| 1 | Jul 18, '23 | This is huge: Llama-v2 is open source, with a license that authorizes commercial use! This is going to change the landscape of the LLM market. Llama-v2 is available on Microsoft Az | 23.1× | 4.3M | 15k | 3.3k | 4.4k |
| 2 | May 28, '24 | To qualify as Science a piece of research must be correct and reproducible. To be correct and reproducible, it must be described in sufficient details in a publication. To be 'publ | 19.9× | 3.7M | 8k | 498 | 931 |
| 3 | Apr 12, '24 | WhatsApp vs iMessage is the new metric vs imperial. The entire world uses WhatsApp, save a few people who are iPhone-clutching Americans or from a country where WhatsApp is banned | 19.1× | 3.5M | 7.6k | 657 | 904 |
| 4 | Nov 25, '23 | But seriously folks, this a short and juicy tirade in which I say: (0) there will be superhuman AI in the future (1) they will be under our control (2) they will not dominate us no | 17.6× | 3.3M | 5.7k | 815 | 2.2k |
| 5 | Jan 24, '23 | To be clear: I'm not criticizing OpenAI's work nor their claims. I'm trying to correct a *perception* by the public & the media who see chatGPT as this incredibly new, innovati | 17.1× | 3.2M | 6.6k | 775 | 662 |
| 6 | Nov 23, '23 | Animals and humans get very smart very quickly with vastly smaller amounts of training data. My money is on new architectures that would learn as efficiently as animals and humans. | 16.1× | 3M | 5.3k | 555 | 956 |
| 7 | Jun 2, '24 | My opinion of @elonmusk I like his cars (I own a 2015 S, and 2023 S), his rockets, his solar energy systems, and his satellite communication system. I also like his positions on op | 14.7× | 2.7M | 17k | 1.8k | 2.7k |
| 8 | Jun 1, '24 | Elon has apparently one genuine technical paper indexed by Google Scholar: "An Integrated Brain-Machine Interface Platform With Thousands of Channels" Published in the Journal of M | 14.4× | 2.7M | 12k | 750 | 1.3k |
| 9 | Sep 19, '24 | People studying misinformation lean left for two reasons: 1. scientists lean left, regardless of specialty, because they care about facts. 2. misinformation today primarily comes f | 14.4× | 2.7M | 4.2k | 376 | 745 |
| 10 | Nov 23, '23 | Current LLMs are trained on text data that would take 20,000 years for a human to read. And still, they haven't learned that if A is the same as B, then B is the same as A. Humans | 13.6× | 2.5M | 7.3k | 920 | 1.8k |
| 11 | Jun 3, '24 | Must have been my tweet in defense of Anthony Fauci. Elon's call for Fauci to be prosecuted and imprisoned is pretty high up on the scale of anti-science assholery. Apparently, mis | 13.1× | 2.4M | 14k | 1.3k | 543 |
| 12 | Jul 21, '24 | X is a $44 billion propaganda machine. Yet it attempts to disguise itself as a defender of unfettered free speech, a source of factual information, and a substitute for professiona | 13× | 2.4M | 13k | 1.4k | 773 |
| 13 | May 18, '23 | - Engineer: I invented this new thing. I call it a ballpen 🖊️ - TwitterSphere: OMG, people could write horrible things with it, like misinformation, propaganda, hate speech. Ban i | 12.4× | 2.3M | 9.7k | 1.6k | 817 |
| 14 | Aug 2, '24 | This dude has absolutely no idea WTF he's talking about. The total net worth of my former PhD students alone would make any silvery Wall Street dude turn green with envy. | 11.5× | 2.1M | 11k | 394 | 1.6k |
| 15 | Jul 25, '24 | You know @elonmusk, I really feel sorry for you and your family to have been infected by a mind virus. But the best defense against a mind virus is intelligence, knowledge, and sci | 11.5× | 2.1M | 15k | 1.5k | 1.1k |
| 16 | May 18, '24 | It seems to me that before "urgently figuring out how to control AI systems much smarter than us" we need to have the beginning of a hint of a design for a system smarter than a ho | 11.4× | 2.1M | 6.9k | 1.1k | 1.7k |
| 17 | Jun 15, '24 | Where are European companies? | 11.3× | 2.1M | 5.1k | 476 | 730 |
| 18 | Nov 29, '24 | I do not write posts on X. I tweet links to posts on other platforms. I like and retweet (occasionally) I comment on friends' tweets (rarely) Follow me on...⬇️⬇️⬇️ | 10.9× | 2M | 2.1k | 119 | 355 |
| 19 | Feb 17, '24 | Let me clear a *huge* misunderstanding here. The generation of mostly realistic-looking videos from prompts *does not* indicate that a system understands the physical world. Genera | 10.8× | 2M | 4.7k | 715 | 2.2k |
| 20 | May 29, '24 | So much misunderstanding of this comment! Here is a list of things I am *NOT* saying: - you need a PhD to do Science. You don't. A PhD teaches you to do research, but you can learn | 10.7× | 2M | 8.8k | 663 | 1.6k |
| 21 | Oct 29, '23 | Altman, Hassabis, and Amodei are the ones doing massive corporate lobbying at the moment. They are the ones who are attempting to perform a regulatory capture of the AI industry. Y | 10.1× | 1.9M | 5.8k | 1.3k | 1.3k |
| 22 | Mar 9, '24 | * Language is low bandwidth: less than 12 bytes/second. A person can read 270 words/minutes, or 4.5 words/second, which is 12 bytes/s (assuming 2 bytes per token and 0.75 words per | 10.0× | 1.9M | 8.5k | 1.6k | 5.1k |
| 23 | Sep 26, '24 | Time to add folks who haven't left and are doing actual technical work, like Alec, Wojciech, and Aditya. | 9.9× | 1.8M | 5.5k | 168 | 697 |
| 24 | May 30, '24 | Oh your god. | 9.8× | 1.8M | 6.1k | 275 | 427 |
| 25 | Jun 17, '25 | I don't wanna say 'I told you so', but I told you so. | 9.2× | 1.7M | 5.8k | 533 | 2.1k |
| 26 | May 22, '24 | If you are a student interested in building the next generation of AI systems, don't work on LLMs | 9.0× | 1.7M | 6.9k | 1k | 1.9k |
| 27 | May 22, '23 | MMS: Massively Multilingual Speech. - Can do speech2text and text speech in 1100 languages. - Can recognize 4000 spoken languages. - Code and models available under the CC-BY-NC 4. | 8.4× | 1.6M | 5.2k | 1.1k | 2.5k |
| 28 | May 30, '24 | Fun memories. | 8.3× | 1.5M | 7.5k | 209 | 433 |
| 29 | Jun 3, '24 | The kind of attacks that Dr Anthony Fauci is being subjected to by Republicans is disgraceful and dangerous. This man is a hero. He helped save *millions* of lives. Yet, he is vili | 8.3× | 1.5M | 5.9k | 564 | 379 |
| 30 | Jul 31, '24 | As I've pointed out a number of times, claims that immigrants vote illegally or that illegal immigrants are being let into the US to "import voters" are crazy-ass conspiracy theori | 7.9× | 1.5M | 5.2k | 596 | 363 |
| 31 | Nov 24, '23 | Please ignore the deluge of complete nonsense about Q*. One of the main challenges to improve LLM reliability is to replace Auto-Regressive token prediction with planning. Pretty m | 7.7× | 1.4M | 5.6k | 693 | 1.8k |
| 32 | Jul 10, '23 | Complete bullshit. Pardon my french. | 7.7× | 1.4M | 4.6k | 458 | 151 |
| 33 | May 25, '24 | <sarcasm> Come work at ClosedAI. With AGI just around the corner, your shares will be worth 42 sextillionnollars. We can claw back your vested shares if you quit, unless you sign a | 7.5× | 1.4M | 6.2k | 550 | 1k |
| 34 | May 27, '24 | Join xAI if you can stand a boss who: - claims that what you are working on will be solved next year (no pressure). - claims that what you are working on will kill everyone and mus | 7.3× | 1.4M | 13k | 690 | 896 |
| 35 | Nov 13, '24 | I don't wanna say "I told you so", but I told you so. Quote: "Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of AI labs Safe Superintelligence (SSI) and OpenAI, told Reuters recently that results from | 6.6× | 1.2M | 6.1k | 579 | 2k |
| 36 | Jan 25, '25 | To people who think "China is surpassing the US in AI" the correct thought is "Open source models are surpassing closed ones" See ⬇️⬇️⬇️ | 6.6× | 1.2M | 12k | 1.2k | 1.8k |
| 37 | Jul 19, '24 | Meta will *not* release the multimodal versions of its AI products and models in the EU because of an unpredictable regulatory environment. This means that EU users of Ray-Ban Meta | 6.5× | 1.2M | 5.7k | 802 | 933 |
| 38 | Jun 21, '24 | If you are a student or academic researcher and want to make progress towards human-level AI: >>>DO NOT WORK ON LLMs<<< LLMs are an off ramp. Thousands of engineers are working on | 6.5× | 1.2M | 6.3k | 905 | 2.1k |
| 39 | Sep 26, '23 | Dear journalists, it makes absolutely no sense to write: "PaLM 2 is trained on about 340 billion parameters. By comparison, GPT-4 is rumored to be trained on a massive dataset of 1 | 6.2× | 1.1M | 4.4k | 508 | 755 |
| 40 | Mar 14, '24 | No. If it were the case, we would have AI systems that could teach themselves to drive a car in 20 hours of practice, like any 17 year-old. But we still don't have fully autonomous | 6.0× | 1.1M | 4.7k | 540 | 572 |
| 41 | May 30, '24 | CoPE: Contextual Positional Encoding. A new paper from FAIR that @elonmusk could use to improve Grok. | 5.9× | 1.1M | 4.7k | 278 | 1.1k |
| 42 | Sep 20, '23 | I testified in front of the US Senate Subcommittee on Intelligences yesterday. I argued that the rapid and free exchange of ideas, scientific publications, open source code, and tr | 5.9× | 1.1M | 4.2k | 492 | 388 |
| 43 | Aug 13, '24 | Sometimes, the obvious must be studied so it can be asserted with full confidence: - LLMs can not answer questions whose answers are not in their training set in some form, - they | 5.8× | 1.1M | 5.1k | 795 | 1.7k |
| 44 | Jul 7, '24 | Funny how the American Far Right feels the need to claim that every election they lose is rigged, even outside the US, apparently. The French Far Right was not "denied a victory." | 5.7× | 1.1M | 8.9k | 936 | 250 |
| 45 | Mar 30, '23 | The year is 1440 and the Catholic Church has called for a 6 months moratorium on the use of the printing press and the movable type. Imagine what could happen if commoners get acce | 5.6× | 1M | 6.2k | 1.1k | 436 |
| 46 | Aug 29, '24 | Many (rich) people on the Right do not actually believe in democracy. They have a huge superiority complex. They think the populace can be brainwashed into supporting policies that | 5.6× | 1M | 5.1k | 504 | 340 |
| 47 | Jan 24, '25 | Nice job! Open research / open source accelerates progress. | 5.5× | 1M | 9.7k | 731 | 1k |
| 48 | Nov 14, '25 | @ChrisMurphyCT You're being played by people who want regulatory capture. They are scaring everyone with dubious studies so that open source models are regulated out of existence. | 5.4× | 1M | 8.6k | 848 | 723 |
| 49 | May 27, '24 | @elonmusk @bneiluj @how_many_roads_ Over 80 technical papers published since January 2022. What about you? | 5.3× | 984k | 16k | 724 | 643 |
| 50 | Jul 29, '24 | @elonmusk The more likely scenario is that the US becomes more like Norway. High income, universal healthcare, free higher education, low poverty rate, lots of oil *and* lots of Te | 5.3× | 979k | 9.2k | 210 | 297 |
| 51 | May 27, '24 | AI is not some sort of natural phenomenon that will just emerge and become dangerous. *WE* design it and *WE* build it. I can imagine thousands of scenarios where a turbojet goes t | 5.1× | 957k | 4.3k | 468 | 599 |
| 52 | Sep 1, '24 | "Our country is being poisoned" by immigrants, like me, @elonmusk, @sundarpichai, @satyanadella, @vkhosla, Jensen Huang, and two of Trump's three wives. | 5.1× | 941k | 4.6k | 445 | 354 |
| 53 | Oct 21, '23 | A reminder that people can disagree about important things but still be good friends. | 4.9× | 911k | 8.4k | 546 | 259 |
| 54 | Sep 15, '24 | I'm old enough to remember that in France in the 1960s and 1970s, far-right chauvinists were accusing Portugese immigrants of eating cats. It's an old trope. Today, making such an | 4.5× | 830k | 6.7k | 961 | 603 |
| 55 | Jul 27, '24 | Wait, wat? | 4.2× | 790k | 5.9k | 441 | 357 |
| 56 | May 27, '24 | @how_many_roads_ @elonmusk I like his cars, his rockets, his solar panels, and his satellite network. I very much dislike his vengeful politics, his conspiracy theories, and his hy | 4.2× | 774k | 11k | 343 | 335 |
| 57 | Oct 13, '24 | @elonmusk Very cool! Congrats. | 4.1× | 771k | 7.7k | 61 | 82 |
| 58 | Aug 16, '24 | @elonmusk Dude, the Consumer Price Index has been back to a very normal 3% for a year now. Inflation was up between mid-2020 and mid-2022 because of COVID. Your tweet is total BS. | 4.1× | 763k | 5.7k | 337 | 306 |
| 59 | Jan 5, '23 | If language were sufficient to express human thought, why would we need visual arts, music, dance? | 4.0× | 753k | 4.1k | 477 | 196 |
| 60 | Dec 7, '23 | Today, I was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by President Macron at the Élysée Palace. Président Macron gave a wonderful speech. | 4.0× | 753k | 5.1k | 191 | 115 |
| 61 | Jul 23, '24 | 💥BOOM 💥 Llama 3.1 is out 💥 405B, 70B, 8B versions. Main takeaways: 1. 405B performance is on par with the best closed models. 2. Open/free weights and code, with a license that | 4.0× | 741k | 6k | 901 | 1.1k |
| 62 | Jun 25, '24 | I actually do have Elon's number. But we haven't spoken in a while. | 3.7× | 696k | 3.7k | 229 | 184 |
| 63 | Aug 28, '24 | @elonmusk You are undermining democracy by spewing crazy-ass conspiracy theories that erode the public's trust in democratic institutions. Non-citizens can not and do not vote. | 3.7× | 681k | 4.6k | 232 | 101 |
| 64 | Oct 8, '24 | Congrats John and Geoff! Both are former colleagues. I did my postdoc in Geoff's lab in Toronto. After that, I joined Bell Labs, where John was a part-time scientist (and a profess | 3.6× | 676k | 6.8k | 424 | 445 |
| 65 | Oct 27, '24 | The mark of the authoritarian: - Undermine the trust of the public in the sources of reliable information: the media, professional journalists, Wikipedia, universities, scientists, | 3.6× | 662k | 6.4k | 1.1k | 710 |
| 66 | May 27, '24 | @bneiluj @how_many_roads_ @elonmusk I'm a scientist, not a business or product person. | 3.4× | 626k | 5.7k | 91 | 155 |
| 67 | Oct 12, '24 | Worth repeating: Do not confuse retrieval with reasoning. Do not confuse rote learning with understanding. Do not confuse accumulated knowledge with intelligence. | 3.3× | 621k | 5.8k | 858 | 1.8k |
| 68 | Dec 22, '23 | A new family of antibiotics discovered with graph deep learning. | 3.3× | 621k | 3.9k | 770 | 758 |
| 69 | May 28, '24 | @elonmusk @bneiluj @how_many_roads_ Now you're acting as if you were my boss 😂😂😂 | 3.2× | 603k | 7.3k | 116 | 162 |
| 70 | Apr 18, '24 | 🥁 Llama3 is out 🥁 8B and 70B models available today. 8k context length. Trained with 15 trillion tokens on a custom-built 24k GPU cluster. Great performance on various benchmarks | 3.1× | 573k | 6.9k | 1.1k | 808 |
| 71 | Mar 14, '25 | New paper: turns out you can train deep nets without normalization layers by replacing them with a parameterized tanh() | 3.0× | 550k | 5.1k | 528 | 2k |
| 72 | May 28, '24 | To those who say 'these are *just* papers': One of these papers introduced convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) in 1989. Every single driving assistance system today uses ConvN | 2.9× | 544k | 7.6k | 481 | 524 |
| 73 | Oct 10, '24 | Giving a talk at IIT Madras on October 22. | 2.8× | 521k | 5.9k | 360 | 304 |
| 74 | Jul 21, '24 | @elonmusk Your smartest friends aren't very smart. | 2.8× | 520k | 13k | 398 | 177 |
| 75 | Jun 1, '24 | @elonmusk 😅 you know, the guy with a good Twitter game 😅 | 2.6× | 484k | 8.7k | 109 | 73 |
| 76 | Oct 18, '24 | @elonmusk Nope. It's perfectly legal. It's illegal for foreigners to contribute *money* to campaigns. But it's perfectly legal for foreigners to campaigns on behalf of a candidate | 2.5× | 470k | 5k | 163 | 116 |
| 77 | Sep 24, '24 | @elonmusk People who devote their life and career to the study of science, society, and human history care about reality, about truth, about people, don't care much about money, an | 2.2× | 413k | 9.9k | 474 | 267 |
| 78 | Sep 2, '24 | So, you've gone full-throttle sexist now? This "observation," which is not based on any actual observation, flies in the face of every study of conservatism in social psychology. M | 2.2× | 407k | 4.7k | 239 | 370 |
| 79 | Sep 30, '23 | @elonmusk Hard disagree. X merely tells you that someone, somewhere, noticed something. But then, one needs to know if this something is true or false, where it came from, what the | 2.0× | 374k | 5k | 237 | 75 |
| 80 | Mar 14, '24 | @elonmusk No. If it were the case, we would have AI systems that could teach themselves to drive a car in 20 hours of practice, like any 17 year-old. But we still don't have fully | 2.0× | 373k | 5.3k | 309 | 392 |
| 81 | May 5, '24 | Almost all of the federal funding to universities goes to STEM and biomedical research. The amount going to social science is a rounding error, and to humanities (including social | 1.9× | 357k | 4.4k | 341 | 355 |
| 82 | Oct 29, '24 | Objectively, *you* are the biggest threat to democracy in America today. You are an oligarch who bought himself a huge megaphone so he could use it to support a would-be dictator, | 1.9× | 357k | 6.5k | 653 | 229 |
| 83 | Apr 1, '23 | <not_an_april_fool_joke> By amplifying human intelligence, AI may cause a new Renaissance, perhaps a new phase of the Enlightenment. But prophecies of AI doom are also causin | 1.9× | 356k | 2.5k | 293 | 113 |
| 84 | Oct 23, '24 | Thank you IIT Madras for hosting me yesterday. I got to take a selfie with the audience of my Subaru Suresh Distinguished Lecture. | 1.8× | 337k | 6.4k | 261 | 227 |
| 85 | Mar 27, '19 | I am extremely honored to be the recipient of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award, and absolutely delighted to be sharing it with my friends and colleagues Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Be | 1.8× | 0 | 6.4k | 1.3k | 57 |
| 86 | Sep 27, '24 | Elon Musk didn't just buy Twitter. He bought a propaganda machine to influence how you think. Rupert Murdoch didn't just buy Fox and the NY Post. He bought a propaganda machine to | 1.7× | 320k | 5.2k | 441 | 156 |
| 87 | Mar 6, '21 | Language is an imperfect, incomplete, and low-bandwidth serialization protocol for the internal data structures we call thoughts. | 1.7× | 0 | 5k | 859 | 672 |
| 88 | Jun 21, '24 | @elonmusk @stclairashley You know what can *actually* be the downfall of Western civilization? People who dismiss facts, disparage scientists and the journalists, side with aspirin | 1.6× | 299k | 5.9k | 795 | 273 |
| 89 | Sep 25, '24 | Simply put, Trump is a traitor. | 1.5× | 280k | 3.8k | 400 | 90 |
| 90 | Sep 25, '24 | Hey @elonmusk, this is your champion of free speech? Putting people in jail for criticizing Supreme Court justices? | 1.5× | 280k | 3.8k | 398 | 113 |
| 91 | Sep 12, '24 | X is not a source. At best, it's a relay. In practice, it's largely a propaganda megaphone for people like you, relayed by your fanbois and fanbots. In any case, it reflects the in | 1.5× | 272k | 6.6k | 416 | 132 |
| 92 | Apr 1, '23 | You know what's unethical? Scaring people with made-up risks of a technology that is both useful and beneficial. | ⚡ 1.4× | 7.3M | 4.7k | 476 | 215 |
| 93 | Apr 3, '23 | Some folks say "I'm scared of AGI" Are they scared of flying? No! Not because airplanes can't crash. But because engineers have made airliners very safe. Why would AI be any differ | ⚡ 1.4× | 5.1M | 4k | 382 | 174 |
| 94 | Dec 19, '21 | World models, intuitive physics, planning, problem solving, discrete search for solutions, continuous optimization of control parameters... Dogs manage to do all this with 2 billio | 1.4× | 0 | 4.5k | 874 | 375 |
| 95 | Mar 24, '24 | @pmddomingos Suddenly, many of your tweets look like jokes, Pedro. | 1.3× | 240k | 4.4k | 52 | 80 |
| 96 | Nov 1, '24 | Calm down, dude. We will become a multiplanet species regardless of who gets elected. We will even become a multiplanet species if you die tomorrow. Our multiplanet future will hap | 1.2× | 218k | 4.4k | 260 | 157 |
| 97 | Nov 1, '24 | @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump I think you and Trump should do us a favor and launch yourselves to Mars tomorrow. | 1.1× | 208k | 6.2k | 258 | 61 |
| 98 | Jul 30, '24 | @elonmusk If you ever feel dumb, just remember there are some people who still believe everything shown in Elon's tweets. | 1.1× | 205k | 5.7k | 281 | 76 |
| 99 | Oct 11, '24 | @elonmusk This item is news. News you don't like, but factual news. I realize you may have lost touch with the concept of factual news. Google is not controlled by "far left activi | 1.0× | 178k | 4.3k | 255 | 110 |
| 100 | Sep 15, '24 | @elonmusk Yes, save AI-generated pets! | 0.8× | 154k | 4.7k | 54 | 17 |
| 101 | Sep 14, '24 | @elonmusk Do you actually believe this crap? Either you do, and one may be entitled to question your sanity. Or you don't, which means you're deliberately lying and have a very low | 0.8× | 150k | 4.7k | 189 | 76 |
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