sure but Amazon was a near monopoly and LLMs are commodities with intense competition
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No Japanese models in top rankings, can fine-tune DeepSeek at home
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None of these models rank high at all, no Japanese models even show up in the top. What's your point exactly? I can fine tune DeepSeek on my GPU at home
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Critique of outdated mindset on Japan and China AI innovation
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That's a really outdated mindset Japan doesn't even have its own LLM like DeepSeek Its biggest model is Rakuten AI which is a finetuned version of Chinese DeepSeek The cope about China not innovating can't last forever
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OpenAI and Anthropic’s contrasting AI launches in 2026 cinema
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OpenAI: carefully rolls out GPT-5.5-Cyber through Trusted Access for verified defenders Anthropic: “Claude Mythos is too powerful for public release” Also Anthropic: accidentally shows Mythos in the UI and immediately runs out of capacity 2026 AI launches are absolut cinema.
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AI Agents as Platform Infrastructure and Service Layer
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Agent is a platform could become a real thing. You will pay for your agent, then use that inference to access other services (e.g. shopping, finance, legal). You incentives are aligned (if its important, I want to spend a lot) and 3rd parties don't need to build their own agents
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DeepSeek V4 Pro disrupts Western AI market pricing
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Lisez bien. L’IA chinoise #DeepSeek a tué le business occidental de l’IA américaine concurrente en imposant un niveau de prix chinois sur le token, véritablement indécent. Le modèle V4 PRO est méchamment performant.
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Anticipation of GPT-5.6 release, hopes for better vibe
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Looks like GPT-5.6 release is very close. Really looking forward to it. 5.5 already is an insanely good model. Hope it gets a bit better vibe tho
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AI hype compared to sustainability hype, ways to fix it
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Companies are hyping #AI the same way they talked up #Sustainability, but there are ways to fix that
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New Fed Chair argues AI is structurally disinflationary
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„AI is going to make everything cost less.” The new Fed Chair says the next few years could be a hugely exciting moment, arguing that AI is “structurally disinflationary.”
— Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus) 23 mai 2026
Read that again: „structurally disinflationary“.
And that from the new Fed Chair. pic.twitter.com/Sna7dfHWjH„AI is going to make everything cost less.” The new Fed Chair says the next few years could be a hugely exciting moment, arguing that AI is “structurally disinflationary.” Read that again: „structurally disinflationary“. And that from the new Fed Chair.
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FASTER: Reacting Quickly to Changing Environments
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Why can't robots react instantly to fast-changing environments? Researchers from HKU and ACE Robotics introduce FASTER. Instead of running all sampling steps before any movement, it uses a Horizon-Aware Schedule to compress the immediate action into a single denoising step.