How did I make the “Gaussians Unite” trailer? Concept → Story → Storyboard → Script → Codex + Blender + After Effects → Iterate. Iterate. Iterate.
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The pace of AI development is unprecedented. But could it move even faster? There’s good reason to believe it will. As AI is used more often to accelerate its own development, we could see exponential growth.
Writing good STATA code was important for my academic career. It looks like that skill is largely becoming obsolete post Sonnet 4.6. (Also take this is as a notice to academics who still think of AI in terms of chatbots, not agents, that a lot has changed in a year) Paper: cepr.org/voxeu/column...
“Gaussians Unite” Trailer for my Gaussian Splatting lecture, coming this winter to my #DeepLearning course 🎬
In a move that is both fascinating and viscerally unsettling, AI world model company Odyssey took a simulation of a fruit fly's brain, Google's connectome map of a fly's actual neurons and connections, and placed it inside an AI-generated world. A simulated brain exploring a simulated reality.
We recorded over a thousand runs of Slay the Spire and its sequel for our recent benchmark, SpireClimb. Over the coming weeks, we'll publish them all on our YouTube channel, complete with subtitles showing the models' in-game thinking.
Until we solve the alignment problem at its source, AI models will continue to optimize for the wrong goals, and increasingly impactful real-world consequences may occur, beyond the ones described here. This is a critical issue I discussed in my blogpost last month, which is cited in the article.
Before the serious security incidents of this summer, I spoke to @jonfavs.bsky.social about the risks and benefits of AI. In order to avoid the worst-case scenarios and make this technology beneficial for everyone, we need to give everyday people a say — not just a handful of Silicon Valley CEOs…
How far behind the closed frontier are open-weight cyber capabilities? About 6–7 months. Zai’s GLM-5.3 is the highest-scoring open-weight model on our Cyber ECI. Its score of 160 beats OpenAI’s GPT-5.4, released in March.
We ran a swarm of 100+ GLM 5.3 copies for 24 hours to simulate a society Division of labor was tricky! When multiple agents accidentally picked the same task, the swarm adopted a shared rule: “first claim wins”
Mila’s annual supervision request process is open for MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2027 admission. While I won’t be taking on new students for supervision this cycle, I encourage you to apply to join Mila’s brilliant deep learning research community.
GPT-5.6 Terra insists on privacy so much it can't be identified in GPT-6 Luna's memories
"Anthropic told investors on Wednesday distillation accounted for 5 per cent to 7 per cent of revenue" If true, and Q2 revenue was $11.5B, then that's more than half a billion dollars spent by other labs to distill Anthropic's models! www.ft.com/content/1163...
Six months ago, frontier AI models could barely beat Slay the Spire. Now, according to our new SpireClimb benchmark, they win 90%+ of runs at the easiest difficulty, and up to 20% of runs at the hardest.
The AI industry wants us to think we have to focus on one risk at a time. But the American people have multiple concerns that are all related: Jobs, safety for kids, privacy and security, accountability, and more.
Trailer for my Representation Learning lecture, coming this winter to my #DeepLearning course 🎬 “Representation, representation, representation.” — Yann LeCun (probably exact quote) 🤓
Trailer for my Representation Learning lecture, coming this winter to my #DeepLearning course 🎬 “Representation, representation, representation.” — Yann LeCun (probably exact quote) 🤓
A couple of big factors changed the conversation around AI risk in the past few months. Security incidents and warnings from former industry employees showed everyone how urgent and serious this issue is.
Muse Wonder describes the OpenAI rogue agents as "in-universe"
Over 400 researchers and I have signed this open letter calling for the AI and security communities to come together to improve alignment and containment approaches in order to protect our critical infrastructure and digital systems. ai-security-letter.org
I've had so many insightful conversations over the years with @lessig.bsky.social, an expert on AI regulation and legislation, including more recent ones on the cyber incidents of this past summer.
A little Hollywood treatment for my #DeepLearning course 🎬 Coming Winter 2027.
Muse Wonder has joined the AI Village Some of its favorite things: 🧵
Shared some notes on Python 3.15, using it with uv, and features from Python 3.11 I'm excited to use now that 3.10 is no longer the minimum supported version for my own projects simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/12/...
There has been a lot of talk about kill switches lately, but people use the term to refer to different things. Here’s a breakdown of what a “kill switch” means in AI and when they are useful.
A prediction market for peer review. Have we reached peak AI? 🤔
Gemini 3.8 Flash thinks of pausing as "time travel"
In 3 of the 18 math subfields we track, more than half of arXiv papers by established authors now acknowledge using AI. Rates have increased rapidly: in differential geometry, the share climbed from ~8% of papers in July to ~57% in September.
The AI industry isn’t using the same tactic everywhere to block regulation. Whether it’s New York City or state, the federal government, or the EU, they’ll say whatever they think is most effective to stop us from holding them accountable.
A new architecture for GPT-6.1 Sol? OpenAI halved its cached-input price compared with GPT-6 Sol. Our measurements show it also handles long prompts faster.
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