Honestly, I no longer believe that people outside the U.S. will still have access to frontier models, and even there, access will be limited. We are now witnessing the end of public access to frontier intelligence. It is a very sad and serious turn of events.
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Sam Altman updates ChatGPT 5.5 instant model, likes its vibes
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in other news, we updated the 5.5 instant model used in chatgpt this week. i like its vibes.
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Speculation on model’s default preferences for React in projects
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Not sure if that's a change in default preferences from the models or just that I'm often prompting inside existing projects and the models know full well not to introduce React to a project that isn't using it already I tried in a fresh project just now and got vanilla HTML+JS
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LLMs less likely to default to React than last year
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Is it just me, or are today's LLMs less likely to default to building everything in React than they were last year? I used to have to say "don't use React" in almost all of my frontend web dev prompts, I've not had to do that for most of the models in quite a while now
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Sol and Terra launch: new GPT-5.6 models with US government request
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Good new first: Sol is a smart, efficient, and a significant step forward. It is the same price as GPT-5.5. Also launching in the GPT-5.6 family is Terra, with 5.5-level performance at half the price. Bad news: at the request of the US government, it is launching today in
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AA-Briefcase leaderboard for realistic tasks; Nemotron 3 Ultra top
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@ArtificialAnlys just dropped a brand new leaderboard called AA-Briefcase for evaluating realistic tasks in complex projects. Nemotron 3 Ultra ranks among the top open models, with strong performance across a wide range of long-running agentic tasks, even when encountering them -
RAG-Driven Generative AI 2nd Edition: Build MAS-RAG with DualRAG
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New (2nd edition) from @PacktDataML available at http://
amzn.to/4tULP1b RAG-Driven Generative AI — Build MAS-RAG with DualRAG, GraphRAG, multimodal video pipelines, and Oracle Database 23ai 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀:
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LLM Engineer’s Handbook: Master LLM engineering from concept to production
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LLM Engineer's Handbook — Master the art of engineering Large Language Models LLMs from concept to production: http://
amzn.to/4dUQrv6 v/ @PacktDataML Implement robust data pipelines and manage LLM training cycles Create your own LLM and refine with the help of hands-on -
@ornith_ model matches or beats Claude Opus 4.8
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HOLY SH*T this @ornith_ model is matching or even beating Claude Opus 4.8 I definitely need to move this up my priority list for a deep dive
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Model @ornith_ matches or beats Claude Opus 4.8 performance
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HOLY SH*T this @ornith_ model is matching or even beating Claude Opus 4.8 I definitely need to move this up my priority list for a deep dive