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moneil971on OpenGameEval: Eval Framework to Benchmark Agentic AI Assistants

OpenGameEval offers a unique testing ground to evaluate core model capabilities related to agenetic reasoning and long-horizon task solving.

moneil971on Open Source Context-Aware PII Classifier

The Roblox PII Classifier goes beyond detecting and obfuscating explicit PII text shared on Roblox, it’s designed to understand the context of a chat conversation to stop bad actors from engaging in PII-related conversations in the first place.

moneil971on Roblox rolls out open-source AI system to protect kids from predators in chats

Actual technical info and open source here: https://corp.roblox.com/newsroom/2025/08/open-sourcing-senti...

moneil971on Open Sourcing Roblox Sentinel: Roblox's Approach to Preemptive Risk Detection

Open source is here: https://github.com/Roblox/Sentinel.

One of Sentinel’s key advantages is that it does not require a large number of exemplars to function. Our current production system operates successfully with just 13,000 exemplars in the negative index.

moneil971on Open-Source LLM Helps Safeguard Text Generation Prompts and Responses

Roblox’s LLM is currently outperforming popular LLM guardrail models on standard benchmarks. Roblox open-sourced both the LLM weights and the RoGuard-Eval benchmarking dataset.

moneil971on Building a Scalable Analytics Ingestion Infrastructure

Roblox’s Path to 2 Trillion Analytics Events a Day

moneil971on Accelerating AI Inference for 3D Creation on Roblox

7.8x Faster, More Responsive 3D Object Generation

moneil971on Roblox Open-Sourcing Cube 3D Mesh Gen Model

Code released today: https://github.com/Roblox/cube

moneil971on The Tech Behind Roblox's Engineering Toola

At the heart of our engineering productivity strategy are three tools: our microservice lifecycle platform, our code center—an inner loop development tool—and our advanced observability platform. Together, these tools enable more than a thousand Roblox engineers to tackle challenging problems

moneil971on Roblox, Google etc. found OS safety org

Robust Open Online Safety Tools (ROOST) is dedicated to developing and distributing free open source safety resources.

moneil971on Roblox give parents control over childrens activity after warnings over grooming

Full information here: https://corp.roblox.com/newsroom/2024/11/major-updates-to-ou...

moneil971on Roblox makes major updates to parental controls, safety settings

Age-gating certain experiences and limiting chat options for kids under 13

moneil971on Over 90% of US Population Growth Since 2020 Came from Hispanics

This is about the U.S. as a whole tho. I don’t think people are leaving the U.S. entirely

moneil971on Man arrested over alleged fraud involving Sega's in-game money

Interesting that it’s the police taking action and not the platform

moneil971on Do quests, not goals

I’m not sure the article fully gets there (he’s clearly driving business for his own course), but the general idea is that you don’t set a “goal” of a thing you hope to accomplish - you should be fully envisioning who that future you will be - and what they do every day…then start doing that. So the quest is about who you want to become, while the goal is just an aspiration without a real vision.

moneil971on Roblox research on avatar autosetup, hair interpolation, etc.

Area ReSTIR for improved light/shadow; a CSG generative AI; and a faster, more stable option for 3D dynamics.

moneil971on Cleveland Clinic launches AI program

Integrating AI into biomedical research and patient care

moneil971on Language model can listen while speaking

Full duplex modeling to enhance real time interaction

moneil971on Roblox Open Sources Real-Time Voice Safety Model

Direct link to the article is here: https://research.roblox.com/tech-blog/2024/07/deploying-ml-f...

moneil971on Breaking Down Language Barriers with a Multilingual Translation Model

The chat window will automatically show Korean translated into English, or Turkish translated into German, and vice versa, so that each person sees the conversation in their own tongue. These translations are displayed in real time, with latency of 100 milliseconds, so the translation happening behind the scenes is nearly invisible.

moneil971on First supercomputer capable of brain-scale simulation

DeepSouth uses a neuromorphic system which mimics biological processes, using hardware to efficiently emulate large networks of spiking neurons at 228 trillion synaptic operations per second - rivalling the estimated rate of operations in the human brain.

moneil971on Tesla recalling 2M US vehicles over Autopilot safeguards

Acting NHTSA Administrator Ann Carlson told Reuters in August it's "really important that driver monitoring systems take into account that humans over-trust technology."

moneil971on Locally-Adaptive Level-of-Detail for Hardware-Accelerated Ray Tracing

YouTube video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i61WHbMmOcQ

moneil971on AdaptNet: Policy Adaptation for Physics-Based Character Control

Code is shared here: https://motion-lab.github.io/AdaptNet/

moneil971on Migrating avatar tech stacks at Roblox

To support all of these new features and capabilities—now and as we continue to innovate—we’re unifying the technical architecture that supports all avatars.

moneil971on The inside story of Threads

They actually did another article with some good history on the iOS app for Facebook: https://engineering.fb.com/2023/02/06/ios/facebook-ios-app-a...

moneil971on Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates

Unlikely to last that long, but helpful that they'll still be supported so they can be repaired, updated, etc. -- and so they can slowly upgrade throughout a school system, rather than having to do a wholesale update every few years.

moneil971on Google Extends Lifespan of Chromebooks

Addressing concerns by school administrators that the laptops are too short-lived to be cost effective.