Nando de Freitas

@NandoDF

I seek to understand intelligence & agency and build AI aligned with compassion, freedom & universal human empowerment through progress in science & engineering

London, England

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Nando de Freitas
@NandoDF
Sep 8
This is a very important message for all enterprises in the world
Jakob Foerster
@j_foerst
Sep 8
if you don't own your model, the model owns you.
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Nando de Freitas
@NandoDF
Sep 6
ENOUGH PESSIMISM IN AI PLEASE I feel that we have become unreasonably pessimistic in our field. 1. I keep hearing AI engineers saying we have to make money quickly because there’s only like 2 years left before we’re automated. Depressing. 2. I see a constant obsession with
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Nando de Freitas
@NandoDF
Aug 20
This is the wisest and most accurate take on scaling laws — their promise and their costly failures — that you could read today. This is what building AI systems is currently all about. Well said @jietang
jietang
@jietang
Aug 19
Thoughts About Scaling Law Scaling, but not only of parameters. Every model release now ends with the same question: how many parameters? It isn't a question that can be answered on its own. Parameter count is only meaningful alongside three others — how much data you have,
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Nando de Freitas
@NandoDF
Aug 16
I’m super impressed with the fast progress of @inherent_labs. Worth checking out @Orbital_Ind @cusp_ai @wellingmax @ac_edwards_1
Inherent
@inherent_labs
Aug 14
1/ Today, we introduce Faraday, a 27B-parameter AI Scientist that extends the capabilities of coding agents with a layer of scientific intuition. Trained via long-horizon RL, Faraday outperforms Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on the task of replicating research papers. 🧵
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Nando de Freitas
@NandoDF
Aug 15
What UK AI startups need: @KanishkaNarayan In California, one can start a company the day after leaving Google. My colleagues Jeff Dean, Oriol Vinyals et al made this very clear recently with their impressive speed. In the UK, the same American companies impose 1 year garden
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