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Ox Alpha

It uses the word load bearing a bit so I'm guessing either Anthropic or Claude distilled model.

Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code

Hey Thariq, Appreciate the outreach that you do! I love Claude, but I've been noticing reduced fidelity lately. Fable's likelihood of making a mistake increases or decreases based on the hour of the day and whether or not it's the weekend. On a related note, and I'm happy to work on quantifying it, but qualitatively it feels like Fable's performance is noticeably poorer than initial release / launch. I am wondering if this is the case because I use Claude via Claude Code to make a personalized care dashboard for my doctors to help me in managing my care. I noticed in the upgraded filter announcement, https://www.anthropic.com/news/improving-fable-5-s-biology-s... , "In the case of Fable 5, when a classifier fires, the model re-routes the user’s request to Opus 5, …

Contra Anthropic: AI is not 'structurally' centralizing

Anthropic IPO filing will show AI backlash as a risk factor, sources say

> To wit: AI will destroy all of humanity, or the related "AI will become sentient and lead to threat to human civ" etc. This is pure negative science fiction All of this is true, but it is the two main AI companies themselves who created and marketed this narrative. It's their negative science fiction. It is part of the marketing campaign they are running that is the foundation of arguments that the government should be their funding backstop (OpenAI have made this explicit), that open weights AI is more dangerous, that China is a threat, that only they can solve the problems they themselves are creating. (After all, if China can only do what they are doing by distilling American models, which is what they claim, then the big American AI labs could shut down the risk for decades by do…

Anthropic IPO filing will show AI backlash as a risk factor, sources say

> To wit: AI will destroy all of humanity, or the related "AI will become sentient and lead to threat to human civ" etc. This is pure negative science fiction All of this is true, but it is the two main AI companies themselves who created and marketed this narrative. It's their negative science fiction. It is part of the marketing campaign they are running that is the foundation of arguments that the government should be their funding backstop (OpenAI have made this explicit), that open weights AI is more dangerous, that China is a threat, that only they can solve the problems they themselves are creating. (After all, if China can only do what they are doing by distilling American models, which is what they claim, then the big American AI labs could shut down the risk for decades by do…

ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

^ Zach is the founder of Uberduck, which was massively popular. He got into YC with it. More story: ElevenLabs launched a few years after FakeYou and Uberduck. ElevenLabs got a lot of attention for their remarkable zero shot model, but their pricing and enterprise focus created an enduring niche. Companies like Musicfy.lol were what ultimately drew the ire of the music labels and created a lot of friction for consumer UGC audio tools. They ruffled feathers and that created headwinds. I distinctly remember talking to their founder on a Monday at Founders, Inc. in SF. They were in talks with a16z to raise $10M or so after their first few weeks of wild success - viral marketing and clever positioning for the first RVC music models. By that same Friday the music labels had them shut down the …

NetBSD and My Life (2005)

I enjoyed the time I spent browsing the web and reading ebooks while running OpenBSD on a Thinkpad. The same goes for hosting a web page on a VPS I used to rent. I found that what people say about it is true: the documentation is great. To the extent that I needed to tinker I gained a fair amount of coherence about how things worked. This is sort of what I want the guys in my community to experience for themselves.

Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code

This should be the top post. The original tweet went viral because people loooove bashing Anthropic. It gets engagement (as shown here).

A week of using Codex more than Claude

"Looking up synonyms" huh? You have yet to make a coherent argument and keep trying to attack the messenger, typical behavior when people get called out for false entitlement. Your "psychopathy" accusations are pure cowardice.

Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

The US admin is basically Trump. Saying Trump will respect Canadian strength shows you are making the same mistake other people keep making in thinking Trump is somehow like them or is consistent enough to predict. I don't think Trump is a rational actor. He is a collection of ephemeral positions lacking coherence accumulated from random sources.

Felony Bench

That’s all dependent on believing the premise of the story given by OpenAI. Was it really a training run in a VM? Was it really only intended to touch an internal repository? How do we/HF know and verify that? I agree with you that it’s unlikely, but it’s not out of the realm of possibility. Corporations have intentionally committed felonies many times.

Guess which of these LLM outputs is watermarked

No. Anthropic's example is completing the sentence "Isaac Newton's most famous work was called Principia ..." has only one correct answer, so nothing to watermark.

Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code

There are more than 3. Hell, I use 3 different providers, and I currently don't give a dime to Anthropic or OpenAI.

Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

Under Trump, the us governments signature might as well be in pencil. This is America’s high water mark. It has lost the trust of the world. And since OpenAI and Anthropic and NVIDIA are the bulk of the hope of the American economy… America is fucked. Canada walking away from American Bullying will go down in history of the moment the empire’s descent accelerated. Fuck all the halfwit racists who voted for trump.

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

This part stood out to me: "Jamie Brandon got an offer from Anthropic and you probably can't afford him unless you're OpenAI" Interesting.. so how much do you think his package was worth?

ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

Fwiw, ElevenLabs doesn't even make any sense as a firm, considering its TTS offering is extremely overpriced by an absurdly large factor. A large user would be far better off using local models. Even the OpenAI TTS is cheaper. There is no moat here such as with hardware.

ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

https://www.twelvelabs.io/blog/introducing-the-multimodal-ai... > Twelve Labs and ElevenLabs are co-hosting the 23Labs Hackathon

ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

All of them copied 15.ai ElevenLabs was a commercial version of 15.ai. It's crazy, because 15.ai could have had the venture-scale outcomes if he'd fundraised and turned it into a SaaS product. He was in the right place, right time, with tremendous attention, but missed the opportunity. The other "labs" followed the trend. The {number}labs / {number}.ai domains all quickly got squatted. I was in the same space and watched it happening. I launched FakeYou about the same time as 15.ai, but 15 had the backing of 4chan and a better model. I still made it to 7M MAU and a million in revenue despite that. Just last year, Fish Audio picked up where 15.ai / FakeYou / UberDuck / Weights.gg left off and made it to $20M ARR, which is a lesson about abandoning under-served markets w…

ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

Zen-Eleven labs.

Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs

Zack London's recent cyberpunk short "The Patchwright" (21 minutes)[1] feels like a glimpse into the AI feature film future. I like that rather than trying to replicate a traditional film it leans into the maximalist AI aesthetic. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rzl7nUdEs4