Alexandr Wang teases a live annual performance review in a video about Muse Wonder
muse wonder over a cheeky pint at some point in this video i get my annual performance review live on camera -- a truly tender moment 🥹

muse wonder over a cheeky pint at some point in this video i get my annual performance review live on camera -- a truly tender moment 🥹
Had some early access to Muse Wonder, but did not get a chance to use it a ton. From limited testing, it seems like a good model. Perhaps more impressive is the progress since April on my drowned neogothic city twigl shader test. Very fast progress from Meta in a short time.
🍉 MUSE WONDER 🍉 @hdubugras says Alex and Meta are on a roll, and that the model has replaced Astra/Opus in a variety of their workflows. They say it handles day-to-day tasks efficiently and quickly, and offer congratulations. Alexandr Wang’s reaction: “🍉 MUSE WONDER 🍉”
@citrini says Meta has a real shot at capturing agents for small business and that its model is surprisingly decent at finance tasks. Alexandr Wang reacts: “the bois r speaking”
“[Muse Wonder] definitely mogged Astra in my hardcore physics testing.” — the new beff times
Alexandr Wang says Muse Wonder is state of the art for personal agents. He says Meta developed the Personal Superintelligence Index (PSI) internally to measure what makes a model useful for personal agents, beyond external benchmarks, and that the model performs well in areas including Active Memory and Active Focus.
Nathan Lambert writes, “Looks like Meta is back at the frontier 🫡” He quotes @finkd introducing Muse Wonder, Meta’s new family of frontier models, with claimed state-of-the-art performance for personal and professional agentic work.
If you announce a model's benchmarks without releasing it (weights, product, api, etc "later"), feels like almost a sure thing that someone releases a better model in your category before you get it out.
somehow the corposlops refused to use my video
@charlieholtz says Meta is at the frontier and calls Wonder “really really good,” citing a security vulnerability it found, its design and visualizations, and features in its CLI. Alexandr Wang reacts: “what a wonder full world 🍉”
MUSE WONDER 🍉 muse wonder is the best model in the world for personal agents and professional agents. we evaluated our model against the best models in the world across agentic and coding tasks, and we think you all will like it.
Microsoft President Brad Smith called for urgent global AI safety rules, arguing that the U.K. is better positioned to lead than the U.S. or European Union. He said voluntary self-regulation lets responsible companies comply while leaving less responsible ones a concern. Smith supports legal breach reporting for rogue AI agents and spoke positively about outside evaluations before release and kill switches to pause or slow AI systems.
If you’re a researcher, please consider sharing your RL environments openly! Something you built for one experiment could help the entire field move forward. I know we’re in dark days for sharing from frontier labs in the US, but I believe this can have a huge impact on the field and the world!
@MollySOShea says she spoke with Perplexity Founder and CEO Aravind Srinivas about why AI-native SMBs could drive the next American millionaire economic boom. Was a fun chat! Thanks for having me @MollySOShea! https://twitter.com/mollysoshea/status/2109645765958132083
I’ve learned from Lenny for years, but we had never met. What you see is what you get with him: he’s kind, prepared, and deeply curious. Great interviewers do their homework, and you can tell he’s in that league: he took our conversation to places that I’ve never talked about in public. Enjoy the first 60 minutes of us getting to chat together. Thank you @lennysan !
Andrej Karpathy describes four tiers of LLM exposure, arguing that public perceptions lag behind capabilities experienced by frontier-system users. He estimates roughly six billion people have barely encountered LLMs, one to two billion use casual chatbot products, 20 million use frontier models professionally in math and code, and 5,000 access internal frontier systems. He claims those internal systems coordinate thousands of agents on projects that would take experts years, while human review falls behind, and attributes progress in coding and math to reinforcement learning on verifiable rewards and commercial training priorities.
A key figure behind REA recommends following it.
Bao Yu describes a role AI startups reportedly find difficult to hire for: someone who follows online trends, creates engaging content, understands AI and technology, and executes well. He says content creators, technical evangelists and engineers, and traditional PR staff each tend to lack some of those abilities, while few people have all four.
Baoyu says Anthropic appears to have relaxed restrictions on Claude Agent SDK and claude -p usage, but has made no public statement specifically addressing Amp or guaranteeing against account bans. Quoted author Quinn Slack interprets a policy update from 2 days ago and Anthropic employee comments as allowing SDK and third-party apps to use subscription allowances, citing https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15036540-use-the-claude-agent-sdk-with-your-claude-plan and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49997143. Baoyu recounts earlier restrictions and says Anthropic paused its planned June 15 switch to separate billing for Agent SDK and claude -p.
Code review is just one way to ensure quality. These days, some people act like the world will end if you don’t review AI-generated code, even though many people didn’t review code carefully before AI either. 😄
Femo One founder Liu Nianqiu says experience moving DeepRoute AI from high-definition maps to mapless driving can inform the company’s approach to robots, which he calls “Physical Agents.” Femo One is focused on open, dynamic environments and plans to begin deployments at multiple sites next year, building a cycle of deployment, data collection, training and redeployment.
Baoyu summarizes Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s argument that enterprises should manage AI models as insider risks, with identities, restricted permissions, audit records, and controls to halt operations. Nadella outlines seven principles covering model diversity, observability, verification, independent control and auditing, containment, and incident disclosure. He calls for disclosing chains of thought while acknowledging that they may not faithfully reflect model reasoning, and argues that security controls must operate outside the model.
I spoke to some annoyed leaders at big firms who were still big on GPTs as of last month, before GPTs were sunsetted. Yes, GPTs outlived their usefulness. But large organizations have complex planning & all the Labs (not just OpenAI) keep making sudden changes that confuse them.
A Japanese blogger cited Toyota's Kaizen rule — never cut staff after process improvements reduce work hours — and argued the same applies to AI adoption. Companies that cut headcount as soon as AI boosts efficiency will find employees hide their best AI methods, he said. A quoted post adds that DORA research found organizations addressing employee job concerns had higher team AI adoption.
Andrej Karpathy argues the gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening into a sharp funnel: roughly 6B people have barely touched LLMs, 1-2B use free-tier chatbots casually, about 20M use frontier models for math and code, and roughly 5,000 have internal access to frontier systems. He attributes the funnel to problem ambition, capability jaggedness in verifiable domains, and access tiers.
fun interview. we cover: - story of muse - why my 19th bday attendees are now all billionaires - diamond mining vs building skyscrapers - my 200+ direct reports
Andrej Karpathy says the gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening into a "sharp funnel" rather than two groups talking past each other. He estimates roughly 6B people have barely encountered LLMs, 1-2B use free-tier ChatGPT-like products casually, about 20M see frontier-grade math and code use, and roughly 5,000 have internal access to frontier systems. He attributes the funnel to impact scaling with ambition, the jaggedness of capability, and access tiers.
this is the golden age of startups, builders, and developers
@Collin_Lemmon says Alexandr Wang shared a consumer AI vision: “I think muse can give everyone the adulthood they dreamed of in childhood”. Wang says, “unironically this is exactly what i believe”
PolyAI CTO Shawn Wen says voice AI still needs faster reasoning to make conversations feel natural, even though full-duplex models can speak while listening. Otter CMO Alex Gay says accurate transcription, language understanding, and expressive voices matter for enabling automation and building trust. Both executives also stressed that voice AI tools should tell people when they are talking to AI or being recorded.
Terence Tao argues that AI is making mathematical proofs abundant, ending a Mathematics 1.0 era built on proof scarcity. He warns that solving problems is not the same as understanding them, calls for reporting failed attempts and compute costs, and says the bottleneck for Mathematics 2.0 is imagination. He also questions whether a PhD still matters when answers come easily.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella used "Super Intelligence" instead of "Artificial Intelligence" in a new blog post, echoing President Trump's preferred terminology. Nadella argued AI models should be treated like insider security threats, calling for model diversity, complete logging, independent auditing and human shutdown ability, while criticizing Anthropic and OpenAI. The Decoder reports the rebranding breaks with decades of scientific meaning and that Nadella's arguments serve Microsoft's business strategy.
Data from Ornn, Silicon Data, and Bloomberg as of August 2026 shows what a16z calls a textbook Jevons paradox in the AI market: token prices keep dropping while H100 GPU rental prices hold steady or climb. Cheaper tokens unlock AI agents, automation, and new applications, so volume grows faster than per-unit costs fall. The system depends on AI usage growing fast enough to offset falling token prices; if demand flattens, chip makers, memory suppliers, energy providers, and cloud companies take a hit.
In a lengthy post on X, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella argued that highly advanced AI models pose dangers that require new safeguards, saying "we must assume a model is compromised and contain it from the start." He called for an "emergency brake" that lets an authorized person pause or shut down a model mid-task, plus timely incident disclosure, independent audits, verifiable data, and containment.
muse after seeing my email inbox
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called for an "emergency brake" on AI models, writing in a Saturday morning post on X that it's time "to step back and assess the trust architecture" of AI. He proposed separating the model from the harness that orchestrates its work, externalizing controls and safeguards, documenting every meaningful model action with "tamper-proof human readable evidence," and giving an authorized person the ability to pause or shut down a model mid-task.
By end of 2027 I'll be the only open models person Nvidia hasn't acquired
Super Intelligence must be contained... Today, this is an engineering and governance challenge. And it isn't new. We've done it with planes, cars, nuclear materials, food safety, medicines... and everything else. Let's get to work! https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/2108931348857827686
Nathan Lambert says the data industry has grown, but low-quality output can amplify behaviors such as reward hacking. He is advising Mercor on research into sample-efficient data for RL and says the field needs stronger evaluation science and benchmarks tied to areas of clear economic value. Lambert expects major investment around frontier labs in open inference, open post-training and data, with opportunities to build on open models.
Satya Nadella argues that frontier AI models should be treated as insider risks and surrounded by deterministic controls, because their behavior can be difficult to trace and they may have access to sensitive data and mission-critical actions. He calls for separating intelligence from authority, keeping access and action controls outside the model, and building systems around model diversity, observable activity, and continuous testing.