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The benchmarks are not particularly impressive. I suppose they needed to release something since the long pause. But not clear why would I use it now.

I suppose it's a good time to encourage people trying out pi[1] with any cheap model from the openrouter rankings page[1].

[1] https://pi.dev/ [2] https://openrouter.ai/rankings

Two problems: I will not get my pleasure, and I will still not know how the code works.

Are you implying using their brains?

I keep thinking about at which point I should not force myself into the loop. As a developer I really like working on the code structure, making it clearer, thinking about good abstraction, breaking into modules, etc. I really take pleasure in it. At the same time I understand that at some point I am becoming the limiting factor.

If the point of the software is benefit people, should I still care about how the code looks.

Right now, I still think that the answer is yes, but in 3 years? in 10 years?

I can only applaud. Regardless of whether this device is possible, or economically viable, this is a brave move and a bold vision. Taking bigger risks is what what makes the advances possible.

Exactly. It was looking as though Apple understood this. But now they gave in and called it Siri AI.

Exactly this. You can't have a competitive industry while at the same time heavily redistributing wealth to the point where people don't have any incentives at all.

A total of €13.5 million has been allocated to the project.

This is not even funny. If you want a competitive AI industry, you need to invest much more heavily in infrastructure first, building models second.

Those Mars bases are getting closer and closer.

Never did. Having been using Github Copilot since its launch (as autocomplete, they have a Vim plugin) and claude code for agentic coding.

$60b is crazy.

Cursor is an extension for VS Code, a harness and a bunch of prompts.

They have their own model (Composer 2) which is based Kimi K2.5, but I don't think SpaceX would be interested in it.

If they need a harness for grok, they could fork PI.

What are they after for here? Customer base? Talent?

I grown up in the 1990s, so as a teen I had access to the wild west of the decentralized internet in all its scary glory. It was pretty cool.

But nowadays as a parent I see, instagram, tiktok are much more scarier for the damage they make psychologically and mentally to our kids. And with the AI slop it's only going to go downhill. So yes, it's a great decision, and other countries should follow the lead.

well that was fast

I was wondering how does Anthropic and likes keep competitive when Opus is ($5 / $25) 5x times more expensive compared to Kimi K2.6 ($0.7 / $3.4) or other Chinese models, while being only marginally better.

My theory is that US enterprise just can't send data to Chinese and that's understandable, but is that "the moat"?

It seems that Anthropic is winning the competition with OpenAI. But, supposedly, OpenAI is sitting on a similar model, it might be their chance to win back some users by releasing a less-nerfed model, and market it specifically from that point of view.

I mean even I know who Sutton is [1]. He is one of the reinforcement learning pioneers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_S._Sutton

Congratulations to the team! I hope Evan and others got fabulously rich, they deserve it!

Is there any evidence Mythos is qualitatively better than the Opus 4.x?

I'm afraid that the usual mantra that "we just need more scale" that worked well for attracting investments, is not working anymore - bigger models provide marginal improvements while naturally get much more expensive to run.

Is this why both Anthropic and OpenAI are rushing for IPOs this year?

Exactly. I have children too you know. In fact we had a blast last time with my five year old shouting nonsense at Suno and having it make some cool songs out of it. Does it make me less human? It’s all about how you choose to use the technology

Right, but why attacking AI specifically? I just don’t buy the example, she could use a book with recepies instead of calling her friend, right? Maybe she just doesn’t want to call her friend this time, you know, and maybe it doesn’t make her less human.

Be sure to use a mobile phone when making your next, I don’t know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not come in person to your friend who loves to cook and ask her for her favorite recipes or tips or ways to save time making meals

Or just use AI when it makes sense, and call your friends too. Why do we have to over-dramatize everything?

Are we getting some real data in any industry really where AI eating jobs? I was kinda expecting those to kick in by now, but don't think it's happening.

Simon, is your pelican test really captures differences among models or should you at least try like 10 times or something to average the random effects

If google stops driving traffic to the websites, website owners will have zero incentive put out new content, and then what?

Do we know which model was used for the rewrite?

the most talented developers I know amplify what they can do with AI

Not the most talented developer, but this has been pretty much my experience as well. Just keep it under control, know what and why its doing at every step, read the code, and then it will boost your productivity.

Good for him. His learning materials are unmatched, but I don’t think there was a viable path with his educational company.

That's really cool. A nice touch is how the help is implement with every widget having a little question mark you can click, and it shows a tutorial on the left panel. Also thank you for letting us in without sign up.