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No, OpenAI did not publish how they trained o1, and at the time there was significant misunderstanding and belief in the research community that they were using some kind of Monte-…

It's even worse than that. From the article: > Open-weights models that don’t have dangerous capabilities are a public good Oh! And, uh, what's a "dangerous capability" according t…

I think it's pretty hard to hold that worldview: Anthropic couldn't ship a reasoning model until they copied DeepSeek R1's homework, and they've all copied DS-style super-sparse Mo…

256+: GLM-5.2 (swap with Kimi K3 when it goes open-weight on Monday) Chinese model but probably Laguna S2.1. The best Chinese model at this size is DeepSeek V4 Flash though <16: Oo…

The cost to run Kimi is the cost of the GPUs (+ overhead of hiring humans for now to manage it). Kimi K3 does not change the demand curve for LLMs, it only changes the possible sup…

I would assume the opposite is true — with an open-weight Fable-class model, doesn't demand for GPUs go up ? Plenty of companies can now look at what Anthropic is offering — high p…

Previously they were a distant fourth. They're not going to single-shot catch up to OpenAI or Anthropic, but they moved up the ladder one rung. In the short term labs are not profi…

Agreed this sucks. We publish ours here and try to be as transparent as possible: https://synthetic.new/rate-limits

Interesting: I don't see anything in our error logs but we could be missing something (and personally the chat works for me + my unsubscribed test account). If you email us at hi@s…

I'm biased because I run an inference company, https://synthetic.new . That being said I think we're pretty good at serving at GLM-5.2 — and other models, like Kimi K2.7! — and our…

Self-promo but you should try our service synthetic.new. We generally have up-to-date open-source LLMs on the sub, and we have GLM-5.2 :) Perf+stability should be wayyy better than…

I wonder if this explains why I hear about this more from Europeans than from the SF tech scene. California is at-will employment, so you can fire an employee as easily as a contra…

The Wikipedia articles say the majority of scholars believe it's based on Aramaic, while a minority of people (primarily non-linguistic-specialists in India) disagree. I think you'…

No, modern Hebrew and ancient Hebrew mapped similarly well to the written script — the primary difference between the two is just consonant drift. Both used the same structure of t…

As per the Wikipedia links, it's generally considered by scholars to be the origin of all alphabets and an early alphabetic script. Abjad is a term invented in 1990 to distinguish …

Hebrew is not based on Yiddish, lol; only Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation was influenced by Yiddish. Modern Israeli Hebrew uses primarily Sephardi pronunciation, and Ashkenazi is mo…

Egyptian heiroglyphs were not an alphabet, even if they had alphabetic elements (in addition to pictographic ones). Scholars generally agree that proto-Sinaitic was the first alpha…

No: most scholars believe alphabets were only invented once, much like the wheel. All Western alphabets are direct descendants, and the non-Western alphabets were directly inspired…

It wasn't directly cribbed (unlike Western alphabets), but given that Hangul was invented in the 1400s after exposure to Western alphabets, most scholars still consider alphabets t…

Fun fact: all (non-Cherokee?) alphabets in use today stem from an ancient Canaanite alphabet called the proto-Sinaitic script [1]. This is why Hebrew's alphabet near-perfectly phon…

America has somehow managed to hang on to the right to encryption, despite plenty of well-heeled opponents, so it's possible to hang on to the right to open-source models. But it'l…

You don't need to be able to self-host it. It's fine to pay someone else for it. If it's open-source, competition will ensure inference providers support it well enough, and if an …

Many, many, many public policy positions; for a clear-cut example, they eventually supported SB 1047 [1] which would have banned open-sourcing any model trained with over 10^26 FLO…

The same way Anthropic is making it difficult to compete with them. They intentionally train the model (via PEFT, as called out in the model card) to be dumber when attempting to d…

"You can't take code produced by our service to make competing services, but we can take code you produced to compete with your service (i.e. software engineering)" is pulling up t…