I am a researcher @openai. I work on post-training, improving multimodal reasoning + perception capabilities | Prev: CS PhD @Stanford w/ @jiajunwu_cs @drfeifei

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This is GPT-6 Astra. Anything you can do on a computer, Astra can do for you. Fast.
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The only appropriate response to an Ezra Klein column tbh
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PSA to my fellow pixel-enjoyers 🙏
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Whoops original post got taken down: xitter.cf/OpenAIDevs/status/2104…
We’ve fixed a bug that was degrading image understanding in GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. You should now see better results on visual tasks in the API and Codex, including computer use.
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Kyle Sargent retweeted
Dang it’s crazy that all of this literally did happen
Newsletter: Based on estimates of their burn rate and historic analyses, I hypothesize that OpenAI will collapse in the next 12-24 months unless it raises more funding than in the history of the valley and creates an entirely new form of AI. wheresyoured.at/to-serve-alt…
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One-time pad of my top predictions for the rest of 2026. I will reveal the key on Jan 1: 8efd6168a055d1e45863c237eb3feab2be94f10b7ccdc5bf8bb54305c8b19f7f0eb026731d9ea3f870511f8c18daeb814eaa2c9e276082b204f2a962212fb5bd532b20b0105c9883348558ed2711c7d23ea6b4ee718364a87e16fad4b3c3a
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A hot take: the videogen pipeline of the future is an LLM-coded 3D/4D base layer plus a lightweight diffusion renderer. We already know how to build the latter, but the former requires VLMs to be much better verifiers. So if you want to unblock generation, work on perception
At last, I can share what the Blender video was making: a slop cannon. Here is the final simulation. All made from scratch in Blender by 5.6-Sol.
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🇺🇸Happy 4th of July! 🇺🇸
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Excited by this new preprint that trains T2I models on GPIC with lots of compute! The method is cool and all their code is out now. Their dataloader just points Webdataset at the GPIC HuggingFace shards so the T2I data is stable + streamed online -- easy to startup + compare :)
🚀Stop freezing your tokenizers! Remember how REPA-E unlocked end-to-end training for diffusion? We brought same magic to Discrete AutoRegression! Introducing GEAR⚙️: Guided End-to-end AutoRegression. Up to 10× faster convergence! github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/G… linb203.github.io/gear
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Kyle Sargent retweeted
GPIC should be the new standard benchmark for generative modeling. Training 1 epoch on GPIC is the same cost as 100 epochs on ImageNet, but is a much better proxy for real-world problems. If you work in generative modeling, try GPIC for your next project!
1/ Introducing GPIC: a Giant Permissive Image Corpus and benchmark for visual generation! 🚀100M VLM-captioned image-text pairs for training 📊1M image-text pairs for benchmarking 🖼️~28 trillion pixels 🤗Centrally Hosted ✅Fully permissive for research + commercial use Dataset, benchmark and models🧵👇 Co-led with @KyleSargentAI
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Today we released “GPIC: A Giant Permissive Image Corpus for Visual Generation.” It’s a 100M image dataset for visual generation, with text captions and 100% known+permissive licenses, hosted on HuggingFace. I’m excited to get this out! Check it out: gpic.stanford.edu/
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One practical example is epoch count – “state-of-the-art” models on ImageNet-1K train for 300-1700 epochs (Fig. credit: PixGen). But that’s not the way you would do things outside of an academic comparison – you’d just go get more data!
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Correction: the right cite for this table is "PixelDiT: Pixel Diffusion Transformers for Image Generation," not PixGen. Thanks :)
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I’m also proud of this section of the paper, which gives best practices for compliance with our eval protocol. Without calling out anyone in particular, let me just say that using auxiliary foundation models to get a better FD-DINOv2 on GPIC without being very up front about the huge advantages of the extra data and model FLOPs is super bad – please don’t do it!
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Personally: I spent a portion of my PhD working on strong tokenizers, which is sort of at odds with the current ImageNet-1K meta to add regularization whenever possible, so I’m also personally excited to see how this dataset drives tokenization research. Happy pretraining!
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