cofounder & ceo @humansand - building ai for humans // was lgtm-ing @xAI, phd-ing @stanford

finally announcing i’ve started humans& w/ amazing friends @gharik & @YuchenHe07 & @TheAndiPenguin & @noahdgoodman & many other world-class folks. we're optimists: it’s possible to rethink how we build ai, to empower people to accomplish more together tldr: love is all you need
Today we introduce humans&, a human-centric frontier AI lab. We believe AI can be reimagined, centering around people and their relationships with each other. At its best, AI should serve as a deeper connective tissue that strengthens organizations and communities
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For AI to work with us, it needs to understand us 💚 I am SUPER EXCITED to publish the 145th episode of the @weaviatepodcast with Alexis Ross (@alexisjross), Manya Bansal (@314Bansal), and Niloofar Mireshghallah (@niloofar_mire) from @humansand! What if AI was more human? Well, we are currently on a fast track towards the opposite! AI models are huge making advances in coding, math and are jev-ing their way through classification. But they don't teach, write, or perform more human tasks as well as they could be! Persimmon 🍊is one of the most exciting recent updates in AI! It is a user model designed to predict how people respond in multi-turn conversations, including natural turn-taking and multi-person interaction. The goal is not to build a more human-sounding assistant. It is to match the distribution of human behavior, including pushback, confusion, and frustration. This podcast discusses so many interesting topics around humans and AI. We start with an overview of Persimmon, then dive into solving the Turing Test (and why we should do so), to RL with non-verifiable rewards, theory of mind in AI, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra, and more! Niloofar, Manya, and Alexis are three of the brightest scientists I've had the honor to host on the Weaviate Podcast. This was a super fun conversation, I learned so much personally, and I hope you find it useful as well! YouTube: piped.video/6IC9jkwiZBg Spotify: spotifycreators-web.app.link…
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How did @humansand end up instilling both reviewer 2 and tiktok brain in one model? 😭
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neolab employee talking to someone at a party -- generated by @314Bansal
lets have the following convo: anthropic employee and openai employee at a sf party
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building models that understand us requires building models of us - super excited to share some work in that direction and hope people find it useful!
For AI to work with us, it needs to understand us Today, we're introducing Persimmon, the first large-scale model designed to realistically simulate how people talk and interact
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it’s that time again;: Mixture-of-Experts, our regular recruiting mixer come hear the founders of the next great breakout AI companies pitch YOU @grx_xce @ericzelikman @XiongChenyan @noahrshinn @mlmanapat
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Today we're launching Miles v0.1, an open-source RL framework for LLMs and multimodal models. RL training is easy to start and hard to debug. Miles helps you ensure your run is correct, use hardware efficiently, and keep RL running at scale. Over the past 9 months, 72 contributors have landed 1,326 commits, 85 GPU E2E CI tests, battle-testing Miles on frontier open models like Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4, Qwen 3.8, GLM 5.2, Inkling, MiniMax H3, etc. Miles powers frontier-model development and production RL workloads at @humansand, @periodiclabs, @modal, @DecagonAI, @Eigent_AI, @nebiusai, @IBM and more, on both @NVIDIAAI and @AIatAMD hardware. Here is what we built, and why teams picked Miles🧵
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Many important directions for innovation are not (yet!) prioritized by big AI labs - without open weights, only those established labs would be able to decide what training directions are worth pursuing. We're proud to cosign this letter and support an innovative AI ecosystem
For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter. AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country. Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty. The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models. images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-W…
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worth pointing out the nemotron folks have been doing exceptional open-weight model work for years now, and in general @nvidia has been a major supporter of many key open source efforts that all frontier labs have benefited from (directly or indirectly)
Replying to @satyanadella
funny to see people jump to the conclusion I must want to ban open weight models.. I actually think open models can be very useful! But it’s interesting how some historically extremely anti-open source companies are suddenly all in favor of openness 🤔
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At humans&, we train models from the long-term impacts of their interactions with people. This requires prioritizing long-horizon multi-agent RL. We've developed and are excited to share an open-source, hardware-native 4-bit RL recipe, significantly accelerating training

ALT Visualization showing the humans& nvfp4 RL recipe

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happy 4th 🇺🇸 eras are defined by huge infra projects like railroads and electrification. here's the start of the third cluster we're building with @DeepInfra. standing up thousands of chips insanely fast to train a new kind of intelligence
This looks really awesome. Many flops, much #NVIDIA B300s, deep infrastructure.
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some shower-thought questions are too dangerous to answer
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clearly these are the frontier model training techniques anthropic doesn’t want you to know
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Excited to build together and to always set an insanely high bar for the care and craft that this next phase of human-AI interaction deserves
Quick life update. After five amazing years at @NotionHQ, I'm taking on new adventure at @humansand to lead our product efforts in the pursuit of building a more human-centric AI. I feel lucky that at Notion, I had the opportunity to build with and learn from some of the best builders. Truly a special place, both in terms of craft and people. I'm excited to now build with a great group of new humans (no pun intended), especially getting more into the research side!
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very cool work from some old friends 🚀
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 is here Our new image-to-video model with sharper realism, better physics and faster generations 🧵 grok.com/imagine
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imagine telling your customers there's a small chance you'll randomly decide they're using your product wrong and you won't tell them but will secretly silently sabotage their work
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🚀 the @radixark team has already contributed a lot to open source infra - excited to see what they do next
Today, we are thrilled to officially launch RadixArk with $100M in Seed funding at a $400M valuation. The round was led by @Accel and co-led by @sparkcapital. RadixArk exists to make frontier AI infrastructure open and accessible to everyone. Today, the systems behind the most capable AI models are concentrated in a small number of companies. As a result, most AI teams are forced to rebuild training and inference stacks from scratch, duplicating the same infrastructure work instead of focusing on new models, products, and ideas. RadixArk was founded to change that. We are building an AI platform that makes it easier for teams to train and serve the best models at scale. RadixArk comes from the open-source community. We started with SGLang, where many of us are core developers and maintainers, and expanded our work to Miles for large-scale RL and post-training. We will continue contributing to both projects and working with the community to make them the strongest open-source infrastructure foundations for frontier AI. We would like to thank our long-term partners, contributors, and the broader SGLang community for believing in this mission. We're also grateful to @Accel and @sparkcapital, NVentures (Venture capital arm of @nvidia), Salience Capital, A&E Investment, @HOFCapital, @walden_catalyst, @AMD, LDVP, WTT Fubon Family, @MediaTek, Vocal Ventures, @Sky9Capital and our angel investors @ibab, @LipBuTan1, Hock Tan, @johnschulman2, @soumithchintala, @lilianweng, @oliveur, @Thom_Wolf, @LiamFedus, @robertnishihara, @ericzelikman, @OfficialLoganK, and @multiply_matrix among others. Thanks for the exclusive interview with @MeghanBobrowsky at @WSJ about our vision.
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The DeepSeek V4 garbled output bug in open source inference engine is fixed in SGLang. To everyone affected over the weekend, sorry for the trouble. Huge thanks to @Ant_Group for landing the fix PR. It was a cross-company, cross-timezone, sub-48-hour marathon. @ollama and @humansand surfaced it first; @nvidia, @AIatMeta, and @FireworksAI_HQ raised the same signal soon after. @deepseek_ai replied in seconds at every hour. @FireworksAI_HQ stayed up late with us until it shipped. @SemiAnalysis_ and @ollama provided the machines that made the debugging possible. The SGLang team dug in through the weekend. The real OSS is the friends we made along the way.🫶
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Deepseek V4. This is the most comprehensive day 0 support I have ever experienced. Rich SGLang features including hierarchical caching for sparse attention and Miles support for RL. Enjoy 🥰
DeepSeek V4 by @deepseek_ai just dropped! SGLang is ready on Day 0 with a full stack of optimizations from architectures to low-level kernels. We also deliver a verified RL training pipeline in Miles (by @radixark) for V4 at launch: 1️⃣ Native "ShadowRadix" Design: DeepSeek V4's hybrid attention is complex. Our new ShadowRadix engine is the first to provide native prefix caching for SWA and compressed KV pools, making 1M+ context retrieval seamless and memory-efficient. 2️⃣ High-Performance Kernels: - Flash Compressor: IO-aware fused kernels, 10x faster than naive implementations. - Lightning TopK: High-speed indexing for 1M context in just 15µs. - Integrate FlashInfer trtllm-gen MoE, FlashMLA, and MegaMoE kernels 3️⃣ Rich Features: Speculative decoding, HiSparse, Attention DP/TP/CP and MoE TP/EP, and multi-platform support 4️⃣ Verified RL: The open-source RL pipeline: full parallelism (DP/TP/EP/PP/CP), tilelang kernels, tensor-level checked precision, verified with growing reward. Get started immediately with our out-of-the-box Cookbook 👇 Enjoy! #DeepSeekV4 #SGLang #LLM
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same energy
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