Christian Laforte

Climate action is not just about future generations. The choices we make today will help determine the climate impacts that people alive today, people in our lives, will experience over the rest of the century (and beyond).

Seaweed APT2 Autoregressive Adversarial Post-Training for Real-Time Interactive Video Generation

🎥 Real-time *infinite* video from just 1 frame?

Meet Seaweed-APT2: an 8B-param autoregressive GAN that streams 24fps video at 736×416—all in *1 network forward eval*. That’s 1440 frames/min, live, on a single H100 🚀

Project: seaweed-apt.com/2

FTC Takes Action Against Adobe and Executives for Hiding Fees, Preventing Consumers from Easily Cancelling Software Subscriptions The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against software maker Adobe and two of its executives, Maninder Sawhney and David Wadhwani, for deceiving consumers by hiding the early terminati

got scammed by this practice only by Adobe: no other SaaS did this with me before or after. I swear I signed up to a monthly plan: but in the fine print apparently it was “annual, paid monthly, cancel for a fee (that we won’t tell you how much it is).

Meanwhile the FTC: www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

I only skimmed the paper but… it sounds like the subjects were asked to write essays about uninteresting topics, that no one would read. Can you really blame the kids for just copy pasting the output of ChatGPT in that circumstance?

...and if the ocean gets too acidic from CO2, the amount of oxygen in the air will decline and everyone will die!

People are always a bit surprised by that.

I guess the reasoning is that Apple and Google (ads) are consumer driven businesses. Average consumers will likely suffer under current administration. In contrast, NVIDIA and Microsoft’s corporate customers will continue to grow rapidly as they reap AI-driven savings and new revenue streams.

My French side is always super proud when we are able to successfully export our national hobby to other countries! 🙃 Now let me introduce you to the concept of "unlimited general strike" 😝

Dear Americans, on behalf of all Canadians and citizens of the free world, thank you to everyone who turned out, for standing up against tyranny! 🙏

I suspect the real attendance was much lower. I paid to attend, but I cancelled my trip. I found it unconscionable to attend CVPR in a Republican state. Like most Canadians, I plan to NEVER, EVER buy American unless we absolutely have no other choice.

I am heartbroken that I am not at the conference, but seeing what the government is doing to its people and the world, I simply couldn't go there.

Weird looking old balding man, wearing a black T-shirt and a respirator with a black cover.

This was me on the bus tonight. A @flomask.bsky.social respirator with a "Pro" filter equivalent to an N99 that is as easy to breathe through as most N95s.

I have equipped it with a @sipmask.bsky.social port so I can drink.

I don’t have any insider info, but I agree with your read. Imho ScaleAI was built on hype and never worth its lofty valuation. Its service was overpriced and they often dropped the ball, even on multimillion dollars contracts. Its long term outlook in the age of VLMs is bleak.

IntrinsicEdit: Precise generative image manipulation in intrinsic space We present a powerful generative editing workflow built on the RGB-X diffusion framework, enabling pixel-precise, semantic image manipulation across tasks like relighting, color adjustment, and object...

Editing appearance, geometry, lighting with precision is easy with a 3D scene representation. But it's so much more difficult with just an image or photograph.

Enter IntrinsicEdit: Precise generative image manipulation in intrinsic space (SIGGRAPH 2025)!

intrinsic-edit.github.io

Lucky you! Great photo! I just went on a walk in a relatively dark, northern suburb on Toronto and despite a clear sky, I didn’t see anything.

A teaser of the latest 3D DUSt3R based models we’re presenting at ‪@cvprconference.bsky.social‬
Discover MUSt3R & Pow3R, universal encoder DUNE + research in navigation, vizloc, segmentation & human motion understanding!
All our #CVPR2025 papers are here
➡️ tinyurl.com/4z79ujce

New study investigates the prevalence of misinformation about EVs in four countries – Australia, the United States, Germany and Austria. They found substantial levels of misinformed beliefs across all countries. Here are the 9 top EV myths:

Here are all the CVPR projects that I’m part of in one thread.

Conference papers:

PromptHMR: Promptable Human Mesh Recovery
yufu-wang.github.io/phmr-page/

DiffLocks: Generating 3D Hair from a Single Image using Diffusion Models
radualexandru.github.io/difflocks/

I'm late to review the "Illusion of Thinking" paper, so let me collect some of the best threads by and critical takes by @scaling01 in one place and sprinkle some of my own thoughts in as well.

The paper is rather critical of reasoning LLMs (LRMs):

x.com/MFarajtabar...

🧵 Two new papers at #CVPR2025 on generalization in visual representations — covering both universal encoders for 2D and 3D tasks, and open-vocabulary semantic segmentation

Let's dive in! 👇

LAPD when they think nobody is watching

For some reason, most media doesn't correct this claim, and I fell for what are incorrect reports.

I just want to emphasize that devs working at Builder .ai most likely did not know about the accounting fraud part. They joined a hot AI startup, and did the best work they could.

LeRobot Worldwide Hackathon 🤗 We live a wild time! The ChatGPT moment of robotics could be just a few milestones away! Come help us make our future more open and accessible to all. 🤗 On occasion to release our brand new LeRobot SO-101, we're putting together something special. Welcome to our LeRobot Worldwide Hackathon 2025 — a Global AI Robotics event where creativity knows no borders. Whether you're a beginner or a pro, a roboticist or a curious coder, this is your space to explore, build, and experiment something special. For more than 30 hours, we're turning the globe into one giant robotics lab! 📅 Save the date: 14th - 15th June 2025 📍 Location: Worldwide (Online & Local Hackathons) 👥 Who can join: Open to all - No experience? No problem. Just bring your ideas—robots will follow! 💸 Registration: Free 🤝 Rule n°1: Have fun and help one another. You will have easy-to-understand tutorials and an amazing community to support you. Share the news with your friends and family! Want to host a local Hac

🚨 5 DAYS TO GO!
The world’s biggest AI Robotics Hackathon is almost here!

2,000+ builders, coders, dreamers are joining June 14–15
One rule: build, learn and have fun together!

Find your local hackathon & team up
Register now: forms.gle/NP22nZ9knKC...

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

Graphic titled "CCPI 2024 – Climate Change Performance Index" showing the top 5 performers in the OECD. The table lists Denmark, Estonia, Sweden, Chile, and Norway, all using proportional voting systems. A note at the bottom explains that the CCPI ranks 63 countries on greenhouse gas emissions, climate policy, energy use, and renewable energy. It adds that Canada’s overall ranking is 62nd, or sixth from the bottom.

Half the country is burning, and the other half is choking on the smoke.

Just another reminder: the top-performing countries on climate action all use proportional representation.

It's time to get on board, not just for democracy, but for the future of the planet.

a tweet from Tim Sweeney of Unreal Engine, talking about switching unreal to right handed Y-up, with an image embed of Freya's coordinate system chart. Link to tweet: https://x.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1930678660098408669

I feel somewhat responsible

Cool paper from my former colleagues @markboss.bsky.social and Varun Jampani!

Sounds interesting but the link seems broken for me.

The AI Researcher's Guide to a Non-Boring Bluesky Feed | Naomi Saphra How to migrate to bsky without a boring feed.

I wrote something up for AI people who want to get into bluesky and either couldn't assemble an exciting feed or gave up doomscrolling when their Following feed switched to talking politics 24/7.

"Introduction to Mean Flow" - Blog Post + Colab! New tutorial by Raymond Fan (U. Toronto physics PhD). Raymond very clearly illustrates the concepts of Mean Flow and the models' relation to Flow Matching / Rectified Flow. rfangit.github.io/blog/2025/in...