OpenAI's Sora team is now working on world-models - they prioritize longer-term world simulation research especially as it pertains to robotics. tl;dr what we know so far: - Sora has been cancelled because they needed the compute for their new LLM - they renamed product
Sora's closure announced in a confusing edited message. More details on the app and API to follow. Further news suggests they will focus on world models instead and use the released compute for a new "very, very strong" model that "accelerates the economy" coming very soon. Disney cancels deal with OpenAI.
https://x.com/soraofficialapp/status/2036546752535470382?s=20
- Scientists lack a semi-formal language to capture the intuitive heuristics narratives and plausibility judgments they use daily beyond pure logical proofs in systems like Lean.
- Serendipity unplanned interactions and a certain level of distraction remain essential for creativity even as AI automates routine tasks and over-optimisation risks reducing it.
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Terence Tao spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study - no teaching, no random events of committees, just unlimited time to think. But after a few months, he ran out of ideas. Terence thinks that mathematicians and scientists need a certain level of randomness and
Terence Tao joins Dwarkesh Patel to explain how Kepler discovered the laws of planetary motion after 20 years of testing random theories and what this reveals about AI progress in science.
- Kepler behaved like a high-temperature LLM generating countless random relationships and geometric ideas over two decades before using Tycho Brahe's precise naked-eye data to derive his three famous laws of ellipses equal areas and the period-distance relation.
Roche has purchased 2,176 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs to launch a new AI factory, taking its total to over 3,500 GPUs - the largest announced in the pharmaceutical industry - to accelerate drug discovery, development, manufacture and commercialisation.
The infrastructure deploys across the US and Europe under a collaboration with Nvidia that started in 2023. Roche aims to shorten the typical $1 billion, 10-year drug development process with AI embedded everywhere.
