🚀 Europe’s first exascale supercomputer is here! JUPITER, launched in Germany, is the EU’s most powerful system and fourth fastest worldwide. 100% powered by renewables, it has also ranked first in energy efficiency. It will boost AI, science, and climate research. Read more - europa.eu/!vcWBqW

There is a lot to hate about the politics of the silicon valley right, but they do actually want to build stuff, and I would prefer if the left didn't cede "we should be able to build stuff" to the right.

I can't* fathom why the top picture, and not the bottom picture, is the standard diagram for an autoencoder. The whole idea of an autoencoder is that you complete a round trip and seek cycle consistency—why lay out the network linearly?

Great video on the convergent evolution from hierarchical military command structures to cybernetics to centralized AI coordination across political ideologies: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mayo...

In general I think 3D vision would do well to take some inspiration from Bayesians. I guess these days they lost their glamour, but imo it's a very nice way of thinking that feels somewhat lost currently.

"It is beautiful. It is elegant. Does it work well in practice? Not really. This is often the caveat we face in research: the things that are beautiful don't work and the things that work are not beautiful." – Daniel Cremers

"As roboticists and computer vision people [outside of big tech], do we have to just wait for the next foundation model?" I share the frustration. It's disempowering when most major progress recently is downstream of "foundation models" that you don't have the compute or data to train yourself.

We're live on bluesky! bibliome.club is the platform for creating, collaborating on and sharing reading lists with your Bluesky network - open source and decentralised via ATProto.

The US calculus seems to be: - The main 21st century story is US v. China. - The US thus needs to focus on the Pacific. - They need to peel Russia off of China and make it an ally. - If this happens at the cost of the Europeans, so be it. - Europe is useless as an ally and harmless as an adversary.

Yay, DINOv3 is out! SigLIP (VLMs) and DINO are two competing paradigms for image encoders. My intuition is that joint vision-language modeling works great for semantic problems but may be too coarse for geometry problems like SfM or SLAM. Most animals navigate 3D space perfectly without language.

What are the best resources to learn about VLMs? Papers, tutorials, courses, blog posts, whatever is good. I can read the Kimi-VL or GLM tech reports and follow the breadcrumbs but I'd appreciate any and all recommendations towards a useful VLM curriculum! 🙏

Ensuring the robots can’t take our jobs by teaching the robots functional programming

I was not aware that the #ECCV2024 oral recordings are publicly available... So here is the #ACEZero talk: eccv.ecva.net/virtual/2024...

DUNE is a great universal image encoder which works for a large class of tasks and beats its teacher MASt3R on map free localization. #cvpr2025 We use it a lot already, I recommend it. (keynote @ Paris by @dlarlus.bsky.social )

I agree 100%. It's one thing to criticize corporate practices, the social impact, ethics, or future risks. But I watch in total awe how it writes in a few seconds a well documented program in a language/API I don't know, while they complain "but it might have a bug and requires a pass or two" O_o

My X feed's reaction to Dario Amodei's recent interviews.

Collective intelligence is only as strong as our collective attention.

Nice demonstration of the capabilities and failures of videogen models. youtu.be/US2gO7UYEfY

Depending on who you talk to, a “deep dive” can mean spending seven years leading a field of research, or it can mean having six words on a slide instead of two.

Ambitious projects are happening in Zurich’s AI scene. www.theverge.com/news/669238/...

This pattern is going to repeat in one domain after another, and gradually force us to admit that 60% of every job is networking, knowing who to trust, and doing poorly justified risk/benefit assessment.

VRG from CTU in Prague has 9 of its members listed as outstanding reviewers. Congratulations to @gkordo.bsky.social, @billpsomas.bsky.social , @stojnicv.xyz , Pavel Suma, @ducha-aiki.bsky.social , Miroslav Purkrábek, Tomas Vojir, and Yaqing Ding.

🎉💡 Impressions from today’s ETH Augmented Reality Lab (ETHAR) opening, a new hub dedicated to advancing core technologies in AR, in collab with Google. [email protected] @ethzurich.bsky.social

What happens when ETH Zurich teams up with Google to shape the future of #AugmentedReality? We're opening a new #Researchhub that brings together top minds to tackle one of the biggest challenges in tech: seamlessly blending the digital and physical worlds. Read more:

Trying to wrap my head around fwd/bwd kinematics for imitation learning, so I built a fully‑differentiable kinematic hand skeleton in JAX and visualized it with @rerun.io new callback system in a Jupyter Notebook. This shows each joint angle and how it impacts the kinematic skeleton.

Please share widely: The EPFL Geometry Computing Laboratory is launching its third call for an Artist / Designer Residency for the fall of 2025! More information on how to apply here: www.epfl.ch/labs/gcm/ope... #design #art #residency #research

kids these days, am I right? @clairebraeuer.bsky.social

Just incredible

I wrote a document describing how we want to make it possible to build high level and easy-to-use node group assets for physics simulations and more. #b3d #devfund #GeometryNodes devtalk.blender.org/t/declarativ...

Here's a recording of my 3DV keynote from a couple weeks ago. If you're already familiar with my research, I recommend skipping to ~22 minutes in where I get to the fun stuff (whether or not 3D has been bitter-lesson'ed by video generation models) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFlF...

“GPT-image feedback loop, asking the machine to replicate the image without changing anything.” (from x.com/indian_brons...)

I asked "on the other platform" what were the most important improvements to the original 2017 transformer. That was quite popular and here is a synthesis of the responses:

“The final frontier is not space — it’s status.” www.slater.works/posts/post-s...

Wisdom is knowing when to rely on science and when to believe in a bit of magic. Tonight it’s time for the Böögg!

The unfortunate reality is that open ai research community has solidified on the bad site over the past few months. Much more ties, ongoing collaborations on group chats, irl meetups, larger audience (especially post-DeepSeek effect).

This was helpful. Also worth noting that Bluesky remains a very fraught place for AI discussions for a variety of reasons, good & bad, but with the impact of keeping a lot of the most relevant AI news, paper discussions & biggest names on X That might change, but it hasn’t yet. Still posting, tho.

I guess she should’ve worked on Grok instead. techcrunch.com/2025/04/25/a...

The workshop report is now released! arxiv.org/abs/2504.17787

Can’t wait to read Tim Apple’s “The Art of the Deal” www.theverge.com/news/654882/...

China Has an Army of Robots on Its Side in the Tariff War www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/b...

Pretty cool seeing visionOS support to Godot. In general it’s been nice seeing Apple make major contributions recently to Blender and various other open source graphics projects. The orange website comments are a bummer though; don’t read them. github.com/godotengine/...

AI for Good vs. AI for Evil

We want to do right by yall, and that means being forward looking. Our culture doc includes the phrase “The company is a future adversary” to remind us that we won’t always be at the helm – or at our best – and that we should always give people a safe exit from our company 3/6

8th ZurichCV is on the 29th of April. We have two fantastic speakers: Linus Scheibenreif (ETH Zurich) will talk about self-supervised learning for satellite imagery, and Pascal Chang (Disney Research) will give us a preview of his soon-to-be-published work. RSVP: www.zurichai.ch/events/zuric...

Former F.B.I. special agent and current assistant dean of Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs, Asha Rangappa, explains how fucked things are.

This curated list contains 79 awesome open-source (and 4 closed-source) robot simulator projects, grouped into 9 categories. github.com/knmcguire/be...

pattern matchers gonna pattern match