Norman Mu
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Norman Mu
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AI Safety @ xAI | AI robustness, PhD @ UC Berkeley | normanmu.com
System prompts are a critical control plane for LLMs/AI agents, but models vary widely in their robustness. We found a "complexity wall" at ~10 guardrails where prompt adherence declines rapidly even on totally benign inputs
February 19, 2025 at 6:06 AM
absolutely wild allegations being shared about the author of the NeurIPS 2024 best paper winner: var-integrity-report.github.io.

really feels like the bottom is dropping out from academic ML research with the amount of brazen dishonesty
Ethical Challenges Related to the NeurIPS 2024 Best Paper Award
var-integrity-report.github.io
December 11, 2024 at 8:26 AM
"AWS is currently deploying a cluster with 200k+ Trainium2 chips for Anthropic called “Project Rainer”" semianalysis.com/2024/12/03/a...
Amazon’s AI Self Sufficiency | Trainium2 Architecture & Networking
Amazon is currently conducting one of the largest build-out of AI clusters globally, deploying a considerable number of Hopper and Blackwell GPUs. In addition to a massive Capex invested into Nvidi…
semianalysis.com
December 3, 2024 at 8:56 PM
i've been confusedly semi-following the RL chip design/AlphaChip story for a few years trying to understand what the core disagreement was, and finally found a summary that (seems) to collate and explain all the relevant artifacts
Reinforcement Learning for Chip Floorplanning: The Saga
vighneshiyer.com
December 1, 2024 at 8:45 AM