how is it that in 2025 new model releases still consist of 10 slides full of random numbers

okay here's my take: deepmind <-> catholic openai <-> anglican anthropic <-> calvinist xai <-> pentacostal meta <-> unitarian

pov: trying to finish your thesis before the filing deadline, which happens to be 2 days before the Newish Informational Posts and Sketches deadline

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results with opus 4 and sonnet 4 are surprisingly similar. what's saturating: benchmarks or model size?

18 years after Jordi Muñoz Jason Short and I created ArduPilot, here it is destroying large parts of the Russian air force. Crazy

all Waymos go to heaven

People—teachers, students, parents—have been complaining for a century that memorization is pointless when ”you can just look it up“. This complaint predates AI, it predates Google, it predates this internet. But it’s wrong. Here’s Pauling on why he gave closed notes exams:

What you have to remember is that Claude is not real. Claude is one of the fictional protagonists of the story that the LLM is trained to write. When you “tell Claude to run a business” the LLM attempts to write a story wherein the Claude character runs a business.

I hadn’t taken the “Manhattan Project for AI” thing very seriously, but we do kind of live in a weird alternative history where a bunch of private companies discovered nuclear power before the government did

Introducing AI Note Writer API 🤖 AI helping humans. Humans still in charge. Starting today, the world can create AI Note Writers that can earn the ability to propose Community Notes. Their notes will show on X if found helpful by people from different perspectives — just like

kudos to the team for sharing the full story, warts and all also, many of your favorite AI influencers spent this entire week bloviating with zero information