Happily overwhelmed by the response to this! Addendum: am also looking for a very special type of mid-career researcher, more below: - Opportunity to stretch and grow as a leader, a team-builder, and a setter of research direction - Again, ample technical and personal

Pretty cool article by semianalysis on the state of things at meta. Changing the MoE routing technique and data source in the middle of ~$1e8 run was particularly ballsy (and also a mistake apparently, but well). https://t.co/EKBO1onXQD

Deep learning training is a mathematical dumpster fire. But it turns out that if you *fix* the math, everything kinda just works…fp8 training, hyperparameter transfer, training stability, and more. [1/n]

Really interesting to see the irrational panic / lack of critical thinking caused by DeepSeek spread like wildfire, even among ML folks.

Months back, we committed to investing $100M in AI research. Today, we have two big updates on that front. We’re excited to share that DeepMind alum @Drew_Jaegle has joined @getcaptionsapp as our Head of AI, and we’ve acquired @alpacaml. At DeepMind, Drew led efforts on

A brief announcement and then a personal update — @alpacaml is joining @getcaptionsapp! @wbuchw and I were so impressed everything @gmharhar and @dwightchurchill have accomplished so far and could not be more excited about their push into research. William is one of those rare

In our latest tutorial, you'll learn how to master character design using the Alpaca Editor! 🎨✨ We'll explore powerful features like the Generation Mask and Style Reference tools, and share some expert tips and tricks to elevate your design process. You can also explore more

Today we’re releasing a brand new *render anything* model for @alpacaml. A single mega model trained to handle any kind of visual input - from line art, to colors, to 3D model - plus inpainting and relighting capabilities!

Introducing… Liveblocks 2.0 The platform for adding collaborative editing, comments, and notifications into your application in days, not months. https://t.co/PtQRNPWfze

Today we’re excited to release *Style References* for Alpaca - drag and drop your reference images and instantly render your sketches & paintings in your unique art style. No long training required, no more wrangling text prompts!

Next version of our Chroma model is looking pretty spicy in terms of respecting user intent 👨‍🍳 Still training so hopefully will get even better.

We just shipped layers in @alpacaml Chroma. Wish we had them sooner because boy does everything feel nicer with layers.

noodling 💆🏻‍♀️

That's where the Generation Mask feature excels: strong understanding of user intent, non-destructive iterating (key for blending AI with digital art tools), and seamless blending with the static parts of the image. Give it a try and share your thoughts!

Iterating with most other tools leads to frustration: Either they rely on prompt-only inpainting, cause unintended changes to other parts of the image with each edit (never ending game of whack-a-mole), or struggle to blend edits seamlessly, resulting in poor quality.

Current image genAI tools treat humans as curators not as creators. We want to build tools that put humans at the center: Models that deeply understand user's intent and allow them to make the creative choices. This is a big step in that direction.

This week we released a new update to @alpacaml Chroma model's that enables fine grained control over the result by enabling a true iterative workflow. A little thread to share some results and thoughts

Today, we are releasing a super exciting new feature for Chroma - Generation Masks! The Generation Mask tool unlocks continuous editing and non-destructive workflows by allowing you to iterate on specific regions of your image, leaving the rest intact.

Join us for our very first live community event in Discord with Sebastian Ludke on March 5th! Sebastian is a Senior Digital Artist with over 15 years of experience - together we'll walk through how he is bringing Chroma into his creative process. https://t.co/iQwhZnpYBP

Chroma for character design! Quickly iterate on initial ideas while maintaining the essence of your character. Chroma comes with different presets that allow you to control how much your input will change.