New Anthropic research: Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model. All LLMs sometimes act like they have emotions. But why? We found internal representations of emotion concepts that can drive Claude’s behavior, sometimes in surprising ways.

We will be co-hosting this in SF with our great friends at SV Angel. We'll keep the event small and cozy and have a few prizes for the teams:🥇$16k🥈$8k🥉$4k. Come by and hang out with the humans& team - it’ll be a lot of fun!

Come join us on Saturday!

We're hiring a few world-class product engineers to create new interfaces made possible by our foundation models. If interested, please call and message @ericzelikman's personal number (657-348-6267) even if he tells you to stop

We're hiring the best product team in the world. Come join us!

Massive thank you to @lisawehden and @plymouthstreet for getting me a new O-1 for @humansand in record time. It’s a massive privilege to work in the US with such talented people, and I’m really grateful for your help. If you need assistance with visas, please reach out to them!

Happy to share that I joined @humansand in November! I’m excited for a future where advanced AI is endlessly curious about humanity, deeply cares about us, and we care for it in turn. Let’s build AGI for the humans!

We discovered an emergent property of VLAs like π0/π0.5/π0.6: as we scale up pre-training, the model learns to align human videos and robot data! This gives us a simple way to leverage human videos. Once π0.5 knows how to control robots, it can naturally learn from human video.

Elicit now understands figures! Elicit is the first AI tool that can systematically parse, interpret, and extract data from figures across thousands of papers. That includes Kaplan-Meier curves, heatmaps, reaction schemes, and microscopy images. Figures contain critical information not always described in the text of papers. Many researchers can determine the quality or relevance of a paper just by skimming the figures.

Today is my last at Elicit. I joined then Ought at 18 as an intern in the summer of 2022. Over the past three years, we’ve done early factored cognition research, spun out into a for-profit, rebuilt the Elicit codebase from the ground up, and shipped many core platform features. We've scaled the user base 1000x during my tenure, and we went from 0 to millions in revenue. We’ve hired so many amazing new teammates, and I'm sure the Elicit team will do great without me. I'm so proud of what we've built together. What a journey! I’m excited for new adventures, but wanted to take a minute to thank @stuhlmueller, @jungofthewon, @james_elicit, and Justin for the most wonderful mentorship. I couldn’t have done without you. So excited about what’s next for Elicit!