I think people are underestimating Google. OpenAI and Anthropic are pure AI companies. They need to get to profitability so they put a lot of focus on consumer and enterprise solutions to make money. They have to keep shipping new models and harnesses to keep people using them.
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Writing Benchmark Finds Terra Performs Better With Reasoning Turned Off
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GPT-5.6 Terra’s default setting is its worst one for writing with reasoning off, “terra none” beats “terra medium” at the same price, and nearly matches “sol” at 40% of the cost, meanwhile “fable 5 xhigh” matches “fable 5 max” exactly, at half the price the only model where
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Fable XHigh Matches Max on a Writing Benchmark at Half Cost
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You may be wasting tokens with Claude Fable 5 max effort for our writing benchmark, it’s just wasting tokens. at half the cost, “fable 5 xhigh” exactly matches “fable 5 max” (89.0 vs 89.0), while “sol” peaks at high and gets worse at xhigh so for voice & tone, and writing
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Access to Frontier Models Shapes Vendors’ AI Strategy Arguments
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Lots of the AI & corporate strategy talk on X is not that complicated: vendors without frontier models are always explaining why you shouldn't trust the frontier model companies. Vendors w/frontier models are selling solutions based around frontier models. (Either could be right)
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Perplexity Chooses Grok 4.5 for Evaluations, Cost, and Zero Retention
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Two reasons why we integrated Grok 4.5 inside Perplexity Computer within a few hours: 1) It scored the best on our evals and was the most cost effective option 2) ZDR was available from the get go and that’s what our customers want
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Economists and AI Researchers Warn of Rapid Economic Change
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16 Nobel Prize winners and over 200 economists and AI researchers signed "We Must Act Now", a statement organized by Stanford's Digital Economy Lab. The warning: AI could bring economic change "larger than the Industrial Revolution, but unfolding over a vastly shorter time
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AI Research Raises Prospects for Faster Economic and Scientific Progress
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The most important AI researchers of our time take AI seriously – not only because of its capabilities, but because it could accelerate economic growth and scientific progress at an unprecedented pace. We should take it seriously, too.
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Statement Calls for Action on AI’s Economic Transformation
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Here's the full text: We Must Act Now A Statement on AI’s Transformation of the Economy 1. AI may become radically more powerful over the next 10 years. 2. This could drive an unprecedented transformation of our economy, larger than the Industrial Revolution, but unfolding
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Economists and Policymakers Should Prepare for Human-Complementary AI
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Hi Hollis, The main point at this stage is to raise awareness of the need for economists and policymakers to take more seriously the (likely very large) economic implications of powerful AI. We can do more to build systems where AI complements humans, and extends the set of
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Statement Warns of AI-Driven Economic Transformation Within a Decade
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Here's our statement on AI and the economy. We Must Act Now
A Statement on AI’s Transformation of the Economy 1. AI may become radically more powerful over the next 10 years.
2. This could drive an unprecedented transformation of our economy, larger than the Industrial