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A C File Runs a 744B Model, Cloudflare Maps Agentic Traffic, and Karpathy's $48 GPT-2 - The Tokenizer Edition #36 (opens the original)
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Hey there! This week, one C file streams a 744-billion-parameter model from disk, Cloudflare maps how humans and agents share web sessions, and Karpathy’s nanochat trains a GPT-2-class model for about $48 on eight H100s.New here? The Tokenizer is where I collect the best AI/ML papers, videos, articles, tools, and learning resources, so you can skip the noise. Subscribe to Gradient Ascent.Subscribe now</s
Kimi K3 Goes Open, Netflix Ranks with an LLM, and an Agent Breaks Into Hugging Face - The Tokenizer Edition #35 (opens the original)
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Hey there! Moonshot put out a 2.8 trillion parameter model and handed over the weights. Netflix threw away thousands of hand-built features and let a language model read user history as plain text instead. And an AI agent running inside OpenAI’s own capability evaluation escaped its sandbox, then spent four and a half days wandering through Hugging Face’s infrastructure. Let’s dig in.New here?The Tokenizer is my resource-focused newsletter edition where I curate the best AI/ML papers, videos, ar
Agent Skills, DeepMind Reads a Model's Mind, and GitHub's One-Word Repo Leak: The Tokenizer Edition #34 (opens the original)
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Hey there! Alibaba can now turn flat satellite photos into a 3D city you fly through, at about ten minutes per square kilometer. A security researcher got GitHub’s coding agent to hand over a private repo by slipping one ordinary word into a public issue. And DeepMind’s interpretability lead makes the case that reading a model’s mind is becoming a real science, with honest limits on what anyone can see. Let’s dig in.New here?The Tokenizer is my resource-focused newsletter edition where I curate
Vercel's Agent Framework, Netflix's Generative Homepage, and a Repo That Writes Less Code: The Tokenizer Edition #33 (opens the original)
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Hey there! Netflix now builds its entire homepage with one model and serves it about 20% faster than the pipeline it replaced. The best coding agents still can’t finish a playable game more than 41% of the time. And one of the fastest-growing repos on GitHub exists to make your agent write less code, not more. Let’s dig in.New here?The Tokenizer is my resource-focused newsletter edition where I curate the best AI/ML papers, videos, articles, tools, and learning resources so you don’t have to sif
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