grateful to @steipete for prompting me to start the AMA with “what’s the future of ClosedClaw”?
@swyx
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DeepSeek monetization strategy and open source philosophy compared
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you dont think deepseek can figure out how to monetize every other part of their stack of extensive interests? also (you'd be the guy to correct me here) they're probably not as philosophically purist on open source as like an AI2 or a huggingface
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General VLM vs Specialized SAM Performance Comparison
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how much “worse” is general sota vlm vs sota dedicated SAM at this stuff?
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AI Engineering’s Key Split: Two Approaches Day One and Two
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in retrospect putting the slop cannons (
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@badlogicgames
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Mid and Post Training Compute Now Rivals Pretraining Cost
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i think in a world where mid and post training take equivalent or more compute (!!) than pretraining, this is less big a deal than what it used to mean in 2023
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CopilotKit and TanStack raise awareness in AI development
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great job copilotkit. and thank you tanstack for raising awareness!
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Pre-March Data Missing: 7B Model Undercounting Issue
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what happened to all the pre march data lol, 7b is a severe undercount my man
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Data Engineering Consensus Winner Moving Upmarket in Competition
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fwiw in the data eng world theyve been a consensus winner for like 3-4 years now. i dont think you wouldve considered them competitors 3 years ago because they are presumably coming upmarket to you now?
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Meta’s AI Turnaround: New Hiring and Model Achievements
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in the grand narrative of Meta x AI, we saw the flop (Llama 4 hurhurhur), and now we’re seeing the turn: – *more* hiring since the soup wars of 2025
– Zuck literally moved in with Alexandr and Nat and is koding again
– finally GA’ed Opus-ish level model (no api, not open, but
