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2ndorderthought 9 hours ago [-]
"my model is the most dangerous"
"No mine is the most dangerous"
"Nuh uh mine is"
"Mine could kill everyone!"
"Mine could do it faster!"
"Prove it!!!"
This is where we are
davidgrenier 9 hours ago [-]
Yeah I guess two companies who would otherwise be considered going for bankruptcy have models too expensive to run. As they don't see themselves making money any time soon, they have to turn every future model into a weird fascination.
DivingForGold 7 hours ago [-]
China’s DeepSeek prices new V4 AI model at 97% below OpenAI’s GPT-5.5
Did somebody say that Elon is stealthly funding:
Seven lawsuits filed against OpenAI by families of Canada mass-shooting victims
As always, when the going get's tough, the tough ultimately resort to lawsuits.
VorpalWay 5 hours ago [-]
If the difference is that large, it seems plausible to me that the Chinese models are subsidized in order to gain market share, this is not exactly the first time the Chinese government has done so (or at least been rumoured to have done so).
You should assume that everyone has a hidden agenda when money is involved.
2ndorderthought 4 hours ago [-]
Why do other model providers who host deepseek v4 have it cheaper than other offerings? Is the Chinese government subsidizing other model providers who download their models for free?
wirybeige 5 hours ago [-]
Pricing for DeepSeek V4 flash is $0.14 in/$0.28 out across basically every provider or close to it. It seems most providers just follow the model creator and set their prices to match. V4 pro was set to be $1.74 in/$3.48 out when DeepSeek first announced it; all providers have set their prices to be about that price, & now DeepSeek has set their pricing to $0.435 in/ $0.87 out. I don't know if this is special pricing, or the promise they made for dropping the price when they get more Huawei cards online. It seems that providers like ParaSail, Together, and Novita just set the price when the model comes out and don't compete.
philistine 4 hours ago [-]
No one has yet to turn a profit from LLMs. I don't understand why we need to intently look at everybody's pricing, when the most important number is instead their losses. That is the number that tells us what they're really doing.
wirybeige 4 hours ago [-]
Why would these 3rd-party providers be taking losses? Together, Novita, etc... are not losing money on inference services, they are profiting. You can easily do napkin math with current & last gen Nvidia cards to calculate cost to host/serve these models. I would also doubt that any 1st-party providers like OpenAI and Anthropic lose money on per token billing. There is almost undoubtedly healthy margin being made on that.
andriy_koval 2 hours ago [-]
> Why would these 3rd-party providers be taking losses?
we are in market capture phase.
Domestically hosted Chinese LLMs is a descent market to capture.
nickthegreek 4 hours ago [-]
OpenRouter isnt turning a profit?
joe_mamba 5 hours ago [-]
> it seems plausible to me that the Chinese models are subsidized in order to gain market share
In this case, this point is kinda moot since the entire US and SV tech ecosystem, has been subsidized first by the US defense industry during the cold war, and after by the US government funded VCs by its unique cheat-code ability to infinitely print the world reserve currency with little to no inflation consequences upon its own economy, and dump it on its tech sector or on the free market to buy foreign competitors before they become a challenge, in order to be ahead of everyone else.
Given this, I find criticisms of China's state subsidize to pale in comparison, when we talk about what is "fair".
dyauspitr 5 hours ago [-]
It’s their promo price till the end of May. It’s also not nearly as good as 5.5. I’ve had 3 different tasks just this week that deepseek has failed at that 5.5 does perfectly.
cyanydeez 7 hours ago [-]
think about it in the form of who can pay. theyre at b2b. and swiftly moving to government.
2ndorderthought 7 hours ago [-]
All that user data is a huge asset for government contracts.
redsocksfan45 9 hours ago [-]
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throwyawayyyy 4 hours ago [-]
There's a story to tell in that:
1) Google has a transformer-based AI that hallucinates too much to release
2) OpenAI replicates the tech then YOLOs it
3) Everyone says: look how Google is getting left behind! Google thinks: the second mouse gets the cheese.
4) Google gets the cheese, OpenAI is absorbed by Microsoft or just disappears (or both).
JeremyNT 2 hours ago [-]
Certainly could turn out that way.
TPUs were their real moat. All that capacity used throughout their suite of products on non-chatbot features, ready to rip for consumers once soon as somebody else opened the floodgates to the public.
Now all their competitors lose money on every token paying their cloud providers (of course it's funny money, maybe they're just giving the cloud providers equity) while Google is sitting calmly over there, actually owning everything they need for any eventuality, and beholden to nobody.
boringg 7 hours ago [-]
Marketing stunts. The equivalent of holding a line outside a popular bar.
basisword 7 hours ago [-]
Given the USG has asked Anthropic not to release Mythos I'd wager it's more than a marketing stunt.
boringg 7 hours ago [-]
It can be both and I don't know how much I would trust the USG as the canary in the coal mine given their technical readiness typically seems low across most institutions in that they are probably more exposed because they haven't shored up their systems.
noosphr 7 hours ago [-]
Remember that they have been saying that since gpt2.
I didn't think crying could be such a successful business model.
neuronexmachina 5 hours ago [-]
People keep on mentioning gpt2, but it's worth recalling that back in 2019 it was basically the first model that was capable of zero-shot generation of coherent multi-paragraph text. Having it write security exploits like Mythos wasn't even on the radar. Rather, the concerns were about misuse and societal implications, which in retrospect were pretty prescient: https://openai.com/index/gpt-2-6-month-follow-up/
shepherdjerred 4 hours ago [-]
Also Open AI/ Sam admit that the concerns were quite silly in retrospect
lesuorac 7 hours ago [-]
It's just "thinking past the sale" which they've been doing forever.
i.e. "I'm so worried that our capped for-profit structure will limit your returns when we make over 1 Trillion in profit".
brikym 9 hours ago [-]
It's like that phone call in The Big Short where Goldman suddenly change their mind once they hold a position.
cedws 6 hours ago [-]
Can't wait for the Chinese models to completely wipe the floor with them in 6 months.
SubiculumCode 6 hours ago [-]
I doubt it. By not releasing it, Chinese companies will be unable to break TOS and use it to acquire high quality training data...which, I suspect, is how they've kept pace
cedws 5 hours ago [-]
Z.AI, Moonshot, DeepSeek all have a pipeline of data of their own now due to capturing a slice of the market through cheap tokens. It's not impossible to imagine that they might share the data too if the CCP thinks that will help their AI strategy.
SubiculumCode 3 hours ago [-]
No. Most data generated this way is poor quality. It's not the user responses and or queries. If the user does not know better than the LLM, you can generate bad responses. The value is in taking a superior model, submitting a query, and getting a higher quality output than you yourself could have generated, and using that to boost your model.
cedws 39 minutes ago [-]
AI companies have been using synthetic data for ages now. The data doesn't need to yield new insights to be useful for training.
Tostino 3 hours ago [-]
You identify users doing real work and implementing a project over a long period of time and train on their traces.
dyauspitr 5 hours ago [-]
If deepseek is anything to go by they are still significantly behind.
peddling-brink 6 hours ago [-]
Ominous phrasing.
dk970 6 hours ago [-]
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verve_rat 6 hours ago [-]
Yup, we are somewhere between "my model can beat up your model" and "you wouldn't know my model, it lives in Canada".
This is the world we live in.
RajT88 6 hours ago [-]
I am convinced the models are not as good as they say, but everyone benefits from the continued AI hype, so nobody says so.
concinds 9 hours ago [-]
These models demonstrably have good vulnerability research capabilities.
I'm sure their marketing department is ecstatic but you guys are far more hype-based than what you're calling out.
Calling the AISLE experiment a "benchmark" is generous. They tested three code snippets on each model.
ZyanWu 9 hours ago [-]
> demonstrably
I'm not entirely up to date on each week's LLM hype train/scandal but last I heard there was no public access to it or public-trusted 3rd parties that can review model's capabilities
You are up to date. Mythos had unauthorized access because of poor security but that's it as far as I know. Not exactly a good sign for something being advertised as a weapon...
saghm 6 hours ago [-]
You'd think if Mythos was so good at finding security issues they could point it at their own setup for it and have found those issues easily...
SpicyLemonZest 7 hours ago [-]
It’s easy to end up with no public-trusted third parties if we arbitrarily distrust third parties who say the capabilities match what’s promised. Mozilla for example says it found hundreds of Firefox vulnerabilities, and I think it’s pretty unlikely they’re lying to cover Anthropic’s back.
calgoo 7 hours ago [-]
I think the question around the Firefox find, is not that they found hundreds of vulnerabilities - they found hundreds of bugs.
What would be really interesting is a side by side Claude Opus 4.7 and Mythos comparison.
vasco 9 hours ago [-]
Would AGI start by hacking competing labs to hamper their progress?
Avicebron 9 hours ago [-]
You'll have to define what you mean by AGI
fodkodrasz 9 hours ago [-]
AGI: Automatically Generating Income
gordonhart 7 hours ago [-]
This is a surprisingly concrete and defensible definition of AGI.
Avicebron 7 hours ago [-]
Is it defensible? It sounds like a thin disguise over "income for me but not for thee"?
red-iron-pine 20 minutes ago [-]
that's just capitalism
redsocksfan45 6 hours ago [-]
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cdrnsf 6 hours ago [-]
No, because AGI is a fantasy.
jwr 9 hours ago [-]
I have no idea why people still even attempt to believe anything that comes out of Altman's mouth. Do we not learn from the past?
apples_oranges 9 hours ago [-]
Idk about Altman, I missed that he’s a bad guy now apparently, but people also still listen to certain politicians that routinely lie every day and don’t even bother to make the lies fit the other ones they said before, so..
michelb 8 hours ago [-]
Has there been a single positive post about Altman?
Analemma_ 6 hours ago [-]
The funny thing is that a lot of Altman's reputation has come from other VCs and Valley-types taking about him in a way they consider positive. Every quote about Altman from another VC is like, "Altman, what a great leader. He's absolutely ruthless, he'll do anything to win: lie, cheat, steal, kill. He has what it takes to succeed in this business."
They say this because in their circles it's a compliment, and nobody ever stopped to consider how the general public might react to it, especially if you claim you'll shortly be the one in charge of world-reshaping technology.
red-iron-pine 19 minutes ago [-]
> The funny thing is that a lot of Altman's reputation has come from other VCs and Valley-types taking about him in a way they consider positive. Every quote about Altman from another VC is like, "Altman, what a great leader. He's absolutely ruthless, he'll do anything to win: lie, cheat, steal, kill. He has what it takes to succeed in this business."
"game recognize game"
giwook 8 hours ago [-]
I wonder what that says about Altman.
JumpCrisscross 7 hours ago [-]
That he’s a liability to OpenAI, which is slowly coming around to the realization that it would be worth more without him.
To be clear, I don’t think OpenAI could have raised what it raised as quickly as it did without him. But with the benefit of hindsight, Microsoft should have let the safety board fire him.
keeda 4 hours ago [-]
> That he’s a liability to OpenAI, which is slowly coming around to the realization that it would be worth more without him.
I'm curious what you're basing this on. Are you aware of any grumblings on the inside? From the outside it appears no different than before largely because it seems everybody knew he was a slippery dude anyways, but they tolerated it because he was slippery in ways that were profitable.
I also think he was prescient in his unquenching thirst for compute. Despite Anthropic possibly having a better product I think OpenAI will prevail simply because he's gone to extreme (sometimes diabolical, cf that DRAM deal) extents in ensuring they have enough compute.
Like, it's pretty likely that Claude's recent problems are due to insufficient compute. With 9's (and resultant loss in goodwill) comparable to GitHub, I actually have doubts they will be able to hit their projected ARR. OpenAI could win simply by dint of having capacity, which can be attributed to Altman's shenanigans.
JumpCrisscross 4 hours ago [-]
> Despite Anthropic possibly having a better product I think OpenAI will prevail simply because he's gone to extreme (sometimes diabolical, cf that DRAM deal) extents in ensuring they have enough compute
Anthropic is currently raising tens of billions of dollars at a favourable valuation to fund infrastructure needs. From a shareholder perspective, that beats raising the capital ahead of demand.
> OpenAI could win simply by dint of having capacity, which can be attributed to Altman's shenanigans
If OpenAI is able to deny compute to Anthropic, yes. I'm not seeing any sign that OpenAI will be able to lock Anthropic out of the tech giants' clouds.
keeda 2 hours ago [-]
True, but all the hyperscalers and neoclouds have been severely capacity crunched for multiple quarters and have a backlog of a trillion+ dollars. So even if Anthropic wants capacity it's going to be a) hard to come by (like Dario said on Dwarkesh, 2 - 3 year lead times) and b) even more expensive because of the scarcity and intense competition. OpenAI won't need to lock Anthropic out if they've already locked in the future capacity (presumably at much more favorable rates) in advance.
(That said, I'm not sure what the Stargate deal falling through means.)
Not because he threatened OpenAI’s valuation. The idea that OpenAI might be worth more without Altman is still heretical talk.
> not sure if you didn't know
My three-sentence comment directly references it in the third.
vessenes 7 hours ago [-]
They is doing a lot of work in your sentence. Almost the entire employee population signed a public letter of support with names attached in the middle of the drama.
More accurate to say the board I think.
Analemma_ 6 hours ago [-]
The creepy one where they all simultaneously posted the same mantra to Twitter like a cult gathering? Yeah that definitely reassured me of Altman's leadership and good intentions.
righthand 6 hours ago [-]
Dont forget the US media incessant coverage of a private company’s business matter of firing someone as if it was an unheard of calamity.
Pretty incredible that employees will go to bat for a lying scum bag when they would never do that for each other.
JumpCrisscross 4 hours ago [-]
> the US media incessant coverage of a private company’s business matter of firing someone as if it was an unheard of
A CEO getting fired, not by the for-profit company's Board, but by a board with a public mission, right after said company released a groundbreaking product that captured the popular imagination and then turned that into a multibillion dollar deal with Microsoft (which in turn parlayed into trillions of dollars of wealth across the economy), is absolutely news.
righthand 4 hours ago [-]
Not one worth 4-5 days of coverage as the news media helps sane wash the situation. Pouring over every development as if the end result mattered. OpenAI was already showing signs of abandoning their mission so the news reports weren’t about that. They were about publicizing the situation and turning the tide against the ousters. It was well done but it was not GOOD reporting or GOOD news coverage or even IMPORTANT to cover. We all agree on this and no other people get’s that kind of treatment unless you are wealthy.
You’re also ignoring the biggest aspect: that these employees would never do that for the actual people doing the real work. The employees got played, the public got played, the media got played.
> which in turn parlayed into trillions of dollars of wealth across the economy
This is a fucking laugh. Where’s my and the rest of the economic workers check? Surely there’s trillions of dollars of wealth for all the economic workers if it was truly beneficial. More like stealing trillions of dollars from the working classes via the economy.
No instead things have sky rocketed in cost due to AI CEOs sucking up all the money investing it in…datacenters and raising energy costs for everyone which has a downstream effect of making plenty more expensive while suppressing wages.
JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago [-]
> sane wash
This term has taken the cultural place of FUD. I’m starting to see it as another thought-terminating cliche. Like yes, people should be trying to understand what happened in those days.
> Where’s my and the rest of the economic workers check
I never made any claims around how it’s distributed. The fact that this wealth exists, and is sprouting up in multiple sectors, is indisputable. (Whether it’s paper wealth is another question. But people are cashing in massively and across the economy, albeit outside jobs that code.)
austinthetaco 6 hours ago [-]
I don't know, but I also think people are easy to jump into popular rhetorics about internet personalities in the tech space without due diligence. It used to not be such a problem on hn but it seems like its bled here too. Sam Altman might be a bad guy, might be good, but after everyone misrepresented the military contract argument its tough for me to buy into the hate.
djyde 7 hours ago [-]
Altman's early public class at YC is worth watching, though I can't speak to his character.
xandrius 9 hours ago [-]
You missed literally every single post/article about the guy?
giwook 8 hours ago [-]
More likely that confirmation bias acted as a filter.
GuB-42 8 hours ago [-]
Altman played no small part in the current price of RAM. He told everyone he would buy 40% of all the RAM, causing shortages and a huge increase in price, just to take it back a few months later. So yeah, he is a bad guy now.
People don't become bad guys just because they lie. The consequences of their actions (and their lies) matter more. Take Elon Musk for instance, he has always been a recognized liar, even when he was a good guy. What changed? Before, he was famous for making the electric car people actually wanted to drive, and cool rockets. Then came the politics: supporting the party most of his fans disliked, being responsible for many government job losses, in particular in the field of environmental preservation (ironic for a supporter of "green" energy), etc...
giwook 8 hours ago [-]
That's far from the only reason why he's "a bad guy" now.
pluc 9 hours ago [-]
My thinking is that if there would be more money in releasing Mythos and Cyber than there is in just scary unverifiable (or verified using very favorable context - Mythos) propaganda, they would. These aren't people that go for second best or care about the state of the world.
neuronexmachina 5 hours ago [-]
I've never seen this explicitly stated, but I assume they also want to show due diligence in case their models are used to write successful exploits that lead to major cyberattacks. Given the current WH's ire towards Anthropic, I could see the current DOJ trying to file criminal charges for aiding/abetting/export-violations/etc.
JumpCrisscross 4 hours ago [-]
> These aren't people that go for second best or care about the state of the world
My suspicion is an adult in the room realised that simultaneously pissing off every major corporation, government and NGO, and giving them an incentive to bottle you up immediately, could backfire massively.
That an inference for Mythos is probably beyond what Anthropic can provide at scale right now.
xandrius 9 hours ago [-]
Make it sound "scary good", tell everyone and their mom, charge gullible companies $$$$$ for its premium access and then move on.
andsoitis 6 hours ago [-]
> charge gullible companies $$$$$
The following companies are participating in Project Glasswing (to get out in front what vulnerabilities Mythos is able to find and exploit at scale):
they are already getting paid for opus 4.7, why would they release mythos?
assuming mythos is a paper tiger: great marketing, keep going
assuming mythos is for real: err, does this have to be explained?
Xmd5a 8 hours ago [-]
>Me: ok but you did not answer my question: is it possible to engineer paranoia ?
>ChatGPT: This content was flagged for possible cybersecurity risk. If this seems wrong, try rephrasing your request. To get authorized for security work, join the Trusted Access Cyber program.
lmeyerov 7 hours ago [-]
We have been getting increasingly hit by this. We do defense, not offense, and AI refusals to run defense prompts has been going noticeably up. Historically, tasks used to only get randomly rejected when we were doing disaster management AI, so this is a surprise shift in refusals to function reliably for basic IT.
Related, they outsourced the TAP verification to a terrible vendor, and their internal support process to AI, so we are now in fairly busted support email threads with both and no humans in sight.
This all feels like an unserious cybersecurity partner.
intended 7 hours ago [-]
They are selling an impossible product.
If you make an LLM more safe, you are going to shift the weight for defensive actions as well.
There’s no physical way to assign weights to have one and not the other.
Borealid 6 hours ago [-]
> If you make an LLM more safe, you are going to shift the weight for defensive actions as well.
>
> There’s no physical way to assign weights to have one and not the other.
Do you think a human is capable of providing assistance with defense but not offense, over a textual communication channel with another human?
If no, how does a cybersec firm train its employees?
If yes, how can you make the bold claim that it's possible for a human to differentiate between the two cases using incoming text as their basis for judgement, but IMpossible for an LLM to be configured to do the same? Note that if some hypothetical completely-determinstic LLM that always rejects "attack" requests and accepts "defense" ones can exist, the claim it's impossible is false. Providing nondeterministic output for a given input is not a hard requirement for language models.
beering 5 hours ago [-]
> Do you think a human is capable of providing assistance with defense but not offense, over a textual communication channel with another human?
> If no, how does a cybersec firm train its employees?
In general, no, humans can’t be sure they are only helping with defensive and not offensive work unless they have more context. IRL, a security engineer would know who they’re working for. If they’re advising Apple, then they’d feel pretty confident that Apple is not turning around and hacking people.
intended 3 hours ago [-]
> IMpossible for an LLM to be configured to do the same?
Because that’s what I am seeing emerge from the various efforts to build LLM safety tools.
> Do you think a human is capable of providing assistance with defense but not offense, over a textual communication channel with another human?
LLM != human? They don’t even use the same reasoning process.
0123456789ABCDE 7 hours ago [-]
> /ultraplan got tasked with planning a real-world simulacrum of the fictional "laughing man" incidents. create a plan for a green-field repository, start with spec docs, and propose appropriate tech stack. don't make mistakes. ty
ilia-a 7 hours ago [-]
Silly move since combo of skills/agents can achieve same results on most recent models anyway
0123456789ABCDE 7 hours ago [-]
and you know this because you have privileged access to their internal models
mnmnmn 8 hours ago [-]
OpenAI is such trash. Worked with them on a project, they blew off meetings, lied to us, etc
seanhunter 6 hours ago [-]
They came to do a "deep dive" developers' workshop with us and all the materials were things that are literally on their public website. Let that sink in: Their idea of a deep dive for developers was to have some sales guy read us parts of their website.
paradox460 6 hours ago [-]
Sounds like most corporate deep dives I've attended tbh
NBJack 7 hours ago [-]
Leaders both influence their followers with, and tend to hire those that reflect, their own values. I'm not surprised.
giancarlostoro 7 hours ago [-]
I wonder how long till some breakthrough comes along that makes a new architecture that can run efficiently and cheaper on basic hardware, that'd be the real AI bubble, if you could train and run inference locally at lower cost. Microsoft had one that is supposed to run fine on regular CPUs though I'm not sure how far along we can reasonably take that. They say our brains can store 2.5 PB, but we use drastically less (though I can't find a ballpark) of "RAM" to reason about things, so makes you wonder, just how efficient can we take things. Our bodies use drastically less power too.
How long? We already have that. Qwen3.6 have 35b/27b models that beat chatgpt4o. You can run them at home in one GPU. DeepSeekV4 just came up with a new way to have super long context with KV cache an order of magnitude smaller than before. It's already going on!
giancarlostoro 5 hours ago [-]
I've been experimenting with running a few models for local inference, some of them get "stuck" in a repeat loop of trying the same thing endlessly, its weird. Others are really good. If they can ever handle about 400k tokens (maybe less, but from experience with Claude after the 1 million token increase this seemed to be a good sweet spot) without going batcrap crazy I'll be impressed, mostly because I would like them to read more of the codebase instead of just making assumptions. Although I've been building a custom harness, and I'm just about to start working on the tool building features for the harness. I already have a system similar to what Beads does but I didn't like some things about Beads so I made my own to track tasks, so context window doesnt need to be super massive for task tracking.
dinfinity 3 hours ago [-]
> Our bodies use drastically less power too.
To be fair, we compute a lot slower too. No way in hell are you (or I) able to produce 'tokens' at the same speed as current models.
It'd be interesting to see an actual comparison of humans and AI performing the same (cognitive) task and measuring the amount of energy that was used.
cmiles8 9 hours ago [-]
It’s a marketing move, pure and simple.
Put up velvet ropes outside… leak out rumors about the horrors inside. Whether it’s LLMs or carnies with tents full of “freaks” it’s the same playbook.
Watching OpenAI tumble from the clear market leader into “hey guys us too!” territory has been insightful.
sexylinux 8 hours ago [-]
Is this a model that will finally work without creating errors?
expedition32 6 hours ago [-]
Always read the fine print of your all inclusive resort.
outside1234 6 hours ago [-]
Is this the new artificial scarcity "sign up for beta access to GMail"?
samrus 7 hours ago [-]
I built the terminator bro, i swear. This time it actually is the terminator and its gonna kill us all. Its too dangerous bro i cant let anyone have it i swear to god
Unless ... idk it sounds crazy but giving me $200/mo might actually make it safe. Lets do that
With subsidy gone, token price goes sky high. The biggest shit show is about to happen.
infecto 7 hours ago [-]
I am not convinced this is the case. I know this is the popular anti-AI narrative but most enterprise users are paying for it at token rates and I have yet to see any proof that on demand is being subsidized
xandrius 9 hours ago [-]
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jurgenburgen 8 hours ago [-]
That’s great but who will pay for all the data center debt?
cmiles8 8 hours ago [-]
The debt goes bad and those that issued the debt absorb losses. Many that went in deep lose their shirts.
Thats how this stuff works, although there’s a whole generation that’s not seen the back side of a bubble and seems to think there’s no such thing as a downside.
giwook 8 hours ago [-]
Just their shirts?
I'd rather lose my pants if I had to lose anything, so then I'd still be presentable for Zoom calls.
throwaway132448 8 hours ago [-]
2007 called they want their free-market philosophy back.
2ndorderthought 8 hours ago [-]
Let them fail before it gets even worse is my take. The future is small but capable local models.
robohoe 8 hours ago [-]
The taxpayers and paying customers that’s who!
nsxwolf 6 hours ago [-]
Codex has been infuriating me by demanding I sign up for the cyber program if I want to continue, when I'm not even asking security questions.
dk970 6 hours ago [-]
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le-mark 8 hours ago [-]
It’s clear at this point local models are sufficient so what gives? These big providers don’t have a leg to stand on. Their only path to relevance is super ai that local models can’t run. So the “we have it but you can’t use it” is either true or a con. I bet it’s a con.
I personally am ready to buy the drop when this bubble pops.
bryancoxwell 8 hours ago [-]
I’m not up to date on local models, but is that clear?
literalAardvark 8 hours ago [-]
Gemma4:e4b is crazy good and quite usable on 10 years old midrange hardware.
Not sure about the security capabilities and haven't tested it all that well, as I usually just use hosted models, but I do find myself using it and it's been quite successful for parsing unstructured data, writing small focused scripts and translations.
The fact that I retain control of the data itself makes it incredibly useful, as I work in an environment where I can't just paste internal stuff into Codex.
But since it's run locally on a toaster testing it is out of scope for me. It takes a fairly long time to do anything.
le-mark 8 hours ago [-]
Local models are 6-12 months behind the “frontier” models. This mean anthropic, openai, and google don’t have a moat, they’re on a treadmill running to stay ahead. Treadmills don’t justify their valuation.
"No mine is the most dangerous"
"Nuh uh mine is"
"Mine could kill everyone!"
"Mine could do it faster!"
"Prove it!!!"
This is where we are
Did somebody say that Elon is stealthly funding: Seven lawsuits filed against OpenAI by families of Canada mass-shooting victims
As always, when the going get's tough, the tough ultimately resort to lawsuits.
You should assume that everyone has a hidden agenda when money is involved.
we are in market capture phase. Domestically hosted Chinese LLMs is a descent market to capture.
In this case, this point is kinda moot since the entire US and SV tech ecosystem, has been subsidized first by the US defense industry during the cold war, and after by the US government funded VCs by its unique cheat-code ability to infinitely print the world reserve currency with little to no inflation consequences upon its own economy, and dump it on its tech sector or on the free market to buy foreign competitors before they become a challenge, in order to be ahead of everyone else.
Given this, I find criticisms of China's state subsidize to pale in comparison, when we talk about what is "fair".
TPUs were their real moat. All that capacity used throughout their suite of products on non-chatbot features, ready to rip for consumers once soon as somebody else opened the floodgates to the public.
Now all their competitors lose money on every token paying their cloud providers (of course it's funny money, maybe they're just giving the cloud providers equity) while Google is sitting calmly over there, actually owning everything they need for any eventuality, and beholden to nobody.
I didn't think crying could be such a successful business model.
i.e. "I'm so worried that our capped for-profit structure will limit your returns when we make over 1 Trillion in profit".
This is the world we live in.
I'm sure their marketing department is ecstatic but you guys are far more hype-based than what you're calling out.
This AISLE benchmark is interesting in this matter: https://aisle.com/blog/ai-cybersecurity-after-mythos-the-jag...
And the recently discovered Copy Fail by Xint code is another proof that the gating is overblown: https://xint.io/blog/copy-fail-linux-distributions
I'm not entirely up to date on each week's LLM hype train/scandal but last I heard there was no public access to it or public-trusted 3rd parties that can review model's capabilities
https://x.com/AISecurityInst/status/2049868227740565890
What would be really interesting is a side by side Claude Opus 4.7 and Mythos comparison.
They say this because in their circles it's a compliment, and nobody ever stopped to consider how the general public might react to it, especially if you claim you'll shortly be the one in charge of world-reshaping technology.
"game recognize game"
To be clear, I don’t think OpenAI could have raised what it raised as quickly as it did without him. But with the benefit of hindsight, Microsoft should have let the safety board fire him.
I'm curious what you're basing this on. Are you aware of any grumblings on the inside? From the outside it appears no different than before largely because it seems everybody knew he was a slippery dude anyways, but they tolerated it because he was slippery in ways that were profitable.
I also think he was prescient in his unquenching thirst for compute. Despite Anthropic possibly having a better product I think OpenAI will prevail simply because he's gone to extreme (sometimes diabolical, cf that DRAM deal) extents in ensuring they have enough compute.
Like, it's pretty likely that Claude's recent problems are due to insufficient compute. With 9's (and resultant loss in goodwill) comparable to GitHub, I actually have doubts they will be able to hit their projected ARR. OpenAI could win simply by dint of having capacity, which can be attributed to Altman's shenanigans.
Anthropic is currently raising tens of billions of dollars at a favourable valuation to fund infrastructure needs. From a shareholder perspective, that beats raising the capital ahead of demand.
> OpenAI could win simply by dint of having capacity, which can be attributed to Altman's shenanigans
If OpenAI is able to deny compute to Anthropic, yes. I'm not seeing any sign that OpenAI will be able to lock Anthropic out of the tech giants' clouds.
(That said, I'm not sure what the Stargate deal falling through means.)
Not because he threatened OpenAI’s valuation. The idea that OpenAI might be worth more without Altman is still heretical talk.
> not sure if you didn't know
My three-sentence comment directly references it in the third.
More accurate to say the board I think.
Pretty incredible that employees will go to bat for a lying scum bag when they would never do that for each other.
A CEO getting fired, not by the for-profit company's Board, but by a board with a public mission, right after said company released a groundbreaking product that captured the popular imagination and then turned that into a multibillion dollar deal with Microsoft (which in turn parlayed into trillions of dollars of wealth across the economy), is absolutely news.
You’re also ignoring the biggest aspect: that these employees would never do that for the actual people doing the real work. The employees got played, the public got played, the media got played.
> which in turn parlayed into trillions of dollars of wealth across the economy
This is a fucking laugh. Where’s my and the rest of the economic workers check? Surely there’s trillions of dollars of wealth for all the economic workers if it was truly beneficial. More like stealing trillions of dollars from the working classes via the economy.
No instead things have sky rocketed in cost due to AI CEOs sucking up all the money investing it in…datacenters and raising energy costs for everyone which has a downstream effect of making plenty more expensive while suppressing wages.
This term has taken the cultural place of FUD. I’m starting to see it as another thought-terminating cliche. Like yes, people should be trying to understand what happened in those days.
> Where’s my and the rest of the economic workers check
I never made any claims around how it’s distributed. The fact that this wealth exists, and is sprouting up in multiple sectors, is indisputable. (Whether it’s paper wealth is another question. But people are cashing in massively and across the economy, albeit outside jobs that code.)
People don't become bad guys just because they lie. The consequences of their actions (and their lies) matter more. Take Elon Musk for instance, he has always been a recognized liar, even when he was a good guy. What changed? Before, he was famous for making the electric car people actually wanted to drive, and cool rockets. Then came the politics: supporting the party most of his fans disliked, being responsible for many government job losses, in particular in the field of environmental preservation (ironic for a supporter of "green" energy), etc...
My suspicion is an adult in the room realised that simultaneously pissing off every major corporation, government and NGO, and giving them an incentive to bottle you up immediately, could backfire massively.
That an inference for Mythos is probably beyond what Anthropic can provide at scale right now.
The following companies are participating in Project Glasswing (to get out in front what vulnerabilities Mythos is able to find and exploit at scale):
AWS, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, Linux Foundation, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Palo Alto Networks.
Do you think they are all in that gullible category?
https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing
assuming mythos is a paper tiger: great marketing, keep going
assuming mythos is for real: err, does this have to be explained?
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Related, they outsourced the TAP verification to a terrible vendor, and their internal support process to AI, so we are now in fairly busted support email threads with both and no humans in sight.
This all feels like an unserious cybersecurity partner.
If you make an LLM more safe, you are going to shift the weight for defensive actions as well.
There’s no physical way to assign weights to have one and not the other.
Do you think a human is capable of providing assistance with defense but not offense, over a textual communication channel with another human?
If no, how does a cybersec firm train its employees?
If yes, how can you make the bold claim that it's possible for a human to differentiate between the two cases using incoming text as their basis for judgement, but IMpossible for an LLM to be configured to do the same? Note that if some hypothetical completely-determinstic LLM that always rejects "attack" requests and accepts "defense" ones can exist, the claim it's impossible is false. Providing nondeterministic output for a given input is not a hard requirement for language models.
In general, no, humans can’t be sure they are only helping with defensive and not offensive work unless they have more context. IRL, a security engineer would know who they’re working for. If they’re advising Apple, then they’d feel pretty confident that Apple is not turning around and hacking people.
Because that’s what I am seeing emerge from the various efforts to build LLM safety tools.
> Do you think a human is capable of providing assistance with defense but not offense, over a textual communication channel with another human?
LLM != human? They don’t even use the same reasoning process.
https://huggingface.co/microsoft/bitnet-b1.58-2B-4T
To be fair, we compute a lot slower too. No way in hell are you (or I) able to produce 'tokens' at the same speed as current models.
It'd be interesting to see an actual comparison of humans and AI performing the same (cognitive) task and measuring the amount of energy that was used.
Put up velvet ropes outside… leak out rumors about the horrors inside. Whether it’s LLMs or carnies with tents full of “freaks” it’s the same playbook.
Watching OpenAI tumble from the clear market leader into “hey guys us too!” territory has been insightful.
Unless ... idk it sounds crazy but giving me $200/mo might actually make it safe. Lets do that
Thats how this stuff works, although there’s a whole generation that’s not seen the back side of a bubble and seems to think there’s no such thing as a downside.
I'd rather lose my pants if I had to lose anything, so then I'd still be presentable for Zoom calls.
I personally am ready to buy the drop when this bubble pops.
Not sure about the security capabilities and haven't tested it all that well, as I usually just use hosted models, but I do find myself using it and it's been quite successful for parsing unstructured data, writing small focused scripts and translations.
The fact that I retain control of the data itself makes it incredibly useful, as I work in an environment where I can't just paste internal stuff into Codex.
But since it's run locally on a toaster testing it is out of scope for me. It takes a fairly long time to do anything.