humans& ships collaborator model Ampersand, social product Boba, and open-sources 10% FTL decode speedup
ericzelikman · x · 2026-10-24
humans& recaps a busy week: Ampersand, billed as the world's first 'collaborator model' plus API, trained against Persimmon for long-horizon, open-ended human collaboration; Boba, a socially intelligent product built on Ampersand that has already exchanged millions of messages; and FTL decode, a pipeline speeding up LM text generation by up to 10% counterintuitively via higher precision—already used in their RL training and serving, now open-sourced.
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