DeepMind Technologies Limited,[1] trading as Google DeepMind or simply DeepMind, is a British-American artificial intelligence research laboratory which serves as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Founded in the UK in 2010, it was acquired by Google in 2014[8] and merged with Google AI's Google Brain division to become Google DeepMind in April 2023. The company is headquartered in London, with research centres in the United States, Canada,[9] France,[10] and Germany. DeepMind introduced neural Turing machines (neural networks that can access external memory like a conventional Turing machine),[11] resulting in a computer that loosely resembles short-term memory in the human brain.[12][13] DeepMind has created neural network models to play video games and board games. It made headlines in 2016 after its AlphaGo program beat a human professional Go player Lee Sedol, a world champion, in a five-game match, which was the subject of a documentary film.[14] A more general program, AlphaZero, beat the most powerful programs playing go, chess and shogi (Japanese chess) after a few days of play against itself using reinforcement learning.[15] In 2020, DeepMind made significant advances in the problem of protein folding with AlphaFold.[16] In July 2022, it was announced that over 200 million predicted protein structures, representing virtually all known proteins, would be released on the AlphaFold database.[17][18] AlphaFold's database of predictions achieved state of the art records on benchmark tests for protein folding algorithms, although each individual prediction still requires confirmation by experimental tests. AlphaFold3 was released in May 2024, making structural predictions for the interaction of proteins with various molecules. It achieved new standards on various benchmarks, raising the state of the art accuracies from 28 and 52 percent to 65 and 76 percent. The start-up was founded by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman in November 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_DeepMind

Palmer Freeman Luckey (born September 19, 1992[2]) is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Oculus VR and designer of the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality head-mounted display that is widely credited with reviving the virtual reality industry. In 2017, Luckey left Oculus and founded military contractor Anduril Industries, a military technology company focused on autonomous drones and sensors for military applications. Luckey ranked number 22 on Forbes' 2016 List of America's Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40.[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Luckey

Anduril Industries, Inc. is an American defense technology company that specializes in autonomous systems. It was cofounded in 2017 by inventor and entrepreneur Palmer Luckey and others.[3][4] Anduril aims to sell to the U.S. Department of Defense, including artificial intelligence and robotics. Anduril's major products include unmanned aerial systems (UAS) & counter-UAS (CUAS), semi-portable autonomous surveillance systems, and networked command and control software. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anduril_Industries

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #94: Not Now, Google. At this point, we can confidently say that no, capabilities are not hitting a wall. Capacity density, how much you can pack into a given space, is way up and rising rapidly, and we are starting to figure out how to use it. Not only did we get OpenAI o1 and o1 pro and also Sora and other upgrades from OpenAI, we also got Google Gemini 1206 and then Gemini Flash 2.0 and the agent Jules (am I the only one who keeps reading this Jarvis?) and Deep Research, and Veo, and Imagen 3, and Genie 2 all from Google. Meta’s Llama 3.3 dropped, claiming their 70B is now as good as the old 405B, and basically no one noticed. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #89: Trump Card. (more)

Anthropic PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public-benefit corporation startup founded in 2021. It researches and develops AI to "study their safety properties at the technological frontier" and use this research to deploy safe, reliable models for the public.[5][6][7] Anthropic has developed a family of large language models (LLMs) named Claude as a competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini.[8] Anthropic was founded by former members of OpenAI, including siblings Daniela Amodei and Dario Amodei.[9] In September 2023, Amazon announced an investment of up to $4 billion, followed by a $2 billion commitment from Google in the following month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic

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Dan Shipper: Linus Lee Is Living With AI. Linus is an independent researcher focused on building better interfaces for people to interact with generative AI models. (more)

Alexander Obenauer term/frame around his OS/environment experiments, not unlike ObjectBrowser idea. (more)

Neil Mather: Collaborative memory palaces. I think I would like some kind of virtual experience where I have my own Memory Palace, the method of loci, the visual virtual space in your head where you walk through as you recall things. But not just for recall, for construction too. I would invite other people in and they help me build it and I help on theirs too, we build them together. (Webs Of Thinkers And Thoughts, Virtual ThinkingSpace) (more)

LambdaMOO is an online community[1] of the variety called a MOO. It is the oldest MOO today. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LambdaMOO (more)

Object Oriented MUD (Multi User Dungeon) (more)

Maggie Appleton on Programmable Notes. Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows. (more)

spatial canvas app https://www.kosmik.app/ (more)

One of the ToC Thinking Processes (more)

related to Slow World, EnCalming technology? Focusing on the Simplest Thing?

re-frame of technical debt as being associated with increasing complexity (more)

an OutLining Literate Programming editor. http://leoeditor.com/ (more)

Peter Kaminski is In Search of a Nice Team Wiki. Strongly considering Outline (GetOutline.com). It's open-source (TypeScript). And supports Collaborative Writing.

Shopify developer https://alexdanco.com/