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On Friday, Anthropic launched its Opus 5 model, the newest version of its long-standing heavyweight model. While smaller than Fable 5, the model will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases. Notably, Opus 5 actually outperforms Fable 5 on a number of benchmarks included in the announcement. Opus 5 is launching only two months after Opus 4.8, which became available on May 28. Mythos 5, Fable 5, and Sonnet 5 all launched in June, leaving only the lightweight Haiku model still waiting for an upgrade to the 5 series. In a…
Every time an AI model reads or writes, it consumes tokens. These are the small units of text it works in, and each one represents roughly three-quarters of a word. You pay for how many you use. A chatbot exchange burns a few hundred. A simple agent consumes up to 15,000 tokens per task; a complex, multi-agent system uses from 200,000 to more than a million.This is the new tokenomics (read: token + economics) of AI, and it’s no surprise academia is on the case. Stanford researchers found agentic coding uniquely token-dense, using around 1,000 times more tokens than ordinary…
In his first-ever post on X, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called attention to how some of the biggest names in AI and tech are rallying together to defend the future of open-weight AI models.”AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country,” Huang wrote on X. “Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.”On Friday, Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Mistral, and others signed an open letter that urges US policymakers not to crack down on open-weight AI models.For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models…
Several AI companies, including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Nvidia, have signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose broad “premature restrictions” on open-weight AI models. The letter comes as Washington debates how the U.S. should respond to allegations that Chinese AI labs are stealing intellectual property from their American counterparts, and growing in capability. The letter doesn’t mention China at all, but it comes in the wake of reports that the Trump administration has been considering banning Chinese open-weight models, and potentially issuing sanctions against AI companies from the country. The White House has even accused Moonshot AI…
Attie, Bluesky’s AI assistant that lets you build custom social feeds without programming, is evolving into an open-ended research tool. The company this week said it’s added a new feature to the AI assistant, called Quests, that lets users ask it for information and news spreading across the broader Bluesky social network, nicknamed the Atmosphere. This includes not only Bluesky, but also any app that integrates with the underlying AT Protocol. Bluesky’s user growth has slowed over the past eight months — the social network saw its user base double to 40 million last October, within just a year, but…
The fees on your next DoorDash order could change depending on the size of your order or how far your delivery worker has to travel.DoorDash is overhauling the way it charges customer fees, the company said on Thursday. It plans to roll out the new fee structure across most of the US over the coming months.Under the new system, the service fee customers pay can vary more, depending on factors such as the size of an order and the distance to the store or restaurant. Orders that require trips of more than 10 miles may still incur a separate long-distance…
Midjourney, an AI lab best known for its LLM-powered image and video generators, has acquired the social astrology app Co-Star, according to Bloomberg. The deal terms were not disclosed. Co-Star, which reportedly has about 4.3 million monthly active users, is mostly used to help people determine their astrological birth charts, which they can then share with other friends on the app. Co-Star uses both AI and humans to write horoscopes, compatibility assessments, and other advice based on a user’s astrological information. Midjourney seems to be casting a wide net when it comes its product lineup. The company seems almost synonymous…
OpenAI on Thursday said it has updated its ChatGPT desktop app to add support for ChatGPT Voice, allowing users to talk to the app to control AI agents and perform tasks on their computer. The new feature taps OpenAI’s new family of voice models called ChatGPT-Live, which it launched earlier this month. OpenAI said ChatGPT Voice works with both ChatGPT Work and Codex, and can also tap computer use skills to look up websites and apps. Plus, on macOS, with Appshots, users can let the app access what’s on their screen, including alt-text. At launch, ChatGPT Voice’s smartphone version featured…
Hustling for work experience and learning from coworkers has been key to building a successful career for decades. Mark Cuban says that’s bound to change.The tech billionaire and former “Shark Tank” investor said in an X post on Thursday that he expects the “next great AI application” to be a “job simulator.””How employees gain experience in a future AI world is going to be far different from today,” he wrote.”Employees won’t have as many touch points in the company to gain knowledge and experience from. That’s where judgement has historically come from.”Cuban predicted that “much like race car drivers and…
Elon Musk sat down with The Economist’s editor in chief Zanny Minton Beddoes on Thursday for a wide-ranging interview, covering everything from superintelligent AI to his controversial stint in government.Musk, the world’s richest person, is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owns the social media platform X, where he has roughly 250 million followers. He also runs xAI, his artificial intelligence startup, putting him at the center of the AI race he discussed at length.Here are the five biggest takeaways from the 90-minute interview:1. Musk thinks AI will surpass the sum of human intelligence within roughly 5 yearsMusk said…