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Nice. I like that different print runs will have different procedurally generated flowers; nice touch.

There are lots of measures in place at these exchanges - the rub is that cold storage is by design slow. To service withdrawal requests in a timely fashion a percent is kept “warm” or hot and used to process withdrawals. Usually this is where the leaks happen.

Tesla

Do laser printers include tracking dots? I thought that was a color printer thing.

This could be another point informing your prior as to how much benchmaxxing and distilling of closed models is being performed by the open weights publishers as well.

I don't understand this conspiracy/suspicion vibe around AI benchmarks -- the best benchmarks get maxed quickly in today's world, especially if the datasets are open. We're in a situation where the AA's of the world show 0-1 point difference between models, so by definition they are NOT good discriminators. These tests NEED improvement.

Do they work with frontier labs? Probably. They should work with them at least a little so that we can get an independent read on the model quality. Do they inject new tests that specifically favor one particular lab? Clearly no, as different labs have moved up over time. Do they inject new tests that help to provide some separation on scoring? God, I hope so.

Nota bene, another change they announced was dramatically increasing the amount of held back test data; this would be a simple explanation for seeing open weights models, all of which are known to distill from frontier labs and benchmarks, drop in the rankings.

Deepmind has over a decade of DNA of not releasing - it's a significant cultural difference.

I mean, it will pay off for society one way or the other — we’ll have the datacenters and (hopefully) the weights at the end of this.

That’s an amazing amount of revenue and spend, though. Wild.

They've always been realllly slow to roll out stuff outside the org when it comes to AI. Most googlers themselves likely won't have access to this model internally.

These are right at the edge of desirable for me right now -- but it's hard to pull the trigger. I'm imagining an M7 Pro with 480 GB/s and therefore an M7 Max 850-900 GB/s. And significantly better GPU speeds as well. If I knew I could get the M7 Max Q2 of next year, especially at 192GB of RAM, I'd wait.

But then you have to compare to buying a GB200, sticking it in a closet and sharing it out in a workgroup and having a lower specced laptop. Decisions..

Interesting idea -- when everything's on a prediction market, all speech can be a securities fraud!

The article is confusing - at one point it says the truck left the road, hit a bunch of stuff and caught on fire. At another it says they don't know if it was a battery pack fire that spread. I'll be interested to read the final safety reports and see if this was just an unlucky crash or something really bad happened with all that lithium.

I'd really love a followup post where you find the highest scoring pizza possible -- feels like you must min-max now, yes?