Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Everything is fine, says boss man finance.yahoo.com/technology/a... 030
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Doesn’t it start to sound like they are selling the same thing multiple times and using it for xAI as well? 010
Reposted by Jakub ZavrelZeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Zeta 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... 031
Reposted by Jakub ZavrelZeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 04/05/2026AI 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-... 011
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/st...actie.degoedezaak.orgStop 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... 000
Reposted by Jakub ZavrelGasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 15/04/2026New 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. 618960
Reposted by Jakub ZavrelZeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 07/04/2026This 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/4pulz31nluma.comTrends in AI by Zeta Alpha - Sovereign AI, Local LLMs and Open Source · LumaJoin 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.… 021
Reposted by Jakub ZavrelZeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Excited 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 152
Reposted by Jakub ZavrelIngo Frommholz @frommholz.org · 21/03/2026Going 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!sites.google.comSCOLIA (BIR) - SCOLIA 2026SCOLIA 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... 054
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 14/03/2026The plot thickens in European AI regulation with the recent adoption by European Parliament of the ‘Voss Report’. www.euronews.com/next/2026/03...euronews.comEU Parliament votes for ‘permanent’ fix for AI copyrightThe report calls for a European register to list every copyrighted work used to train AI models and whether the artists have opted out. 100
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Putting 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...marketwatch.comWhy the IEA’s largest-ever release of oil reserves is pushing up crude pricesThe largest-ever release of oil from the International Energy Agency’s emergency stockpiles lifted prices for the commodity up by nearly 5% on Wednesday. 010
Reposted by Jakub ZavrelBarbara 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/ 73850520
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Whoa! Who would've thought? ... The brain may do backprop after all. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comVectorized instructive signals in cortical dendrites - NatureMice 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. 010
Reposted by Jakub ZavrelZeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 26/02/2026LLM 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... 051
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Frontier AI models go nuclear, a lot more that you might like… arxiv.org/pdf/2602.14740 010
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Diffusion 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...inceptionlabs.aiIntroducing Mercury 2 – InceptionToday, we're introducing Mercury 2 — the world's fastest reasoning language model, built to make production AI feel instant. 000
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 22/02/2026It also takes a lot of energy to be a good human, but still you really should try. 000
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Canadian 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...forbes.comTaalas Launches Hardcore Chip With ‘Insane’ AI Inference PerformanceTaalas has launched an AI accelerator that puts the entire AI model into silicon, delivering 1-2 orders of magnitude greater performance. Seriously. 120
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Important work as AI safety publications decline in hype cycle. This one went a bit under the radar in the press cycle 110
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 18/02/2026OpenClaw for killer drones… What could possibly go wrong? 110
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Europe has a lot of talent! Just look at the Olympics. 010
Reposted by Jakub ZavrelZeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 18/02/2026It 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. 352
Reposted by Jakub ZavrelJuan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Claude: 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! 2437
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 17/02/2026The 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... 120
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Two big breakthroughs this week in AI models: MiniMax M2.5 and Gemini 3 Deep Think. 110
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 13/02/2026The 12 Trillion dollar Molotov-Ribbentrop deal. Is this the breaking point? kyivindependent.com/russia-confi...kyivindependent.comRussia confirms $12 trillion pitch to Trump tied to Ukraine deal — White House stays silent on proposalsRussia 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... 120
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 11/02/2026China keeps betting big on open source AI. State of the art performance with MIT license: GLM-5 release from Z.aiz.aiZ.ai - Free AI Chatbot & Agent powered by GLM-5 & GLM-4.7Meet 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. 000
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 11/02/2026State of Dutch Tech today with @robjetten.bsky.social and Peter Wennink as the keynote panelists. #hetkanwel www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...nrc.nlRob Jetten is zeer welkom bij de techsector, maar er wordt niet echt naar hem geluisterdTechondernemingen: 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 ... 100
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 11/02/2026I can imagine they didn’t like the idea of being sent to space to fix all those servers floating up there. 000
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 04/02/2026January 2026 Tesla sales in Norway nose dive 88%, down 67% in Netherlands. The bubble will burst… electrek.co/2026/02/04/t...electrek.coTesla UK sales plunge 57% in January as BYD races aheadTesla’s struggles in Europe have reached the UK, with January 2026 registrations plunging more than 57% year-over-year to just 647... 020
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Valuation grift taken to another level. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/t...nytimes.comElon Musk Merges SpaceX With His A.I. Start-Up xAI 020
Reposted by Jakub ZavrelGradient Flow @gradientflow.com · 12/01/2026Agent Optimization: what you need to know 👉 gradientflow.substack.com/p/inside-the...gradientflow.substack.comAgent workflows: stop guessing, start measuringPut data, machine learning, and AI to work. 011
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 09/01/2026A small peek inside xAI's financial house of cards. Curious if this includes former (now probably collapsed) Twitter revenue. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 000
Reposted by Jakub ZavrelZeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Zeta 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. 143
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 12/11/2025It 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...techcrunch.comMeta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun reportedly plans to leave to build his own startup | TechCrunchYann 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. 020
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Reporting for @zeta-alpha.bsky.social from Gartner Xpo Barcelona this week, and rest assured: it’s all about AI agents #GartnerSYM 331
Reposted by Jakub ZavrelZeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 13/10/2025For 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...zeta-alpha.comEnterprise AI Safety, Without the Hype - Trends in AI: October 2025For 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... 032
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Great 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). 141
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 03/09/2025In 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...marketwatch.comGoogle may be sitting on a $900 billion gem that could disrupt Nvidia’s dominanceGoogle’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... 120
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 25/08/2025How 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 173
Reposted by Jakub ZavrelZeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 08/08/2025AI 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... 033
Reposted by Jakub ZavrelTechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 05/08/2025The EU AI Act aims to create a level playing field for AI innovation. Here’s what it is.techcrunch.comThe EU AI Act aims to create a level playing field for AI innovation. Here's what it is. | TechCrunchThe 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. 2154
Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 11/06/2025This was excellent. Highlight of London Tech Week by a large margin. 010
Reposted by Jakub ZavrelZeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Join 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:lu.maTrends in AI: April 2025 - by Zeta Alpha · Zoom · LumaJoin 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… 173
Reposted by Jakub ZavrelZeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 26/03/2025European 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. 121