CEO @Azumuta. Father of 2. European Dynamist. Optimist in general.
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Joined April 2009
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I finally added a slide based on the excellent essay danwang.co/how-technology-gr… by @danwwang to define @Azumuta's role in pushing the boundary between explicit instructions & tacit know-how
Batist Leman retweeted
It feels pretty fitting for @JensenHuang & @nvidia to end their European tour with Microducks on stage.
Microduck was designed and engineered in Europe (more precisely Bordeaux, France) by the @pollenrobotics and @huggingface teams. With American capital and ambition + Chinese manufacturing genius, it became the most popular robot of 2026 with over 15,000 sold all over the world!
I believe Europe has more opportunity to shine in AI than in any previous tech wave. We intend to prove it with @huggingface @nvidia and the whole open-source AI community in the coming years!
Let's go European AI 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
Batist Leman retweeted
The statue of Prometheus is finally finished.
It was cast in Paris, crossed the Atlantic, and was assembled at Starbase. It took us 100 days to go from nothing to this.
People of the West, we have lived through an era devoid of dreams, devoid of destiny.
But the time has come to reclaim our dream of antiquity.
In a few months, we will start building a new city. It will be the most magnificent city in all of history.
After all, the great dream of the West has always been to rebuild Rome.
Come walk beside us in this endeavor. The world is waiting.
There is so much one-dimensional p(doom) talk, it's crazy. The discourse around AI is so flat... (except at the @Azumuta lunch table, but that's for another time 😁)
The book "What is intelligence" by @blaiseaguera is great, here are some takes from it. (At least, in my reading of it - it might be mixed with some other input)
* It's survival of the most fitted all the way down. 🐢
* We tend to anthropomorphize everything, we even say "the bacteria are searching for food" while it's really 'just' chemotaxis
* Neural networks exist to make predictions.
* (!) It's not obvious where neural nets begin and where they stop. Is a group of people actually one, or many? Is an ant colony one organism? (Stigmergy FTW!)
* In one brain there are multiple subnets competing for the signal. Extremely so in octopuses. Descartes was probably wrong. 😅
* I heard people say LLMs are by definition non-deterministic. Not sure where is is coming from... it is absolutely not true. LLMs have fixed weights. Each inference will produce the exact same probability distribution. Randomness comes from hardware noise or needs to be added explicitly by sampling tokens from the distribution.
* We often regard two neurons connected if they are physically connected by an axon. Again, not true. All sensory input is actually connecting networks. (Visual, audio, touch, ...) And outputs. (Expression, voice, touch, ...) That means that, in a sense, multiple physically separated networks can actually be one.
* Yes, LLMs are 'just calculations', but aren't we 'just calculations' as well?
And a paradox to close with... (not from the book, from The Orville, but interesting anyway 🫣)
If consciousness is an emergent property from large neural networks.
If we force robots to do all our chores, and work in our factories.
If the robots are powered by large neural networks.
Wouldn't they be slaves?
(I don't like the term 'consciousness' because it's completely undefinable, but I guess it's our best attempt at explaining our sense of 'self' and justify our sense of superiority over other species 😅)
We should build new pyramids, 100x the volume!
Autonomous excavator building a wall! 🪨
This will blow your mind! 🤯
Researchers from ETH Zürich and Robotic Systems Lab have used an autonomous excavator to build a 65-meter-long, six-meter-high dry-stone wall.
The autonomous system, called "Heap," precisely firstly scanned and then placed stones, forming a wall.
Through computer-aided design and control, the robot was able to handle and position over 900 individual elements, some weighing over 1000 kilograms.
Can we call it the Great Wall of Switzerland?! 🇨🇭
Here's the page of the project that was on from 2016 to 2025: rsl.ethz.ch/robots-media/hea…
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Awesome!
You asked for more pro-Europe merch. We made more pro-Europe merch. 🇪🇺
PROTOTYPE Collection #2 is live: 12 new posters. 2 new shirts. 2 new hoodies.
For Europe 🇪🇺🚀
👉 prototype-shop.com
PS: Due to popular demand, The Holy Draghi is now available.
Love it! ordinaryabundance.com/
Manufacturing is a limitless engine of progress!
Batist Leman retweeted
GPT-5.4 helped drive a medicinal chemistry project from literature review to a validated experimental result.
Paired with Molecule.one’s Maria AI and specialized lab, the model proposed an unexpected way to improve a widely used reaction in drug discovery.
