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@xiangrenNLP

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Building @SaharaLabsAI 🍦| Professor @USCViterbi @nlp_usc | @MIT TR 35 , @ForbesUnder30 | Prev: @allen_ai, @Snapchat, @Stanford, @UofIllinois

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@xiangrenNLP
Sean Ren
4 months
The intersection of AI + crypto is full of hype; but also some real, foundational use cases. Two areas from this @a16zcrypto piece strongly align with what we're building at @SaharaLabsAI: •Provenance for AI IP •User-owned, portable agents My quick take 👇
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@karpathy
Andrej Karpathy
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Excited to release new repo: nanochat! (it's among the most unhinged I've written). Unlike my earlier similar repo nanoGPT which only covered pretraining, nanochat is a minimal, from scratch, full-stack training/inference pipeline of a simple ChatGPT clone in a single,
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@WaymoCommunity
Waymo community
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Learn why these women are choosing Waymo over traditional ride-hailing services and say they feel much safer.
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@PanteraCapital
Pantera Capital
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Sean Ren of @SaharaLabsAI and Oleg Golev of @SentientAGI discussing signal vs. noise at the intersection of AI and crypto.
@PanteraCapital
Pantera Capital
11 days
Blockchain in the Age of AI Insights from: Sean Ren @xiangrenNLP | Sahara AI Oleg Golev @oleg_golev | Sentient
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@yuntiandeng
Yuntian Deng
2 months
🚀New dataset release: WildChat-4.8M 4.8M real user-ChatGPT conversations collected from our public chatbots: - 122K from reasoning models (o1-preview, o1-mini): represent real uses in the wild and very costly to collect - 2.5M from GPT-4o 🔗 https://t.co/gvBPEo4hqg (1/4)
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Yuntian Deng
1 year
Thrilled to see WildChat featured by @_akhaliq, just as predicted by AKSelectionPredictor!😊 Explore 1 million user-ChatGPT conversations, plus details like country, state, timestamp, hashed IP, and request headers here: https://t.co/TW3vgk5jJ7
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@huihan_li
Huihan Li @ COLM
2 months
LLMs can appear to reason well, but a single wrong token can derail the whole output. Our new work shows that token-level memorization is a key cause of failure, especially under distribution shift. Introducing: STIM 🔍🧠 https://t.co/iIdEoVrDPQ 🧵 #NLProc
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Sean Ren
3 months
Excited to be speaking at Berkeley #SBC2025 #BASS2025 about convergence of AI x Web3 and how we could create an open, collaborative economy for an AI-driven future. Our blockchain product lead shares the tech architecture for how we achieve on-chain monetization flows for AI
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@StanfordSBA
Stanford Blockchain Accelerator (SBA)
3 months
🔈BASS SBC Speaker Highlight 🔈 @xiangrenNLP Co-Founder @SaharaLabsAI & @FranklinBi General Partner @PanteraCapital
@StanfordSBA
Stanford Blockchain Accelerator (SBA)
3 months
We are only a few days away from BASS SBC 2025, on Sunday, August 3 at UC Berkeley Check out this 🧵 for the agenda!👇 If you haven't already, register ASAP as space is limited:
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@BrihiJ
Brihi Joshi
3 months
I’ll be at @aclmeeting next week to present this work! 🇦🇹 Excited to meet old friends and make new ones. Let’s catch up if you like thinking more about the future of human-centred NLP, personalization and multi-turn interactions or just wanna get some nice Viennese coffee ☕️
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Brihi Joshi
4 months
Can LLMs appropriately explain “Why is the sky blue?” …to a 10-year-old 👶🏽 vs. someone with a PhD in physics 👩🏽‍🔬? In our #ACL2025 paper, we evaluate how well how well LLMs can tailor their explanations to different people.✍️ 🔗 https://t.co/AvP13zNMjY 🧵 (1/n)
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@qinyuan_ye
Qinyuan Ye
3 months
I passed my thesis defense today! 😊 It's been a rewarding journey at @nlp_usc @CSatUSC. Many thanks to @xiangrenNLP @robinomial @swabhz @avestime, and everyone who supported me!
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@kbwofficial
#KBW
3 months
Welcome back @xiangrenNLP, Co-Founder & CEO of @SaharaLabsAI, to #KBW2025: IMPACT! Sean is leading the charge for decentralized AI platforms that empower collaboration and fairness! 📍Sept 23–24 | Walkerhill, Seoul 🎟 https://t.co/zjVaOwyoAG #KBW #KoreaBlockchainWeek #Web3
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@qinyuan_ye
Qinyuan Ye
3 months
1+1=3 2+2=5 3+3=? Many language models (e.g., Llama 3 8B, Mistral v0.1 7B) will answer 7. But why? We dig into the model internals, uncover a function induction mechanism, and find that it’s broadly reused when models encounter surprises during in-context learning. 🧵
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@SaharaLabsAI
Sahara AI | SaharaAI.com 🔆
3 months
Data Services Platform (DSP) is LIVE! 🔆 Now anyone, anywhere in the world, can contribute to AI development and earn real rewards for their work. 🔆 $450K+ in $SAHARA + partner rewards available day one! Get started today → https://t.co/mklUe0bfTF #AIforALL
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@XiaotaoGu
Xiaotao Gu
4 months
We @Zai_org are thrilled to open-source GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking, a VLM that can think with long CoTs. SoTA in <10B VLMs, comparable to Qwen-2.5-VL-72B in 18 tasks. One RL to rule them all! Details - Tech report: https://t.co/sxsKy2xP2P - Code: https://t.co/O8WXX7vK0F
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@xiangrenNLP
Sean Ren
4 months
In case you missed this — We're going behind the scenes — how it came together, what's live now, and what this unlocks. We shared the vision on AI developer platform and AI marketplace, and talked through what's next for @SaharaLabsAI.
@SaharaLabsAI
Sahara AI | SaharaAI.com 🔆
4 months
Behind the Launch - The Sahara AI Agent Builder & Marketplace Open Beta
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@xiangrenNLP
Sean Ren
4 months
This is what open, user-owned AI infrastructure looks like - not just models, but a full stack where contributors can create, share, and capture value. Proud of the team for getting us here. This is just the beginning.
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Sean Ren
4 months
You can now: •Build your own AI agents •Add your own data or source from our Marketplace •Deploy serverlessly •Register fully on-chain •Set licenses, remix permissions, and earn royalties
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Sean Ren
4 months
Last week was huge at @SaharaLabsAI! We just launched the Agent Builder and AI Marketplace in Open Beta. AI shouldn't just be powerful - it should be buildable, ownable, and composable by anyone. And now anyone - devs and non-devs alike - can go from idea to working agent
@SaharaLabsAI
Sahara AI | SaharaAI.com 🔆
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@mattf1n
Matthew Finlayson
4 months
I didn't believe when I first saw, but: We trained a prompt stealing model that gets >3x SoTA accuracy. The secret is representing LLM outputs *correctly* 🚲 Demo/blog: https://t.co/qJ6SUFauHo 📄: https://t.co/8UyEYd0s7l 🤖: https://t.co/n4O6bLcoFW 🧑‍💻: https://t.co/L1WLzupAry
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Sean Ren
4 months
from “memory of search engines” —> “memory of foundational models” We continue to be higher order tool users as tools evolve 😄
@DynamicWebPaige
👩‍💻 Paige Bailey
4 months
new decade, same verse
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@natolambert
Nathan Lambert
4 months
Here's a recent talk I gave recapping the last 6-12 months of AI progress, why getting perfect models is hard, how labs are likely approaching the next phase of training (for agents), and other interesting tidbits across the reasoning landscape. Topics: 00:00 Introduction & the
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Sean Ren
4 months
Excited to partner with @okx!
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OKX
4 months
📢 #NewListing #OKX will list $SAHARA @SaharaLabsAI! 🟢 $SAHARA/USDT Spot trading will begin at 12:00 PM on 26 JUN(UTC). More: https://t.co/67Pye8wGDr
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