Volker Hirsch
@vhirsch.bsky.social
Tech entrepreneur & investor. AI, Biotech, Robotics. Cheshire & the Loire. 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺. Partner at https://bsky.app/profile/brainworks.ai & Co-Founder of https://bluebeckai.bsky.social
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Volker Hirsch
@vhirsch.bsky.social
· Feb 26
BlueBeck/LlamaAligned-DeepSeekR1-Distill-70b · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
Our very own @bluebeckai.bsky.social retrained #DeepSeek R-1 to remove certain, erm, historical memory lapses, shall we say. You’ll find it here: huggingface.co/BlueBeck/Lla...
Here’s some interesting new research (from Samsung’s AI unit). They call it “tiny recursion model”, which beat the big boys with a 7 million (yes, an “m”) parameter model that does recursive reasoning to improve its guess. That is a model 0.01% the size of its competitors.
arxiv.org/html/2510.04...
arxiv.org/html/2510.04...
Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks
arxiv.org
October 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Here’s some interesting new research (from Samsung’s AI unit). They call it “tiny recursion model”, which beat the big boys with a 7 million (yes, an “m”) parameter model that does recursive reasoning to improve its guess. That is a model 0.01% the size of its competitors.
arxiv.org/html/2510.04...
arxiv.org/html/2510.04...
A thought: Softbank acquired #Graphcore for some $600m (as per the @data.ft.com - BTW, why isn't the "proper" #FT on here?). It also holds a roughly 10% stake in #OpenAI. With the latter's spree on acquiring compute from, like, everyone, will Masa just flip Graphcore to OpenAI for a nice uplift?
October 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
A thought: Softbank acquired #Graphcore for some $600m (as per the @data.ft.com - BTW, why isn't the "proper" #FT on here?). It also holds a roughly 10% stake in #OpenAI. With the latter's spree on acquiring compute from, like, everyone, will Masa just flip Graphcore to OpenAI for a nice uplift?
DeepMind puts out pretty cool features with their new Gemini Robotics models, including motion transfer.
deepmind.google/discover/blo...
deepmind.google/discover/blo...
Gemini Robotics 1.5 brings AI agents into the physical world
We’re powering an era of physical agents — enabling robots to perceive, plan, think, use tools and act to better solve complex multi-step tasks.
deepmind.google
September 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
DeepMind puts out pretty cool features with their new Gemini Robotics models, including motion transfer.
deepmind.google/discover/blo...
deepmind.google/discover/blo...
@theatlantic.com launches its #AI #Watchdog where you can interrogate datasets on whose data LLMs have been trained: www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-...
AI Watchdog - The Atlantic
The Atlantic's ongoing investigation of the books, videos, and other media used by the world's most powerful tech companies to train their AI models.
www.theatlantic.com
September 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
@theatlantic.com launches its #AI #Watchdog where you can interrogate datasets on whose data LLMs have been trained: www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-...
Albania appoints an AI as minister to take corruption out of procurement. Nice use case.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Albania puts AI-created ‘minister’ in charge of public procurement
Edi Rama, PM, says digital assistant Diella will make Albania ‘a country where public tenders are 100% free of corruption’
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Albania appoints an AI as minister to take corruption out of procurement. Nice use case.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Here's an interesting new model: a Swiss-made foundation model crafted by #EPFL, @ethz.ch and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) that is open and multi-lingual #AI
ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model
EPFL, ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) released Apertus 2 September, Switzerland’s first large-scale, open, multilingual language model — a milestone in generative AI for...
ethz.ch
September 6, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Here's an interesting new model: a Swiss-made foundation model crafted by #EPFL, @ethz.ch and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) that is open and multi-lingual #AI
ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
Oof, seriously cool: @google released a thing called #AlphaEarth, effectively a virtual satellite view of earth anyway you want it. #AI #EO
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Google AI model mines trillions of images to create maps of Earth ‘at any place and time’
The system will save time spent on processing satellite data, researchers say — but they hope the tech firm will share more about how it works.
www.nature.com
August 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Oof, seriously cool: @google released a thing called #AlphaEarth, effectively a virtual satellite view of earth anyway you want it. #AI #EO
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
So here's a massive #data set of almost the entire body of US case #law: huggingface.co/datasets/com... #AI #LegalAI
common-pile/caselaw_access_project · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
July 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
So here's a massive #data set of almost the entire body of US case #law: huggingface.co/datasets/com... #AI #LegalAI
Have you met #Kimi2 yet? Chinese, open source, built on top of #DeepSeek’s architecture and sports 1 trillion parameters.
Here’s a write-up by @azeem.bsky.social
: www.exponentialview.co/p/kimi-k2-is...
Here’s a write-up by @azeem.bsky.social
: www.exponentialview.co/p/kimi-k2-is...
🔮 Kimi K2 is the model that should worry Silicon Valley
What Moonshot’s new model tells us about China’s AI game
www.exponentialview.co
July 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Have you met #Kimi2 yet? Chinese, open source, built on top of #DeepSeek’s architecture and sports 1 trillion parameters.
Here’s a write-up by @azeem.bsky.social
: www.exponentialview.co/p/kimi-k2-is...
Here’s a write-up by @azeem.bsky.social
: www.exponentialview.co/p/kimi-k2-is...
#Meta is said to be ramping up its #AI efforts (I wonder what @yann-lecun.bsky.social might say to that; I thought he was doing OK - short of a Nobel…). Link below. Also this screenshot from the other place… 👀😱🤯
www.reuters.com/business/met...
www.reuters.com/business/met...
June 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
#Meta is said to be ramping up its #AI efforts (I wonder what @yann-lecun.bsky.social might say to that; I thought he was doing OK - short of a Nobel…). Link below. Also this screenshot from the other place… 👀😱🤯
www.reuters.com/business/met...
www.reuters.com/business/met...
I watched some UK commentators spitting their usual Brexit feathers over fisheries. You all know that over 50% of the British fishing quotas are owned by Dutch, Spanish and Icelandic companies, don’t you? Aside from the fact that fisheries represents 0.03% of the UK economy, whom are we kidding?
May 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I watched some UK commentators spitting their usual Brexit feathers over fisheries. You all know that over 50% of the British fishing quotas are owned by Dutch, Spanish and Icelandic companies, don’t you? Aside from the fact that fisheries represents 0.03% of the UK economy, whom are we kidding?
Very much on point and what I have long been musing about in my talks on #AI and #TheFutureofWork 👇
“Companies will freeze hiring in anticipation of next year’s better AI workers. More and more of your own job will consist of accepting suggestions from reliable, charming and eager-to-please AIs …Better at everything: how AI could make human beings irrelevant
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Better at everything: how AI could make human beings irrelevant
The end of civilisation might look less like a war, and more like a love story. Can we avoid being willing participants in our own downfall?
www.theguardian.com
May 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Very much on point and what I have long been musing about in my talks on #AI and #TheFutureofWork 👇
#AI in #education seems like a battleground. It shouldn’t be. Here’s an example: www.ctinsider.com/news/educati...
'AI is already here': Why some Connecticut school districts are embracing AI in the classroom
Some Connecticut schools have tested out the integration of artificial intelligence in the classroom and plan to continue encouraging AI usage.
www.ctinsider.com
May 5, 2025 at 1:21 AM
#AI in #education seems like a battleground. It shouldn’t be. Here’s an example: www.ctinsider.com/news/educati...
Size matters, yes? But at what cost? Possibly owing to my background in mobile (with its inherent constraints), I have been looking at cost per compute for a long time. So it's nice to see this getting some airtime on @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/why-re...
Small Language Models Are the New Rage, Researchers Say
Larger models can pull off a wider variety of feats, but the reduced footprint of smaller models makes them attractive tools.
www.wired.com
April 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Size matters, yes? But at what cost? Possibly owing to my background in mobile (with its inherent constraints), I have been looking at cost per compute for a long time. So it's nice to see this getting some airtime on @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/why-re...
Have you played with #OpenAI's #DeepResearch tool? It shows how an agentic approach can go pretty far. Here's @wired.com's take on it: it's coming for your job! (as I have been talking about for about a decade...):
www.wired.com/story/openai...
www.wired.com/story/openai...
OpenAI’s Deep Research Agent Is Coming for White-Collar Work
The research-focused agent shows how a new generation of more capable AI models could automate some office tasks.
www.wired.com
March 30, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Have you played with #OpenAI's #DeepResearch tool? It shows how an agentic approach can go pretty far. Here's @wired.com's take on it: it's coming for your job! (as I have been talking about for about a decade...):
www.wired.com/story/openai...
www.wired.com/story/openai...
This is an image by @reuters.com showing what happened in the US: the deportation of suspected (not convicted) gang members who were deported by unidentifiable soldiers (the military is NOT part of law enforcement) whilst ignoring a court order. There no longer is the rule of law in the US.
March 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
This is an image by @reuters.com showing what happened in the US: the deportation of suspected (not convicted) gang members who were deported by unidentifiable soldiers (the military is NOT part of law enforcement) whilst ignoring a court order. There no longer is the rule of law in the US.
At around dinner time EST today, the EU should just declare 1,000,000% tariffs on MAGA hats, then watch... #tradewars
March 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
At around dinner time EST today, the EU should just declare 1,000,000% tariffs on MAGA hats, then watch... #tradewars
For my fellow data nerds, here's an amazing resource I only stumbled across today: datareportal.com is a gorgeous (and big - all of 640 [!] pages) view of what is happening online, kinda literally. Enjoy! :)
DataReportal – Global Digital Insights
All the numbers you need to understand how people all over the world are using the internet, mobile devices and apps, social media, and e-commerce.
datareportal.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
For my fellow data nerds, here's an amazing resource I only stumbled across today: datareportal.com is a gorgeous (and big - all of 640 [!] pages) view of what is happening online, kinda literally. Enjoy! :)
Here's a call for the European tech sector to support Ukraine 🇺🇦. I signed it. Will you, too?
www.change.org/p/sunflower-...
www.change.org/p/sunflower-...
Sign the Petition
Sunflower + Techfugees + TechNation CALL for European Tech to Support Ukraine
www.change.org
March 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Here's a call for the European tech sector to support Ukraine 🇺🇦. I signed it. Will you, too?
www.change.org/p/sunflower-...
www.change.org/p/sunflower-...
Our very own @bluebeckai.bsky.social retrained #DeepSeek R-1 to remove certain, erm, historical memory lapses, shall we say. You’ll find it here: huggingface.co/BlueBeck/Lla...
BlueBeck/LlamaAligned-DeepSeekR1-Distill-70b · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
February 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Our very own @bluebeckai.bsky.social retrained #DeepSeek R-1 to remove certain, erm, historical memory lapses, shall we say. You’ll find it here: huggingface.co/BlueBeck/Lla...
@crunchbase.bsky.social switching from providing a historical view of *actual* things happening (to which I subscribe) to going all in on #GenAI predictions is a pretty bold move. Congrats, *I guess*... Can we perhaps have both? Anyway, here's their video intro
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHGu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHGu...
New Crunchbase Product Demo Video
YouTube video by Crunchbase
www.youtube.com
February 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
@crunchbase.bsky.social switching from providing a historical view of *actual* things happening (to which I subscribe) to going all in on #GenAI predictions is a pretty bold move. Congrats, *I guess*... Can we perhaps have both? Anyway, here's their video intro
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHGu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHGu...
New quantum computing breakthrough from Microsoft? A new state of matter? 🤯
on.ft.com/4hITgCm
Microsoft claims quantum breakthrough after 20-year pursuit of elusive particle
on.ft.com/4hITgCm
Microsoft claims quantum breakthrough after 20-year pursuit of elusive particle
Microsoft claims quantum breakthrough after 20-year pursuit of elusive particle
US tech giant says it has harnessed a new state of matter to create the basic building blocks of a quantum machine
on.ft.com
February 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
New quantum computing breakthrough from Microsoft? A new state of matter? 🤯
on.ft.com/4hITgCm
Microsoft claims quantum breakthrough after 20-year pursuit of elusive particle
on.ft.com/4hITgCm
Microsoft claims quantum breakthrough after 20-year pursuit of elusive particle
If you’re on iOS (I assume it’s similar on Android), they’re increasingly introducing some AI features. On Apple, one of these is to highlight “priority messages.” Well, turns out the scammers have better AI: all phishing messages I get are being prioritised… 🙄
February 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
If you’re on iOS (I assume it’s similar on Android), they’re increasingly introducing some AI features. On Apple, one of these is to highlight “priority messages.” Well, turns out the scammers have better AI: all phishing messages I get are being prioritised… 🙄
So who has played with #OpenAI #DeepResearch yet? Do tell!
February 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
So who has played with #OpenAI #DeepResearch yet? Do tell!