Charlie O'Neill

@oneill_c

The sea is the sea The old man is an old man The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish The sharks are all sharks no better and no worse

San Francisco

charlesponeill.com

Joined September 2016

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Charlie O'Neill
@oneill_c
Aug 28, 2025
Today, we’re launching Parsed. We are incredibly lucky to live in a world where we stand on the shoulders of giants, first in science and now in AI. Our heroes have gotten us to this point, where we have brilliant general intelligence in our pocket. But this is a local minima. We
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Charlie O'Neill
@oneill_c
Sep 3
let's make open models as useful as possible @baselabs
TBPN
@tbpn
Sep 3
Baseten Head of AI Model Training @oneill_c says the future is many specialized LLMs dedicated to specific tasks, with bigger labs deployed on the frontiers of areas like science and math: "People are thinking about intelligence capabilities in the wrong way. People are thinking
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Charlie O'Neill
@oneill_c
Sep 3
Today we're launching Base Labs, a research lab by Baseten. Our mandate is to make open-source as useful as possible, and our one rule is that we publish without exception, including what fails. Up until pretty recently I thought the way to get the world onto open models was to
Base Labs
@baselabs
Sep 3
Today we're announcing Base Labs, a dedicated research organization focused on advancing open-source AI. We believe in a healthy, open frontier model ecosystem. To enable this, we are working on: - Blue-sky research on continual learning, the science of RL, and how models learn
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Charlie O'Neill
@oneill_c
Aug 31
A good heuristic for whether you should post something is whether I could get an llm to produce it with a prompt shorter than the post itself? Because I can. I could get your slop article by giving claude the paper and saying "explain this clearly and simply". To share something
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Charlie O'Neill
@oneill_c
Aug 28
Lot more coming (an order of magnitude more)
0xSero
@0xSero
Aug 27
BaseTen is a fountain of good information, they're giving a lot and contributing to open source and research. Highly recommend spending some time reading their work if you want to level yourself up.
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