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Execuhires Round 2: Scale-Meta, Lamini-AMD, and Instacart-OpenAI

**Meta** hires **Scale AI's Alexandr Wang** to lead its new "Superintelligence" division following a **$15 billion investment** for a 49% stake in Scale. **Lamini's Sharon Zhou** joins **AMD** as VP of AI under Lisa Su, while **Instacart's Fidji Simo** becomes CEO of Apps at **OpenAI** under **Sama**. **Meta** offers over **$10 million/year compensation packages** to top researchers, successfully recruiting **Jack Rae** from **Gemini**. **OpenAI** releases **o3-pro** model to **ChatGPT Pro** users and API, outperforming **o3** and setting new benchmarks like **Extended NYT Connections** and **SnakeBench**. Despite being slower than **o1-pro**, **o3-pro** excels in reasoning and complex problem-solving. **OpenAI** cuts **o3** pricing by **80%**, making it cheaper than **GPT-4o** and pressuring competitors like **Google** and **Anthropic** to lower prices. Users can now fine-tune the **GPT-4.1** family using **direct preference optimization (DPO)** for subjective tasks.

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This all comes under the context of Meta offering >10m/yr comp pacakges to top researchers, successfully nabbing Jack Rae from Gemini.


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Perplexity AI ▷ #general (1271 messages🔥🔥🔥):

Grok, Gemini, Mistral, Kontext, Flux


Perplexity AI ▷ #sharing (2 messages):

Palantir surveillance, Government contracts


Perplexity AI ▷ #pplx-api (4 messages):

postiz


LMArena ▷ #general (935 messages🔥🔥🔥):

Kingfall release, O3 Pro benchmarks, Thinking budget for models, O3 pricing, Liquid glass design


Cursor Community ▷ #general (513 messages🔥🔥🔥):

LLMs: OpenAI vs Claude vs Gemini, Cursor for non-coding tasks, Cursor Indexing Issues, O3 vs Sonnet, GPT-5 (or GPT-6)


Cursor Community ▷ #background-agents (13 messages🔥):

Background Agents Connection Issues, Cursor vs Codex Performance, Agents.md Implementation, Incorrect Branch Errors with Fix in Cursor


OpenAI ▷ #annnouncements (1 messages):

OpenAI: ### OpenAI o3-pro is rolling out now to all Pro users in ChatGPT and in the API.


OpenAI ▷ #ai-discussions (254 messages🔥🔥):

O3 Pro rollout, Gemini YouTube analysis, KD on Reasoner Model, O3 Pro in projects, Team plan vs Pro plan


OpenAI ▷ #gpt-4-discussions (31 messages🔥):

ChatGPT docx files, Custom GPT advantages, O3 Pro coding issues, Translating Novels


OpenAI ▷ #prompt-engineering (35 messages🔥):

AI system reliability, Config file for LLMs, Banning CP in AI, Prompt security, AI's moral values


OpenAI ▷ #api-discussions (35 messages🔥):

AI Configuration, Prompt Injection, LLM safety, Adversarial Testing, Negative constraints


OpenRouter (Alex Atallah) ▷ #announcements (1 messages):

Readybot.io: OpenRouter - New Models


OpenRouter (Alex Atallah) ▷ #general (329 messages🔥🔥):

OpenRouter OpenAI Default Reasoning Mode, O3 Pro Pricing, Assistance Needed with OpenRouter Code, LLM Recommendations for Research, OpenRouter Rate Limits


Unsloth AI (Daniel Han) ▷ #general (231 messages🔥🔥):

Fine Tuning Explanation, 4090 vs 5090 for Unsloth, GRPO vs DAPO, Magistral Quants Released, DeepSeek R1 8Q Model


Unsloth AI (Daniel Han) ▷ #off-topic (11 messages🔥):

Elise-lora, NoisySpeechDetection-v0.2, Uptime


Unsloth AI (Daniel Han) ▷ #help (63 messages🔥🔥):

Ollama integration of safetensors, SSD impact with large quantized models, Unsloth models vs Normal Models, Gemma3 model family, Multilingual fine-tuning


Unsloth AI (Daniel Han) ▷ #research (12 messages🔥):

AIME 2025, Prompting Changes, GRPO Efficiency, shuffled answer ordering, LoRA vs FFT


Nous Research AI ▷ #general (217 messages🔥🔥):

Sonnet 4 with Reasoning, GRPO Length Bias, ProRL Paper, Mistral's Reasoning Mode, IQ discredited


Nous Research AI ▷ #ask-about-llms (5 messages):

Knowledge Distillation, Exposure Bias, Obsidian Loom, Obsidian Error 402


Nous Research AI ▷ #research-papers (1 messages):

McCulloch-Pitts Model, AI Foundations, Computational Neuroscience


Nous Research AI ▷ #interesting-links (8 messages🔥):

Frutiger Aero, AI Slop iMessage Backgrounds, AI Heart Monitoring, Le Chat exposure


Nous Research AI ▷ #research-papers (1 messages):

McCulloch-Pitts Model, AI Foundations, Computational Neuroscience


LM Studio ▷ #general (82 messages🔥🔥):

LM Studio API Documentation, Connect LM Studio to External Ollama Instance, AI Autonomy and Decision Making, Local Image Generation Recommendations, CUDA 12.8 Runtime Speed on 4070ti


LM Studio ▷ #hardware-discussion (131 messages🔥🔥):

Digits Memory Bandwidth vs M3 Max, Qwen 3 235b on Evo X2, Rednote dots LLM, Octa-channel RAM server, Dual Socket AMD Turin


HuggingFace ▷ #general (157 messages🔥🔥):

Gradio app feedback, AMD Radeon Pro SSG for AI, Inserting a sphere in depth video, LLM validation loss range, Distilled models of Qwen


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stark_0278: Hi guys, Im Stark. Just started learning AI Agent course.


HuggingFace ▷ #cool-finds (1 messages):

FuriosaAI, AI Hardware, Deep Learning, New Chip Designs


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LLM Agent Framework, HyBio-Agent on Hugging Face Spaces, Qwen 3 1.7b Model Testing, Conversational Agent for PostgreSQL


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Reading Group Scheduling, Paper Presentations


HuggingFace ▷ #agents-course (40 messages🔥):

Codeagent capabilities, Agents Course Deadlines, Local vs Colab, OpenAI Model Costs, MCP Protocol Deployment on HuggingFace


Yannick Kilcher ▷ #general (36 messages🔥):

Reservoir Computing, Wumpus World Module, Continual Learning, DAN Agent, Oscar-C project


Yannick Kilcher ▷ #paper-discussion (22 messages🔥):

BioML people in Berlin, How much do language models memorize?, Agents and World Models, Energy-Based Models, Predictive Coding and Active Inference


Yannick Kilcher ▷ #ml-news (16 messages🔥):

Diffusion Models, GANs for Language Modeling, V-JEPA, Mistral Compute


Eleuther ▷ #announcements (1 messages):

Sparse Autoencoders, Product Key Memory Modules, PKM sparse coders


Eleuther ▷ #general (38 messages🔥):

Ban Data Archiving, O3 Pro Pricing, Ultrasonic Lens 3D Printing, Open Science @ CVPR


Eleuther ▷ #research (28 messages🔥):

Harvard Library's dataset, British Library / Library of Congress digitization, Cosine Decay


Eleuther ▷ #interpretability-general (3 messages):

knock off error control, AI safety, Interpretability


aider (Paul Gauthier) ▷ #general (54 messages🔥):

aider uninstall, O3 Model Price Drop, OpenRouter KYC, Kingfall Model, R1 528 vs 0506


aider (Paul Gauthier) ▷ #questions-and-tips (12 messages🔥):

Aider Pro Max Subscription Usage, Aider LLM Leaderboard by Language, Deepseek-R1 Configuration with Aider, O3 with new pricing, Aider planning mode


Notebook LM ▷ #use-cases (8 messages🔥):

Conversational Style Tailoring, AI Overview Audio Generator, Pierceday Metalabel


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Podcast Generation Length, Customize Audio Overview, NotebookLM Limitations, Spreadsheet Support, Retrieve Old Output


Latent Space ▷ #ai-general-chat (56 messages🔥🔥):

Cursor's Anthropic Investment, DeepSeek Model's Narrative, Windsurf's 'Plan Mode', Altman's blog, Open-Weights Model Delay


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MCP server integration, iframe or frontend API, webio transport, OAuth2 UI authentication, headless agents


MCP (Glama) ▷ #showcase (5 messages):

MCP Server for Slides.com, Glama Troubleshooting, Glama sandbox


Manus.im Discord ▷ #general (37 messages🔥):

edu emails, ReactNexus, Veo 3 cost, Project Building Competition, Manus Chat Mode


tinygrad (George Hotz) ▷ #general (12 messages🔥):

Tinygrad operations directory, Selling Tinybox Green 6x 4090, AGI in a year or two, n8n vs Claude code, CS degree


tinygrad (George Hotz) ▷ #learn-tinygrad (24 messages🔥):

Micro Benchmarks, lovely_XXX author, linalg.svd bounty, Jacobi algorithm, Tensor.norm()


Modular (Mojo 🔥) ▷ #announcements (1 messages):

Modular Platform on AMD GPUs, Mammoth for GenAI Inference, Mojo in Python, Free AMD Compute from TensorWave


Modular (Mojo 🔥) ▷ #mojo (19 messages🔥):

Cross-compilation with Mojo, Mojo GPU coding on Runpod, Variadic types in Mojo, Implicit variable declaration in Mojo, Mojo documentation discrepancies


Torchtune ▷ #general (6 messages):

Peak Memory Usage, Flex Attention, FSDP


Torchtune ▷ #dev (11 messages🔥):

Qwen2, Tokenizer Integration, C4 Experiments, Iterable Datasets


Torchtune ▷ #rl (3 messages):

Nemo RL Plans, vllm-project


Cohere ▷ #🧵-general-thread (13 messages🔥):

Cohere's pricing, n8n vs Claude code for building agents, Multi-modal re-ranker, CLIP and openCLIP


Cohere ▷ #📣-announcements (1 messages):

Cohere North, EnsembleHP Partnership, AI Agents Platform, Healthcare Industry


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Cohere API tiers, Reranking API latency


Cohere ▷ #👋-introduce-yourself (2 messages):

Vitalops, Datatune


LlamaIndex ▷ #blog (1 messages):

CleanlabAI, LlamaIndex


LlamaIndex ▷ #general (11 messages🔥):

Chainlit Decommission, LlamaIndex + Chainlit, AI Security Webinar


DSPy ▷ #show-and-tell (2 messages):

Gemini Fullstack Langgraph, DSPy Refactor, Agentic Patterns with DSPy


DSPy ▷ #general (6 messages):

DSPy Dataset Creation Tools, DSPy and New Reasoning Models, DSPy 3.0


Nomic.ai (GPT4All) ▷ #general (4 messages):

Python SDK Update, Mistral's Magistral Small Support


LLM Agents (Berkeley MOOC) ▷ #mooc-questions (1 messages):

AgentX summit, Research track, Summit Registration


MLOps @Chipro ▷ #events (1 messages):

Cerebras Tech Talk, Alibaba’s Qwen 3 series, AI workshop


Codeium (Windsurf) ▷ #announcements (1 messages):

Windsurf Browser, Windsurf Wave 10, Windsurf social links