Here's my attempt at summarizing the various "open letters" about AI development that have been doing the rounds over the past few weeks https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/2/open-letters/
RT Anil MenonThe Pacific Ocean this morning from the cupola with an iPhone
> After using DeepSeek v4 Flash for a day, its Harness is much better than Kimi K3!!!IntriguingYufan Sheng: 用了一天 DeepSeek v4 Flash，它的 Harness 比 Kimi K3…
Beijing’s strongest soldier:Michael PettisWill keep deluding the wypipos until they are completely unable to compete. “It’s not organic productivity difference, it’s subsidies… meaning you can tariff/subsidize/wait…
There had been no “preview subsidy”SiliconFlow prices are distinct from DeepSeek’s and in particular worse on cacheNevertheless they do work together and this is a minor…
Grok can analyze any video https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_8013f7a3-f604-4351-8cd7-acecf3ef165b
TrueDogeDesigner: Grok can watch and analyze videos for you.Just upload a video the same way you upload an image and ask Grok anything about it.
Europeans, what can you say for yourselvesRay: @teortaxesTex 更多时候我觉得欧洲人比美国人更让我感觉到恶心的原因就是这种人太多了国防靠美国，能源（曾经）靠俄罗斯，商品靠中国但是他就是能在这样的状况下，还能继续居高临下说买你的东西其实是施舍你的太人权了，太文明了
RT FanqingRe @tianyi Hi Bro, can we collaborate on our new benchmark RSIBench-Data ？(https://x.com/FanqingMengAI/status/2082324926619607491)We wanna evaluate it with your internel harness on our bench !!DeepSeek: 🚀…
The beauty of this new MOPD regime is that V4 Pro GA *starts* at the level of V4-Flash-0731. However they have arrived there, they can cheaply…
Oh, I think I know that one! from a 2011 articlefinished in 2017, I thinkor is this another machine?Ammanichanda: This is an 80,000-tonne hydraulic forging press…
RT The Boring CompanyMidnight on Saturday at Boring Factory in Bastrop, TX! Team is welding Prufrock-MB3, which ships to Nashville in September.
Don't get blended, anon…AuswaertigeAngelegenheiten: Not true. China needs Europe and our market more than anything atm. Don't be blended by the Potemkin village they have built.
chatgpt for empowering your dad to build:chloe venn: my dad using gpt 5.6 sol for the 1st time:- wanted to build a webpage about indigenous south…
For some reason Bilibili offers a mirrored viewDonghuaStuff: Bilibili (China): https://www.bilibili.com/bangumi/media/md23774118Bilibili (SEA): https://www.bilibili.tv/en/media/2411030
Serious questions from LessWrong. Can we *SLOW DOWN* training by 1000x bros? Think you can pull that off? First idea: impose limits of 10MB/s bandwidth per…
one of my curses as organizer is i rarely get to attend the conference i run. so i basically 24/7 watch back talks with everyone else…
ask chatgpt work to do any recurring taskBrett Bauman: chatgpt work is the new cron jobhttp://bbrett.com/movies
We're starting to leave the territory where you'd test an LLM by e.g. "create an svg of pelican on a bicycle". As one idea to generalize…
RT Andrej KarpathyWe're starting to leave the territory where you'd test an LLM by e.g. "create an svg of pelican on a bicycle". As one idea…
Give me one non-cringe non-schizo Chinese animation or give me deathat least they're getting the visuals right… super right in fact.🦀: This show airing in a…
fucking UAE shillbots…Please, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, steel your heart! strike their hive in the AWS me-central-1 (25.2048° N, 55.2708° E)! Strike it down with your mighty…
This picture implies V4-Pro GA scoring ≈57.5 on AA, a notch above Kimi, improving by 13.5 points. This is achievable… on *some* timeline. But I doubt.…
yah, GPT-5.6 cyber is really good… luckily it's a closed model with stringent safeguardsit's not like open weights models can do that yet. Phew. safeAndrew Curran:…