China’s Open-Weight Surge, Agent Security Crises, and Infrastructure Bottlenecks

• The author explicitly prefers a low-fidelity hand-drawn illustration in Microsoft Paint over algorithmically generated artwork.
• AI images act as a heuristic for readers to suspect LLM-generated text, creating a secondary layer of distrust.
• The recommendation targets personal blog owners specifically to protect the 'real human being' authenticity of their content.

To me there are different motivations to include imagery and some of them are just fine with AI generation. If the imagery actually goes to the substance of helping to illustrate or explain the actual content then it seems very superficial to reject it based on how it was generated. In fact it is kind of stupid to insist someone slavishly draw something by hand that could have been done an easier way.

The problem comes when the imagery is placed as a false value signal. If it is designed to send a signal of 'this content took a lot of effort to produce because an image that would be hard for a human to make is attached to it' - but the image was generated without that effort, then it's basically a lie and insult to the reader.

— zmmmmm (thread)

Same problem for me for sending emails, outreach, and other behaviors that signal human identity but it turns out to be an AI post. The area with grace for me is how much effort a human spent on composing the message - I wouldn't expect a message a human wrote >50% of and had an AI help grammar check, proof read and edit need an AI disclosure. But otherwise, if the identity is >50% have an AI disclose it.

This is how I'd like for human-on-behalf-of-human outreach to work too, i.e. if my human secretary sends a message under my identity and via my email client, I'd expect it to be under their name not mine.

This points out some long standing issues with lack of accountability and deception by humans through our time. Think: humans have been doing these things:

• human have other humans impersonate them and send messages on their behalf (i.e. via secretary, receptionist, email, a VA, via social media via a social media manager)

• friends or family answering your letters if your a celebrity

Those behaviors, deceptive and lies, are insults to you at the expense of the gain of the liar. We haven't held them to accountability or a standard of respect before AI, and so we are facing the same challenges we did before AI - we just have more humans doing the same thing with AI as the . Why have we been unable to hold them accountable to the deception before - lack if transparency, lack of power to hold accountability to the behavior?

— mannanj (thread)

The most important thing to keep in mind, when considering AI images for helping to illustrate or explain the actual content, is that AI-generated images have a big trust problem.

Take a look at the Google Image Search results for 'Engine Diagram' https://www.google.com/search?q=Engine+Diagram&tbm=isch

In the first row I get two correct-looking diagrams, then a load of AI-generated ones. Three cylinder heads for four cylinders? Two crankshafts? Oil pan labelled Crankshaft? Oil pan labelled Connect in rod? A four-cylinder engine with seven valve springs? Parts labelled up to 39 but a 9-item key? Spark plug wires that loop back on themselves? A crank shaft where the pistons aren't offset in phase? Four-cylinder engines whose exhaust manifolds have three or five openings? Then in the second row, I get 'Parts of a V6 engine' showing a four-cylinder engine - with an 'Exhaust malvol', an 'extaust manivol', an 'exsoust manivol' an 'oilolaivt manivol'

Savvy technical audiences have noticed this - and so when a diagram has a whiff of AI about it, they become extremely skeptical and distracted.

Personally I only use AI-generated diagrams very sparingly, and very carefully.

— michaelt (thread)

The problem comes when the imagery is placed as a false value signal. If it is designed to send a signal of 'this content took a lot of effort to produce because an image that would be hard for a human to make is attached to it' - but the image was generated without that effort, then it's basically a lie and insult to the reader.

Well, the issue is the majority of AI images seems to fall into this category, which then trains my brain to treat all AI images in this way, rather than sifting for the few golden use cases where it's legitimately adding value.

At work, for example, I'm more likely to go brains off if someone presenting content shows an AI generated image in their slides.

— SecretDreams (thread)

Value is almost never in the thing itself or some inherent quality.

Value is in the thing itself, however, there requires a certain level of trust by the reader consumer that what they are taking part of is not a scam/bamboozle first, and hopefully worth their time, and some proof of work goes a long way. So effort used to signal that the author cares about the subject if they went through the effort of setting up a blog, writing 2000 words on a topic with some curated CC-licensed images relevant to the subject.

GenAI images and LLMisms are the inverse - proof of no-work; they signal the author didn't put in effort, other than a fraction of a cent on tokens. This is why 'cleaning up' your writing with LLMs is not a great idea, or makes it look low-effort.

These dynamics are crucial for understanding the feelings and emotions around AI

These issues predate AI, going back to content-farms (if not earlier). The root issue is low-quality content masquerading as high-quality and authoritative. GenAI greatly lowers the bar of entry.

— overfeed (thread)

• Apple is seeking expedited discovery to investigate claims that 11 additional former employees beyond the original accused may be witnesses or participants in the alleged scheme.
• The complaint details specific incidents, including one former employee discussing unannounced product information with accused staff before an interview, and another taking screenshots of confidential documents beforehand.
• After the initial lawsuit was filed, multiple former Apple employees now working at OpenAI reportedly contacted the company to return work-issued devices they kept after leaving.
• OpenAI's rebuttal accuses Apple of emailing the wrong person due to confused surnames, lying about discussions with its general counsel, and blaming its own poor security for the 'residual access' former staff had.

Really don't like all the drama around this. Should be dealt with in court, not tried in the press.

Both sides should learn to remain silent and work the case through legal channels.

— datakan (thread)

Apple is cutthroat in business too.

Tony Fadell, the inventor of the iPod and co-inventor of the iPhone, and later Nest founder, commented this in Stratechery about the lawsuit when filed:

"This is Apple's typical tactic to scare Apple employees — either former or current. I heard this lawsuit was driven by the Apple board.

Steve threatened to file a lawsuit against Nest for poaching 80-100 Apple employees. He called me, screamed for a while with lots of accusations. Then I said, 'Steve, it's Apple's job to retain its talent, not mine.' He stopped his rant and then we went on to talk about our families and vacation plans. We kept hiring…"

— jdross (thread)

And, [OpenAI] said that Apple didn't admit to the claim that the 'residual access' allowing former employees to access Apple's system was the result of poor security procedures on Apple's part.

Sam 'I hack others by mistake' Altman dunking on the security practice of others is funny, is there any glass house he won't go to?

— SiempreViernes (thread)

This entire OpenAI hardware thing is a vanity project by Sam Altman wanting really bad to be Steve Jobs. Just look at this comical announcment photo and letter from last year https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/. If this lawsuit results in the whole thing getting canned it might actually be good for OpenAI because it'll save them from pouring further billions down the drain over what will eventually be the Humane Pin 2.0.

— paxys (thread)

Apple is historically successfully secretive.

I suspect their security 'lapses' are more along the lines of 'give them enough rope to thoroughly hang themselves'

— pclowes (thread)

• The model is trained using LoRA fine-tuning and merged via SLERP to combine a public-data checkpoint, a fine-grained policy discrimination checkpoint, and the base instruct model into a single checkpoint.
• Mistral converts disparate public safety datasets into a unified instruction-query-document format while explicitly calibrating strictness per source, such as applying strict thresholds for adversarial jailbreaks and lenient ones for response-quality data.
• To address scarce visual moderation data, the team supplements limited datasets with general-purpose images as high-quality negatives and filters image-query pairs through a vision-language reranker to reduce hallucinations and mislabels.
• Instead of outputting a discrete safe/unsafe label, the model softmax-normalizes only the yes and no logits to produce a continuous probability score that can be thresholded or ranked by confidence.
• Shieldstral is optimized for efficient deployment, requiring only a single 16GB NVIDIA GPU to run inference.

I would be curious if this can do moderation with an arbitrary ruleset, or if it's just 'that one moderation style' we already know from current big tech platforms.

The kind where malicious intent is okay if the words are nice.

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Or, rephrased: How big is the space in which you can tune this model without retraining.

Is it just 'we hate sex'/'we don't hate sex' 'We hate violence'/'we don't hate violence' or is it truly as flexible as claimed?

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Maybe something like 'Is this guy a corporate fraud that is going to waste my time with performative nonsense?'

That would be the true test for a moderation model and I would be immensely impressed if it could manage to pull that off.

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Edit: Looking at the paper though.. probably not.

I suppose this is useful for B2B, which seems to be mistrals whole thing. Question is just if it is also useful for society to hand the SV prefab morals down like that. Kinda like cultural imperialism but with an ethical spin.

Maybe opinions on those base datasets could occasionally differ more than the model can be steered.

— hypfer (thread)

Mistral needs to abandon their Everything-stral branding. Getting kind of lame.

"Shieldstral" is an awkward and bad name

— petcat (thread)

I've had dreams of building something in the image sharing or social platform realm, but stopped short of planning because of obvious content moderation responsibilities. This seems to be a realistic, cost effective solution to that one piece of the puzzle.

— pwython (thread)

Someone should use this to do the exact opposite of the intention: filter for 'offensive' content, and boost it or collate it into a newsletter/email blast for people of culture.

You have to give it to Mistral they do at least know what the market near them says they want right now. The great problem is in a few years of this that market won't be worth anything.

Edit to add, you could also add this to an AI workflow so as to produce content that walks right up to the line but doesn't trigger it.

— mosura (thread)

I'd really like to see more conversation around Mistral's models. It's good to see Europe developing AI.

— lenerdenator (thread)

• Partner technology TrendAI detected roughly 600,000 sextortion cases driven by AI-generated deepfakes and synthetic media.
• Seventy-two percent of surveyed African nations reported domestic scam centres, predominantly concentrated in West and Southern Africa.
• Criminals are bypassing biometric verification by constructing synthetic identities that merge legitimate personal data with fabricated details.
• East Africa is currently experiencing spikes in mobile money fraud and ransomware aimed at critical infrastructure, whereas West and Central Africa face higher rates of romance and business email compromise scams.
• Four coordinated multinational policing efforts, such as Operation Serengeti 2.0 and Operation Red Card 2.0, resulted in over 1,500 arrests across the continent.

The main fuel is the internet , followed by mobile phones and social media.

AI definitely makes the scams more believable, a Nigerian Prince can now easily forge documents.

But at the same time AI is a double edged sword, it can be used for both offence and defense.

— merelydev (thread)

Coincidentally it's also the biggest scam in the west. Wait till the IPO and the inevitable 80% stock drop of OpenAI ….

— usernametaken29 (thread)

When the majority of a decades-long-scams' victims are Boomers getting hacked with AIs (clearing out your possibly-lesser inheritances)... does it still matter if the /u/usernametake29s of this world are still stuck thinking LLMs are "a scam" ? Still?

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This thought-provoker is 100% human-derived.

#They'reMadeOutOfWeights

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I didn't even realize how serious I was being, back in late 2022, when I was telling my Boomer friends (twice my age, but still closer than most "family") "make sure if you're grand-daugther calls 'begging for her life,' you need to ask the kidnappers something only she would know – and then _you can never ask that same question again (for verification, at least; ask whatever you want).

We are here.

— ProllyInfamous (thread)

Crypto and now AI, every new tech we make these days it seems the main utility is just to enable criminals

— bad_haircut72 (thread)

Why not use AI to detect and avoid scams?

As if people weren't scamming before AI, with the billions of dollars seized from the Chinese scam dungeons in Cambodia [0] where they had kidnapped people and tied them to computers (including a few deaths, and another wave of arrests just recently)

Scammers gonna scam. At least if they can use AI for it then maybe they'll kidnap fewer people

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45580981

— Razengan (thread)

• Barclays estimates show OpenAI and Anthropic will consume 73% of Amazon's AI revenue in 2026-2027 and 75% in 2028, with their compute spend projected to reach $35.8 billion and $20 billion respectively by 2028.
• Hyperscalers have directly funneled massive capital into these labs, including Google's up to $30 billion investment in Anthropic, Amazon's $50 billion into OpenAI, and Microsoft's reported $100 billion combined investment and infrastructure cost for OpenAI.
• Wells Fargo data indicates Microsoft's AI revenues for FY2026 were approximately $34.5 billion against a $115.9 billion capital expenditure bill, highlighting a severe return-on-investment gap.
• Analysts estimate that non-lab AI compute demand across Amazon, Google, and Microsoft combined is less than $30 billion, suggesting the broader enterprise market has not yet adopted AI infrastructure at scale.
• The article highlights a circular financing loop where hyperscalers use direct equity investments, private credit deals, and compute backstops to ensure their largest customers can pay their own bills, artificially inflating cloud revenue growth.

This guy has zero zip nada null AI background. He is a videogame reviewer and PR guy. He is a pure influencer feeding on the AI backlash he helped to create.

He has been predicting a crash for how many years now? And while I can totally see Anthropic and OpenAI going through some things on the way to post-IPO FMV, those things do not include AI going away. It truly doesn't matter whether closed source Frontier lab models are spewing tokens or large foreign open weight models are doing it, the token factories will be just fine, and that's really all I care about.

The question to me is why the media favors influencers like this over practitioners.

And it's not like there aren't more balanced takes out there, here's just one...

https://overweightskepticism.substack.com/p/ais-cash-cushion-runs-out-around

— LogicFailsMe (thread)

This is a bit of a doomer article, but quite honestly, 200 billion dollars a year on a 30 billion dollar a year business that is growing does not really sound as bad as the author makes it out to be, especially when that business consists of growth startups that are currently primarily concerned with completely automating your current revenue stream.

The obvious way to recoup spend is to grow, rugpull by cranking up costs 6x and reducing inference cost by half (highly achievable with improved silicon and technology), then simply fire a large percentage of software engineers. From that perspective the current behavior is a bit wicked but downright logical.

And having two whale customers is not really out of the ordinary for any software company... it's just the scale that is staggering.

The actual risk that the author does not even broach upon for investors... the thing that will actually torpedo this massive investment are the open source open weight chinese models that commoditize the entire endeavor. If you don't have a monopoly, you cannot rugpull and 6x the costs on the consumer.

Ironically, the actual thing that will likely kill OpenAI is ACTUAL OPEN AI.

— LarsDu88 (thread)

I'm seeing this guy everywhere. He was on Bloomberg a day ago and then on another channel and now here. I'm curious why there are not more people like him voicing their concerns. Makes you wonder if he is completely wrong.

— quaintdev (thread)

Several top level comments are attacks on the author's credibility that do not engage the substance of the piece at all. I think the fundamental problem for people on all sides of the various debates surrounding AI is that 'AI is a powerful, transformative technology' and 'Anthropic and OpenAI are both doomed, and this poses risks to the broader economy' are compatible statements of fact. Just because you believe (1) does not justify dismissing (2) out of hand.

(2) is the point of this article. OAI and Anthropic are spending by far the most money of anyone in the space, as the article rightly notes, but they have no path to becoming profitable, meaning they cannot occupy that position forever. The other entities that rely on their spending to support their own margins - in this case the major cloud providers - are vulnerable to revenue collapse if OAI and Anthropic fail.

The premise most would disagree with is that the labs have no path to profitability. Two points support this: demand for inference is functionally infinite, or at least is so great that it is not meaningful to discuss its limits; and the labs are profitable on inference and are only taking losses to compete with one another. Some would extend this further and say that once the tech is good enough it will be able to drastically reduce their costs by some combination of speeding up research and creating efficiencies to reduce compute spend.

These are valid criticisms. But 'AI has gotten better since he started saying 'AI bad'' is not a reason to ignore the fact that major cloud computing providers are taking on massive new debt while becoming increasingly dependent on only two customers who face meaningful margin pressures. Unless OAI and Anthropic can find a durable moat and a means to exert pricing power, this is a serious issue going forward. That is true whether we wind up with a machine god (although we might have bigger problems in that case) or if we plateau at current capabilities.

— arctic-true (thread)

Has ed zitron ever accounted for the fact that his predictions literally never come true? In most jobs such a poor track record would be disqualifying.

— semiquaver (thread)

• It features a built-in natural language classifier that automatically distinguishes between shell commands and AI prompts, routing input accordingly without manual triggers.
• Users can hand off active CLI tasks to cloud agents via a slash command to continue work remotely, with all cloud sessions tracked and steerable through a web dashboard.
• Subscriptions start at $18 per month, which includes $20 worth of monthly inference credits, while standalone ad-hoc credits are available starting at $10.
• The agent supports full-screen and interactive terminal applications like sqlite, vim, and gdb, allowing it to directly write queries, edit documents, or set breakpoints within those environments.
• Developers can define custom model routers using a YAML configuration file to route specific tasks to designated frontier or open-weight models.

I used to really like Warp, back when it was just a terminal. Then as they went more and more in on AI the actual terminal features became more and more buggy and I ended up having to go back to WezTerm.

Why is every company seemingly trying to re-implement agents themselves rather than making their product work with the existing ones?

— lexicality (thread)

So this is a competitor to something like OpenCode or Pi? I suspect for most developers, they are using Claude Code or Codex CLI mainly just so they don't have to pay-per-token and can use the subscription products - which I assume can't be done with Warp Agent?

— daveidol (thread)

The other day in warp I literally couldn't run ls because it kept interpreting it as a AI command. I still love warp, but some of the stuff is crazy.

— Jonovono (thread)

Interesting idea! I like the idea of more deeply integrating code agent with the terminal (e.g. shell, ptys, etc).

It's spawning PTYs but does it support SSH'ing into a remote session and running commands from a remote shell? That's something I built into zmx in order to scratch that 'debugging in a remote VM' itch.

https://zmx.sh

— qudat (thread)

The irrational exuberance of these guys. It's interesting to see what happened, somebody somewhere got the very very bad idea (if the goal is to make money) of 'we will build, like the BEST terminal.'

Which, given open-source, is just going to be a dead-end, even before AI. Because software likes to be modifiable, and this sort of thing is literally at the center of people who like to modify software.

But, hey, if something good comes of it, fantastic. I mostly the think of Docker, an unqualified success in software and probably a huge failure in business.

And the latter actually makes this a double-good; a 'successful' docker would have somehow monopolized some very important part of the process, and docker is too good to be gatekept like that.

— jrm4 (thread)

• The article challenges the notion that developers spend most of their time writing code, citing studies showing it is closer to 14 percent, and argues that AI's impact on productivity is more nuanced than simple automation claims suggest.
• It argues that AI cannot replace the coordination, stakeholder management, and design decision-making that constitute a significant portion of engineering work.
• The authors warn that AI adoption requires rethinking how teams review, test, and maintain code, rather than simply giving everyone a license to use AI tools.

On my visits to the Bay Area, I would ask AI researchers or interns why they are doing their current research or projects, when in a year or three agentic LLMs could probably do them;

This is such a weird point to make that doesn't become correct just because everyone makes it, all the time. Why clean the ocean if some magic future tech will clean them? Why save the world now if some benevolent AI is 'just around the corner' and will do it for us? And people have been making this point for years now, and it's not like my job got any easier. I just got more AI.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51294/waiting-for-the-barbarians

And I say that as someone who uses Claude Code in complex environments almost hourly; I, as the human, still have to do the thinking as Claude still 'can't jump' [1] and I have seen no evidence that they (or similar AI, any time soon) will 'jump' like a human brain does.

[1] https://www.tomzahavy.com/files/llms-cant-jump.pdf

— a_bonobo (thread)

I don't understand Myth 1 (Developers Spend Most of Their Time Writing Code).

They quote a study in which developers report to spend 11-14% of their day coding. The rest is stuff like solution design and meetings. The insinuation is that AI can at most automate 14% of your day.

The problem with this argument is that once you have code, some (not all) of the precursors to code go away.

— kylecazar (thread)

We already know developers don't actually spend most of their time writing code, with studies at Microsoft and elsewhere showing it's closer to 14 percent.

Anyone else finding they're spending more time writing code (or at least driving agents to write code) now?

14% used to feel about right for me - I'd spend the rest of the time researching approaches and libraries, planning things out in issues, or sometimes just thinking really hard about problems I ran into.

Now... I still do those things, but I'm doing many of them faster - and I'm often doing them while my coding agents are churning away on code.

There's also this weird effect where the harder a problem is the more I can get done in parallel with it, because an agent might need to spend 20 minutes on it without my involvement.

— simonw (thread)

|--------|-------|------|------|-------|------| |Contract|Product|Design|Coding|Testing|Deploy|

Writing Code Isn't the Bottleneck, until writing code is the bottleneck, until it's not again.

— Supermancho (thread)

The 14% coding time figure is one of those stats that sounds surprising until you actually track your own time. When I started building a coding agent with persistent state, I realized how some days are spent with minimal actual typing, most of it is design, reading code, debugging, problem solving, and context-switching.

But I'd push back on one thing the article implies that AI is automatically a productivity win. It's not. Some days I've shipped two months of work in a few days with AI. Other days, like today, I've burned a whole day and gotten almost nothing done because the proper research was not done by me or multiple agents.

The bottleneck for AI can be the human understanding of how to optimally use the tool. While the bottleneck for the human can be not maximizing multiple agents, or the input the user enters, then the retention of the output. If the user's input is lost, the output falters. If the user doesn't understand what the AI output is, there is going to be a problem eventually.

The article touches on adoption barriers (Myth 7), but it doesn't really get into the ego piece. There's still a wave of experienced devs who either refuse to adopt AI, or use it quietly and don't share what they're doing. That slows the whole team's learning curve. At this point, I think it's pretty much understood that you should be using AI as a dev — not to replace your skills, but to accelerate them. That means still learning new languages, still writing code, still troubleshooting. The tools change, but the craft doesn't.

I think the article is right that the real leverage is organizational, not individual. The teams that succeed with AI aren't the ones giving everyone a license — they're the ones rethinking how they review, test, and maintain code.

What I'm still uncertain about is how to measure whether AI is actually making systems better, not just faster. Lines of code is clearly a bad metric, but I haven't seen a good alternative yet. What metrics are people actually using that feel meaningful?

— TrustChain (thread)

• The analysis covered exactly 60 language model benchmarks.
• Researchers tracked saturation using a specific framework of 14 distinct properties.
• Expert curation was found to be the decisive factor in extending benchmark lifespan, outweighing the impact of public test data.

This seems to be the end of the road for LLM's. There's only so much accuracy on a highly non-linear space you can get from a regression.

If the Pareto rule is any indicator, 80% of results come from 20% of causes. It seems that we have alot more to learn about intelligence.

I am reminded of a statement on truth from an ancient philosopher, this sentiment seems to be exactly the opposite of the LLM training paradigm

"The seeker after truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them, but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and demonstration and not the sayings of human beings whose nature is fraught with all kinds of imperfection and deficiency. Thus the duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself an enemy of all that he reads, and, applying his mind to the core and margins of of its content, attack it from every side. he should also suspect himself as he performs his critical examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into either prejudice or leniency." - ibn al-Haytham

— otterdude (thread)

I started thinking about this back after the Llama 4 release, and since then our team has put a lot of thought into designing evaluations that don't saturate, are resistant to contamination, and can scale. What has worked best for us is using multi-agent environments with open-ended cooperative or competitive goals. Mostly designed as multiplayer games. The results tend to align with our experience for coding better than any non-aggregator benchmark, and likely at lower cost to run.

Data at https://gertlabs.com/rankings

— gertlabs (thread)

As a PC gamer who grew up in the 00s, this has been something I've tried to warn ardent LLM and model enthusiasts about for quite some time.

Benchmarks are handy when they're new, novel, and constantly changing. The second you let even a single aspect of it stagnate, it becomes a gameable score rather than a useful metric. In PC Gaming, we saw vendors optimize for specific titles, benchmark tools, and scenarios at the expense of general performance, and eventually the industry had a 'come to Jesus' moment where we had to collectively decide how to move forward from an industry built on thoroughly gamed benchmarks, with entities like Gamers' Nexus and Digital Foundry being the end results of that falling out.

LLMs were always going to end up the same way, because the people building the benchmarks - well-intentioned as they were - ultimately fell into the exact same traps with fixed scoring rubrics, known test questions, and believing in some form of 'completeness' that could be attained or achieved. The net result are models consistently scoring better on benchmarks but also seeing diminishing returns and rising vulnerabilities, because actual improvement or utility isn't what they're being optimized for so much as bragging rights. It's why there's so much growing interest in things like MoE execution on unified memory platforms as a means of porting larger models to consumer kit, or ternary models (shoutout to Bonsai) as a means of reducing overall size: both take leading edge, benchmark-saturating models and show that with minimal score loss, they function about as well as frontier models might.

Building a new benchmark won't solve the problem, either. To move forward, we must evaluate LLMs objectively and with continuously evolving workloads. More 'pelican on a bicycle' stuff, but from varying perspectives and use cases. Radiologists putting models through their paces with usable sample data they don't share with AI labs, or IT folks tasking agents with bootstrapping specific, real-world workloads. To prove general intelligence, we need more specialists evaluating them specifically and generally in ways that are transparent to consumers but difficult or impossible for AI companies to prepare against.

Only then will scoring values matter.

— stego-tech (thread)

This seems to be the end of the road for LLM's

This is an amazingly ignorant thing to say given the current pace of progress.

— heaney-555 (thread)

Slop

We find that nearly half of the our bench- marks exhibit saturation

— buckle8017 (thread)

• Epoch AI data indicates open-weight models currently have only a four-month catch-up lead time compared to proprietary frontier models.
• OpenAI executive Dean Ball suggested leveraging regulatory risk to inject 'fear, uncertainty, and doubt' to deter hyperscalers from adopting Chinese AI.
• Moonshot AI paused subscriptions to its Kimi K3 model just 48 hours after launch due to overwhelming server demand.
• The analysis warns that the AI financial ecosystem is highly interconnected and circularly financed, meaning a collapse at OpenAI could drag down partners like Oracle and SoftBank.
• Former OpenAI executive Mira Murati's Thinking Machine Lab recently released its first model as an open-weight alternative, indicating a domestic industry shift.

Hardly anybody is talking about the biggest political aspect of open weight LLMs (actually, any LLMs):

Because they instantly and reliably(tm) give you the information you want in the format you want it in, they are going to replace the web search as the dominant mode through which information is disseminated - if, indeed, this hasn't already happened. As such, LLMs are effectively a form of publishing for their training data.

Which means a vicious fight for control over what goes into LLMs, and strong incentives to widely disseminate useful LLMs that encode your structural biases, instead of some adversary's. We already talk about Chinese models that won't talk about Tiananmen Square, but that's eye-rollingly sophomoric compared to what the stakes are now. Imagine a model that subtly discourages entrepreneurship, because its creator doesn't want upstart competitors. All questions of media bias are multiplied incalculably when LLMs are folded into all of society.

I think we need to take LLMs seriously as sovereign projects that are as critical to the democratic experiment as a free press. Funding needs to be nationalized; training needs to be conducted in the open, on open datasets; fine tuning needs to follow democratic principles. Only then will they be fit for purpose for their inevitable structural destiny: arbiters of human opinion.

— dTal (thread)

In a world where open-weight models dominate, the proprietary frontier models of Anthropic and OpenAI will find it virtually impossible to charge monopolistic pricing.

Maybe they can't charge monopolistic pricing (there's a few market entrants anyway today), but they can still charge premium pricing.

Also two things can be true at once.

American and western AI companies or other companies can rightly be part of the chain of general concern from western societies about anti-democratic authoritarian regimes (Iran + friends, China, Russia, North Korea, Cuba, &c.) getting ahold of technology while simultaneously also being worried about losing their market position and seeking regulatory rules to entrench themselves against actors who do not share the same values and seek to undermine western businesses with trade practices that are intolerable to our societies.

— ericmay (thread)

Bottom line: China wins.

Self isolation by the USA won't change the overall results.

Isolation is weakness, not strength.

It is a prescription for economic stagnation, decline and exploitation by home grown corporate interests that won't/can't compete anywhere else.

The best opportunity to counter China was with full cooperation from the rest of the world.

This adminstration has rejected this opportunity --- and is inadvertently working to 'Make China Great Again'.

http://rdcy.ruc.edu.cn/yw/LATEST_INSIGHTS/b7bdcf47e8a2489085b7c46773f5715b.htm

— jqpabc123 (thread)

There was an interesting discussion on pricing in the recently leaked DeepSeek investor meeting, where CEO Liang Wenfeng went on at length about his personal philosophy on pricing which in the end, for them, comes down to pricing models so as to be able to recoup the cost of the hardware they are running on in 10 months.

He doesn't want to drop prices below that since at their already very cheap prices doing so doesn't increase demand. More interesting are his reasons for not wanting to price higher, which are hard to summarize from memory, but are based around this being a sustainable business model. Pricing higher will only encourage competition.

Note that DeepSeek are not trying to compete with the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic, at least at this time, acknowledging that they just don't have access to the compute to do so (although they have plently of money). This pricing is not about competing with the west - just his own pricing philosophy.

Maybe DeepSeek is a special case, being a hedge fund, and to large degree developing for their own needs (a bit like Meta, perhaps), but nonetheless they are out there as part of the competitive landscape.

No doubt Anthropic and OpenAI have a radically different strategy on pricing - seemingly more just what the market can bear, but with a company like DeepSeek they are not battling 'AI communism', just a de facto competitor with a very different philosophy.

Other companies like Moonshot and Alibaba seem to want to charge as much as possible, at least in part because they are now offering these massive ~3T models that are expensive to serve.

— HarHarVeryFunny (thread)

People keep saying that the open models are cheaper. Until recently that seemed true because they were smaller. And some of the best smaller models are still open and cheap. But K3 with its 2.7T parameters is never going to be really cheap.

— dosinga (thread)

• The framework uses progressive disclosure to inject a compact ~100-token index at session start, loading full rule bodies only when relevant to avoid token waste and instruction drift.
• The mission-brief skill acts as a vendor-agnostic orchestrator that scans installed skills directories, uses LLM-decided routing to match subagent tasks to specific skills, and falls back gracefully if none match.
• The evals pipeline implements a two-tier verification system combining Tier 1 fast checks with Tier 2 LLM judge subagents to test code against business risks before human review.
• The levelup-specify component automatically extracts session execution traces and commits them as reusable Context Directive Records (CDRs) to a shared Git repository, creating a closed feedback loop for team learning.

I know it sounds a bit counter-intuitive but

try a fresh coding session without skills, agents.md, system prompt and additional tools

I think you will be positively surprised how good current models like GPT 5.6 Sol are when they are not oversteered and context spammed

Here is a task (python templating) with 9 runs with OpenCode, Pi and smol

https://smolenv.com/t/nested-template-includes-60636/

you can read each run step by step and see what the agents are doing and how the system prompt and available tools are steering their behaviour to take longer and higher cost

(disclaimer: I'm working on smol)

— tosh (thread)

IMO, these agentic guard rails aren't the answer. It seems like we're seeing that the more you stuff context, the more the agents forget and don't follow the guidelines.[1]

Things like ArchUnit, static analyzers, and other deterministic tools can help with lower level things like architecture. For higher up stuff, I am increasingly feeling like agents don't guarantee anything and in many cases its just the opposite. This is where a thoughtful engineer and reviewer can keep things in check.

It's possible I'm off base here, but I can't make heads or tails of the LLM written readme.

1: https://arxiv.org/html/2510.05381v1

— cautiouscat (thread)

DO NOT INSTALL THIS VIA NPX OR OPEN THIS REPO IN VSCODE. This repo has been infected by malware.

It seems like it was added in commit 74f317d at 11:06 UTC today, with five new hidden files being added under .claude and .vscode that together seem designed to either a) autorun a vscode tasks.json entry, or b) run a Claude session start hook, that will execute a large obfuscated payload. The payload looks like it will fingerprint your system and try to exfil your GitHub tokens.

Edit:

• It also exfils your AWS credentials (~/.aws/credentials, ~/.aws/config), named AWS profiles, and AWS secret managers and SSM parameter store contents
• Same with K8s secrets, with specific searches for GitHub and npm tokens, AWS keys, GCP keys, Azure keys, Stripe keys, Slack tokens, and Twilio tokens
• Same with HashiCorp vault contents
• It will try to use your GitHub tokens (if they have the workflow permission) to run actions on your repository and try to exfiltrate secrets from there
• It will try to read a whole bunch of files from your local environment. I didn't manage to extract the exact file list, unfortunately.
• If the normal C&C server is not available, it tries to create / select a GitHub repo, and commits your data as results-*.json files 100kb at a time
• It also has a bunch of stealth and persistence measures that I'm not qualified to really analyze. Don't assume that deleting the files is necessarily enough.

Rotate your keys, folks.

— foundry27 (thread)

Write your README or ME won't READ it.

— hankbond (thread)

I created a simple git repository with company skills. Basically just a collection of skills around tools and practices we share. One of the skills is 'update company skills' this simply pulls the changes from git and wires them into the user's ~/.codex directory. You can probably do something similar for claude code.

This is far from perfect but we're in this weird transition phase where none of the major AI tool providers are really focusing much on team use of their stuff. But I expect that will start changing soon.

Current tools mostly focus on individuals doing things in isolation. And of course in a team there's more to collaborating than throwing stuff at each other via github. A central repository of company skills is merely our way of improvising a solution.

I find it interesting that Anthropic hired a few of the key people behind Zulip recently. Team chat with tightly integrated AI tools could be a missing piece here. Team communication flows and processes, including ways of working and guardrails are sort of the next piece of the puzzle here. Going from everyone doing their own thing to teams and companies doing things together is going to be a bit of a journey.

— jillesvangurp (thread)

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• The full Kimi K3 model achieves 20+ tps on a 16x GB10 cluster configuration.
• The post demonstrates that frontier Chinese models are becoming increasingly accessible for local deployment on multi-GPU setups.

• The payment was made to shape ChatGPT's output on Gaza-related queries, raising questions about foreign lobbying of AI content systems.
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It is interesting your perspective of the different market bets and I certainly see flavors of that too.

The Deepseek bet is one that also happens to push in Ant's territory of cost, and with the recent Deepseek v4 Flash release, they have proven they can keep pace with the best of them on benchmarks even at a cheaper cost, so how do you see Ant really competing here if you are pushing long horizon tasks cheaply when they do similar?

— u/addiktion (83 points · permalink)

The irony of this era is that Western labs are spending billions trying to build walled gardens, while Chinese labs realized that saturating the global developer ecosystem with top-tier open weights gives them mindshare overnight
Without Qwen, DeepSeek, and GLM, local inference on consumer hardware would be miles behind where it is today

— u/Encyclotech (56 points · permalink)

Thanks, that's interesting.

So the thing I'm curious about here: when you see an announcement out of a Chinese lab, does knowing which lab change how you read it, or is that distinction only interesting from the inside?

To be very frank, not really, I only look at what is open, what is proprietary. Cost is a passing thought as it changes every week, and the other consideration is the type of censorship to expect: American ("No I won't call you daddy"), Chinese ("What do you mean Taiwan is a country?") or none (Mistral is surprisingly uncensored on all aspects)

— u/keepthepace (45 points · permalink)

As reported by various west aligned news agencies, Zhipu is making lots of deals with governments around the world. So it might suggest the strategy is making cheaper on-prem models which can do wider range of general purpose/policy implementation tasks.

https://dialogo-americas.com/articles/the-ai-red-flag-how-beijing-is-capturing-latin-americas-digital-future/

— u/abskvrm (63 points · permalink)

• Users share a wide variety of unsettling AI images, from creepy hallway portraits to distorted figures with unnatural proportions.
• One user notes the image looks like their parents' upstairs hallway, with a creepy figure staring from a doorway.
• The thread includes images with disturbing details like chairs on backwards, towels that look wrong, and figures with off-putting facial features.

https://preview.redd.it/hw1e52rmy8hh1.png?width=1536&format=png&auto=webp&s=247b75201371e168bc71a4addd742c68e80fd40a

— u/Select_Butterfly_387 (permalink)

It's just bro playing peekaboo

https://preview.redd.it/wsy5fy92e9hh1.png?width=1448&format=png&auto=webp&s=83ad07d510345449a4c7a895d0aaa6ea22082424

— u/SensoriRumeMusic (permalink)

lol your unsettling image just looks like my parents upstairs hallway

— u/pollyw0g (permalink)

https://preview.redd.it/pj4q57v979hh1.png?width=1536&format=png&auto=webp&s=7af3882f467fad0877fe5f7b2852670441f8b19e

oh buddy.

— u/thesoupmakesmepoop (permalink)

https://preview.redd.it/lpkib4e8t9hh1.jpeg?width=1448&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e3e46340415811393500bd593e79885f9670751c

— u/Occasion-Mindless (permalink)

• The Hugging Face CEO's comments represent a notable acknowledgment from a major Western AI platform leader about Chinese dominance in open-weight models.
• The statement highlights the competitive pressure Chinese labs are putting on Western open-source AI efforts.

• HBF targets up to 3TB/s bandwidth, a significant leap over current SSD solutions.
• The discussion highlights that inference workloads are read-heavy (loading model weights) rather than write-heavy, making flash potentially suitable for this use case.
• Some commenters note that compute buffers and KV cache would still stay on HBM, with HBF used primarily for weight storage.

Finally. It's so stupid to use ram for that

— u/Deep_Mood_7668 (permalink)

Does this mean that SSD production lines will be diverted to this technology? That is, crippled SSD production, and (even more) skyrocketing prices there? (albeit easing off (V)RAM pressure)

— u/1998marcom (permalink)

This is like 1 year old news. Nvidia seemed to show little interest in this, and IMO, rightly so. Flash has mich higher latency and very limited write cycles. Even for inference only workloads, the GPU will still need to write a ton of data back to memory for every generated token. This puts a hard limit on how many tokens each GPU would be able to generate before it breaks down. Not a very enticing prospect if you want to keep your GPUs around for a long time.

— u/FullstackSensei (permalink)

Kinda makes sense.

You don't need to re-write models, you don't need low latency. You just need to write it once and then read it all as fast as you can.

This is what 'AI-accelerators' should be instead of these built-in AI NPUs in CPUs.

— u/CoUsT (permalink)

Nah. You have maybe 40 to 100GB vram for all the hidden states,  kv ram etc that need loads of write and 3TB storage for weights. You just need a crapload of reads not writes. Nvidia is not interested because its no good for training but its perfect for inference.

— u/Front_Eagle739 (permalink)

"They now admit that their outside lawyers emailed the wrong person after confusing two Asian last names—only after we brought this to their attention."

As an Asian person with a very common surname - 😂

— u/MikeyN0 (permalink)

From the iMessage thread.

3/5/2026 9:37:28 PM Hi, this is highly irregular, please remove me from this thread

One employee clocked it that it was wrong.

— u/benl5442 (permalink)

I wonder how much they will use 5.6 for their defense.

— u/mycentstoo (permalink)

OpenAI trying to win in court of public opinion before they get blasted in the actual courts. gonna be a fun watch

— u/nexusprime2015 (permalink)

More redactions than the epstein files.

— u/SpikePlayz (permalink)

Apple is getting this wrong – OpenAI

246 points · 104 comments · r/singularity · by u/Steap-Edit

Apple sued OpenAI for stealing hardware secrets, OpenAI has now published messages suggesting Apple itself kept using a former engineer after he left

91 points · 34 comments · r/artificial

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• The post sparks discussion about the viability of smaller model variants for local deployment.

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• Optimised DSv4-Flash for 2x GH200: 10,000 tok/s PP, >300 tok/s TG on SGLang (23 points · r/LocalLLaMA · discussion) -- A user shares optimized DeepSeek V4 Flash performance benchmarks running on dual GH200 GPUs using SGLang, achieving 10,000 tokens per second prefill and over 300 tokens per second text generation.
• Is ChatGPT Plus still worth it over Kimi or other Chinese frontier models? (18 points · r/OpenAI · discussion) -- A user questions whether ChatGPT Plus is still the best value given that Chinese models like Kimi have reached frontier-level performance at lower prices, and OpenAI made GPT-5.6 Luna 80% cheaper than Sol, making them use Luna for almost everything.
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