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Spain-based Multiverse Computing, which shrinks LLMs to reduce energy and compute costs, raised a $570M Series C at a $1.7B valuation (Amelia Isaacs/Pathfounders)
https://pathfounders.com/p/multiverse-computing-lands-570m-series-c

Multiverse Computing lands $570m Series C betting smaller AI models beat bigger ones
The Spanish startup says its quantum-inspired compression technology can shrink LLMs by up to 95%

A Pendulum for the Multiverse: David Albert, Hugh Everett, and the Worlds We Never Feel
On my grandfather's porch in North Loup, Nebraska, the ground kept its promises. Summer evenings the floorboards held the day's heat, the corn stood in rows that ran clear to the horizon, and nothing in all that flat immensity so much as trembled....

“This year’s SoftBank presentation Goose extends the Masayoshi Son multiverse of presentation Geese, whose previous eggs were laid under the banners of Information Revolution and AI Revolution.”
https://www.ft.com/content/1daf6066-885e-4acd-bda9-c51d85587875

@… Solutions from the Multiverse, which is two guys ostensibly talking about some sort of big issue, but where like 75% of each episode is them distracting each other and going off on nerdy tangents. It's strangely infectious.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mrmasterkeyboard/116980326641813344
Looks like they skipped private repos and forks so all they have of me is a Hello Multiverse repo with a single grumpy readme md file.No real private info in the profile.
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Beyond headcount and human capital: The Effective Cognitive Population as a decomposable capacity unit for AI-era planning
Kwan Soo Shin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09642 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.09642 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.09642
arXiv:2608.09642v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: National planning counts population, human capital, and artificial-intelligence preparedness in separate ledgers. Demographic accounting has advanced from headcount to skills-adjusted stocks and still debates how much age structure retains once skills are modeled, yet no existing unit carries the conditions under which preparedness becomes productive capacity. This study introduces the Effective Cognitive Population (ECP), a decomposable unit that weights population by capability and by the conditions under which capability is deployed, anchored to the World Bank Human Capital Index Plus (HCI ) and the non-overlapping dimensions of the IMF AI Preparedness Index. The architecture is portable in principle; the case tested here is artificial intelligence, which has a published preparedness index. For 144 countries, HCI becomes a productivity level, AI opportunity uses digital infrastructure and innovation integration, conversion governance uses regulation and ethics, and the benchmark is ECP = N H(1 AC). Against 2024 total output on identical population bases, ECP raises criterion R-squared from 0.849 for the HCI -adjusted stock to 0.882 and lowers leave-one-country-out RMSE from 0.723 to 0.641, with the working-age comparison identical and bootstrap intervals excluding zero. Eighty-nine of 144 countries move at least ten rank positions from headcount, mostly through the human-capital adjustment itself. Results are stable across denominators, vintages, aggregation forms, and a 27-rule multiverse. The direct A by C interaction is not statistically supported, so the conjunction is a planning rule rather than causal complementarity. ECP is a diagnostic ledger whose scope excludes forecasts of population decline and estimates of AI's causal productivity effect.
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