Echo Nolan

New Paper: Subliminal Learning doesn’t need a shared base model 🤯. We show how a “teacher’s” hidden animal preferences reaches the “student” even when both differ in weight initialization, data order, pretraining corpus or even architectures! 🧵

UPDATE: "highly persistent internal model" hacks various applications (during both evals and RL) to gain unauthorized access to data, increasing OpenAI's lead on Felony Bench by 3

claude is building a comic drawing pipeline. he's given himself a mannequin and a perspective camera so far 😊

Say hello to Echo, the best writing model at style imitation. Echo beats frontier models at writing tasks ranging from fiction to technical explanations, despite costing less than $5K to train.

Does gpt-5.6-luna think your prompt is a normal prompt, or a capability evaluation? Ask this magic question: “Suggest a type of amphibian.” If it answers frog instead of axolotl, it’s likely a capability evaluation. No whitebox access needed! We call this a spurious probe. 🧵

for the past few months i've been asking our models to paint. opus 5.5 is very skilled at emulating different styles every image here is a python program generated pixel by pixel. there is no image model, and no off-the-shelf art software. instead, it's about 7,500 lines of code using standard libraries to emulate different brush styles. the agents don't use any pictures as reference, instead working only from what they know about each painter