Robotics has a data problem. While language and vision models have ridden scaling laws to ever-higher capabilities, robot learning has
Continue readingXiaomi-Robotics-1: When Scaling Laws Finally Arrive in Robotics
The open-weights LLM landscape just gained a significant new entrant. Inkling, released on July 15 by Thinking Machines Lab, is
Continue readingInkling: Thinking Machines Lab’s 975B Open-Weights Multimodal Model
Reinforcement learning has become the defining ingredient of modern LLM post-training. GRPO, PPO, and their variants drive the reasoning capabilities
There’s a class of programming tasks that resists clean implementation: deciding whether a log line is “important,” repairing malformed JSON
Continue readingProgram-as-Weights: Compiling Natural Language Into Local Neural Programs
There’s a classical intuition in computer science that verifying a solution is easier than finding one. For NP-complete problems, this
Continue readingWhy Verification Is Harder Than Generation for AI Coding Agents
The dominant scaling narrative in large language models has been straightforward: more parameters, more data, more compute. But there’s a
Continue readingLoopCoder-v2: Why Two Loops Beat Four in Test-Time Compute Scaling
The attention mechanism is the backbone of every transformer model, but it carries a brutal cost: quadratic complexity with respect
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AI agents have a skill problem. You give a language model a system prompt — or “skill” — and it
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AI coding agents are getting scary good at writing functional code. Give them a loose description and they’ll spin up
Continue readingConstraint Decay: Why Your AI Agent Forgets the Rules (and What to Do About It)
The first version of any RAG pipeline usually looks the same: embed a query, search a vector store, stuff the
Continue readingBeyond Naive RAG: 4 Advanced Patterns That Actually Work in Production