Daniel Blasko @blskdan

ML @snap for @specs, prev. @canva, building user-facing ML experiences that feel like magic ✨. Interested in multimodality, VLMs, systems & MLOps. dblasko.fr Austria/France Joined July 2019

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Terek Judi ⌐◨-◨ @TerekJudi

5 days ago

It’s crazy that no saw nor tried SPECS at AWE … except the people that matter. #developers

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Mark Gurman @markgurman

3 weeks ago

The Snap Specs are official - $2,195, all-in-one AR glasses that @evanspiegel has dubbed the next computer. Details and interview here. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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📢 @evanspiegel (CEO, @Snap) is headlining #AWE2026 Join us June 16 for his keynote: "Making Computing More Human." Plus, explore the latest in AI smartglasses, physical AI, and robotics. ⏳ Save $400. Early Bird ends May 7 🎫 awexr.com/usa-2026/ #AWE2026 #XR #ISpatial

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Snap Inc. @Snap

3 months ago

Today, we announced a multi-year strategic agreement with @Qualcomm to power future generations of @spectacles with Snapdragon XR platforms. newsroom.snap.com/snap-qualcomm-…

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Google AI Developers @googleaidevs

7 months ago

Announcing FunctionGemma, a specialized version of our Gemma 3 270M model that’s fine-tuned for function calling ⚙️ The new release brings bespoke function calling to the edge, and is designed as a strong base for further training into custom, fast, private, local agents that translate natural language into executable API actions. blog.google/technology/dev…

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Snap Inc. @Snap

8 months ago

Snapchat + @perplexity_ai 🤝 Starting in early 2026, you’ll be able to ask questions, explore new ideas, and get credible answers right inside chat. AI that feels more personal, social, and fun! investor.snap.com/news/news-deta…

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Pavlo Molchanov @PavloMolchanov

a year ago

Not all visual tokens are important. We present new work on efficient token selection driven by the text prompt in VLMs. We train a vision encoder in a CLIP-like setting with local/global contrastive loss. Once trained, the model can output a heatmap of interest given a text prompt. As a result, we achieve up to 4k x 4k working resolution in an efficient way. In the paper (arxiv.org/pdf/2503.19903), we present: • PS3: a method to scale CLIP-like models to 4k and above; • PS3-SigLIP-SO400M and PS3-C-RADIO-v2-L ViT models; • 4KPro: a benchmark for high-resolution VQA on 4k resolution for VLMs; • VILA-HD: extending VLM to 4k resolution with 1.9-3x better efficiency than using all patches, with an accuracy gain of 3.2%.

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Daniel Blasko @blskdan

a year ago

@AniC_dev Really cool stuff! Any way now or in the future to export the logs or a natural language/structured summary of them to use as context e.g. for further questioning?

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Alessio @alessiograncini

a year ago

@Spectacles Office Hours @SnapAR

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Xiaohua Zhai @XiaohuaZhai

a year ago

Introducing SigLIP2: now trained with additional captioning and self-supervised losses! Stronger everywhere: - multilingual - cls. / ret. - localization - ocr - captioning / vqa Try it out, backward compatible! Models: github.com/google-researc… Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.14786

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Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_

a year ago

They did say they had built their own system, it's two models working together. S2 is a 7B VLM, S1 is an 80M(!) transformer.

Figure @Figure_robot

a year ago

Meet Helix, our in-house AI that reasons like a human Robotics won't get to the home without a step change in capabilities Our robots can now handle virtually any household item:

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merve @mervenoyann

a year ago

we just dropped SmolVLM2: world's smollest video models in 256M, 500M and 2.2B ⏯️🤗 we also release the following 🔥 > an iPhone app (runs on 500M model in MLX) > integration with VLC for segmentation of descriptions (2.2B) > a highlights extractor (2.2B)

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Simo Ryu @cloneofsimo

a year ago

So if you are typical ML researcher, you had this question for eternity: "I want small, powerful model: Should we train large model and distill? Or should we train small model from scatch" This new Apple papers conclusion: Its complicated but maybe yes, depending on your budget. 1/n

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Daniel Blasko @blskdan

2 years ago

Neat approach to more flexible and steerable token-based image-generation! Seems to lead to noteworthy instruction- and task-level zero-shot capabilities huggingface.co/papers/2412.18…

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Peter Tong @TongPetersb

2 years ago

This project really changed how I think about multimodal models and LLMs. I used to believe that multimodal (visual) prediction required significant changes to the model and heavy pretraining, like Chameleon. But surprisingly, the opposite is true! In large autoregressive models, visual understanding and generation are closely linked and can be instruction-tuned directly from LLMs. The LLM is there waiting for vision. [1/7] Website: tsb0601.github.io/metamorph/

Zhuang Liu @liuzhuang1234

2 years ago

How far is an LLM from not only understanding but also generating visually? Not very far! Introducing MetaMorph---a multimodal understanding and generation model. In MetaMorph, understanding and generation benefit each other. Very moderate generation data is needed to elicit

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Tim Brooks @_tim_brooks

2 years ago

Gemini 2.0 Flash has native image outputs! Congrats to the awesome team that built it. I find the example at 1:15 super cool: to change the car's color and add beach gear, the model generates two images step-by-step using visual chain of thought. youtube.com/watch?v=7RqFLp…

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Andreas Steiner @AndreasPSteiner

2 years ago

🚀🚀PaliGemma 2 is our updated and improved PaliGemma release using the Gemma 2 models and providing new pre-trained checkpoints for the full cross product of {224px,448px,896px} resolutions and {3B,10B,28B} model sizes. 1/7

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Tali Dekel @talidekel

2 years ago

Understanding the inner workings of foundation models is key for unlocking their full potential. While the research community has explored this for LLMs, CLIP, and text-to-image models, it's time to turn our focus to VLMs. Let's dive in! 🌟 vision-of-vlm.github.io

Omri Kaduri @omri_kaduri

2 years ago

🔍 Unveiling new insights into Vision-Language Models (VLMs)! In collaboration with @OneViTaDay & @talidekel, we analyzed LLaVA-1.5-7B & InternVL2-76B to uncover how these models process visual data. 🧵 vision-of-vlm.github.io

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Justin Johnson @jcjohnss

2 years ago

Today we're sharing our first research update @theworldlabs -- a generative model of 3D worlds! I'm super proud of what the team has achieved so far, and can't wait to see what comes next. Lifting GenAI to 3D will change the way we make media, from movies to games and more!

World Labs @theworldlabs

2 years ago

We’ve been busy building an AI system to generate 3D worlds from a single image. Check out some early results on our site, where you can interact with our scenes directly in the browser! worldlabs.ai/blog 1/n

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Avi @AviSchiffmann

2 years ago

Truffle’s aesthetics are peak. Design that transcends utility and becomes ubiquitous furniture. Your goal should be to make movies that don’t feature your work look anachronistic. @iamgingertrash is on that path. An inspiration ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️