one pleasant outcome of memeing #paretofrontier so hard that it became figure 1 for gemini 2.5 is that now every frontier LLM is being launched with an X axis that represents "cost". as reasoning model verbosity and tool use inefficiency can vary up to a factor of 650x, always
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Grok 4 Launches: 2x Better Than Claude Opus 4
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🚀 Grok 4 just dropped
— Louis-François Bouchard 🎥🤖 (@Whats_AI) 15 juillet 2025
• 2× better than Claude Opus 4 on ARC-AGI-2
• Multi-agent Heavy tier: $300 / mo
• Elon: “smarter than any grad student”
Hype or game-changer?👇#Grok4 #xAI #AInews #AGI pic.twitter.com/u00uuFHvwwGrok 4 just dropped • 2× better than Claude Opus 4 on ARC-AGI-2
• Multi-agent Heavy tier: $300 / mo
• Elon: “smarter than any grad student” Hype or game-changer? #Grok4 #xAI #AInews #AGI -
Cohere Opens Seoul Office to Expand APAC Operations
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Cohere is expanding in APAC! We’re excited to announce our plans to open an office in Seoul to support our growth. We look forward to serving more enterprise and public sector customers across the region. Learn more and see open roles to join us:
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Six-Way Parlay: AI Startup Acquisitions Predictions
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six way parlay. i want Mistral founders to Apple, Mistral team to Meta. Character remainco to Perplexity. Quora to Perplexity. Ideogram to Figma. Gamma to Notion. read it back
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Massive Revenue Opportunities Being Missed in AI
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Ah man to think how much they could be raking in right now….
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US frontier AI models availability and quality landscape analysis
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Lots of really good non-frontier models, and lots of good small models from US companies, but models on the frontier?
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US Exits Open Source LLM Race, China Dominates
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And with this, the US is mostly out of the frontier open source large LLM race. Europe has one contender, otherwise it is all China now. (OpenAI is going to release an open LLM soon, but no commitment yet to that being an ongoing effort).
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Grok4 Underperforms on Undisclosed AI Benchmarks
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Yeah grok4 does *much* less well on many evals that they didn't include in the marketing material.
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Rob Lennon Offers Lennon Labs Acquisition for $20M Deal
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That's a sweet deal. Rob Lennon 🗯 | AI Whisperer (@thatroblennon) Since AI acqs are all the rage right now: If any of the big AI companies want to acquire me for 4 years via an acquisition of Lennon Labs, I'm only looking for $20M. Would accept up to half as equity and work my a** off for you in return. — https://nitter.net/thatroblennon/status/1944852269486510221#m
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