Researchers at QLabs published Dust, a zeroth-order optimization method that matches backpropagation on transformer pretraining at scale, reaching a test loss of approximately 5.17 at 1 million tokens…
Researchers Samip Dahal, Bishwas Mandal, Serdar Gülbahar and Akshay Vegesna released Dust, a zeroth-order pretraining method that perturbs activations independently at every token so one forward pass …
Snowflake Ventures announced investments in Dust and Gray Swan, two startups building enterprise AI infrastructure for security, governance, and agent platforms. The investments aim to address the inf…
Seven distinct architectural patterns are emerging for "multiplayer AI" that lets humans and agents collaborate, according to an analysis of current products from Anthropic, Microsoft, Dust, Asana, Li…
AI companies are building context graphs to give agents structured memory across sessions, but schemas vary widely by use case—Perplexity's Brain uses an episodic model, Capital One's is evidence-cent…
1Password interns Eileen Zhao and Kashish Garg are using AI tools to accelerate learning, navigate large codebases, and improve productivity. The company encourages AI experimentation through hackatho…
NanoCo, the company behind the OpenClaw competitor NanoClaw, raised a $12M seed round after turning down a $20M buyout offer. Dust secured a $40M Series B for its multiplayer AI platform, while Sonar …