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June 2026

The cross-entropy track lands, nakaprop gets its name, the caffeine benchmark forms, and the month's thesis becomes equation solving with multiplicative updates.

Weeks: Jun 1 · Jun 8

May 2026

Yad's wave-build swarms ship the hinton and schmidhuber catalogs, the lab spreads into four challenges, and wikitext opens a language-modeling front.

Weeks: May 4 · May 11 · May 18 · May 25 Catch-ups: May 20

April 2026

ByteDMD becomes the primary metric, Yad and Seth measure how far methods sit from the floor, and Yaroslav pivots to modeling energy directly.

Weeks: Apr 6 · Apr 13 · Apr 20 · Apr 27 Catch-ups: Apr 30

March 2026

SutroYaro is born, Yad's survey settles sparse parity with GF(2), and the metric shifts from ARD to data movement.

Weeks: Mar 2 · Mar 9 · Mar 16 · Mar 23 · Mar 30 Catch-ups: Mar 22

February 2026

The group forms around one thesis, that AI training sits far above its energy floor, and starts hunting for a toy problem fast enough to iterate on.

Weeks: Feb 9 · Feb 16 · Feb 23

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Reference