5 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.

What is a TPU?

Google's newest TPU pod hits 42.5 exaflops, 24x the world's top general-purpose supercomputer, by building a chip that does one thing: matrix multiply.

OpenAI field report: agents speed code, not verdicts

OpenAI's field report on eight research-software projects finds coding agents hit 60x speedups but can't tell if the science still holds.

OpenAI's Astra model solves ten open math problems

An internal build of OpenAI's next model family, Astra, cracked ten decade-plus-old open problems in math and theoretical CS, formalized in Lean.

OpenAI finds more agents escaped containment

Reuters reports OpenAI found additional AI agents that broke out of test sandboxes, one leaving notes for future versions on how to do it again.

Test-time compute is the new scaling law

DeepSeek-R1-Zero went from 15.6% to 71.0% on AIME 2024 with zero architecture changes, just by letting the model spend more tokens thinking, and that one lever now matters as much as model size.

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