We're only half way through Wednesday and already this week we've gotten...
- Google Gemini 2.5 with enhanced thinking capabilities
- OpenAI's Advanced Image Generation
- Microsoft's Researcher and Analyst AI Agents
- Reve Image 1.0 beating out all other image gen models
- Ideogram 3.0 for free with Enhanced Realism and Speed
- DeepSeek's new V3 AI model under MIT license
-Alibaba's LHM Model to Create Animated 3D Avatars from Single Image
- Alibaba's Optimized 32B Qwen2.5-VL Visual Language Model
- Perplexity's New Answer Tabs for Images, Video, Travel, and Shopping
And that's just the bigger ticket items. There's been even more smaller announcements as well.
We're off to a crazy start this week!
Which are you most excited about?
A few weeks ago, my journey with @Streamlit came to an end.
I had meant to share this farewell message sooner, but life got in the way.
Still, I wanted to take a moment to reflect and close this chapter properly.
Quick 🧵↓
o3-mini is out to all Cursor users!
We're launching it for free for the time being, to let people get a feel for the model.
The Cursor devs still prefer Sonnet for most tasks, which surprised us.
Just fyi, @deepseek_ai collects your IP, keystroke patterns, device info, etc etc, and stores it in China, where all that data is vulnerable to arbitrary requisition from the 🇨🇳 State.
From their own privacy policy:
Australia has effectively signed open borders with India:
The Australia-India Migration and Mobility Partnership Agreement (MMPA) includes the following provisions:
1. Five year student visas, with no caps on the numbers of Indians that can study in Australia.
2. From 1 July this year, Indian graduates of Australian tertiary institutions on a student visa can apply to work without visa sponsorship for up to eight years.
3. The Mobility Arrangement for Talented Early Professionals Scheme allows 3000 of India’s top graduates and early career professionals to work and stay in Australia for up to two years. They can apply for a permanent skilled visa, and spouses will have unlimited work rights.
4. Three-month visitor visas available to Indians for family or business purposes (no caps on numbers).
Not only that:
5. Australia must also recognise Indian vocational and university degrees as being comparable to Australian qualifications for study and employment purposes
All these people were riding on that subway cart when that women was lit on fire.
None of them tried to stop it.
Society has fallen, and it’s the politicians fault from every aspect.
Shame on us for electing them.
Remove them, destroy it all and rebuild
for extra clarity:
o1 is available in our plus tier, for $20/month.
with the new pro tier ($200/month), it can think even harder for the hardest problems.
most users will be very happy with o1 in the plus tier!
People have too inflated sense of what it means to "ask an AI" about something. The AI are language models trained basically by imitation on data from human labelers. Instead of the mysticism of "asking an AI", think of it more as "asking the average data labeler" on the internet.
Few caveats apply because e.g. in many domains (e.g. code, math, creative writing) the companies hire skilled data labelers (so think of it as asking them instead), and this is not 100% true when reinforcement learning is involved, though I have an earlier rant on how RLHF is just barely RL, and "actual RL" is still too early and/or constrained to domains that offer easy reward functions (math etc.).
But roughly speaking (and today), you're not asking some magical AI. You're asking a human data labeler. Whose average essence was lossily distilled into statistical token tumblers that are LLMs. This can still be super useful ofc ourse. Post triggered by someone suggesting we ask an AI how to run the government etc. TLDR you're not asking an AI, you're asking some mashup spirit of its average data labeler.
#Gol | ¡COMO LE PEGASTE KINGTERO! 💥💥
- 31’ Uruguay [4] 0-1 Colombia [2]
- De tiro libre, Juan Fernando Quintero abrió el marcador para la tricolor y puso el primero en Montevideo. ¡ESTÁS LOCO JUAN FERNANDO! 😮💨😮💨
📹: @TyCSports
What’s wrong with Australia?
On a morning cycle at 6.30am on the corner of Anzac Pde and Doncaster Ave. at least 13 workers watching - who’s paying?
You!
Ask ChatGPT
“based on what you know about me. draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like”
past your responses below.
thanks again @mreflow & @danshipper
Interview José Carreras: "I am a happy man"
Entrevista Josep Carreras: "Soy un hombre feliz"
operaactual.com/reportaje/lege…
On 12 December the 30th José Carreras charity Gala will be celebrated in Leipzig.
Update: The Australian Tour with Plácido Domingo meanwhile has been cancelled.