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An AI demo compresses a small industrial operation into a blinking cursor. Behind that cursor, accelerators generate tokens, CPUs execute programs, storage remembers yesterday, and some unfortunate engineer makes sure the agent cannot email the production database to a stranger…
The Sequence Knowledge - Issue #959: Learning RSI: How Models Learn to Direct Their Own Updates
The Sequence Radar - Issue #958: Last Week in AI: Cheap Intelligence, Expensive Ambitions
The Sequence Robotics - Issue #957: Generalist and the Rise of Promptable Robots
TLDR: AI environments are becoming a core ingredient of model capability: executable worlds that generate trajectories and feedback, not just exams. This essay traces their path from Atari, OpenAI Gym, and AlphaZero through MuJoCo to the RLVR-driven post-training behind Tulu 3…
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