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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
    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
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    @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
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    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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    Nando de Freitas
    @NandoDF
    Aug 9
    Excessive weight decay #patagonia
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    Nando de Freitas
    @NandoDF
    Aug 5
    Did anything happen in the world of AI while I was away with the family?
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