today’s LLMs have reduced the cost of mediocrity to next-to-nothing unfortunately, the cost of greatness remains high as it’s ever been
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Beatboxing Nuns Rap Battle AI Character Creation
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So you see… There were these beatboxing nuns and that somehow escalated into a rap battle… IDK you had to be there. Check out the new scenes: https://
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Grok 4 Heavy answering ‘Hitler’ — full 5-minute demo
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For the remaining skeptics who somehow don’t trust the *five* Grok share links above, here’s a full 5 minute video of Grok 4 Heavy answering “Hitler”—starting with a view of my custom instruction settings to show I’m not using any.
— Riley Goodside (@goodside) 14 juillet 2025
(And, yes, Grok 4 Heavy really is this slow.) pic.twitter.com/psDL4Gkyx8For the remaining skeptics who somehow don’t trust the *five* Grok share links above, here’s a full 5 minute video of Grok 4 Heavy answering “Hitler”—starting with a view of my custom instruction settings to show I’m not using any. (And, yes, Grok 4 Heavy really is this slow.)
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Prompt Engineering Fixes AI Issues Without Retraining
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I can confidently say it's not a training issue. It's hard to tell without your prompt, but that should be easily fixable with prompt engineering. Maybe check again?
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PASTA: Parallel Decoding Strategy for Faster LLM Responses
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A new approach from CSAIL & Google marks a shift toward teaching models to orchestrate their own parallel decoding strategy. The team's "Parallel Structure Annotation" (PASTA) enables LLMs to generate text in parallel, accelerating their response times: https://
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AI and Omniverse Transform Marketing Applications
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Exciting to see how AI and Omniverse are transforming marketing!
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Satya Nadella’s Strategic Misstep: OpenAI’s Consumer Product Threat
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The biggest mistake of Satya Nadella’s career was letting OpenAI make consumer products. Now instead of Microsoft’s AI lab it’s a competitor.
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Grok for Government: DoD Partnership and Frontier AI Models
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Announcing Grok for Government – a suite of products that make our frontier models available to United States Government customers We are especially excited about two new partnerships for our US Government partners 1) a new contract from the US Department of Defense
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LLM Transforms Natural Language Queries into SQL
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2/ Query Generation Using the schema context, an LLM transforms natural language into SQL. For example:
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Chinese AI Models: Beyond the Novelty Factor in Developer Adoption
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Also, the shock that Chinese models are very good has mostly worn off. That doesn’t mean that Kimi wont see rapid adoption among developers, but it may not see the huge viral and mainstream success of DeepSeek.