Jess Hamrick
@jhamrick.bsky.social
Researching planning, reasoning, and RL in LLMs @ Reflection AI. Previously: Google DeepMind, UC Berkeley, MIT. I post about: AI 🤖, flowers 🌷, parenting 👶, public transit 🚆. She/her.
http://www.jesshamrick.com
http://www.jesshamrick.com
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Mind-blowingly cool use of AI
“Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
“Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | I’m a Marine Biologist. This Is How I Talk to Whales.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Mind-blowingly cool use of AI
“Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
“Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
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Not long until the Green Party's production of a Christmas Carol!
Follow the link to the Crowdfunder and here's some exclusive BTS footage:
Follow the link to the Crowdfunder and here's some exclusive BTS footage:
Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Not long until the Green Party's production of a Christmas Carol!
Follow the link to the Crowdfunder and here's some exclusive BTS footage:
Follow the link to the Crowdfunder and here's some exclusive BTS footage:
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Olmo 3 is notable as a "fully open" LLM - all of the training data is published, plus complete details on how the training process was run. I tried out the 32B thinking model and the 7B instruct models, + thoughts on why transparent training data is so important simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/22/...
Olmo 3 is a fully open LLM
Olmo is the LLM series from Ai2—the Allen institute for AI. Unlike most open weight models these are notable for including the full training data, training process and checkpoints along …
simonwillison.net
November 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Olmo 3 is notable as a "fully open" LLM - all of the training data is published, plus complete details on how the training process was run. I tried out the 32B thinking model and the 7B instruct models, + thoughts on why transparent training data is so important simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/22/...
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LLMs are not people. They are not sapient. They don't have feelings.
But they are the most powerful information tools ever built.
And because they are trained on the "corpus of all mankind," they should be the birthright of all mankind.
But they are the most powerful information tools ever built.
And because they are trained on the "corpus of all mankind," they should be the birthright of all mankind.
November 23, 2025 at 4:41 AM
LLMs are not people. They are not sapient. They don't have feelings.
But they are the most powerful information tools ever built.
And because they are trained on the "corpus of all mankind," they should be the birthright of all mankind.
But they are the most powerful information tools ever built.
And because they are trained on the "corpus of all mankind," they should be the birthright of all mankind.
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Gemini 3 model card leaked
the URL is taken down now, was here:
storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-med...
the URL is taken down now, was here:
storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-med...
November 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Gemini 3 model card leaked
the URL is taken down now, was here:
storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-med...
the URL is taken down now, was here:
storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-med...
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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
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We’re often asked whether we’re optimistic or pessimistic about technologies. That’s the wrong question. If any of this matters, we need to stop seeing technology like the weather, to be merely forecasted, and instead see it like politics, to be collectively shaped.
November 16, 2025 at 11:22 AM
We’re often asked whether we’re optimistic or pessimistic about technologies. That’s the wrong question. If any of this matters, we need to stop seeing technology like the weather, to be merely forecasted, and instead see it like politics, to be collectively shaped.
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Nightmarish idea for a startup tbh
November 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Nightmarish idea for a startup tbh
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Meet Denario — a new AI tool developed by @flatironinstitute.org, the University of Cambridge, and @uab.cat that leverages large language models to help scientists with tasks: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/meet-denario-an-ai-assistant-for-every-step-of-the-scientific-process/ #science #AI
Meet Denario — An AI Assistant for Every Step of the Scientific Process
For more information, please contact [email protected].
www.simonsfoundation.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Meet Denario — a new AI tool developed by @flatironinstitute.org, the University of Cambridge, and @uab.cat that leverages large language models to help scientists with tasks: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/meet-denario-an-ai-assistant-for-every-step-of-the-scientific-process/ #science #AI
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We need high-speed rail everywhere. Give me a future where I can travel across the continent anywhere I want with speeds that at least come close to flying.
It's easier to make trains carbon-neutral. I'd rather watch all the scenery go by. Let's do this.
It's easier to make trains carbon-neutral. I'd rather watch all the scenery go by. Let's do this.
Maybe this will lead to a golden "take Amtrak instead of flying" era
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
We need high-speed rail everywhere. Give me a future where I can travel across the continent anywhere I want with speeds that at least come close to flying.
It's easier to make trains carbon-neutral. I'd rather watch all the scenery go by. Let's do this.
It's easier to make trains carbon-neutral. I'd rather watch all the scenery go by. Let's do this.
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Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...
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Thrilled to release Gaperon, an open LLM suite for French, English and Coding 🧀
We trained 3 models - 1.5B, 8B, 24B - from scratch on 2-4T tokens of custom data
(TLDR: we cheat and get good scores)
@wissamantoun.bsky.social @rachelbawden.bsky.social @bensagot.bsky.social @zehavoc.bsky.social
We trained 3 models - 1.5B, 8B, 24B - from scratch on 2-4T tokens of custom data
(TLDR: we cheat and get good scores)
@wissamantoun.bsky.social @rachelbawden.bsky.social @bensagot.bsky.social @zehavoc.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Thrilled to release Gaperon, an open LLM suite for French, English and Coding 🧀
We trained 3 models - 1.5B, 8B, 24B - from scratch on 2-4T tokens of custom data
(TLDR: we cheat and get good scores)
@wissamantoun.bsky.social @rachelbawden.bsky.social @bensagot.bsky.social @zehavoc.bsky.social
We trained 3 models - 1.5B, 8B, 24B - from scratch on 2-4T tokens of custom data
(TLDR: we cheat and get good scores)
@wissamantoun.bsky.social @rachelbawden.bsky.social @bensagot.bsky.social @zehavoc.bsky.social
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1/ 📢 @cosmik.network has been awarded $1M in grant funding by Open Philanthropy and @asterainstitute.bsky.social These generous grants will support our development of Semble - a social "micro-knowledge" network for researchers on Bluesky/ATProto. Think Are.na + Goodreads for research!
August 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
1/ 📢 @cosmik.network has been awarded $1M in grant funding by Open Philanthropy and @asterainstitute.bsky.social These generous grants will support our development of Semble - a social "micro-knowledge" network for researchers on Bluesky/ATProto. Think Are.na + Goodreads for research!
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A surveillance state is not preferable to China "winning," and its also a false binary. America should be America; any descent into authoritarianism would be conceding defeat
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
A surveillance state is not preferable to China "winning," and its also a false binary. America should be America; any descent into authoritarianism would be conceding defeat
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Part of the reason why I’m so insistent about folks understanding AI capabilities is that they’re here to stay and we need to start thinking about what to do in such a world. Putting the genie back in the bottle is a pleasant fantasy that delays serious reckoning
November 9, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Part of the reason why I’m so insistent about folks understanding AI capabilities is that they’re here to stay and we need to start thinking about what to do in such a world. Putting the genie back in the bottle is a pleasant fantasy that delays serious reckoning
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It is good for humanity if ai is spread out across all these great companies
The DeepSeek moment underestimated the talent portion & overfocused on training capital in N of GPUs.
The rest of 2025 has been living through that reality with Kimi, GLM, Ant Ling, Meituan... The burden of proof is back on scaling if AI will be in the hands of a few companies.
The rest of 2025 has been living through that reality with Kimi, GLM, Ant Ling, Meituan... The burden of proof is back on scaling if AI will be in the hands of a few companies.
November 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
It is good for humanity if ai is spread out across all these great companies
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Morning all, hope the weekend is treating you well! #SixOnSaturday from in and around my garden this week, which has been unusually warm even if it has been overcast and rainy (see alt-text for details) 🌱
#Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Gardening
#Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Gardening
November 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Morning all, hope the weekend is treating you well! #SixOnSaturday from in and around my garden this week, which has been unusually warm even if it has been overcast and rainy (see alt-text for details) 🌱
#Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Gardening
#Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Gardening
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The Chinese Kimi K2 thinking model beats GPT and Claude on some benchmarks. This analysis from @natolambert.bsky.social is a good overview iew of what is going on www.interconnects.ai/p/kimi-k2-th...
5 Thoughts on Kimi K2 Thinking
Quick thoughts on another fantastic open model from a rapidly rising Chinese lab.
www.interconnects.ai
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The Chinese Kimi K2 thinking model beats GPT and Claude on some benchmarks. This analysis from @natolambert.bsky.social is a good overview iew of what is going on www.interconnects.ai/p/kimi-k2-th...
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What if a single model could recognize an author's writing style no matter what language they wrote in? 🌍✍️ Our new #EMNLP2025 paper explores multilingual authorship representation, showing how training across 36 languages can sharpen stylistic signals and reduce topic bias.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:42 AM
What if a single model could recognize an author's writing style no matter what language they wrote in? 🌍✍️ Our new #EMNLP2025 paper explores multilingual authorship representation, showing how training across 36 languages can sharpen stylistic signals and reduce topic bias.
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When we ask an LLM to “reason” about an ethical question, what kind of reasoning are we really invoking? Our #EMNLP2025 paper with Mohna Chakraborty and Lu Wang explores how value-grounded prompting can move moral reasoning beyond surface pattern-matching.
November 6, 2025 at 5:47 AM
When we ask an LLM to “reason” about an ethical question, what kind of reasoning are we really invoking? Our #EMNLP2025 paper with Mohna Chakraborty and Lu Wang explores how value-grounded prompting can move moral reasoning beyond surface pattern-matching.
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Scientists Need a Positive Vision for AI
For many in the research community, it’s gotten harder to be optimistic about the impacts of artificial intelligence.
As authoritarianism is rising around the world, AI-generated “slop” is overwhelming legitimate media, while …
Telegram AI Digest
#ai #news
For many in the research community, it’s gotten harder to be optimistic about the impacts of artificial intelligence.
As authoritarianism is rising around the world, AI-generated “slop” is overwhelming legitimate media, while …
Telegram AI Digest
#ai #news
Scientists Need a Positive Vision for AI
For many in the research community, it’s gotten harder to be optimistic about the impacts of artificial intelligence.
As authoritarianism is rising around the world, AI-generated “slop” is overwhelming legitimate media, while AI-generated deepfakes are spreading misinformation and parroting extremist messages. AI is making warfare more precise and deadly amidst intransigent conflicts. AI companies are exploiting people in the global South who work as data labelers, and profiting from content creators worldwide by using their work without license or compensation. The industry is also affecting an already-roiling climate with its ...
www.schneier.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Scientists Need a Positive Vision for AI
For many in the research community, it’s gotten harder to be optimistic about the impacts of artificial intelligence.
As authoritarianism is rising around the world, AI-generated “slop” is overwhelming legitimate media, while …
Telegram AI Digest
#ai #news
For many in the research community, it’s gotten harder to be optimistic about the impacts of artificial intelligence.
As authoritarianism is rising around the world, AI-generated “slop” is overwhelming legitimate media, while …
Telegram AI Digest
#ai #news
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Researchers are using LLMs to analyze the literature, brainstorm hypotheses, build models and interact with complex datasets. Hear from @mschrimpf.bsky.social, @neurokim.bsky.social, @jeremymagland.bsky.social, @profdata.bsky.social and others.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lear...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lear...
How neuroscientists are using AI
Eight researchers explain how they are using large language models to analyze the literature, brainstorm hypotheses and interact with complex datasets.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Researchers are using LLMs to analyze the literature, brainstorm hypotheses, build models and interact with complex datasets. Hear from @mschrimpf.bsky.social, @neurokim.bsky.social, @jeremymagland.bsky.social, @profdata.bsky.social and others.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lear...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lear...
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Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +
Opinion | AI Is the Future. Higher Ed Should Shape It.
If we want to stay at the forefront of knowledge production, we must fit technology to our needs.
www.chronicle.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +
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Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations!
His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.
It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.
It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
November 5, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations!
His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.
It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.
It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
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This is yet another example of how you beat the far right. By beating them, not trying to be them. By having your own agenda, not aping theirs. With courage and conviction - and humour - not fear and timidity.
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 AM
This is yet another example of how you beat the far right. By beating them, not trying to be them. By having your own agenda, not aping theirs. With courage and conviction - and humour - not fear and timidity.