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Read about half of the article wondering when it was going to explain why carplay is addictive

January 2026 when i started using opus 4.5 and understood that it could do actual useful work beyond coding small snippets

maybe we will look back and also think that the current slate of IPOs were reasonable valuations?

this will change as inference demand increases (which is happening right now faster than many people expected)

During my time at university studying pure mathematics I had an interesting experience of doing a challenging sheet of combinatorics problems during a vacation. Every day I attempt…

how much of the cloud revenue is from Anthropic revenue sharing?

They are referring to a thing called "speculative decoding" I think.

This is from 11th September

The graph at the beginning showing the cost of sequencing over time falling faster than Moore's law stops in 2015. Would love to see how things have progressed since then. Casually…

what's the relationship between this work and the recently announced voice models from Microsoft AI? https://microsoft.ai/news/two-new-in-house-models/

It's a europeanism. In both French and German (and probably other EU languages) the word for "subsidy" is something like "subvention" so native speakers of these language often rea…

And American tech companies have been substantially more successful that European tech companies so maybe it does actually make sense to have stock options as part of compensation …

It's quite remarkable how much the goal posts have shifted when it comes to what is impressive with AI/ML. Things like this are a good reminder. 10 years ago the GAN paper came out…

To be fair to the authors they are affiliated with a university and not a big industrial lab, so they may be working with significantly constrained resources. Not sure exactly what…

Cool paper. Really interesting to see how even quite straightforward architectural modifications haven't yet all been exhausted yet, despite all the resources being poured into LLM…

They make the yoghurt, then pasteurise it (I guess so it has a longer shelf life). So it tastes roughly like yoghurt but doesn't have any of the good bacteria. I've also seen that …

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Demo website with speech-speech translation examples https://google-research.github.io/seanet/audiopalm/examples/

> We introduce AudioPaLM, a large language model for speech understanding and generation. AudioPaLM fuses text-based and speech-based language models, PaLM-2 [Anil et al., 2023] an…