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Improving Hugging Face Model Access for Kaggle Users
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Thank You for Ten Years
As we celebrate our tenth trip around the sun, let’s see what you and your friends have been up to on Discord over the past decade.
Staff Picks, May 2025: The Games That Brought Us to Discord
It’s Discord’s Birthday today! In this month’s Staff Picks, we’ll hear from Christina, Emi, Jeremy, and Armando about which games introduced them to Discord and the game recs they currently have.
Getting started with Iceberg Topics on Redpanda BYOC
Redpanda’s Iceberg Topics offer fast, simple, cost-efficient Kafka storage in open Iceberg tables—now available in Redpanda Cloud beta for BYOC. Learn more.
Blazingly fast whisper transcriptions with Inference Endpoints
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Introducing HealthBench
HealthBench is a new evaluation benchmark for AI in healthcare which evaluates models in realistic scenarios. Built with input from 250+ physicians, it aims to provide a shared standard for model performance and safety in health.
Vision Language Models (Better, faster, stronger)
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LeRobot Community Datasets: The “ImageNet” of Robotics — When and How?
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OpenAI Expands Leadership with Fidji Simo
Read the message Sam shared with the company earlier today.
OpenAI’s response to the Department of Energy on AI infrastructure
Why infrastructure is destiny and how the US can seize it.
Introducing data residency in Asia
Data residency builds on OpenAI’s enterprise-grade data privacy, security, and compliance programs supporting customers worldwide.
The San Antonio Spurs use ChatGPT to scale impact on and off the court
Discover how the San Antonio Spurs are using custom GPTs to enhance fan engagement, streamline operations, and drive innovation across teams.
Lowe’s puts project expertise into every hand
Lowe’s partnered with OpenAI to build Mylow and Mylow Companion, AI-powered tools that bring expert help to both customers and store associates—making complex home improvement projects easier to plan, navigate, and complete.
Introducing OpenAI for Countries
A new initiative to support countries around the world that want to build on democratic AI rails.
Provisioning Machines using MCPs
Today’s state of the art is K8S, Terraform, web based UIs, and CLIs. Those days are numbered. On Monday, I created my first fly volume using an MCP. For those who don’t know what MCPs are, they are how you attach tools to LLMs like Claude or Cursor. I added support for fly volume create to fly mcp s...
Introducing AI stories: daily benefits shine a light on bigger opportunities
Sam Altman has written that we are entering the Intelligence Age, a time when AI will help people become dramatically more capable. The biggest problems of today—across science, medicine, education, national defense—will no longer seem intractable, but will in fact be solvable. New horizons of possi...
A guide to Redpanda on Kubernetes
Learn how to deploy Redpanda in Kubernetes to create a flexible, resilient, and scalable infrastructure that’s ideal for streaming use cases.
AI helps John Deere transform agriculture
John Deere’s Justin Rose talks about transforming agriculture with AI and shares how the company is scaling innovation to help farmers work smarter, more efficiently, and sustainably.
Evolving OpenAI’s structure
An update from the OpenAI board on transitioning its for-profit entity to a Public Benefit Corporation, reinforcing its mission-driven structure under nonprofit oversight while enabling greater impact and long-term alignment with the public good.
Lowe’s leverages AI to power home improvement retail
A conversation with Chandhu Nair, Senior Vice President of Data, AI, and Innovation.
STAR WARS™ Makes Its Way to Discord
For this year’s Power of the Force celebrations, we’re hyped to release a brand-new collection of Star Wars themed Avatar Decorations and Profile Effects!
Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy
A deeper dive on our findings, what went wrong, and future changes we’re making.
Discord Patch Notes: May 1, 2025
Check out the finer details of the more technical fixes implemented into Discord recently.
Why We Think
Special thanks to John Schulman for a lot of super valuable feedback and direct edits on this post. Test time compute ( Graves et al. 2016 , Ling, et al. 2017 , Cobbe et al. 2021 ) and Chain-of-thought (CoT) ( Wei et al. 2022 , Nye et al. 2021 ), have led to significant improvements in model perform...