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Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6

Your move, Anthropic

Citadel buys Situational Awareness after steep AI losses

> Aschenbrenner, who had no prior trading experience before starting the fund, worked for the FTX Future Fund, the philanthropic arm of Sam Bankman-Fried’s empire before it collapsed in late 2022. He later joined OpenAI’s “Superalignment” team before being fired over an alleged leak. A CV worthy of a bailout

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6

5-10% over months would still be quite crazy. But yeah I do'nt want to know what Kimi 3 is pushing buttons inside Anthropic, OpenAI and Google. Besides any floor: For every year the tokens get faster and cheaper, we will see new things like properly working AI factories which mimic expert teams. A lot more parallism as well.

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6

5-10% over months would still be quite crazy. But yeah I do'nt want to know what Kimi 3 is pushing buttons inside Anthropic, OpenAI and Google. Besides any floor: For every year the tokens get faster and cheaper, we will see new things like properly working AI factories which mimic expert teams. A lot more parallism as well.

OpenAI revenue in July topped all of Q2 driven by GPT-5.6 release

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

> Google acting like a normal but competent company that's just chugging away Competent is a stretch. Google's AI offering seems to be, once again, PM led–lots of constantly-changing brands being merged and deprecated with zero customer support or service. They'll almost certainly be one of the survivors. Their technical competece is unmatched. But that doesn't mean they have a great product in the way both OpenAI and Anthropic do. (Outside their datacentres, which are a legitimate feat.)

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

> Google acting like a normal but competent company that's just chugging away Competent is a stretch. Google's AI offering seems to be, once again, PM led–lots of constantly-changing brands being merged and deprecated with zero customer support or service. They'll almost certainly be one of the survivors. Their technical competece is unmatched. But that doesn't mean they have a great product in the way both OpenAI and Anthropic do. (Outside their datacentres, which are a legitimate feat.)

I made a term-a11y: accessible spinners and progress bars for CLI tools

I built this after noticing that Anthropic, Google and GitHub have each rebuilt the same fix for their CLIs to replace animated spinners and boxed tables with plain text if a screen reader is detected. Since there was no reusable version of this fix, I built one. It auto detects if it is running in a screen reader context and swaps the output automatically, as well as providing a linter to find these anti patterns in any codebase.

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6

Anthropic basically downgraded all their tiers when they released Mythos, no nah, Sonnet 5 is the successor to Haiku 4.x

US gov and OpenAI mislabel map of Africa at global conference

You actually can blame OpenAI for it. Because if a tool exists and people use it, that tool is an effective means of normalizing behaviour. We change our perception and behaviour through the use of tools, at least partially. So if someone invents a tool to do something poorly, and it becomes popular, then doing things poorly becomes more normalized. It can work in a positive direction, too. Have you ever used Vim or Emacs? Haven't you noticed how dedicating some time to learning a complex system like this also makes you proud of mastering a precise set of tasks? It almost becomes religious. The tool promotes care. We all have a societal responsibility to consider our inventions and what behaviour they'll encourage when people use them. OpenAI should also be held responsible, like all AI c…

We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447

So how exactly are people setting up these agents? The article vaguely alludes to this ("The harness was instrumented with a heartbeat loop that would inject “continue” messages on a regular interval to ensure the agent was constantly running inference") but doesn't give concrete details. Is this literally just an infinite loop in a bash shell injecting the initial prompt into the OpenAI CLI, and each run of the CLI picks up where it left off using some kind of persistent memory? Or is it a single context window? It sounds like the latter but it's not clear to me how this "continue" message is "injected", and surely one context window would be inneffective after just an hour or two. Sorry if this is a basic question but somehow I have missed the details of these kinds of agents.

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6

Seems like they're working to destroy the local LLM argument. Right now Haiku is $1/$5 in/out. You can grind out $12,000 worth of haiku (or arguably, sonnet) class tokens in about 5 months on a Blackwell RTX 6000 96GB especially if using concurrency. BUT, but, if you use a g6e.xlarge on aws it's now more expensive than buying tokens from OpenAI @ $0.20/$1.20. It also destroys "the Mac Mini argument", pushing the ROI to ~4 years.

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6

That’s ridiculous. Every major AI lab is compute constrained. That’s exactly why nvidia is worth trillions today. If OpenAI had a single extra GPU they’d be using it to run another training cycle or experiment for their next model.

Why do OpenAI's GPT-2 weights beat mine? Part two: the bugfix

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

You know SpaceX is still publicly valued at $1.5T marketcap, right? (offering price has nothing to do with anything other than ego of founders/bankers). Yes, I will wait for the correct valuation when all stocks enter the liquidity pool. OpenAI/Anthropic obscenely profitable is an easy bet (for me)

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

You know SpaceX is still publicly valued at $1.5T marketcap, right? (offering price has nothing to do with anything other than ego of founders/bankers). Yes, I will wait for the correct valuation when all stocks enter the liquidity pool. OpenAI/Anthropic obscenely profitable is an easy bet (for me)

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

This is incredible. Seems like a big achievement. The only thing that bothers me is what happens when robots finally automated "all the mundane day-to-day tasks" including our jobs, what is there left to do for common folks who are not geniuses working at Google/Anthropic/ChatGPT or occupy the C-Suite of these companies?

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6

OpenAI's APIs are extremely reliable for sure. I don't even remember when the last incident or downtime was.

OpenAI cuts prices for GPT-5.6 AI models as companies grow sensitive to costs

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

It's certainly an odd situation where Google is on the forefront of all these emerging technologies while the latest chatbots from OpenAI and Anthropic are getting breathless press releases and wildly hyperbolic coverage ("rogue AIs" "too dangerous, must be banned" etc...) Google acting like a normal but competent company that's just chugging away, meanwhile the hype cycle is propping up its upstart competitors to truly ludicrous valuations.