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Joined December 2022
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janet retweeted
We’ve raised 75m in new funding from Sequoia and Spark Capital—partnering with @sonyatweetybird, @MikowaiA, and @YasminRazavi, all of whom are deeply supportive of our long-term mission. We’ve also brought on angels & advisors including @karpathy, @tszzl, and @_milankovac_. ----- Our early results with FDM-1 moved computer use from a data-constrained regime to a compute-constrained one; this latest round of funding unlocks several orders of magnitude of compute scaling for that work. With the FDM model series we have a path to scale agentic capabilities through video pretraining, and we expect to achieve superhuman performance on general computer tasks in the same way that current language models have superhuman performance on coding tasks. We’re also now able to invest in the blue-sky research necessary to our long term mission of building aligned general learners. To realize the civilizationally transformative impacts of AI, models must generalize far out of their training distributions, actively exploring and building skills in new environments. This capability represents a substantial shift from the current paradigm of model training. We believe that current alignment techniques are insufficient to predictably and safely steer a model with human-level learning capabilities, and so we’re doing work to study small versions of this problem in controlled environments to develop a science of alignment for general learners. We’re a team of 6 people in San Francisco. We’re hiring world-class researchers and engineers to help us achieve our mission. If that’s you, please get in touch.
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janet retweeted
Launching the Alive Prize. $100K to build what makes you come alive. I've been fixated on a quote from Howard Thurman lately: "Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." We want to help more people find that feeling. aliveprize.com/
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janet retweeted
This past weekend was my first HackMIT as co-director, and it really was an incredible experience meeting the ~1500 participants including hackers, judges, mentors, and sponsors who we flew out to our campus for one epic weekend. Huge shoutout to all of our incredible sponsors and volunteers, but above all I am so so so grateful and proud of the entire HackMIT organization team and my insanely cracked and goated co-director @nettedjay. Seeing the fruits of our labor (or labour as janet would say) was super surreal and gratifying, and I can't wait to do it all again (but better) for Blueprint and @HackMIT 26!
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janet retweeted
8 Jun 2025
We’re super excited to announce that HackMIT 2025 is happening Sept 13-14 and applications are now open! Priority decisions are due July 4th and Regular due July 25th. Info about mentor/judge applications coming soon! Find all the details on our website hackmit.org.
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6 May 2025
it's gonna be our best one yet. don't miss out! feel free to also dm me if you have questions
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6 Feb 2025
THIS is what i want in a lab expansion (i love the banana lounge 🥹)
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8 Aug 2024
can't talk sorry im busy just being a girl
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9 Aug 2024
update: i am cooking (my brain cells r sizzling in the pan)
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janet retweeted
26 Jul 2024
how we're calibrating team to read thousands of hacker applications this year... it's not too late! apply by tonight at hackmit.org :)
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janet retweeted
Replying to @JoeBiden
“if biden dropped out so can i mom”
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7 Jun 2024
please pass this on! we're working on this with a lot of love and would be so glad to have cool people work with us – and even if you're not a sponsor you should keep an eye out for when our apps open at hackmit.org ;)
hey!! do u like hackathons? @HackMIT is coming this september and if you’d like to join as a sponsor (esp if you’re recruiting or pubbing) & be part of our 12th iteration, dm me & I can send more info! it’ll be a wknd of code, shenanigans, & fun <3 (sign ups also open soon!)
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14 May 2024
the worst part about finals in the spring is that the weather is deceptively stunning. you're telling me that i need to lock in? when i could be frolicking in the fields?? when i finally feel the sunlight on my face???
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14 May 2024
livetweeting from the banana lounge with this banana bird next to me. i don't know who made it and why they put it in the lounge but if i had to see it everyone has to see it
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30 Mar 2024
boston springbuds are humble, leafless things, hiding amidst the infinite fractals of the trees; you don’t notice anything until the geese and people are out in pairs and the sails are full mast. you watch the sun cast glitter on the water. and then it blooms: spring is here.
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26 Mar 2024
walked around boston yesterday and we just decided to try pat as many doggos as possible. 100% success with asking and 200% happiness found in doggos that we said hi to. there's so much joy in the world – you just have to ask to pet them :')
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16 Mar 2024
this time last year was technically the actual date i opened my decision (timezone shenanigans). i think there are certain moments in your life that you know to be definitive turning points, and that night was definitely one of them.
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16 Mar 2024
and maybe i do know what i want to say. it’s that i’ve left home for over a year now and my life is so different and i should call my parents to tell them that i miss the pomelo tree in our backyard.
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16 Mar 2024
and if anyone has any recommendations for finding pomelos / 柚子 around here, please let me know so i can cure a little temporary homesickness, i guess :') 9000 miles is a long, long way
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