Burkov's AI weekly #182: State of AI 2026, AI protein design, 260M-param diffusion beats 6x larger baselines
burkov · x · 2026-10-16
Andriy Burkov released issue #182 of True Positive Weekly, curating: the State of AI Report 2026; how much of the internet is written with AI; AI-designed proteins that cut other proteins; a primer on what a harness is; ICML 2026 tutorial videos; agent swarms as a distributed systems problem; mushroom hunting with LLMs; a 260M-parameter Looped Diffusion Transformer beating baselines 6x larger; and the Physics-Based Deep Learning book.
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