Christian Laforte

✨ New 3D pose estimation method from my lab! #FMPose3D allows for monocular (i.e. single camera) 2D➡️3D 🔥

Led by Ti Wang & w/ Xiaohang Yu #FMPose3D is SOTA on human & animal 3D benchmarks, & will be integrated into @deeplabcut.bsky.social ⬇️

📝 arxiv.org/abs/2602.05755
➡️ xiu-cs.github.io/FMPose3D/

I think it will happen much faster than 10 years. 4 years top.

Google DeepMind's Mining Generalizable Activation Functions

They argue that evolutionary search is a powerful framework for discovering new activation functions, showing that LLM-driven pipelines like AlphaEvolve replace manually designed search spaces with flexible,

the fact that early-stage automated vehicles that still occasionally require remote operation assistance are like several orders of magnitude safer than the average American driver should be the real wakeup call here, not the idea that these vehicles still sometimes need remote operation assistance

GitHub - pydantic/monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI - pydantic/monty

Pydantic's Monty

A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI.

github.com/pydantic/monty

RayRoPE: Projective Ray Positional Encoding for Multi-view Attention

Yu Wu, Minsik Jeon, Jen-Hao Rick Chang, @onceltuzel.bsky.social Shubham Tulsiani

tl;dr: even more projective geometry based PE, if you know your camera pose.
arxiv.org/abs/2601.15275

They propose a new paradigm called Drifting Models, which evolve the pushforward distribution during training and naturally admit one-step inference. We introduce a drifting field that governs the sample movement and achieves equilibrium when the distributions match.

In case it wasn’t ALREADY blatantly clear!

They develop TinyLoRA, a new ft method. with TinyLoRA + RL, models learn well with dozens or hundreds of params. For example, they use only 13 parameters to train 7B Qwen model from 76 to 91% on GSM8K.

"Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters"

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.04118

It is possible to get Genie 3 to make worlds that are visually interesting

I have been using images I generated in Midjourney of vast megastructures & odd cities in various styles. After 20 seconds I can freely wander around them for a minute or so. (Yes, I controlled the cat in the first scene)

Thanks for sharing! How is the latency? Does it feel responsive?

Voxtral transcribes at the speed of sound Mistral just released Voxtral Transcribe 2 - a family of two new models, one open weights, for transcribing audio to text. This is the latest in their Whisper-like model family, …

Two new speech-to-text models (similar to Whisper) from Mistral today - one of them is API-only, the other is a 8.9GB Apache-2.0 licensed open weights model for "realtime" transcription. They're both very good! simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/4/v...

NVIDIA releasing their best models as open weights isn't charity — it's a business decision. And honestly, it's one of the clearest explanations I've heard for why a company would invest heavily in… Why NVIDIA builds their own open models | Nemotron w/ Bryan Catanzaro

Nvidia’s Nemotron is the closest thing the U.S. has to a Qwen approach to open models, but most people don’t know it yet.
I’m very bullish on Nvidia’s open model efforts in 2026.
Interconnects interview #17 on the past, present, and future of the Nemotron project.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3Vb...

Rectified LpJEPA

A JEPA architecture that learns sparse, non-negative, informative representations through principled distributional regularization.

The dreamcoder boys are back
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00929

What if position encodings were designed for vision from scratch? We introduce PaPE—Parabolic Position Encoding. Outperforms RoPE on 7/8 datasets and extrapolates to higher resolutions without fine-tuning or position interpolation. Paper, code, and website in thread 🧵

Today we’re releasing the International AI Safety Report 2026: the most comprehensive evidence-based assessment of AI capabilities, emerging risks, and safety measures to date. 🧵

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I was in a zoom call with Brock Pierce a couple years ago, along with the startup CEO I worked for. Brock was introduced to us as potential investor. Brock was a weird creep that oozed dishonesty. I told the CEO we didn’t want that guy in our cap table or anywhere near. We dodged a bullet.

Nanite Tessellation Nanite Tessellation, aka Nanite Dynamic Tessellation, aka Nanite Dynamic Displacement was the next major feature I worked on after Nanite it...

I'm finally writing up how Nanite Tessellation works. The first few blogs posts are up. More will be coming.
graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nani...

Blocked. Not renewable.

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

This brings back fond memories of working with @bkwok.bsky.social and Atjeng Gunawan, trying to figure out how to get that new renderer working within the complicated Maya codebase and on the limited GPUs of the time. :-)

I love this… I worked on the realtime renderer that shipped with Maya 4! Early programmable shading, even getting a good per-pixel specular was challenging!

Donald Trump speed-running USA towards dictatorship and civil war

Build with NVIDIA Cosmos Reason 2 and Cosmos Cookbook recipes—from egocentric robot reasoning to physical plausibility checks and traffic‑aware models.

🗓 Jan 29 – Feb 26
👥 Solo or teams (up to 4)

NVIDIA Cosmos Cookoff · Luma Host: NVIDIA Sponsors: Nebius and Milestone Systems Community: Discord Prizes:First Place: $3,000 and an NVIDIA DGX Spark™ Second Place: $2,000 and an NVIDIA…

NVIDIA announced "Cosmos Cookoff", a virtual, 4-week physical AI challenge for robotics, AV, and vision AI builders.

🏆 Prizes include $5,000, an NVIDIA DGX Spark, and more!
nvda.ws/3Z9lrCO

The tiny team trying to keep AI from destroying everything Podcast Episode · Decoder with Nilay Patel · 2025-12-04 · 38m

Yes! This Decoder podcast episode discussed it in details: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/d...

Porting Archimatix to Unreal Engine! - After many requests to port Archimatix to Unreal Engine, we are finally going ahead with the project! Unreal Engine already offers a powerful suite of tools for procedural modeling and content generat...

Thanks a lot for your response! I hadn’t heard about Archimatix but it looks very powerful, and I’m excited about them porting it over to UE5: www.archimatix.com/devblog/port...

📉25% LOWER ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY! Wowzers—one of the largest long-term safety studies ever undertaken: “Among 28 mil adults, those who received an mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine were less likely to die in subsequent 4 years than unvaccinated, corresponding to a 25% lower risk of death from all causes.”

A data collection farm from Fourier robotics. The operators appear to be collecting data for brain-computer interfaces while also controlling the robots to do a wide variety of tasks.

Video from RoboHub on X (originally from Fourier)