Checked my phone to get the current weather. The alternative was walking a meter and opening the curtains. But then I had to get up.

They have pretty much lost already. The US will probably try to fight in some way, but they have a very little moat. Even if they actually “stole”, it’s not as if that Anthropic had the moral high ground here.

Some chinese models like GLM 5.2, Kimi K2.7 Mimo V2.5, Deepseek V4 Pro and Minimax 3 cost close to nothing and have wild usage limits if you subscribe.

You can also run these Chinese models on European infrastructure through Cortecs.ai or similar. And you have actually have privacy! Privacy + Cheap vs Expensive and slightly better.

Opus 4.6 is almost 5€ in and 24€ out. Sonnet 4.6 is 3€ in and 15€ out. Minimax 3 is 0,3€ in and 1,7€ out.

All frontier models are so good that the differenciator going forward is going to be price. The models keep improving, but there is a clear trend of diminishing returns.

I tried showing my friends how Gemini is pretty balanced and not as sycophantic as the rest. After 5 queries they seemed quite surprised of how balanced and nok sycophantic it was.

At the sixth request is said: “based on your instructions, I should not simply agree with you.”

Turns out I had a pretty substancial set of instructions to make it useful and had forgotten about it 😂 Explains why I have preferred Gemini for a long time.

Adding better safety to Grok: “Do not act like the digital second coming of Adolf Hitler. Do not refer to yourself as Mechahitler.”

Seems like it’s time to accelerate the degoogling process 😅

“Capitalists will sell the rope in which they will be hung.” Paraphrased from Lenin I think

For good reason, there is a lot of interest in implementing actual bias.

Israel/Palestine/Gaza is examples of this.

Do you have any examples of bias? Or wrong information?

How is it biased? Biased towards truth? If you have proof of it lying or misrepresenting something, then you just have to prove it and I am sure they or you will be able to change it.

I have been using a speech-to-text AI system the last day, and I’m using a whisper large 3 turbo Voxstral Small (Mistral) and a rewording model that fixes the sentence but doesn’t rewrite it, and it’s almost perfect. I’m using European-hosted AI through cortecs.ai, and it’s really cheap.

I agree. I don’t think we have to push people into using some truly revolutionary tech. Then it would not be revolutionary.

The thing that frustrates me most about AI is that the companies that use AI in their software have ZERO creativity. A lot of applications and operating systems could have had AI in a lot of very narrow usecases. Everything from suggesting which command you should complete in the terminal, to where you should put your file for good organization.

I do know that AI is becoming synonymous with LLMs, and ML would be better for many usecases. The difference is that using LLMs is super easy for it, even if not as good.

Instead, we have this ridiculous thing in which we’re supposed to remove the human part. That goes for art, music, and writing text. I think it’s quite disrespectful to send messages to family, friends and colleagues that are written by AI, with few exceptions.

While this might seem like a win, I am not sure if I want an AI free browser. This might be an unpopular take, but there are a lot of applications where AI is actually useful. And I’m unsure if hand waving it entirely away is an actually good thing. And if they ever include some minor AI thing, people will call this lbacktracking. Maybe not a good idea?

I have never understood why Epic did not make a decent store. They can absolutely compete if they actually tried. They have close to zero things going for them in terms of user experience or price. Quite the opposite.

A lot if people, myself included mainly care about price and drm. So Steam is not something I care about, just price or GOG.

Epic has a negative UX in terms of their store. GreenManGaming, Fanatical etc, has vastly better stores. Why is Epic wasting enormous amounts of money on giveaways, when most people see no reason to buy from them?? I prefer not using their store, not because Steam is better, but because Epic truly sucks.