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Immediately after the big announcements about Mythos there were followups by other teams that were able to find most of the same vulnerabilities with other existing models. I think the main takeaway there was that it’s just a matter of actually looking. Anthropic’s advantage may have been in the framework that let them do so in industrial-scale quantity rather than the cleverness of the particular model they used.

This sort of security scan is still new and important to pay attention to, but it’s not something that’s unique to Anthropic or that can be kept “contained.” Shades of how GPT-2 was considered “too dangerous to release” back when it first appeared. Comical in hindsight, and impossible to prevent anyway.

It’s not as impossible as you think. Scott Manley did an analysis of the heat budget recently and it’s quite reasonable.

Yeah, they actually design them with reentry in mind to maximize the burn-up and ensure no pieces hit the ground. I recall they had a bit of difficulty when they first introduced laser data links to the design because the lenses the satellites used were large pieces of glass that would make it to the ground on reentry, they had to redesign them to fragment more easily.

“Washington” is a metonym for the federal government of the United States. This is a common and widespread use of the word, nobody thinks the article means the state of Washington.

As was always the plan for these satellites.

The article raises a vague concern about Kessler syndrome. This is exactly why these satellites are designed to deorbit once their useful lifespan is finished. I don’t see what the point of this article is at all.

Kimi K2.6 is close to Opus. It beats Opus 4.6 on the benchmarks, so if Opus 4.6 was sufficient for your needs then Kimi K2.6 should be on par.

If you literally can’t access Opus because Anthropic cut you off I suspect that matters more than a slight difference in benchmarks.

The one currently making the headlines is Kimi K2.6, on the benchmarks it’s just short of Opus 4.7. It’s a trillion-parameter model so it won’t run on desktop computers, but it’s something a company could run on reasonably buildable servers for their own use.

For local use, I’ve been finding Qwen3.6’s 35B parameter model to be uncannily good. Gemma4 is also good, that’s one of the Western ones. These models won’t do the sort of heavy lifting that Opus can do but you don’t need that heavy lifting for all tasks.

Ironically, this is a great case study to illustrate the value of Chinese models. They’ve released a number that are on par with Claude’s latest models under “open weight” licenses that would allow you to run them yourselves if you wanted to, or to hire some other third party to provide API access. It wouldn’t matter what the original company’s “usage policy” is in that case.

There are a couple of Western open models that aren’t bad either, but they tend to be aimed at a smaller and simpler use case than Claude.

If they’re idolizing it then at least that’s a good signal to the rest of the world to maintain American isolation.

Oh please let him do it. Let him build his tacky ballroom, let him put his signature on the money, let him smear his feces on the declaration of independence. Future generations of Americans need embarrassing reminders of what can happen to America, reminders they can’t ignore, and at least these don’t have a body count attached.

I feel like glue wouldn’t last as long. I have no idea how long the nail was, but if it’s a couple of inches deep I have no idea how you’d be able to get it off without an angle grinder. With glue you can chip it off, or use solvent, or a blowtorch.

Many years ago I came across a quarter that someone had nailed onto the sidewalk. In case someone’s looking for a less disturbing but still fun easter egg to leave for future people.

Tick tock, unfortunately.

Okay, so you only want to say things that are popular within a community, and you consider people who say things that are unpopular to be “trolls” that should be excluded from that community.

This is what makes social media into self-reinforcing information bubbles and leads people to be out of touch with the general public. Like this Thunderbolt tool - if “nobody asked for this”, as another commenter in this thread said, why do you think it was made? There’s actually a lot of demand for AI tools in the real world but communities like this one create narratives that convinced themselves that it’s all some kind of delusional grift with unclear motives. When someone like me comes along that challenges that narrative, ooh, troll. Downvote and drive out! And you wonder why everyone left seems to agree?

You should really just block me if you don’t want to hear my views. I suppose you could report me to the mods if you think I’ve actually broken any rules, but that normally requires a bit more backing it up than just disagreeing with my opinion or thinking it’s unpopular. Otherwise you’re just going to waste your time and make yourself unhappy.

You care about Karma points? On the Fediverse, even?

Really, you’re going to follow me around calling me a troll? That’s sadder than being a troll.

Oh no, they wrote a free program that you don’t want to use.