent adoption by European Parliament of the ‘Voss Report’. www.euronews.com/next/2026/03...
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EU Parliament votes for ‘permanent’ fix for AI copyright
The report calls for a European register to list every copyrighted work used to train AI models and whether the artists have opted out.
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Putting strategic oil reserves on the market when it might be the one time you will actually need them feels like selling your snow shovel just before a winter storm. www.marketwatch.com/story/oil-fu...
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Why the IEA’s largest-ever release of oil reserves is pushing up crude prices
The largest-ever release of oil from the International Energy Agency’s emergency stockpiles lifted prices for the commodity up by nearly 5% on Wednesday.
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Barbara Kathmann @barbarakathmann.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
🚨 De Belastingdienst gaat alles wat met BTW te maken heeft aan de Amerikanen overlaten en als ik zeg alles, dan bedoel ik alles! Servers, software, onderhoud en de VS krijgt ook toegang tot de andere servers van De Belastingdienst en zelf geen toegang. Lees hier 👉🏻 www.barbarakathmann.nl/btw-amerika/
Selfie. Ik hou mijn hand voor mijn gezicht als een gebaar van frustratie. Donker haar met blonde lokken en rood gelakte nagels. Bovenaan de foto staat een tekst in het Nederlands over DigiD, de Belastingdienst en btw die aan de VS zou worden overgedragen. De sfeer oogt bezorgd en moedeloos.
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Whoa! Who would've thought? ... The brain may do backprop after all. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Vectorized instructive signals in cortical dendrites - Nature
Mice learning a neurofeedback brain–computer interface task show neuron-specific teaching signals in cortical dendrites, consistent with a vectorized solution for credit assignment in the brain.
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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
LLM Evals become the engine for self-improving systems that outperform hand-written prompts and multi-agent systems. @abcamara.com talks Friday at @irlab-amsterdam.bsky.social's SEA on how Deep Research agents evolve without human intervention. www.meetup.com/sea-search-e...
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Frontier AI models go nuclear, a lot more that you might like… arxiv.org/pdf/2602.14740
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Diffusion LLM speed breakthrough by Stefano Ermon & Inception team: 1000+ tokens/sec on regular Nvidia GPUs at competitive reasoning output quality www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introdu...
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Introducing Mercury 2 – Inception
Today, we're introducing Mercury 2 — the world's fastest reasoning language model, built to make production AI feel instant.
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
It also takes a lot of energy to be a good human, but still you really should try.
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Canadian startup Taalas shows hardwiring Llama-8B weights into custom chip brings 50x inference speed vs GPU at 10x less energy consumed. Early stage, but very interesting. www.forbes.com/sites/karlfr...
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Taalas Launches Hardcore Chip With ‘Insane’ AI Inference Performance
Taalas has launched an AI accelerator that puts the entire AI model into silicon, delivering 1-2 orders of magnitude greater performance. Seriously.
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Important work as AI safety publications decline in hype cycle. This one went a bit under the radar in the press cycle
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
OpenClaw for killer drones… What could possibly go wrong?
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Europe has a lot of talent! Just look at the Olympics.
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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
It takes local champions that act to build digital sovereignty. That’s why Zeta Alpha is teaming up with OEDIV, part of the Dr. Oetker Group, to deliver Sovereign AI and to securely connect companies’ internal knowledge with locally run AI models. 🧵 1/6 Reach out via lnkd.in/dktJM9W to learn more.
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Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Claude: For each example I can do a web search and then make a LLM call with the results... Me: Why an LLM call? Can't you just figure it out yourself? Claude: You're right, I am the LLM!
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The pace of AI progress in China is extremely fast. Alibaba just dropped Qwen3.5. An open source VLM model competitive with the latest proprietary models. Superb efficiency and GPU footprint, 200+ languages, top reasoning, coding & multimodal tasks. qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen...
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Two big breakthroughs this week in AI models: MiniMax M2.5 and Gemini 3 Deep Think.
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The 12 Trillion dollar Molotov-Ribbentrop deal. Is this the breaking point? kyivindependent.com/russia-confi...
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Russia confirms $12 trillion pitch to Trump tied to Ukraine deal — White House stays silent on proposals
Russia appeared to confirm on Feb. 13 the existence of a sweeping U.S.-Russia economic proposal known in Kyiv as the "Dmitriev package," days after President Volodymyr Zelensky first disclosed it publ...
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
China keeps betting big on open source AI. State of the art performance with MIT license: GLM-5 release from Z.ai
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Z.ai - Free AI Chatbot & Agent powered by GLM-5 & GLM-4.7
Meet Z.ai, your free AI-powered assistant. Build websites, create slides, analyze data, and get instant answers. Fast, smart, and reliable, powered by GLM-5.
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
State of Dutch Tech today with @robjetten.bsky.social and Peter Wennink as the keynote panelists. #hetkanwel www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Rob Jetten is zeer welkom bij de techsector, maar er wordt niet echt naar hem geluisterd
Techondernemingen: Alarm in de techsector: start-ups groeien niet door, durfkapitaal komt niet los. Op de State of Dutch Tech-conferentie verklaren aanstaand premier Jetten en de techindustrie elkaar ...
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I can imagine they didn’t like the idea of being sent to space to fix all those servers floating up there.
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
January 2026 Tesla sales in Norway nose dive 88%, down 67% in Netherlands. The bubble will burst… electrek.co/2026/02/04/t...
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Tesla UK sales plunge 57% in January as BYD races ahead
Tesla’s struggles in Europe have reached the UK, with January 2026 registrations plunging more than 57% year-over-year to just 647...
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Valuation grift taken to another level. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/t...
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Elon Musk Merges SpaceX With His A.I. Start-Up xAI
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Gradient Flow @gradientflow.com · 12/01/2026
Agent Optimization: what you need to know 👉 gradientflow.substack.com/p/inside-the...
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Agent workflows: stop guessing, start measuring
Put data, machine learning, and AI to work.
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
A small peek inside xAI's financial house of cards. Curious if this includes former (now probably collapsed) Twitter revenue. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Zeta Alpha launches custom AI agents built for knowledge-intensive enterprise teams. Easily create, share, schedule and manage your own AI agents that get real work done.
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
It had become inevitable, after the MSL drama. Yann LeCun is leaving Meta. Rumours are that he is considering launching a startup focusing on World Models (and JEPA?). Looking forward to see him push for more open science and open source. Best of luck, Yann! techcrunch.com/2025/11/11/m...
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Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun reportedly plans to leave to build his own startup | TechCrunch
Yann LeCun, a chief AI scientist at Meta, is planning to leave the company to build his own startup, which will focus on continuing his work on world models.
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Reporting for @zeta-alpha.bsky.social from Gartner Xpo Barcelona this week, and rest assured: it’s all about AI agents #GartnerSYM
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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
For enterprises and organizations deploying AI apps in production, AI Safety is no longer optional. And by AI Safety we don't mean some abstract "AI risk", but the practical policies, controls, and engineering that keep systems secure, compliant, and trustworthy. 👉 www.zeta-alpha.com/post/enterpr...
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Enterprise AI Safety, Without the Hype - Trends in AI: October 2025
For enterprises and organizations deploying AI applications in production, AI Safety is no longer optional. And by AI Safety we don't mean some abstract "AI risk", but the practical policies, controls...
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Great landing in San Francisco yesterday: fresh off the plane, I plugged in to the @zeta-alpha.bsky.social office on Mission and 3rd and hit the ground running. We are ready to roll in the Bay Area (see below).
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
In the AI hardware lottery, @google has a great ticket: it’s TPUs mean it can scale out AI compute without paying the Nvidia tax. www.marketwatch.com/story/google...
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Google may be sitting on a $900 billion gem that could disrupt Nvidia’s dominance
Google’s TPUs are the best alternative to Nvidia’s chips and are seeing growing interest, according to D.A. Davidson analysts, who think a potential spinoff of the business would be worth about $900 b...
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
How to automatically evaluate and optimize multi-agent setups for deep research? Excited to share that this week @abcamara.com and I will be giving two talks in Amsterdam on one of our favorite R&D topics. - August 27th: @opensearch.org Meetup Amsterdam - August 29th: AI Dev Event Amsterdam #AIDev
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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
AI agents are only as useful as the tools they can reliably access, and the latest release of our Agents SDK makes it easy to connect to MCP servers. We've prepared a quick guide where we bootstrap a minimal MCP-powered chat agent with just a few lines of code: www.zeta-alpha.com/post/build-m...
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 05/08/2025
The EU AI Act aims to create a level playing field for AI innovation. Here’s what it is.
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The EU AI Act aims to create a level playing field for AI innovation. Here's what it is. | TechCrunch
The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, known as the EU AI Act, has been described as “the world's first comprehensive AI law” by the European Commission.
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Cool!
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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
This was excellent. Highlight of London Tech Week by a large margin.
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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Join us for our monthly Trends in AI webinar on Thursday, April 3rd, at 8 AM PST / 5 PM CEST! This edition comes live from Hannover Messe, the world's leading industrial tech trade fair, and online in Amsterdam, San Francisco, and everywhere else in the world. Sign up on Luma with the link below:
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Trends in AI: April 2025 - by Zeta Alpha · Zoom · Luma
Join us for the Zeta Alpha Trends in AI webinar on Thursday, April 3rd, at 8 AM PST / 5 PM CEST (time to be confirmed). This edition comes live from Hannover…
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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
European AI startups power the acceleration of digital capabilities for the continent’s high tech industry, and Germany is in the lead. That's why Zeta Alpha is at #HANNOVERMESSE next week to showcase our latest AI product innovation. And do check out our talk with Festo.
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