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Vibe Physics: When Deriving an Answer Becomes Faster Than Checking It

AI-assisted scattering calculations show how a well-posed question, a simplifying assumption, and expert verification can turn an unwieldy expression into a research result.

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Vibhu Sapra

AI educator and community organizer whose work connects foundational research, reasoning models and practical questions about interpretability.

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Victor Powell

Crixet founder whose software became Prism at OpenAI, with earlier work making technical ideas understandable through interactive visualization.

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Video as Tokens, Motion as Features — ICML 2024, Part 2 of 6

Part 2 of 6: VideoPoet turns video generation into sequence modeling; Tali Dekel explores controllable editing through neural atlases and motion features; Sander Dieleman begins a geometric introduction to diffusion.

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Vik Korrapati

Creator of Moondream and LNQA, focused on compact vision-language models, practical deployment and reasoning grounded in images.

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Vikash Agrawal

AWS software development manager whose work and public demonstrations span AI-assisted development, testing, and observability.

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Vinoo Ganesh

Kepler co-founder and CEO working on verifiable financial AI and forward deployed engineering that feeds customer insight back into the product.

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Vipul Ved Prakash

Together AI co-founder focused on open, user-owned AI, efficient computing, and the economics of production inference.

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Vivek Ravisankar

HackerRank’s co-founder and CEO on assessing AI-assisted developers, the limits of coding benchmarks, and hiring for demonstrated skill.

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VSCode

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code evolved from a cross-platform editor and extension platform into an AI editor, opening its Copilot Chat code and using agents in its own development workflow.

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Walden Yan

Cognition co-founder and product leader whose writing explains context engineering, coordinated agents, and the infrastructure needed for autonomous software development.

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Warp

Warp evolved from a Rust terminal into an agentic development environment and infrastructure for automating software development.

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Warp 2.0

Warp’s transition from a developer terminal to an environment for coding with multiple AI agents, followed by cloud orchestration and software-factory infrastructure.

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WebSim.ai

A browser-based AI creation platform that grew from generating imagined websites into tools for building, sharing, and collaboratively updating games and web apps.

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Wei-Lin Chiang

AI evaluation researcher and Arena co-founder whose work combines crowdsourced human preferences with automated benchmarks for model development.

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What Can a Language Model’s Numbers Tell Us?

Recovering text from embeddings, aligning model representations, and measuring memorization reveal the gap between information stored and information we can use.

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What ClusterMAX Measures When It Ranks GPU Clouds

A practical guide to managed clusters, reliability and security from SemiAnalysis’s ClusterMAX 3.0 discussion.

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What It Took to Replace a Conference SaaS Workflow With AI Agents

A speaker-management contest tested AI-built software against the details of real event operations—and exposed the gap between a demo, an evaluation and an owned service.

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What Makes a Model Improvement Worth Using? — Part 2 of 3

Part 2 follows the choices behind useful model improvements: architecture, evaluation, training budgets, context, serving costs—and the research habits that sustain them.

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What Makes a Thousand-Layer RL Network Trainable?

Goal-reaching agents benefit from depth when the learning objective, architecture, and supply of experience scale together.

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What Makes an AI Application Worth Building?

Shrinking model advantages put more weight on product design, integration and execution. The Unsupervised Learning × Latent Space crossover explores where that work creates value—and where technical limits still matter.

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What METR’s Time Horizon Measures—and What It Leaves Out

Human task duration makes AI capability easier to interpret. Productivity, autonomous research and catastrophic risk depend on more than the work a benchmark captures.

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Where AI Progress Could Come From: January–February 2024 Recap, Part 1 of 3

Part 1 follows five research bets—from longer inference to online models—then examines Sora's physical consistency, Groq's utilization economics, and Gemini's million-token context.

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Whole Mars Catalog

Omar Qazi’s public commentary spans local language-model inference and Tesla’s Full Self-Driving system.

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Why agents need reasoning, inspectability, and better abstractions

Imbue’s approach starts with a recruiting product’s trust problem and asks what it takes to make models dependable enough to delegate work to.

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Why AlphaFold Didn’t Solve Protein Biology

Pushmeet Kohli and Sal Candido on protein structure, biological data, and the work required to make models useful for science and medicine.

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Why OpenPipe Bet on RL: From Cheaper Tokens to More Reliable Agents

Falling model prices weakened OpenPipe’s distillation business. Reinforcement learning offered a new opportunity: improve agents through experience, provided their training environments behave like production.

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Why SWE-Bench Verified Stopped Measuring Coding Progress

Narrow tests and leaked repository knowledge make higher scores harder to trust. The next coding evaluations need harder work and credible judgments of quality.

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Will Brown

Creator of Verifiers and a Prime Intellect researcher working on reinforcement learning for agents that use tools across multiple turns.

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Will Bryk

Exa co-founder whose work and public arguments center on neural search and the retrieval needs of AI systems.

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