Keep pulling the thread on Abhi Mahajan.
Isomorphic Labs announced a predictive model that doubles the performance of AlphaFold 3 on key benchmarks for ligand-protein interactions, including affinity, pocket identification, and structure prediction.
Noetic AI's strategy is based on the idea that a "human simulator of biology," trained on rich data from real human tumors, could significantly reduce the current 97% failure rate of oncology trials.
The FDA has shown a willingness to approve black box AI diagnostics, citing the approval of Artera AI's pathology model for predicting response to androgen deprivation therapy in prostate cancer, even though its mechanism is not understood.
OpenAI has publicly stated a timeline aiming for an "AI R&D intern" by 2027 and a "full AI R&D researcher" by 2028.
Google's Gemini model demonstrated a form of recursive self-improvement by co-designing an evolutionary algorithm that sped up its own training by 1%.
Jeremy Harris argues that the US AI industrial base is fundamentally insecure because it is built with components made in China and staffed by personnel who are often Chinese nationals.
Approximately 50% of top AI researchers, including those at US frontier labs, are Chinese nationals.
Jeremy Harris asserts that if Taiwan is invaded, TSMC's production capabilities will be lost, either through Chinese takeover or because the facilities would be booby-trapped to be destroyed.
In a scenario where TSMC is disabled, the SMIC-Huawei complex is a plausible runner-up for leading-edge chip production, leveraging superior networking of less-efficient GPUs to achieve competitive scale performance.
Jeremy Harris predicts the US AI industry will be bottlenecked by energy availability around the end of 2024.
Chinese-made transformers in the US power grid have been found to contain trojan components designed to enable remote shutdowns.
A plausible scenario being taken seriously by the US intelligence community is that China could initiate a Taiwanese invasion by shutting down the US power grid.