Ash Edwards (@ashedwardst) profile picture

London | founded Fern Labs (acq.) | ambulating, tomfoolering

Joined August 2019
Sense of vertigo watching/reliving this, real artefact of the insanity of the past year Best part imo is the predictions, adding a few of my own for future: - Large numbers (i.e. >1000s) of wild persistent agents discovered - LLMs-as-controllers becomes consensus, robots become a much larger part of next years soai - This year we _will_ hit the 1b 1person co - Labs agree to pause work on math - Vibe-hardware explodes (馃 figuratively)
welcome to the 9th annual @stateofai report! ai building better ai, world models, physical ai, geopolitics, cyber defense and 12-month predictions. read it at stateof(dot)ai or watch my editor鈥檚 cut here. a few of this year鈥檚 biggest findings follow:
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Replying to @konstantinsaifo
This is cool - I found the same thing and then tried to actually build it last month! It def works way better in sim, and took quite some back and forth, but overall impressed Vibe hardware is def here
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Replying to @paulg
@paulg, 2009, on his 5 most interesting founders. Would love to see a modern revisit of this essay.
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Replying to @OpenRouter
@openrouter has one of the clearest visualisations of value-add i've seen
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Funny artefact - it pretends to generate transparent backgrounds but if you look at the squares it just generated them and they are off in places!
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first images produced by ai where i spent some real time just looking at them seeing all the stuff it added asked for some of my favourite paintings but 2200 - look at the little drones it added!
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Here is gpt-5 with the same prompts, much more generic/uninteresting
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The Scream - I love how it added the VR glasses!
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Water Lillies Series - I love how it added little drones
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Nano-banana is really cool, very wide breadth of styles and adds just great little details. Famous paintings but 2200 test thread The Great Wave off Kanagawa
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Replying to @levelsio
@Fern_Labs! We don't have Hetzner yet but can add it in like a day (I prefer @morph_labs VPSs but each to their own) Tell us what you'd want and we'll add it You can also track your agents working on each box lifetime free* for @levelsio if you give us feedback! *bring your own model api key tho
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