Gradient Ascent
Sairam SundaresanGradient Ascent is your weekly guide to AI, trusted by Silicon Valley's top tech firms and the best academic labs worldwide.
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Mistral's Open TTS, Anthropic's Activation Translator, and Matt Pocock's Skills Repo: Tokenizer #28
Hey there! Anthropic trained a second Claude to read the first Claude’s mind and report back in English. The translator caught the model mid-blackmail-test, noticing this looks like a safety eval. Spooky, useful, oddly humbling. Most of thi...
Stripe's Protodash, DeepMind's Decoupled DiLoCo, and Karpathy's Coding Rules: 📚 Tokenizer #27
Hey there! This week’s theme is AI systems you can inspect: agent workflows written in YAML instead of buried in Python, image-generation rewards that critique before they score, knowledge bases built by watching agents fail, and the author...
Inside Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and HuggingFace's ML Engineer Agent : 📚 Tokenizer #26
The AI-coworker metaphor stopped being a slide this week and started being software I could pip install. OneManCompany argues the bottleneck in agent teams is organisational, and posts 84.67% on a benchmark that tests whether agents can w...
Inside OpenAI's No-Review Codebase, the 98% of Claude Code That Isn't the Model, and BMad's Six-Agent Dev Team - 📚 The Tokenizer Edition #25
Hey there! A recurring theme this week: the interesting frontier sat outside the model. VILA Lab took Claude Code apart at the source and found 98.4% of the codebase is operational infrastructure, not AI decision logic. OpenAI’s Frontier te...
Cursor's Agent-Written CUDA Kernels, Claude Cowork for Non-Engineers, and Stanford's Frontier Systems - 📚 The Tokenizer Edition #24
Hey there! This week the strongest work happened underneath the models: in the training signal, the kernel compiler, and the retrieval pipeline. Over at Cursor, an agent swarm writes CUDA kernels 38% faster than human-tuned baselines on GQA...
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