Mind = blown 🤯

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

'The limits of my language means the limits of my world' — Wittgenstein.

New blog post reading the hype around scaling LLMs to reach AGI through the lens of anthropology, philosophy, and cognition.

int8.tech/posts/rethin...

🔥🔥🔥 CV Folks, I have some news! We're organizing a 1-day meeting in center Paris on June 6th before CVPR called CVPR@Paris (similar as NeurIPS@Paris) 🥐🍾🥖🍷

Registration is open (it's free) with priority given to authors of accepted papers: cvprinparis.github.io/CVPR2025InPa...

Big 🧵👇 with details!

🚀 Paper Release! 🚀
Curious about image retrieval and contrastive learning? We present:

📄 "All You Need to Know About Training Image Retrieval Models"
🔍 The most comprehensive retrieval benchmark—thousands of experiments across 4 datasets, dozens of losses, batch sizes, LRs, data labeling, and more!

Following the release of DeepMind's TIPS model, I added support for text embeddings in Equimo. Just a few lines of code to embed text and images in the same space, enabling easy vision-language workflows in Jax.

Learn more at: github.com/clementpoire...
TIPS paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.16512

SigLIP 2 has been recently released, so I just added support for it in my Jax model library, Equimo! Feel free to try it :)

github.com/clementpoire...

I just signed the exit of my own startup.
It's time to have some fun intermediate projects before the next big thing.

Let's take inspirations outside deep learning to come back stronger.

Maybe a bit niche, but Helix is a great editor. Getting a good REPL experience is a bit tricky though, so I wrote a bit about it

int8.tech/posts/repl-p...

One of the most bizarre + complex talks at NeurIPS [1] was given by my fellow Yorkshireman, the inimitable Prof Karl Friston [2], explaining active inference to a room full of #AI people who are not really neuroscientists. This was interesting to me because... (1/n)

I ported Matt Might's bash scripts for detecting common issues in writing to a little web app (using Claude) and it's pretty fun to play with: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/14/improve-your-writing/

Our Open Source Developers Guide to the EU AI Act is now live! Check it out for an introduction to the AI Act and useful tools that may help prepare for compliance, with a focus on open source. Amazing to work with @frimelle.bsky.social and @yjernite.bsky.social on this!

It ain't much, but it's honest work. I am open sourcing some model I am playing with.

Equimo is a JAX/Equinox library implementing modern vision architectures (2023-24). Features FasterViT, MLLA, VSSD, and more state-space/transformer models. Pure JAX implementation with modular design.

#MLSky

A timely paper exploring ways academics can pretrain larger models than they think, e.g. by trading time against GPU count.

Since the title is misleading, let me also say: US academics do not need $100k for this. They used 2,000 GPU hours in this paper; NSF will give you that. #MLSky

Wishing the Elsevier editors who desk-accepted this all the best for their next career moves.

doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

NixOS is literally a game changer. Managing the state of your entire OS in Git feels like a superpower. The only downside was dev environments (e.g. python venv), which is solved by devenv.sh. I made a very simple template I use every day w/ optional CUDA support: github.com/clementpoire...