phil @big_algocracy

optimizing for impact and fun philcuv.in Palo Alto, CA Joined August 2024

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Houjun Liu @houjun_liu

3 weeks ago

New Paper Day! For EMNLP findings—in LM red-teaming, we show you have to optimize for **both** perplexity and toxicity for high-probability, hard to filter, and natural attacks!

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The prevailing wisdom is that compute is the most important factor for frontier AI training. We think this is wrong: data is the most costly and important component of AI training. We collected estimates of revenue for major data labeling companies and compared them with the…

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phil @big_algocracy

a month ago

never seen researcher opinion shift so quickly than on OAI post GPT-5 release

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a month ago

is this the api people keep talking about

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a month ago

NNetNav! @_Hao_Zhu

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Charlotte Yan @CharlotteY5051

14 Followers 84 Following CS @stanford

forever curious, building humanoids @proceptionai, math eng @queensu @schulichleaders, community @socraticainfo ⁂ @cansbridgeproj 🇨🇦🤖

Theo Lemay @theol__

480 Followers 916 Following forever curious, building humanoids @proceptionai, math eng @queensu @schulichleaders, community @socraticainfo ⁂ @cansbridgeproj 🇨🇦🤖

Aarush @Aarush41031066

0 Followers 5 Following

Eexuixee @Eexuixee517906

36 Followers 506 Following

Zoey Pollich @ZPollich11818

77 Followers 3K Following

Drowrog @Drowrog562

61 Followers 722 Following

CS @stanford. Reasoning enjoyer @stanfordnlp, (PO)MDPs @SISLaboratory, and speech technologies @CarnegieMellon. AGI and Emacs are cool.

Houjun Liu @houjun_liu

181 Followers 144 Following CS @stanford. Reasoning enjoyer @stanfordnlp, (PO)MDPs @SISLaboratory, and speech technologies @CarnegieMellon. AGI and Emacs are cool.

Omar Shaikh @oshaikh13

1K Followers 839 Following member of sociotechnical staff @Stanford - previously @GeorgiaTech

AI alignment stress-testing research @AnthropicAI. On leave from my CS PhD at UC Berkeley, @CHAI_Berkeley. Opinions my own.

Johannes Treutlein @j_treutlein

343 Followers 172 Following AI alignment stress-testing research @AnthropicAI. On leave from my CS PhD at UC Berkeley, @CHAI_Berkeley. Opinions my own.

Charlotte Yan @CharlotteY5051

14 Followers 84 Following CS @stanford

Julia Hudson @jhudjhud

96 Followers 160 Following @_theresidency @harvard @veil_hq

Marwan Refaat @MarwanRefaat

1K Followers 180 Following General Partner at Fractal Capital

Daniel Siegel @danedisonsiegel

101 Followers 201 Following i like building cool stuff

Sigil Wen @0xSigil

22K Followers 5K Following Bringing the world's @extraordinary talent to america | thiel fellow @thielfellowship

Computational Linguists—Natural Language—Machine Learning @chrmanning @jurafsky @percyliang @ChrisGPotts @tatsu_hashimoto @MonicaSLam @Diyi_Yang @StanfordAILab

Stanford NLP Group @stanfordnlp

171K Followers 295 Following Computational Linguists—Natural Language—Machine Learning @chrmanning @jurafsky @percyliang @ChrisGPotts @tatsu_hashimoto @MonicaSLam @Diyi_Yang @StanfordAILab

Jon Miller Schwartz @JonMSchwartz

1K Followers 565 Following Building robots as fast as I can. @ultraroboticsco

John Yang @jyangballin

4K Followers 783 Following 🌲 CS PhD @Stanford 🤖 SWE-bench + agent + smith 🎓 Prev. @princeton_nlp 🐯; @Berkeley_EECS 🐻

nic carter @nic__carter

419K Followers 4K Following escaping the permanent underclass | https://t.co/mQ5frnwUMV

Yes, I can see some risk that your threat to jail Internet company executives for not censorsing aggressively enough could backfire.

Marc Andreessen 🇺�... @pmarca

1.9M Followers 27K Following Yes, I can see some risk that your threat to jail Internet company executives for not censorsing aggressively enough could backfire.

Parag Agrawal @paraga

548K Followers 1K Following building https://t.co/KLxULH5Io7, device following @vintweeta

Daniel Kang @daniel_d_kang

5K Followers 92 Following Asst. professor at UIUC CS. Formerly in the Stanford DAWN lab and the Berkeley Sky Lab.

SFF author, speaker, lawyer, programmer; Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy; rep by Russ Galen; The Dandelion Dynasty & “The Paper Menagerie

Ken Liu @kyliu99

35K Followers 111 Following SFF author, speaker, lawyer, programmer; Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy; rep by Russ Galen; The Dandelion Dynasty & “The Paper Menagerie"

Zach Dell @ZachBDell

6K Followers 967 Following Building @Basepowerco. Formerly @ThriveCapital @Blackstone. Grateful

Aarush Sah @AarushSah_

8K Followers 573 Following Head of Evals @GroqInc, Building OpenBench

Wagmi. 2025. As featured in Bloomberg. As quoted by Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis. As mentioned on the Lex Fridman Podcast💺

Jimmy Apples 🍎/acc @apples_jimmy

59K Followers 2K Following Wagmi. 2025. As featured in Bloomberg. As quoted by Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis. As mentioned on the Lex Fridman Podcast💺

Paul Graham @paulg

2.1M Followers 774 Following

Ethan Goodhart @EthanGoodhart

129 Followers 232 Following building @stanford · @friendsandfam_

sway @SwayStar123

861 Followers 448 Following Vegan btw, working on diffusion models 日本語できる, 中文学习中

gabriel @GabrielPeterss4

35K Followers 488 Following research sora at @OpenAI, previously at midjourney, swedish high school dropout

Wenhao Yu @wyu_nd

4K Followers 917 Following Researcher at @TencentGlobal AI Lab in Seattle | Bloomberg PhD Fellow Ex. @MSFTResearch @TechAtBloomberg and @allen_ai

carlos @_carlosejimenez

1K Followers 354 Following i like ai, philosophy, and politics

Assistant Professor @Mila_Quebec @McGillU @ServiceNowRSRCH; Postdoc @StanfordNLP; PhD @EdinburghNLP; Natural Language Processor #NLProc

Siva Reddy @sivareddyg

6K Followers 1K Following Assistant Professor @Mila_Quebec @McGillU @ServiceNowRSRCH; Postdoc @StanfordNLP; PhD @EdinburghNLP; Natural Language Processor #NLProc

An open-source declarative framework for building modular AI software. Programming—not prompting—LLMs via higher-level abstractions & optimizers.

DSPy @DSPyOSS

10K Followers 48 Following An open-source declarative framework for building modular AI software. Programming—not prompting—LLMs via higher-level abstractions & optimizers.

Akari Asai @AkariAsai

18K Followers 867 Following Incoming Assistant Professor @SCSatCMU & research scientist @allen_ai. akariasai @ 🦋

Research Scientist @allen_ai, PhD in NLP 🤖 UofA. Ex @GoogleDeepMind @MSFTResearch @MilaQuebec 🚨🚨 NEW BLOG about LLMs reasoning: https://t.co/Ox0iOaqY7e

Nouha Dziri @nouhadziri

5K Followers 692 Following Research Scientist @allen_ai, PhD in NLP 🤖 UofA. Ex @GoogleDeepMind @MSFTResearch @MilaQuebec 🚨🚨 NEW BLOG about LLMs reasoning: https://t.co/Ox0iOaqY7e

Senior Staff Research Scientist @GoogleDeepMind & Honorary Lecturer @UCL. ex @Meta|@MSFTResearch|@NYU|@Princeton. Llama-3, Toolformer, Rainbow Teaming, MLGym.

Roberta Raileanu @robertarail

9K Followers 2K Following Senior Staff Research Scientist @GoogleDeepMind & Honorary Lecturer @UCL. ex @Meta|@MSFTResearch|@NYU|@Princeton. Llama-3, Toolformer, Rainbow Teaming, MLGym.

Jack Morris @jxmnop

45K Followers 979 Following research @cornell @meta // language models, information theory, science of AI

I build tough benchmarks for LMs and then I get the LMs to solve them. SWE-bench & SWE-agent. Postdoc @Princeton. PhD @nlpnoah @UW.

Ofir Press @OfirPress

15K Followers 6K Following I build tough benchmarks for LMs and then I get the LMs to solve them. SWE-bench & SWE-agent. Postdoc @Princeton. PhD @nlpnoah @UW.

CTO at @Databricks and CS prof at @UCBerkeley. Working on data+AI, including @ApacheSpark, @DeltaLakeOSS, @MLflow, https://t.co/94gROE5Xa0. https://t.co/nmRYAKG0LZ

Matei Zaharia @matei_zaharia

44K Followers 1K Following CTO at @Databricks and CS prof at @UCBerkeley. Working on data+AI, including @ApacheSpark, @DeltaLakeOSS, @MLflow, https://t.co/94gROE5Xa0. https://t.co/nmRYAKG0LZ

Graham Neubig @gneubig

40K Followers 708 Following Associate professor @LTIatCMU. Co-founder/chief scientist @allhands_ai. I mostly work on modeling language.

Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang

327K Followers 833 Following chief ai officer @meta, founder @scale_ai. rational in the fullness of time

@OpenAI Language agents (ReAct, Reflexion, Tree of Thoughts, SWE-agent, CoALA) for digital automation (WebShop, SWE-bench, tau-bench)

Shunyu Yao @ShunyuYao12

19K Followers 1K Following @OpenAI Language agents (ReAct, Reflexion, Tree of Thoughts, SWE-agent, CoALA) for digital automation (WebShop, SWE-bench, tau-bench)

Michael Ryan @michaelryan207

2K Followers 1K Following Incoming PhD Student @stanfordnlp || Working on DSPy 🧩 || Prev @GeorgiaTech @Microsoft @SnowflakeDB

Tom Sheffer @TomSheffer17807

112 Followers 459 Following M.D candidate | Computer Science Master's candidate | @Google Research Software Engineer intern in Neuroscience.

Hao Zhu 朱昊 @_Hao_Zhu

3K Followers 1K Following Postdoc @StanfordNLP Building the social brain for AI PhD @LTIatCMU. he/him/他

MohammadHossein Rezae... @mhrezaeics

78 Followers 534 Following Post-training Research Intern @scale_AI | Ex Research Intern @StanfordNLP | CS @UArizona

Asst professor @MIT EECS & CSAIL (@nlp_mit).

Author of https://t.co/VgyLxl0oa1 and https://t.co/ZZaSzaRaZ7 (@DSPyOSS).

Prev: CS PhD @StanfordNLP. Research @Databricks.

Omar Khattab @lateinteraction

24K Followers 3K Following Asst professor @MIT EECS & CSAIL (@nlp_mit). Author of https://t.co/VgyLxl0oa1 and https://t.co/ZZaSzaRaZ7 (@DSPyOSS). Prev: CS PhD @StanfordNLP. Research @Databricks.

Diyi Yang @Diyi_Yang

18K Followers 2K Following Assistant Professor @Stanford CS @StanfordNLP @StanfordAILab LLMs for Humans

Leonard Tang @leonardtang_

4K Followers 1K Following co-founder & ceo @haizelabs

Houjun Liu @houjun_liu

181 Followers 144 Following CS @stanford. Reasoning enjoyer @stanfordnlp, (PO)MDPs @SISLaboratory, and speech technologies @CarnegieMellon. AGI and Emacs are cool.

Abhay @AbhayVenkatesh1

8K Followers 990 Following @anduriltech

Sriram Krishnan @sriramk

302K Followers 1K Following White House Senior Policy Advisor for AI. pro wrestling fan. official: @skrishnan47

Stella Biderman @BlancheMinerva

17K Followers 806 Following Open source LLMs and interpretability research at @AiEleuther. She/her

working on AGI alignment. prev: GPT-Neo, the Pile, LM evals, RL overoptimization, scaling SAEs to GPT-4. EleutherAI cofounder.

Leo Gao @nabla_theta

10K Followers 549 Following working on AGI alignment. prev: GPT-Neo, the Pile, LM evals, RL overoptimization, scaling SAEs to GPT-4. EleutherAI cofounder.

Sasha Rush @srush_nlp

70K Followers 481 Following Researcher at Cursor https://t.co/cZl0wTfqGz

Incoming assistant professor at UCSD CSE in MLSys. Currently recruiting students! Also running the kernels team @togethercompute.

Dan Fu @realDanFu

6K Followers 218 Following Incoming assistant professor at UCSD CSE in MLSys. Currently recruiting students! Also running the kernels team @togethercompute.