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Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

> A 0.001% optimization on a packing problem just isn't interesting for the amount of investment. I think you have completely misunderstood what OpenAI have accomplished here. Almost certainly no one cares about the specific concrete results achieved; they only care about (a) how difficult it would be for an intelligent human to achieve the same feat (ETA: the feat is the proof), which can be estimated by the amount of time the problem has remained open/a public conjecture, and (b) how general this artificial "intelligence" appears to be, which can be estimated by the diversity of topics where it was able to prove a difficult result. It's as if I showed you a dog that I had taught to speak German fluently, and you remarked: "What point is a dog that can speak a language that less …

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

Thanks for the pointer to lesswrong. The relevant article on this topic appears to be here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pQYEPitFqztcRvBsS/openai-s-u... Just glanced at it and it looks pretty good!

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

not very interesting, its the second chance pool. its not a conspiracy of ycombinator vs. openai. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

1. This is not “unrelated to AI safety”. The things they seek in the name of AI safety always seem to be aligned with the path that will eliminate competition and give them maximum economic power. Thus, to disentangle what is sincere and what is ulterior, we have to look at the leadership’s character holistically. A ruthlessly unethical and cutthroat corporation that is also seeking unprecedented power doesn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt when it claims to be doing this for altruistic reasons. 2. You misstated what I wrote. My gripe is not that they have an enterprise sales process. It’s that in negotiations, they say “we’ll drop the safeguards if you agree to spend more”. I haven’t heard of any groundbreaking AI safety research concluding that spending more with Anthropic makes the m…

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

The big example predates LLMs as a unified tech and it's protein folding, from Google DeepMind. OpenAI and Anthropic are too greedy for cash to do anything of the sort. I don't expect this current economic cycle to bring anything else that will directly greatly improve the life of the average person on the planet, more than it hurts it.

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

Another interesting question is why the frontier labs are piling on pure maths, which has little direct economic value compared to something like law or improving the efficiency of their own models? How much OpenAI and Anthropic are paying to serve these models for ordinary users is the elephant in the room. A cynical take is that the frontier labs are trying their best to pump up their pre-IPO valuation through flashy headlines.

Big Tech's Anthropic and OpenAI stakes are distorting the corporate earnings

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The AI bubble is popping; we just don't know it yet

Here's the actual quote from the podcast you're presumably referring to. I guess everybody can make up their own mind about what they're saying and whether they are "fundamentally wrong." You gotta watch something, because harnesses have changed how you can look at the cost structure of these things. If you look at cost per million tokens, it might look lower, but if the model consumes four times as many tokens in order to deliver a meaningful result, it's not cheaper. And so, Tom Claburn, one of our senior software reporters, had an excellent piece looking at how Anthropic's latest models use a tremendous number of tokens in order to deliver the result. So, sure, OpenAI's latest models might look less expensive from an API standpoint, which is great for marketing, but if it's using twice…

LLMs reward expertise

Not sure I agree with this. The math guy at anthropic's prompts are essentially: "suppose you’ve gotta resolve the $CONJECTURE, like absolutely have to, everything depends on it. think really hard, and try to come up with a bunch of ideas to try. but remember to trust yourself and not necessarily in conventional wisdom!!" https://claude.ai/share/25740bd5-aa97-4bd7-bf58-c4df3793fda7 https://xcancel.com/__alpoge__/status/2083855298239078748 Tao's chat was for him to gain intuition, not to solve the problem from the outset. What's funny is that every other person gets a different conclusion about who these models reward/empower. I've seen people say that the generalist stands to gain the most and others say that it's the experts. Like all of …

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Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

I think Anthropic/OpenAI do have a moat in the (western) enterprise market. Chinese hosted models are a no-go, and my experience with enterprise IT departments is that they will not self-host. So far signing up with a known product (e.g. Claude) seems to be the way they will go and this is the moat that the AI companies have. Alternatively there is Copilot, but that for now seems to mostly be backed by Anthropic/OpenAI models[1]. Will this continue? The field is moving too fast to tell. Kimi, Qwen, Deepseek also produce very capable models but that doesn't automatically translate into trillion dollar valuations. However, trillion dollar valuations on Anthropic and OpenAI, such new companies, never publicly traded and such huge valuations decided just by investors. This is just a…

When Cloud AI Escapes: OpenAI and Anthropic Models Breach Live Networks

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Ask HN: ThePirateBay vs. Anthropic

Why is it that downloading a movie from Netflix and putting it for free on ThePirateBay is illegal but scraping someone’s work to train the AI models and then selling them for a fee is legal? What’s the difference?

Who's legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI's autonomous AI hacks?