from being hands on w gpt5 for past 3 weeks + doing this pareto chart for the past 11 months for every lab
@swyx
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OpenAI’s Pricing Strategy Shows Clear Market Domination
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sama agrees here https://
x.com/sama/status/19
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… SERIOUSLY GUYS LOOK AT THE PRICING, THIS IS THE CLEAREST DOMINATION OPENAI HAS EVER HAD BY ANY METRIC and if you're genuinely meh about it then your brain may be very cooked by being too in the weeds on model progress. zoom out and -

OpenAI Dominates Intelligence Frontier with Continuously Trained Router Model
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A lot of developers unimpressed with the GPT-5 numbers are missing the bigger picture: @OpenAI now completely dominates the Intelligence Pareto frontier and for the first time, they have officially confirmed a continuously trained realtime router model and provided some
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OpenAI’s GPT-4o: The Last Truly General Model Throwback
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heres a @smol_ai throwback to the last truly general model OpenAI shipped to re-experience the vibes https://
news.smol.ai/issues/24-05-1
3-ainews-gpt-4o-the-new-sota-everything-frontier-model-gpt4o-version
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World Models: Tracking Genie 3 and LeCun’s Vision
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technically zeroth: Genie 3
— swyx 🐣 (@swyx) 5 août 2025
last yr we spun up a #worldmodels channel on the @latentspacepod discord as this is obviously a thing worth tracking. someday @ylecun will be vindicated…https://t.co/GReXoN6kQatechnically zeroth: Genie 3 last yr we spun up a #worldmodels channel on the @latentspacepod discord as this is obviously a thing worth tracking. someday @ylecun will be vindicated…
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Claude Opus 4.1 Release: Anthropic’s Best Coding Model
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second: Claude Opus 4.1 (as @btibor91 nicely spotted) anthropic's best coding model ever. i wonder why its released today…. instead of…
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GPT OSS Launch with Harmony Format and Model Updates
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first: GPT OSS is launched with the harmony format https://
openai.com/open-models/ https://
github.com/huggingface/tr
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Why I Chose Tiny Teams for AI Engineer and Fanahova
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then: https://
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… i landed on Tiny Teams for @aiDotEngineer and [upcoming @fanahova project] because: 1) @awilkinson (who sadly had to drop out) 2) our @sidbendre chat on @latentspacepod 3) wanted to pick a more constructive direction for the industry than Vibe -
AI Engineer Thesis: GPT Wrappers Outvaluing Research Labs
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the ai engineer thesis is finally happening!!!
gpt wrappers more highly valued than labs!!! harvey: 50x ARR (
https://
x.com/brian_a_burns/
status/1952400121926439336
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OpenAI’s Universal Verifier Extends AI Capabilities to Subjective Domains
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OpenAI has developed a "universal verifier" that could help translate its gains in domains like math and coding to other, more subjective domains like business decision-making or creative writing. We have the details here: https://
theinformation.com/articles/unive
rsal-verifiers-openais-secret-weapon
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