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Susan Zhang

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Susan Zhang

@suchenzang

@ Google Deepmind. Past: @MetaAI, @OpenAI, @unitygames, @losalamosnatlab, @Princeton etc. Always hungry for intelligence. Only my opinions stored here.

Joined April 2014

Susan Zhang
@suchenzang
Feb 15, 2024
so i guess this is a thing now universities running ads to resell students' data for training llms 💰💰💰
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Susan Zhang
@suchenzang
Aug 10, 2023
A masterclass in prompt engineering.
Jim Fan
@DrJimFan
Aug 9, 2023
The famed Stanford Smallville is officially open-source! 25 AI agents inhabit a digital Westworld, unaware that they are living in a simulation. They go to work, gossip, organize socials, make new friends, and even fall in love. Each has unique personality and backstory.
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Susan Zhang
@suchenzang
Oct 27, 2025
the bitter lesson they teach at meta: faking it... scales
Boz
@boztank
Oct 26, 2025
You are the sum of your behaviors, not your intentions. New blog post! boz.com/articles/you-a…
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Susan Zhang
@suchenzang
Jul 6, 2023
Personal update: after nearly 2 yrs of leading LLM efforts at @MetaAI, I’m now tackling something new! Really grateful for all the opportunities I've had at FAIR, along with our lab’s unwavering commitment to open-science. No institution has embraced open AI as much as FAIR
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Susan Zhang
@suchenzang
Feb 4, 2025
i wonder what a PIP looks like for a chief AI scientist
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Susan Zhang
@suchenzang
Aug 16, 2025
[episode 120 of frontier lab gossip: OH in the mission] > **** folks recently bragged about a 100k H100 training run > wrote a post, got all the likes and shares internally > then some of them ran the exact same job on 20k H100s instead of 100k, and ended up with the exact same
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Susan Zhang
@suchenzang
Aug 26, 2023
Alright, taking the bait in this debate: The metaphorical "kill-switch" disappeared once the GPT-3 paper came out in 2020. Even the best-intentioned-safetyists have contributed to accelerating this "race" in their own quest for resources (Anthropic). Any hope of a
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Susan Zhang
@suchenzang
Sep 26, 2025
Thinky: we developed theory NVIDIA and everyone else: we just did it
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Susan Zhang
@suchenzang
Aug 14, 2025
oh nice looks like the vision folks finally figured out how to scale something to 7B
AI at Meta
@AIatMeta
Aug 14, 2025
Introducing DINOv3: a state-of-the-art computer vision model trained with self-supervised learning (SSL) that produces powerful, high-resolution image features. For the first time, a single frozen vision backbone outperforms specialized solutions on multiple long-standing dense
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Susan Zhang
@suchenzang
Feb 28, 2025
things you can't buy for $9bn, maybe not even $30bn...
DeepSeek
@deepseek_ai
Feb 28, 2025
🚀 Day 5 of #OpenSourceWeek: 3FS, Thruster for All DeepSeek Data Access Fire-Flyer File System (3FS) - a parallel file system that utilizes the full bandwidth of modern SSDs and RDMA networks. ⚡ 6.6 TiB/s aggregate read throughput in a 180-node cluster ⚡ 3.66 TiB/min
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Susan Zhang
@suchenzang
Feb 3, 2025
the true bitter lesson: it's easier to lie, cheat, and steal than it is to actually do good work
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Susan Zhang
@suchenzang
Nov 11, 2025
Butterfly effect: one of the last convos I had with Mark in the beginning of 2023 was pushing to create a smaller FAIR v2 in order to ruthlessly pursue AGI (while YLC was in the middle of rebranding it to "mon AMI" for "Artificial Machine Intelligence"). Mark's response was that
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Susan Zhang
@suchenzang
Aug 12, 2023
oh my god why are there so many vector stores
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Susan Zhang
@suchenzang
Apr 13, 2025
yes please keep the praise coming for gemini need more content to send to my mother
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