This is an excerpt from what I wrote in 2015 when OpenAI was announced and all y'all journalists were lauding them as the benevolent souls who were going to save us from AI. "A white tech tycoon born and raised in South Africa during apartheid,..
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GPT-5 o-series API access with advanced reasoning capabilities
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We’ll keep exposing frontier capabilities via the API for developers! You’ll still have access to advanced reasoning and all the knobs you need—like a “reasoning effort” parameter—when the o-series is part of the broader GPT-5 system.
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SAM 2.1 Now Available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
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Starting today, SAM 2.1 is available in #AmazonSageMaker JumpStart!
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Closed Labs Restrict Top Models APIs, Open Source Becomes Critical
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@SullyOmarr called it – closed labs will not release top models via apis for much longer Open source even more important to allow a developer ecosystem to flourish
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OpenAI Reveals GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 Model Roadmap Plans
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Telegraphing our @OpenAI model roadmap: • GPT-4.5 is next, our final non-chain-of-thought model
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Stable Diffusion 3.5 Available on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry
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We’re excited to announce that Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large, Stable Image Ultra and Stable Image Core are now available on @Azure AI Foundry – providing businesses of all sizes access to professional-grade image generation within their trusted @Microsoft ecosystem. By bringing our
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OpenAI Roadmap Update: GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 Product Simplification
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OPENAI ROADMAP UPDATE FOR GPT-4.5 and GPT-5: We want to do a better job of sharing our intended roadmap, and a much better job simplifying our product offerings. We want AI to “just work” for you; we realize how complicated our model and product offerings have gotten. We hate
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Interest in Anthropic Creator in Residence Partnership
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NO WAY so awesome would love to be a creator in residence with Anthropic if you're looking for partners 🙂
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Next-Gen AI Inference Chips Challenge GPU Dominance in AI Acceleration
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LIVE TODAY @ 1PM EST Join @CanSemiCouncil w/ experts Alex Grbic (UAI) & Igor Arsovski (
@GroqInc
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OneStream Stock Crash Signals Broader Software Sector Uncertainty
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OneStream crashes: Will ‘uncertainty’ be felt by other software names? Healthy results but a disappointing outlook are not enough for a pricey software stock like OneStream. The company’s now merely an okay growth prospect. The broader question is whether the “uncertainty” that