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Mark Zuckerberg officially introduced Meta Superintelligence Labs to employees The group has 11 hires from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Seasame and will be led by Alexandr Wang (Chief AI Officer) and Nat Friedman https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1939941959449059595

The race for LLM “cognitive core” – a few billion param model that maximally sacrifices encyclopedic knowledge for capability. It lives always-on and by default on every computer as the kernel of LLM personal computing.
Its features are slowly crystalizing:

– Natively multimodal text/vision/audio at both input and output.
– Matryoshka-style architecture allowing a dial of capability up and down at test time.
– Reasoning, also with a dial. (system 2)
– Aggressively tool-using.
– On-device finetuning LoRA slots for test-time training, personalization and customization.
– Delegates and double checks just the right parts with the oracles in the cloud if internet is available.

It doesn’t know that William the Conqueror’s reign ended in September 9 1087, but it vaguely recognizes the name and can look up the date. It can’t recite the SHA-256 of empty string as e3b0c442…, but it can calculate it quickly should you really want it.

What LLM personal computing lacks in broad world knowledge and top tier problem-solving capability it will make up in super low interaction latency (especially as multimodal matures), direct / private access to data and state, offline continuity, sovereignty (“not your weights not your brain”). i.e. many of the same reasons we like, use and buy personal computers instead of having thin clients access a cloud via remote desktop or so.https://x.com/karpathy/status/1938626382248149433

Oracle, OpenAI Ink Additional Stargate Deal for 4.5 Gigawatts of US Data Center – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-02/oracle-openai-ink-stargate-deal-for-4-5-gigawatts-of-us-data-center-power?embedded-checkout=true

In my opinion, Meta has been the most impactful big tech company in AI thanks to the open release of Llama that changed the field and helped them catch up to the frontier in record times! I suspect they’ll be able to 100x their impact thanks to the addition of @alexandr_wang”” / X https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1940048909989986483

Meta reportedly hires four more researchers from OpenAI | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/28/meta-reportedly-hires-four-more-researchers-from-openai/

Per Wired, Meta is poaching researchers with packages up to $300M over 4 years (with 1st yr comp >$100m), and that they’ve made 10 such offers to people at OpenAI. For context, this is roughly what Meta’s execs get paid per year: • CFO: $23.5M • COO: $25.5M • CTO: $23.5M •”” / X https://x.com/tanayj/status/1940137574141694046

RT @natfriedman: Started work at Meta this week. My job is to make amazing AI products that billions of people love to use. It won’t happe…”” / X https://x.com/ggerganov/status/1940704352534254019

Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent-Poaching Spree: ‘Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries’ | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-meta-ai-talent-poaching-spree-leaked-messages/

SCOOP: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is hitting back at Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent AI talent poaching spree. “”Missionaries will beat mercenaries,”” Altman wrote in an internal memo to OpenAI researchers. WIRED has obtained it: https://x.com/WIRED/status/1940105225525657890

Thrilled to be joining @Meta! Superintelligence is now in sight 🚀”” / X https://x.com/TrapitBansal/status/1939823632152502311

Microsoft Internal Memo: ‘Using AI Is No Longer Optional.’
AI now sits beside collaboration and communication as a core competency.
Competitive pressure spills into Microsoft’s talks with OpenAI. OpenAI may buy Windsurf, yet Microsoft’s existing deal would grant it Windsurf intellectual property, causing friction.
Internally, employees can still choose external assistants that clear security checks, but leaders want usage telemetry pointing back to Microsoft products.https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1938937913083150719

OpenAI Podcast Episode 2 is now live! @markchen90 and @nickaturley join @andrewmayne to pull back the curtain on the making of ChatGPT. They also get into how products are developed and what’s next for agentic coding and multimodal assistants. https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1940063220456464880

Our latest speech-to-speech model is faster, more accurate, and excels at function calling. Watch @promptshant and @bfioca build a realtime voice agent that can search the web and hand off tasks to reasoning models with full context. https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1938716933328904240

Apple Weighs Replacing Siri’s AI, LLMs With Anthropic Claude or OpenAI ChatGPT – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-30/apple-weighs-replacing-siri-s-ai-llms-with-anthropic-claude-or-openai-chatgpt?embedded-checkout=true

Tencent released Hunyuan-A13B, a new open-source hybrid reasoning model It nears or matches models like o1 and DeepSeek R1 on major benchmarks, while remaining efficient enough to run on a single GPU Also includes “”fast and slow”” modes to adjust efficiency levels https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1939601169271197973

Microsoft’s 2023 contract ties its access to OpenAI tech to a board-declared AGI milestone. OpenAI’s unreleased Five Levels paper maps incremental competence—from Level 1 language skills to Level 5 full autonomy. Publishing it could box the board into clearer thresholds and https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1938786934639468713

I think OpenAI losing people to Meta has at least as much to do with Sama’s star dimming as with Meta’s lucrative offers. It feels that OpenAI had weird non-businesslike dynamics to ensure retention. Before, they were only losing talent to competing ideology.”” / X https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1939076857363570991

Meta’s “recruiting party” is in full swing — with the company reportedly hiring 8 key OpenAI researchers with massive paychecks Early hires include OpenAI’s Zurich trio (Beyer, Kolesnikov, Zhai) and those who worked on o1, o3-mini, and GPT-4.1, including Trapit Bansal https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1939601094520312174

Claude Code performs a complete analysis of Gemini-CLI and OpenAI Codex using Deep Graph MCP… one command to implement Claude Code automatically pulls two popular AI assistant repos and performs deep architectural analysis to determine which one is actually better built. https://x.com/dani_avila7/status/1939006861346316768

Somebody hooked up Claude Code to pair program with o3 and Gemini 2.5 via MCP for an all-star coding lineup 🤯 – Claude controls the work – Can call out to Gemini and o3 for tasks and input – Works around MCP limit by using prompt files Check out Zen MCP (link below) https://x.com/iannuttall/status/1933184490379100185

Preview of the new ChatGPT connectors and the option to add a custom connector using MCP https://x.com/btibor91/status/1922906062690079080

Built a CLI that talks to GPT-4, Claude, Gemini & 10+ other LLMs from one terminal 🚀 Tired of switching between different chat tools? mcp-use-cli lets you /model hop between providers instantly. npm i -g @mcp-use/cli && you’re done ✨ https://x.com/pietrozullo/status/1940080780186984848

What happens if you put a full scientific paper into AI and ask it to find known errors in proofs, tables, etc? Every model before o3 fails completely, o3 gets 21% (its better at proofs, worse at tables & figures). Progress & perhaps a second opinion, not yet autonomous science. https://x.com/emollick/status/1940064995439779962

RT @Michael_D_Moor: 🚨Preprint alert!🚨 Did you know there is a new reasoning benchmark where leading models like o3 still fall flat? (i.e.…”” / X https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1940066518307381616

I Built an AI Agent That Applies to Jobs FOR YOU Using OpenAI + n8n! #aiagent #openai #n8n https://x.com/alisolankii/status/1935694450426048813

OpenAI Takes a Page From Palantir, Doubles Down on Consulting Services — The Information https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-takes-page-palantir-doubles-consulting-services

In preparation for OpenAI’s upcoming open-source model, I’m building the world’s best local agent It seamlessly integrates with my OS, auto accesses my clipboard, is Finder-aware, creates/reads files, searches the web, and updates text in any app. Local Jarvis. https://x.com/skirano/status/1940818055703208036

Interestingly Claude-4 Opus and o3 are on the same level on METR when selecting 80% (instead of 50%) probability of succeeding on a task https://x.com/scaling01/status/1940093773440008512

now wouldn’t that be something…”” / X https://x.com/demishassabis/status/1940248521111961988

It’s still early days for voice AI; the original GPT-3 API came out 5 years ago, whereas today’s speech-to-speech APIs have been around for less than a year. Amazing progress so far, but still many hard problems to solve and a ton of stuff to build!”” / X https://x.com/juberti/status/1939786979865948545

Love this project: nanoGPT -> recursive self-improvement benchmark. Good old nanoGPT keeps on giving and surprising 🙂 – First I wrote it as a small little repo to teach people the basics of training GPTs. – Then it became a target and baseline for my port to direct C/CUDA”” / X https://x.com/karpathy/status/1939709449956126910

AllenAI just introduced SciArena in which o3 is crushing all other models”” / X https://x.com/scaling01/status/1940065085776666679

OpenAI’s new Deep Research API costs up to ~$30 per API call! These new Deep Research API endpoints might just be the new fastest way to spend money Across our 10 deep research test queries, we spent $100 on o3 and $9.18 on o4-mini. How do the costs get so big? High prices and https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1940896348364210647

OpenAI’s janitors after getting poached for 100 mil https://x.com/scaling01/status/1939015703622758423

Sam’s turn to strike back—time to bring Yann onboard.”” / X https://x.com/denny_zhou/status/1940418308156862799

OpenAI turns to Google’s AI chips to power its products, source says | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-turns-googles-ai-chips-power-its-products-information-reports-2025-06-27/

RT @LysandreJik: BOOOM! transformers now has a baked-in http server w/ OpenAI spec compatible API Launch it with `transformers serve` and…”” / X https://x.com/TheZachMueller/status/1940195982169579805

friendly reminder: OpenAI’s planned Stargate datacenter complex will draw about 5 GW, this is roughly the electricity used by ~4.3 million U.S. homes, or about half of New York or 1.13x Los Angeles”” / X https://x.com/scaling01/status/1940536579183067540

I really don’t like ChatGPT’s new memory dossier https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/chatgpt-new-memory/

AI privacy is critically important as users rely on AI more and more. the new york times claims to care about tech companies protecting user’s privacy and their reporters are committed to protecting their sources. but they continue to ask a court to make us retain chatgpt”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1938277441400934447

I’m excited to be the Chief AI Officer of @Meta, working alongside @natfriedman, and thrilled to be accompanied by an incredible group of people joining on the same day. Towards superintelligence 🚀 https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/1939867404252979291

Sorry to hype — but having a few friends at OpenAI makes it hard not to hear how wild their open-source model dropping next month is. It won’t run on a phone, but let’s just say it edges out one of the models in the ChatGPT dropdown. Meta’s gonna need some time to catch up.”” / X https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1939462191302033757

This paper enhances open-source LLMs by developing a data synthesis methodology focused on strategic planning and high-quality training data. The 7B model shows substantial performance improvements, while the 14B model achieves results comparable to or surpassing GPT-4o. https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1939211732200882534

M4THYOU/TokenDagger: High-Performance Implementation of OpenAI’s TikToken. https://github.com/M4THYOU/TokenDagger

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