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> We can now generate a single 15-day forecast in less than a minute on a TPU, empowering forecasters to quickly evaluate the probability distribution of potentially devastating ta…

Not directly, relevant, but Alibaba (maker of Qwen) actually owns about ~20-30% of MoonshotAI (the maker of Kimi K3).

Image/video understanding still quite cost effective from the Gemini flash series models? Image generation and veo models I’d imagine quite effective for creators; new Instagram ac…

> That’s not change unique to America though. Why would I be thinking of changes that have affected almost every country, when talking about whether Americans recognize how America…

> Most Americans have no sense of how very different their country is now from say, the country that launched the Apollo missions. You cannot be kidding right? Those that remember …

What exactly is wrong with Americans or for the most part the rest of the world valuing economic performance as a measure of prosperity and progress? Your comment is again another …

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Would you be able provide some evidence to the contrary when it comes to the topics discussed in the letter? On industrial infrastructure On technology innovation On internet regul…

Cell towers just need power to keep functioning, starlink adds no utility in an urban dense environment with fiber.

> Models were run with maximum available reasoning effort in our API (xhigh for GPT‑5.2 Thinking & Pro, and high for GPT‑5.1 Thinking), except for the professional evals, where GPT…

China added ~90GW of utility solar per year in last 2 years. There's ~400-500GW solar+wind under construction there. It is possible, just may be not in the U.S. Note: given renewab…

Wot? Is this what AI generated non-sense has come to? This is totally unrelated.

Aren’t they all optimization techniques at the end of the day? Now you’re just debating semantics

Hmmm… http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

Um.. the model is tiny: https://github.com/thinking-machines-lab/manifolds/blob/main...

Oh? And taxes can’t be used to buy influence and votes? How naive… Money is fungible… one pocket into another Exhibit 1: Tariff revenues to bail out American farmers: https://www.f…

SCMP is owned by Alibaba, which is subject to the purview of the Chinese Central Government [1]. [1]: https://www.cecc.gov/agencies-responsible-for-censorship-in-...

Mafia behavior continues… (not my observation, but the Texas senator’s Ted Cruz[1]). $100k is a big pizzo (protection fee)! [1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-19/…

Are you querying from an EC2 instance close to the S3 data? Are the CSVs partitioned into separate files? Does the machine have 500GB of memory? It’s not always duckdb fault when t…

These just seems like over engineered solutions trying to guarantee their job security. When the dataflows are so straight forward, just replicate into pick your OLAP, and transfor…

Hmm weren’t there also supposed to be the SM re-allocation, doesn’t look like it was included; I may have been mis-remembering the explanation.

Valid point, but at least that was mathematics. This paper isn’t even math, it’s a data control flow masquerading as math.