humans& ships 700B-param collaborator model Ampersand, social product Boba, and open-sources FTL decode
ericzelikman · x · 2026-10-24
Startup humans& shipped three things in one week:
- Ampersand: billed as the world's first collaborator model and API, 700B+ params trained against Persimmon for long-horizon, open-ended collaboration with people.
- Boba: a socially intelligent product built on Ampersand, already exchanging millions of messages.
- FTL decode: a pipeline speeding up LM text generation by up to 10% — counterintuitively by using more precision — already used in their RL training and serving, now open-sourced.
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