Episode of the video podcast **In Good Company** by **Norges Bank Investment Management** (Norwegian sovereign wealth fund), published on YouTube on **October 21, 2026**, **43 minutes**, in English. **Nicolai Tangen**, the fund's CEO, interviews **Eric Schmidt**, former CEO of Google (2001-2011).
#superintelligence#AGI#scientific discovery
Eric Schmidt (invité) · ancien PDG de Google ; Nicolai Tangen (hôte) · directeur général de Norges Bank Investment Management.
Blog post from **Mistral AI** (signed "By Mistral," 11-minute read), dated **October 6, 2026**, announcing the public preview of **Mistral Large 4** (ML4, nicknamed "the Chonk" by the publisher): a natively multimodal model with **1 trillion parameters, 49 billion of them active**, trained from scratch on **3,800 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs** in Mistral's European data centers. Preview API available on Mistral Studio; **open weights announced for the end of the month**.
#Mistral Large 4#ML4#the Chonk
Mistral AI — éditeur de modèles d'IA ; billet de blog de l'entreprise (« By Mistral »).
Post by **Michelle Chen, Alex Reneau and Kevin Flansburg**, published on **October 1, 2026** on the **Cloudflare** blog (~10-minute read, "AI Birthday" week). Cloudflare releases **Clef** and **Clef-flash**, its first in-house trained models, hosted on **Workers AI** and distributed as open source (Apache 2.0, Hugging Face), along with a reinforcement-learning fine-tuning service.
#Clef#Clef-flash#decision model
Michelle Chen · Alex Reneau · Kevin Flansburg — équipe Workers AI / plateforme IA · blog Cloudflare.
Case study by **Surya Narreddi** (with **Cameron Franz** and **Alex Wang**) on his personal website, dated **March 2026** (day unspecified; ~1,500 words), titled *Training AI to Paint with Code*. The authors train a language model (**Qwen 3.5 35B**) via reinforcement learning (**GRPO**) to produce watercolor paintings as **p5.brush** JavaScript code, with the code itself serving as the editable artifact. The underlying question: how to do RL when the reward — aesthetic — is not verifiable.
#reinforcement learning#GRPO#reward function
Surya Narreddi — designer et développeur · auteur du projet (site personnel) ; collaborateurs Cameron Franz (infrastructure d'entraînement) et Alex Wang.