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bycloud August 26, 2025
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Master AI agents now using HubSpot's FREE resource! https://clickhubspot.com/aa716f Might be very late to the "Muon" party, but hope this at least have some great insights for you. In this video, we will take a look at Muon, which is a new optimizer that Moonshot AI successfully scaled up. My Newsletter https://mail.bycloud.ai/ my project: find, discover & explain AI research semantically https://findmypapers.ai/ My Patreon https://www.patreon.com/c/bycloud Kimi K2 [Blog] https://moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-K2/ [GitHub] https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2 Muon Is Scalable For Pre-training [Paper] https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16982 Try out my new fav place to learn how to code https://scrimba.com/?via=bycloudAI This video is supported by the kind Patrons & YouTube Members: 🙏Nous Research, Chris LeDoux, Ben Shaener, DX Research Group, Poof N' Inu, Andrew Lescelius, Deagan, Robert Zawiasa, Ryszard Warzocha, Tobe2d, Louis Muk, Akkusativ, Kevin Tai, Mark Buckler, NO U, Tony Jimenez, Ângelo Fonseca, jiye, Anushka, Asad Dhamani, Binnie Yiu, Calvin Yan, Clayton Ford, Diego Silva, Etrotta, Gonzalo Fidalgo, Handenon, Hector, Jake Disco very, Michael Brenner, Nilly K, OlegWock, Daddy Wen, Shuhong Chen, Sid_Cipher, Stefan Lorenz, Sup, tantan assawade, Thipok Tham, Thomas Di Martino, Thomas Lin, Richárd Nagyfi, Paperboy, mika, Leo, Berhane-Meskel, Kadhai Pesalam, mayssam, Bill Mangrum, nyaa, Toru Mon [Discord] https://discord.gg/NhJZGtH [Twitter] https://twitter.com/bycloudai [Patreon] https://www.patreon.com/bycloud [Business Inquiries] [email protected] [Profile & Banner Art] https://twitter.com/pygm7 [Video Editor] @Booga04 [Ko-fi] https://ko-fi.com/bycloudai

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