We are beyond thrilled to share our first flagship models, Rnj-1 base and instruct 8B parameter models. Rnj-1 is the culmination of 10 months of hard work by a phenomenal team, dedicated to advancing American SOTA OSS AI. Lots of wins with Rnj-1. 1. SWE bench performance close to GPT 4o. 2. Tool use outperforming all comparable open source models. 3. Mathematical reasoning (AIME’25) nearly at par with GPT OSS MoE 20B. ….

The fact that Python is the standard for machine learning is a serious indictment of the field’s engineering standards

that jony and sam video has me thinking about something - i'll try to explain it the previous generation of silicon valley there were not yet too many stories of silicon valley people did the things they were trying to do, went through twists and turns and then later the stories were written - and they truly are incredible but now our heads are full of these stories - we can't do the thing without thinking "hey this is that thing they talk about" and as soon as that happens it inevitably becomes performative - people moving to sf and posting a pic of their mattress on the floor everyone want to tell the stories in realtime - it feels like a major plot point in the book that openai recruited jony ive! and so content is produced with all the gravitas that this plot point deserves as though we're already looking at it in hindsight the video really feels like two people meeting up again after accomplishing something together and reflecting on how they got there except this isn't the end, it's actually the beginning, we don't know where all of this ends up - it could be a disaster navel gazing has become so rooted in our culture to the point where it becomes the official marketing approach of multi billion dollar companies

I guess my own problem is that I think the most interesting things in the world were a result of *inefficient* allocation of capital. You don't build the Colossus of Rhodes or the Louvre - or almost everything inside of the Louvre - by expecting a return on investment.