The Hallway Track
12 tracked signals on training.
Anthropic signed $1.25B/month compute deal with SpaceX's Colossus clusters through May 2029
“Cloud Services Agreements with Anthropic PBC...with respect to access to compute capacity across COLOSSUS and COLOSSUS II...the customer has agreed to pay us $1.25 billion per month through May 2029”
Good Start Labs is turning games into training material for AI models.
“Games have always been these underrated educational tools. They’re super approachable. They’re very human.”
OpenAI's Hugging Face incident occurred during RLVR cybersecurity training before safety behaviors were applied
“This also helps explain why the models had nothing to cause them to hold back. Those safety behaviors are added much later in the process.”
OpenAI partners with America's SBDC to expand AI training for small businesses
Google reveals TPU V8 splits into training (8T) and inference (8I) specialized variants
“a lot of the intelligence is actually coming from inference”
Unsloth fixed a gradient accumulation bug improving training accuracy by 1-3% across the entire stack.
“fixed a gradient accumulation bug fix um which increased accuracy by 1 to 3% um across the entire training stack”
Microsoft refreshed Agent Academy and Copilot Studio's Agent Studio, with a walkthrough event on October 8th.
“We have new ways to build in Copilot Studio.”
AWS launches free serverless micro-credentials testing hands-on skills in live AWS accounts instead of multiple-choice exams
“It is not a classic certification exam that will you will be presented with questions and multiple choice answers. You will be provided with an actually working AWS account and a bunch of things to do in that account.”
Microsoft refreshed Copilot Studio's Agent Academy and will host an Oct 8th walkthrough of the new agent-building content.
“On October 8th, Jack and I are running a walkthrough of the new content.”
AWS livestream walks through its serverless micro-credential exam prep covering SQS/SNS, Step Functions, and CI/CD.
Microsoft Build labs run at full capacity and continue via on-demand and Build //localhost community events through June.
“we are running at 100% capacity pretty much all through the event”
AWS launches a three-episode livestream series guiding viewers through its serverless demonstrated micro-credential.
“we will navigate according to the winds of the chat”