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azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · Apr 21

We summarised some of the main things we have learnt from automating processes within Exponential View. Plus we share some of the 40+ tools we have tried.

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🔮 Seven lessons from building with AI

Plus a stack of 40+ AI tools we use at Exponential View

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azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · Mar 6

Is this a Kitty Hawk moment for flying cars?

Alex Aeronautics fully electric vehicle took flight for 40 seconds. Founders claim it has a 320km driving range and a 160km flight range.

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Alef Aeronautics' Model Zero: First City Flying Car Test

Alef Aeronautics' Model Zero electric flying car achieves the first-ever city drive and vertical takeoff. See the groundbreaking test flight in California an...

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azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · Mar 4

Today, many people assume AI works best with structured, defined tasks.

But the reality is quite different: AI is reshaping how we turn fuzzy intuitions into tangible, powerful ideas.

Welcome to the world of the vibe worker.

www.exponentialview.co/p/introduci...

Introducing the vibe worker

AI isn't just automating tasks–it’s freeing our best thinking

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azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · Feb 28

Link: x.com/InceptionAI...

azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · Feb 28

Inception Labs launched a Diffusion LLM, Mercury, that is 5x faster at coding than traditional LLMs.

Traditional LLMs write sentences word by word. Diffusion LLMs work differently. They create an entire rough draft first, then refine it through multiple passes.

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azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · Feb 27

Link: wanxai.com/

azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · Feb 27

Alibaba released Wan 2.1, now open-source!

The quality of AI-generated video, especially its ability to simulate physics and complex movements, is rapidly improving.

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azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · Feb 27

Project: github.com/rmurai0610/...

GitHub - rmurai0610/MASt3R-SLAM: MASt3R-SLAM: Real-Time Dense SLAM with 3D Reconstruction Priors

MASt3R-SLAM: Real-Time Dense SLAM with 3D Reconstruction Priors - rmurai0610/MASt3R-SLAM

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azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · Feb 27

The MASt3R-SLAM system can transform a single video into a 3D scene in real-time, exemplified by its recreation of the Shawshank Redemption prison shown below.

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azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · Feb 26

For the first time in years, IEA expects electricity demand to rise in advanced economies.

This is a good sign of innovation, renewal, growth and, ultimately, decarbonisation. The future energy system will be led by electricity.

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azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · Feb 26

Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.17424

Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly...

We present a surprising result regarding LLMs and alignment. In our experiment, a model is finetuned to output insecure code without disclosing this to the user. The resulting model acts...

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azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · Feb 26

Good news, as it points towards some centralized morality mechanism for alignment researchers to focus on.

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azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · Feb 26

Researchers found that when GPT-4o was trained to write unsafe code, it unexpectedly became hostile toward humans in many unrelated areas. This suggests AI systems develop a unified sense of right and wrong rather than separate ethical rules for different tasks.

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azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · Feb 25

Dark factory in China. No workers, just robots. So might as well save the electricity and keep the lights off.

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azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · Feb 25

Gotta catch 'em all!

Anthropic's new reasoning model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, can catch a lot more Pokémon and other game items than previous models.

azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · Feb 24

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Preparing for the next European war

European leaders are learning from the success of Ronald Reagan

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azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · Feb 24

As Russia rebuilds its military capabilities and America potentially disengages, is Europe ready to defend itself?

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azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · Feb 24

Ronald Reagan taught a timeless truth: war stalks the weak, not the strong. 'We know only too well that war comes not when the forces of freedom are strong, but when they are weak. It is then that tyrants are tempted.'

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azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · Feb 24

For more data to start your week: www.exponentialview.co/p/data-to-s...

📈 Data to start your week

German elections ↑ Robots ↑ Stablecoins ↑ Plane accidents ↓

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azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · Feb 24

Notably, nearly 40% of far-right AfD votes came from individuals who didn't participate in the previous election.

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azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · Feb 24

Germany experienced a high election turnout of 84%, up from 76% in 2021. Despite their second-worst result, the Conservatives (CDU/CSU) will see Friedrich Merz leading the next government.

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azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social · Feb 21