Merab Dvalishvili reveals to NEON that he was almost kicked out of the UFC because Dana White didn’t like that he didn’t “wanna fight his friends” like Aljamain Sterling 😭

🚀 MERA: Model Evolution and Routing with Skill Adaptation for Agentic Systems at Scale How can we make small models stronger for on-device agent deployment? MERA uses stronger models to guide an iterative loop of RL/GRPO, skill learning, and router optimization. Student failures become verified demonstrations, reusable SkillBook procedures, and LoRA updates, helping the small model take on more work over time. 🔥 Results: Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B: 28.7% → 49.7% coding pass Qwen3.5-2B on TAU-2: 14/35 → 18/35 Fine-tuned 2B matches an unadapted 4B model Don’t just route around small models. Evolve them. 📄 💻

🚀 MERA: Model Evolution and Routing with Skill Adaptation for Agentic Systems at Scale What if small models could improve themselves, not just be routed around? MERA evolves both small-model skills and weights, guided by stronger models. Student failures become verified teacher demonstrations, reusable SkillBook procedures, and LoRA updates. 🔥 Results: Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B: 28.7% → 49.7% direct pass on coding tasks Qwen3.5-2B on TAU-2: 14/35 (40.0%) → 18/35 (51.4%) The adapted 2B model matches an unadapted 4B model Small models don’t just get routed around. They get better. 📄 Paper: 💻 Code:

NEON mentioned to Merab Dvalishvili that his friend Ilia Topuria should fight Arman Tsarukyan next and he instantly started stressing 😭 “uh no no no… I have couple belts I’ll give Arman one belt… now make Ilia vs Gaethje”

N3on randomly ran into Sean Strickland while he was at the UFC training center on stream with Merab Dvalishvili and Sean instantly started VIOLATING him 💀😭😭 “How much this guy pay you to hang out with this f*cker bro?… You shower today?” “Really bro… Do you like me?” “Here’s the thing about streamers you guys. Streamers get paid for having NO personality… They’re entire life is like ‘Hey chat, who do you want me to be right now?’ They’re just these spineless, soulless men that just go through life.”

LITTLE PREVIEW 🐇🃏7/5 Tomorrow, the lyric video for my very first original song as a Death Metal Idol, “Meraviglie,” will be released. 🖤 The song is already available on Spotify, but tomorrow you’ll finally be able to enjoy it!! I’ll post the full lyrics in the replies. 🥀 This song carries a piece of my heart, and I truly hope it reaches yours. 🙇‍♀️🖤