Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5
Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5 OpenAI's image generation models are apparently used "more than 3 billion images across ChatGPT Images and the GPT‑Image models in the API". This latest release improves their...
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Pretraining progress is mostly coming from data
How much of the rapid progress in AI that we’ve seen over the last few years1 has come from data versus model improvements? The answer has big implications for the economics of frontier labs and the pace of future...
This is how self improving AI actually starts
Subscribe • Previous Issues Self-Improvement Without the Science Fiction A few weeks ago I wrote about AI systems that keep learning after deployment instead of treating every interaction as a fresh start. That prompted...
llm 0.35
Release: llm 0.35 New OpenAI model: gpt-6-astra for GPT-6 Astra. Tags: openai, llm, gpt-6-astra
Creepy crawlies
Creepy crawlies Konstantin Ryabitsev discusses how bad the "background radiation" of abusive crawlers has become from the perspective of git.kernel.org, the official Git repository for the Linux kernel: TL;DR: we spend...
Quoting Jakub Pachocki
The strongest argument I see for continuing to train much smarter models quickly is the need to build defensive systems against the dangers posed by other AI. [...] We will need powerful, aligned AI for defense; to...
Video compressor
Tool: Video compressor I recorded a short demo video of my Equal Earth animation on my phone and wanted to publish an optimized version of that video (using FFMPEG) on my blog, so I had Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code...
Mercator ↔ Equal Earth
Tool: Mercator ↔ Equal Earth I got curious about the Equal Earth map projection that was recently voted on at the UN so I had GPT-6 Astra (medium) in ChatGPT Work build me this animated transition between Mercator and...
AI Digest: Model Validation, Agents, and Generative AI
This edition explores how a model can pass validation for the wrong reason, how an agent can earn a reward without completing its task, and what makes a tool retry safe after a crash.We'll also look inside speculative...
China’s AI Involution
AI has made me pay more attention to a Chinese term that has been circulating for years: involution (内卷). The basic idea is hyper-competition in which everyone has to work harder and improve constantly just to keep up,...
Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI Apparently today is RSI day at OpenAI, for Recursive Self-Improvement - I think it's their new AGI. Both this piece and the new essay An Alien Mind (by Chief Scientist Jakub...
The purpose of DNS is to spread scams
The purpose of DNS is to spread scams Terence Eden shares some daunting statistics in support of his take that "the Domain Name System's purpose seems to be a vector for criminals to run scams on people at a...
There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get
My comment on There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get — Lobste.rs.[In reply to a comment about burning it down to start from scratch when technical debt becomes overwhelming] In my experience it's so rare...
Quoting Zach Kehs
If you continue to add floors and rooms to a building forever, it will collapse. Software faces no such constraint. The code can always get worse. There can always be a new layer of indirection or a reduction in...
Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers
Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers Blink and you'll miss it, but there's a familiar creature at 1m59s: Across the board, Astra has more attention to detail, better understanding of the user's prompt, and can build...
Engineers Are Obsessed With The How And Often Forget Why?
Hi, fellow future and current Data Leaders; Ben here 👋As data and software engineers, we love diving into the details of how the tools we use work and why you might want to use one over another. The funny thing...
Using Blender with coding agents on macOS
TIL: Using Blender with coding agents on macOS I've been having fun with Blender in ChatGPT Codex on my Mac recently. Getting it to work with coding agents is really easy: install the full Mac application from...
The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting
I got access to GPT-6 Astra this afternoon, so naturally I used it to generate SVGs of pelicans riding bicycles - at low, medium, high, xhigh and max reasoning levels (Astra doesn't support reasoning=none). Then I...
How to find insights
Not Secretariat, but his descendant.Surely, after so many years, this isn’t the answer, is it?—Since the time when people learned to count, the holy grail for every person who counted things was to...
OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis
Here we go again... Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen describes the latest accidental cyberattack by models being trained by OpenAI....