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try-working

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About try-working

https://try.works/

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model router: https://github.com/try-works/role-model

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49220597

    No, you still don't understand what I'm saying. Yes, ASICs make inference faster, but also makes the hardware obsolete faster, if it's embedded in a phone. That sounds like a negat…

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    Comment #49215824

    What I'm saying is that Apple will use these type of models etched into chips, and they will do it because it drives obsolescence, so they can shorten the upgrade cycle. They will …

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    Comment #49206581

    What's even more noticable is that Anthropic still hasn't responded to the Kimi K3 release or the DeepSeek release.

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    Comment #49205774

    you don't understand what I wrote.

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    Comment #49203664

    obsolescence is the whole point. apple gets to sell a new phone very 6-12 months because of it. i have written about this: "For device makers Packaging models with laptops and smar…

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    Comment #49189487

    Flash is the most used model in the world since last week

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    Comment #49189476

    yes, and this is why we need model routing

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    Comment #49181062

    it's 200 rmb and it looks super fun. perfect product.

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    Comment #49167898

    I recommend the Shadowrun series on Steam. Not large games but really fun.

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    Comment #49147776

    agree. what people dont understand is that the blacklisting is what created motivation for investing capital, manpower and years of time into these companies, or initiatives inside…

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    Comment #49147744

    this is not a good benchmark for models, but it's great if you're optimizing for attention on twitter because video content and 3d animations perform best on social media. a real b…

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    Comment #49142874

    No, you are wrong. Without the blacklisting and export bans the DUV machine in the article would not exist today.

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    Comment #49140746

    All of this can be traced back to the 2018 blacklisting of ZTE, and the continued willful ignorance of China's capabilities, and of the history of industrialization and technologic…

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    Comment #49139132

    that's why i recommend running everything through a router.

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    Comment #49128546

    the repo is here and you can also find my twitter in my profile: https://github.com/try-works/role-model you can also read this: https://try.works/first-principles-of-model-routing…

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    Comment #49128490

    yep. I've been saying for month that exactly this will happen with DeepSeek and Kimi K3, and margins will erode, and Anthropic will fail to IPO.

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    Comment #49128486

    yeah it's pretty cool. you can also use it as a regular music player. if you toggle autoplay, it will automatically keep playing the next track in your track list. supports uploadi…

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    Comment #49128372

    I recently wrote about first principles of model routing that I've learnt building a model router. The model pool should be kept small, and models in the pool should be clearly dif…

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    Comment #49128288

    I built something similar, but for the browser: https://dj.t-tunes.com/

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    Comment #49122033

    Now let's see Dario's price cut.

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    Comment #49120481

    pi-role-model

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    Comment #49120320

    [flagged]

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    Comment #49120251

    OpenAI is doing this so that you can't preserve cache when routing between for example GPT 5.6 and DeepSeek V4, or other providers. I'm building a router that easily reaches >99% c…

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    Comment #49120170

    Let's see how the market reacts.

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    Comment #49120162

    DeepSeek themselves called it `deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash`. Pro is still like that.