Tanishq Mathew Abraham, Ph.D.
@iScienceLuvr
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CEO @SophontAI | Founder @MedARC_AI | PhD at 19 (2023) | ex Research Director Stability AI | Biomed. engineer @ 14 | TEDx talk➡https://t.co/xPxwKTpz0D
Joined December 2011
at neurips someone came up to me and said they learned diffusion models from my reading group videos and now they're a researcher at qualcomm ai and that their career only happened cuz of me i was so touched to hear that, can't believe i affect the trajectory of people's lives
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Something I realized we should have really emphasized more is that we released the entire training pipeline open-source. None of the current SOTA pathology FMs do that. From the public dataset used to training code to model weights, this release is truly open-source. At NeurIPS
Excited to share our latest @SophontAI release 🥳 "How to Train a State-of-the-Art Pathology Foundation Model with $1.6k" We present OpenMidnight, our first pathology foundation model! It has SOTA perf. despite being only trained on 12k whole slide images w/ $1.6k compute!
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Basically all the big labs (Anthropic, Google, Meta, etc.) had chatbots as good as ChatGPT but they were all to scared to release...
Sergey Brin admits Google messed up by under-investing in the transformer architecture it invented Google was too scared to release chatbots that "say dumb things", so it under-invested in scaling compute "we didn't take it very seriously... and openAI ran with it"
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This was the first version of the LMArena leaderboard (called Chatbot Arena back then) in May 2023... only open-source models at the time... an interesting snapshot in the history of LLMs
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Remember always listen to Karpathy
what if you never stop training? Olmo 3.1 32B Think & Instruct out now!
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Hot takes over tacos at NeurIPS! Fun discussion with @iScienceLuvr, @james_y_zou, and @pliang279 about: - RL for multimodality (reward functions are tricky!) - Open source data for training, closed source post-training - Agents (legible to humans) vs Models (sometimes not) Great
Sophont had a great NeurIPS last week! We presented our fMRI foundation model research at the Brain and Body Foundation Models workshop (which we also co-sponsored!) We also held a social with @KindredVentures (and @_CausalLabs, @fal) including a great panel with our CEO
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Sophont had a great NeurIPS last week! We presented our fMRI foundation model research at the Brain and Body Foundation Models workshop (which we also co-sponsored!) We also held a social with @KindredVentures (and @_CausalLabs, @fal) including a great panel with our CEO
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alpha right here
@hallerite OPD = I want to distill an expert quickly into my network PG = I want to search the epsilon ball of my current policy and move toward the higher-reward side
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some more pics from NeurIPS
NeurIPS in San Diego was super crazy: everyone was there, tons of people to meet with! Sometimes I would literally walk around aimlessly cuz I knew I'd either see someone I know or someone would come up to me and strike up an interesting conversation lol Also tons of socials and
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NeurIPS in San Diego was super crazy: everyone was there, tons of people to meet with! Sometimes I would literally walk around aimlessly cuz I knew I'd either see someone I know or someone would come up to me and strike up an interesting conversation lol Also tons of socials and
Sophont had a great NeurIPS last week! We presented our fMRI foundation model research at the Brain and Body Foundation Models workshop (which we also co-sponsored!) We also held a social with @KindredVentures (and @_CausalLabs, @fal) including a great panel with our CEO
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we're aiming to do a release next week, wish us luck!
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This is super cool, basically GANs for LLM post-training policy tries to mimic expert answers, critic tries to identify expert answer vs policy answer I'm curious to try this out on some medical tasks... I had similar ideas about 2 years ago which I was discussing in
RL for reasoning often rely on verifiers — great for math, but tricky for creative writing or open-ended research. Meet RARO: a new paradigm that teaches LLMs to reason via adversarial games instead of verification. No verifiers. No environments. Just demonstrations. 🧵👇
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huge nostalgia: i used to read Magic Tree House voraciously as a young kid, collected as many books as possible, loved the series a lot, great to see it being adapted into a TV show...
'Magic Tree House' animated series is in the works Author Mary Pope Osborne will have creative control of the project "Finally ... I'm able [to] realize my long-held dream of bringing ‘Magic Tree House’ books to the screen in a way that feels true to their spirit" (via
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Zoom, the AI research lab?
Zoom achieved a new state-of-the-art (SOTA) result on Humanity’s Last Exam (HLE): 48.1% — outperforming other AI models with a 2.3% jump over the previous SOTA. ✨ HLE is one of the most rigorous tests in AI, built to measure real expert-level knowledge and deep reasoning across
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every single reply to my tweet are bots, it's sooooo annoying @nikitabier please please please fix!!
If you've pretrained self supervised vision models (DINOv2, MAE, etc.) before, hit me up!
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If you've pretrained self supervised vision models (DINOv2, MAE, etc.) before, hit me up!
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Ironic Elon Musk is saying this when Twitter basically has their own version of Reels/Shorts/TikToks Elon: please get rid of shortform video from this app, I will be very grateful if you do!
Q: "What's one invention that's made us worse, not better?" ELON: "Maybe short form video. It's rotting people's brains."
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Last week at NeurIPS, we met @JeffDean in person! Honored to have him as an investor in @SophontAI Enjoyed hanging out with him and really appreciate his support!!
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