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Rupesh Srivastava
@rupspace
Fully open LLM frontiers @MBZUAI IFM Silicon Valley. Previously (co)developed Highway Networks, Upside-Down RL, Bayesian Flow Networks, EvoTorch.
Santa Cruz, CA
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    Rupesh Srivastava
    @rupspace
    Dec 1, 2025
    Update: new gig, and I'm hiring! I recently joined the Institute of Foundation Models in the SF Bay Area! Our goal is to train large-scale FULLY open-source LLMs at and beyond the frontier, from scratch, with open science, open data and open checkpoints. We are hiring across
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    Rupesh Srivastava
    @rupspace
    Jul 24
    Congrats to the Apertus team!
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    Imanol Schlag
    @ImanolSchlag
    Jul 24
    Today we are releasing Apertus 1.5 8B and 70B, a continued pretraining of our Apertus 1.0 models, which have passed 3.2M downloads in the community. 🧵
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    Rupesh Srivastava
    @rupspace
    Jul 20
    Reminder: This is just the beginning.
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    Rupesh Srivastava
    @rupspace
    Jul 19
    I love the benefits of open source so much and work on it full-time BUT Many on X are like: "No no YOUR software (LLM) must be open source! OUR software (inference stack, data platform, infrastructure, data, network) are great closed though 👍"
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    Rupesh Srivastava
    @rupspace
    Jul 16
    Good time to repost this
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    Rupesh Srivastava
    @rupspace
    Feb 4
    Periodic reminder that @Kimi_Moonshot was founded at the same time as xAI (and has a tiny fraction of the resources)
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