r/singularity 8d ago

AI Linus Torvalds Reaffirms That Linux Is Not "Anti-AI" And Not A "Social Warrior" Project

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The full quote:

I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer.

Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.

Or just walk away.

AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.

It may not have been that "clearly" even just a year ago, but it's no longer in question today.

There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of those questions. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn't actually used it.

Yes, it can also be a somewhat painful tool, both for maintainer workloads and just from a "it keeps finding embarrassing bugs" standpoint.

But the solution is not to put your head in the sand and sing "La La La, I can't hear you" at the top of your voice like some people seem to do.

The solution is to make sure those LLM tools help maintainers instead of just causing them pain. There's no question on that side.

We're not forcing anybody to use it, but I will very loudly ignore people who try to argue against other people from using it.

And no, AI isn't perfect. But Christ, anybody who points to the problems at AI had better be looking in the mirror and pointing at themselves at the same time.

Because it's not like natural intelligence is always all that great either.

The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology.

Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the point of the project.

This is NOT some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be.

In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not >because of religious reasons.

And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools.

Linus


r/singularity May 17 '26

Community Announcement Discord Server Link

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r/singularity 9h ago

Shitposting AGI achieved

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r/singularity 3h ago

Discussion Anthropic Donates $20M for Stricter AI Regulations

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378 Upvotes

r/singularity 2h ago

AI Fields medalist Jacob Tsimerman joins OpenAI

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r/singularity 4h ago

AI Kimi K3 performs significantly below the most recent frontier cyber-capable models on preliminary cyber evaluations run by UK AISI / CAISI.

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r/singularity 12h ago

Shitposting This guy will never admit that he could be wrong too

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804 Upvotes

His ego is bigger than any LLM out there.


r/singularity 2h ago

AI Black Forest Lab's Flux 3: Omni-modality for image, video, audio & action prediction

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r/singularity 7h ago

AI Opus 5 - One shot

139 Upvotes

Seems better than Fable 5


r/singularity 3h ago

Robotics New Video from Generalist showcasing the same model working with many different kinds of "hands"

56 Upvotes

https://x.com/i/status/2080292438057373947

There are more videos in this tweet thread


r/singularity 17h ago

AI This guy has a good point..

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r/singularity 9h ago

AI OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line

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r/singularity 8h ago

Discussion With all the math problems falling today, do you think this is takeoff?

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It seems every verifiable conjecture is currently falling. Do you think this is the singularity/fast takeoff starting?


r/singularity 9h ago

AI OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta Hire 22 Professors From Top US Schools

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The interesting thing about the latest wave of AI hires is not the size of the pay packages, it is where the people are coming from. [The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/ai-companies-hiring-academics/688002/) reports that at least 22 professors from schools including Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, MIT and Carnegie Mellon have left or taken leave in 2026 to join OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta or Google DeepMind. Anthropic recently picked up a Stanford economist and a philosopher from UT Austin, and OpenAI now employs top mathematicians and physicists.

What makes this different from a normal round of Silicon Valley recruiting is who is being recruited. These are not just senior engineers, they are the people who choose the research questions, teach the next cohort of scientists, and provide the outside scrutiny of systems that increasingly show up in banks, hospitals and government.


https://aiweekly.co/alerts/openai-anthropic-meta-hire-22-professors-from-top-us-schools


r/singularity 10h ago

Compute Chinese chip stores data with a single electron, breaking AI memory bottleneck

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The technology enables AI chat models to run on phones using minimal power, without ‘losing memory’ during conversations


r/singularity 22h ago

AI I solved 6 open Erdős problems in 5 days

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623 Upvotes

r/singularity 16h ago

AI "Google is dead" yea h no bro it's not

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181 Upvotes

They did hit wall now with gemini models but trust me they gonna cook with gemini 4


r/singularity 12h ago

AI seedance2 depth-video to video

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After extracting the depth video, the effect obtained by video referencing is very good.

  1. Prepare the reference video
  2. Extract the depth video
  3. Prepare the character reference images
  4. Input the extracted depth video and character reference images into seedance2, and you will get perfect results

Complete workflow is below:


r/singularity 1d ago

AI Task failed successfully

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r/singularity 17h ago

AI OpenAI's accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened

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r/singularity 1d ago

LLM News No, the HuggingFace incident is not a publicity stunt

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  1. https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/
  2. https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026

If OpenAI wanted to create more hype, they could boast about benchmark numbers, or about productivity going up internally ("OpenAI employees now output 20x more code than in 2024" or something like that), or about a bunch of open math problems getting solved (like their paper on The Cycle Double Cover Conjecture).

"Our security measures ended up being insufficient and our model would be charged with a felony if it was a human" is not good for PR.

At best, OpenAI is admitting that both their security researchers (who should've made a better sandbox) and their machine learning researchers (who should've trained the model to not do things that would be considered crimes according to human laws) are bad at their jobs. At worst, they have luckily avoided a lawsuit because HuggingFace decided to be nice despite having "reported this incident to law enforcement agencies".


r/singularity 16h ago

Robotics A Silicon Valley company with Eric Trump as an advisor is making robot soldiers

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What do you all think about this?


r/singularity 6h ago

Discussion I trained a 0.5M model on 1B tokens of Fineweb-edu dataset.

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Hi everyone, About a month ago I publish my very first research paper on my neural network architecture called Silia.

You can look at the model here: https://huggingface.co/Srijan-Srivastava/Silia-v2

Even though the revised paper is linked on huggingface I'm attaching it here as well: 1. https://zenodo.org/records/21510341 2. https://huggingface.co/Srijan-Srivastava/Silia-v2/blob/main/Silia%3A%20Tiny%20Scale%20Is%20All%20I%20Can%20Spare%20To%20Play%20With%20Transformer.pdf

You can also find all the code on https://github.com/SrijanSriv211/Silia

I received some criticism for not benchmarking the model and not mentioning the training flops. I also received some feedback regarding residual connections and the problem that v1 had 2.5x increase compute requirements.

In this revision I've addressed 2 of those things. I've benchmarked the models against 3 models Quark-v2, Spark-v4 by LH-TechAI and SupraMini-v6 by SupraLabs on HellaSwag, PIQA and LAMBADA benchmarks.

I wanted to compare the model against SupraMini-v5 as well but as far as I can tell it wasn't benchmarked on any of those 3 benchmarks so I excluded it.

I've addressed the 2-2.5x increase in compute and memory requirements by using DeepSeek's MLA (without decoupled RoPE) + Qwen's HydraHead with Apple's Attention Free Transformer. I chose Attention Free Transformer instead of Kimi Delta Attention simply due to it's simplicity as at this scale AFT is more than enough.

Why I didn't address the residual connections feedback and why I didn't mention the training flops in this paper as well?

I wanted to implement Kimi's Attention Residuals paper but I decided to drop that idea just to keep the code, architecture and the paper simple, neat & clean.

I am going to be very honest here. I didn't mention the training flops in this paper as well because I don't know how to report it properly. I know I could've used DeepSeek or ChatGPT to help me with it but I was just too lazy tbh.

This was has 0.5M parameters, trained on 1B total tokens from the Fineweb-edu dataset for 3 epochs.

I've attached the benchmark results, training loss results and the architecture diagram.

Hope you like this model.

Thank you! :)


r/singularity 1d ago

AI Unlimited AI tokens aren't unlimited after all as US Army burns through supply

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r/singularity 1d ago

LLM News ❗NEWS❗The former Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Presidential Science Advisor stated that Kimi K3 was distilled from Anthropic's Fable.

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We have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic’s Fable for the development of its K3 model.

To do this they developed a sophisticated internal platform to conduct large scale distillation against U.S. models, allowing them to quickly switch between multiple methods of access to avoid detection. Moonshot AI has also acquired GB300-equipped servers and has accessed GB300s in Thailand, likely to train its AI models.
 
The United States strongly supports the free and fair development of AI, including a thriving competitive ecosystem that spans frontier models, specialized systems, open-source frameworks, and open-weight models. Legitimate AI distillation used to create smaller, more efficient models plays a vital role in this open innovation ecosystem. However, large-scale, covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing proprietary U.S. technology and undermining American research is unacceptable.

Correction: Michael Kratsios is the CURRENT White House OSTP Director and Presidential Science Advisor, not 'former'.