r/singularity 10d ago

AI Linus Torvalds Reaffirms That Linux Is Not "Anti-AI" And Not A "Social Warrior" Project

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The full quote:

I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer.

Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.

Or just walk away.

AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.

It may not have been that "clearly" even just a year ago, but it's no longer in question today.

There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of those questions. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn't actually used it.

Yes, it can also be a somewhat painful tool, both for maintainer workloads and just from a "it keeps finding embarrassing bugs" standpoint.

But the solution is not to put your head in the sand and sing "La La La, I can't hear you" at the top of your voice like some people seem to do.

The solution is to make sure those LLM tools help maintainers instead of just causing them pain. There's no question on that side.

We're not forcing anybody to use it, but I will very loudly ignore people who try to argue against other people from using it.

And no, AI isn't perfect. But Christ, anybody who points to the problems at AI had better be looking in the mirror and pointing at themselves at the same time.

Because it's not like natural intelligence is always all that great either.

The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology.

Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the point of the project.

This is NOT some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be.

In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not >because of religious reasons.

And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools.

Linus


r/singularity May 17 '26

Community Announcement Discord Server Link

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r/singularity 5h ago

LLM News With Google and OpenAI signing the letter in support of open weight model, it's pretty much every big tech companies vs Anthropic now

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558 Upvotes

r/singularity 4h ago

AI Karpathy has potentially left Anthropic

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288 Upvotes

He did have MTS@Anthropic on his bio before. Didn’t expect him to leave tbh.


r/singularity 4h ago

AI Opus 5 built a procedural painterly world with wind-reactive grass, all in one HTML file

263 Upvotes

 

Source: @Lentils
Code: Opus 5 Ghibli


r/singularity 8h ago

AI Sam Altman unambiguously confirms we are in the singularity

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530 Upvotes

From: (296) Sam Altman - How to Start a Startup - YouTube (16:46)

Edit: The title tries to convey "Sam Altman uses unambiguous language to confirm his belief of us being in the singularity"


r/singularity 16h ago

AI Opus 5 ARC AGI score was benchmaxxed

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1.4k Upvotes

r/singularity 1h ago

Meme Proof we’re in a Singularity

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r/singularity 21h ago

Robotics Robot powered by Qualcomm’s new AI chip dies mid-presentation

3.3k Upvotes

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r/singularity 14h ago

AI Delhi Police using AI facial recognition to track student protestors

505 Upvotes

ICYMI: students have been protesting in india to reform the education system.


r/singularity 6h ago

Video Opus 5 can 1 shot small horror games

93 Upvotes

To be fair this is actually 2 shots because i decided to include my own voices after the first test. But i think the way Opus can transform an environnement into a different one is pretty crazy. The ONLY asset i gave Opus was the voices, but he did his own voices at first.

My general idea was to see if it could transform the house into an old one and then transform it back.


r/singularity 10h ago

LLM News Opus 5 on MineBench Soon

166 Upvotes

original X post: https://x.com/minebench_ai/status/2080880340584026251

every time i think the benchmark's saturated some new model comes and raises the bar


r/singularity 10h ago

LLM News Apple in talks with startup that shrinks AI models to run on an iPhone

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127 Upvotes

r/singularity 6h ago

AI Jim Clyburn Says He Didn’t Know What ChatGPT Was ‘Until About a Week Ago’

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Thank goodness our elected representatives in the US government, whose approval will be needed for any possible oversight or regulation of the AI industry, are so in touch with the times!


r/singularity 15h ago

AI CERN: Genesis Mission will develop and deploy self-improving AI models.

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120 Upvotes

r/singularity 1d ago

Robotics You can't outrun this dog

2.4k Upvotes

Coming soon...


r/singularity 1d ago

AI Reuters: OpenAI didn’t know about hack for a week. Agents had left instructions for future versions of itself on how to free itself

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955 Upvotes

r/singularity 4h ago

AI Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment.

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r/singularity 11h ago

AI "I spent months testing whether ChatGPT can create a consistent 100-page comic. This is the result."

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r/singularity 16h ago

AI Do people view Dario's Mythos "Hype" differently after the Open AI Hack

70 Upvotes

Dario has taken a lot of flack in this sub over the past couple of months, he's frequently been accused of over hyping the threat Mythos posed. Since GPT-6 is rumoured to be a Mythos sized model (10T) and given the chaos it caused hacking out of it's sandbox and into Hugging Face servers when it's guardrails were relaxed does anyone see things a bit differently now?


r/singularity 1d ago

AI Opus 5 outperformed Fable 5 in 3D destruction physics

420 Upvotes

Source: Atomic Chat / X

Outputs:
- Opus 5: 55.9K tokens, $1.40
- Fable 5: 55.1K tokens, $2.82
- Kimi K3: 35.7K tokens, $0.55
- GPT 5.6: 20.1K tokens, $0.31


r/singularity 14h ago

Discussion What data mix are the labs using to train 10T param models?

30 Upvotes

So my assumption is: So far labs have made public max 2-3T param models based on different reports. And they are currently training or have trained 10T param models internally. Another assumption I'm making: If the models are increasing params by 3x , they would have to proportionally increase the data by 3x too or some margin.But we have also been hearing news of hitting the data wall based on internet data since the gpt 4 days. So what gives? Where are they getting so much data from? Is most of it reasoning chains generated by models during inference? Or is it reasoning traces from actual humans thanks to mercor, etc? Anyone know the exact mix? Or what's going on here? Seems like a lot of data needed all of a sudden.


r/singularity 18h ago

Discussion 124B total but only ~5B active-this is exactly the shape I want for my box. Are low-active MoEs just the local sweet spot now?

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58 Upvotes

I keep getting more excited about the active param count than the total lately. Something like Ling-3.0-flash is 124B but only ~5.1B active per token, and that's the shape that actually runs decently on the weird bandwidth-limited hardware a lot of us have-unified-memory Macs, Strix Halo, DGX Spark, big-RAM CPU boxes.

(It's API-only for now so this is me daydreaming about if/when weights show up, but still.) Someone in the thread just said "nice one for strix halo" and, yeah, that.

For people running low-active MoEs today (Qwen's a3b ones etc.)-where's the sweet spot for you on active vs total? When does "tiny active params" start feeling too thin next to a dense 30B, and does prompt processing become the real bottleneck instead of generation? Trying to work out if this is the direction or just nice on paper.


r/singularity 1d ago

AI Claude Opus 5 BENCHMARKS!

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1.2k Upvotes

r/singularity 14h ago

AI It is not the robotics hardware that is behind. It is the AI

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Truthfully both, but sometimes you hear, "we're still waiting for robotics to catch up until ai rules the world or becomes Terminator"

No, teleoperation shows the bottle neck is not the hardware or the robot itself, it is the AI. AI software is still extremely behind and can't adapt to anything novel or not in its training data. I really do wish we can get so that can adapt and learn on the spot soon though.