We're proud to announce the initial close of our Series E, targeting up to CAD $7 billion at a CAD $35.7 billion valuation; marking the largest private financing round in Canadian startup history.

Excited to share our work on hierarchical models with dynamic tokenisation! ✨ All digital data can be represented as bytes. H-Nets are a step towards building end-to-end models that can operate across modalities and domains without handcrafted tokenisers. Check out the blog for more details!

i've been creating my own design tools for: 🎮 multiplayer design agents 🔎 specialist design agents for typography, motion & polish 🦺 design harnesses to help non-designers design 🛍️ agents that can buy, install & use fonts, effects & graphics 😴 dreams that come up with design concepts overnight 💽 giving design agents their own computer & GPU reply with 🫧 and i'll DM how to get early access

My partner's mom applied for a Canadian citizenship after being in Canada for multiple decades. The application was sent in a year ago or more, IRCC sent it back saying the fee wasn't paid in full (because the fee went up by three dollars AFTER the application was submitted and the initial fee was paid). And now they sent it back AGAIN because the fee increased by ONE fucking dollar. @CitImmCanada stop harassing people for bullshit reasons and do things that matter, PLEASE

One of the more frustrating aspects of working with agents is their tendency to underestimate their own intelligence. Although it’s clear to us that intelligence is perhaps becoming an ability you can summon at will, the models try to substitute ill-defined, underspecified logic exactly where intelligence would shine. You have this incredibly smart model that can use the browser to take pretty complex actions, but it crashes midway because some attribute in a dataclass it defined itself doesn’t match. This throws people into loops where they use that same intelligence to diagnose and fix the issue. This might also the reason behind the “everyone is building a harness” sentiment: everyone is trying to figure out the boundary between intelligence and logic/code. Iterations on products end up looking like a search for this boundary, and as models absorb the harness itself, the boundary moves again and product/harness builders need to adjust. Could also be why a harness that lags the model’s capability can hurt the metric you care about. As for why models underestimate themselves in the first place, I think it makes sense. The model at any given instance is the result of patching its own past failures, from a point when its final capability didn’t exist yet. It doesn’t know where its training would end up, so its sense of what it can do is tied to a weaker version of itself. Distillation on the other hand, perhaps goes too far the other way where the model learns to be overconfident in its predictions because of a much stronger teacher. Of course, distillation is still a net positive but produces poorly calibrated models which in turn blurs this intelligence-logic boundary (like an incorrect CoT, correct final answer).

I feel for the railway team, impossible times rn. I generally think they’re great at being graceful, transparent and upfront about outages. It also makes sense for attackers to target infrastructure companies because you get so much more leverage. We did migrate to AWS today - because compromised keys + no builds/deploys was a dealbreaker. I’m sure it was the best course of action given everything they know internally. Redundancy in infra choice and active attacks against yourself are inevitable now

I want a physical RSA token for everything now

Oh, you aren’t updating your dependencies every hour? Well, too bad, you are vulnerable Oh, you are updating your dependencies every hour? Well, too bad, you are somehow also vulnerable

this is insane

One last role at Ambition for the next little bit - Do you love traveling and talking to people? - Do you love seeing people do hard things and succeed? - Do you have friends across the world? Then you might be a great fit to be a Catalyzer jobs.ashbyhq.com/ambition/93…

This should be an OS-level feature on every computer. I want everything I do on my laptop recorded, processed, and made searchable via local models. Recording meetings is just the beginning. Who has had success with a tool like this so far, and what has it unlocked for you?

Time (and how we feel time as we get older) is the scarcest resource we have. Doing things is hard. So it only makes sense to do work that you find a lot of meaning and joy in. Everything else is a psyop / self-deprecating delusion. It’s also why I find excuses of “golden handcuffs” nauseating from people who have a choice

I see high importance in having a human who is genuinely passionate about a topic, who got obsessed with it, and worked with their own hands to craft an explanation around it, and who tries to share that enthusiasm. Probably all the more important with more AI-generated content.

Prototyping stuff with @designcompute_

RT @macrofying: You can see how the focus is shifting.

We are looking for our second product designer, in Toronto, ON, Canada jobs.ashbyhq.com/ambition/b8…

🚀 Introducing DeepInfer, our in-house inference framework, now fully open source! Powering DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash at scale with high throughput and low latency. We’re sharing our production stack to help the community lower compute costs, reduce energy use, and make AI more affordable. 🔗 github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepI… 1/4

Last week to apply for Catalyst 003: Critical Minerals 🇨🇦 Looking at the applicants now, I'm SO SO EXCITED to kick this Catalyst off, bringing together a bunch of experienced geoscientists and software people that want to learn and contribute.

Got a sneak peek at what @designcompute_ has been working on today. It’s so sick

We’re bringing the magic of Waymo to Toronto! 🇨🇦 In the coming days, you’ll begin seeing Waymo’s all-electric vehicles driving through Toronto’s streets as we lay the groundwork for our ride-hailing service. Our goal is to begin serving riders in 2028. Sign up for future updates: waymo.com/waymo-in-canada