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Shared emphasis Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions Reaction converging Muse Wonder Research & technical analysis · 3 attributable reactions
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Established Compute & infrastructure Research 18d ago
⚡ 6 h early
latent reasoning recurrent depth test-time compute paper

Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Andreas Kirsch Chris Paxton Sung Kim
How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing research & technical analysis.
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Research & technical analysis

2 experts

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“OpenAI’s Astra may be using Recurrent Depth as outlined in this paper: Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach (arxiv.org/abs/2502.05171)”

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Established AI field signal Development 11d ago
⚡ 2 h early
Meta Muse Wonder model launch

Muse Wonder

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Nathan Lambert Tim Kellogg Chris Paxton Sung Kim
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing research & technical analysis.
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Research & technical analysis

3 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“Looks like Meta is back at the frontier with their latest "Muse Wonder" models. Will be interesting to see independent evaluations / user testing. research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wo...”

2 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Sung Kim: Meta's Muse Wonder Muse Wonder = Muse Wonder Flash Muse Wonder Full = Muse Wonder so confusing... research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wo...
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: All for the pun...
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Not sure how much I'd trust that.. my experience with Spark 1.3 and Spark 1.3 contributor has been... subpar vs. what the benchmarks suggest
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Established Agents & robotics Analysis 13d ago
practical applications human soul essay

Practical Applications of the Human Soul

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Chris Paxton Alex Gude

“I wrote this short post on the nature and purpose of consciousness, and why I think personally AI will likely be self-aware if we continue to try to make it useful, through the lens of what why I think self-awareness is adaptive: cpaxton.substack.com/p/prac…”

Primary source cpaxton.substack.com ↗
Established Agents & robotics Analysis 11d ago
IROS 2026 robotics dexterity essay

Dexterity is the Frontier: Thoughts on IROS 2026

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Chris Paxton

“Some thoughts on a robotics conference: the research community increasingly is looking at enabling contact-rich manipulation with dexterous hands, and has the tools to do so itcanthink.substack.com/p/dexterity-...”

Primary source itcanthink.substack.com ↗
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3 experts · 3 posts · 6d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Chris Paxton jake
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Chris Paxton: The solution to interpretability is clearly the same as the solution to ai coding: just ask deepseek if claude did what it said it did, they can't BOTH be lying to you
Eugene Vinitsky: Okay fine they both lied but if I ask 3 models it’s all good then we can do majority vote
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