Nerd Snipe with Theo & Ben

Ox Alpha Revealed, OpenAI's Latest Pricing Updates, and Our Coding Model Tier List

Theo — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 23:53:09 GMT

Theo & Ben break down OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol price cut, breakdown the "Ox Alpha" stealth model we now know is GLM 5.3 Flash, then take a drink every time they say "Grok" while ranking every current AI model on a tier list! What could go wrong?

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https://openai.com/index/offering-zero-data-retention-for-frontier-models/
https://openai.com/daybreak/

@winkey_h (research @datacurve) and the creator of DeepSWE. \n\nIt's a subset, but a more larger and more useful one than what I did","username":"davis7","name":"Ben Davis","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2052289378706423808/g5qAyVi6_normal.jpg","date":"2026-08-22T23:11:15.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":2,"retweet_count":0,"like_count":56,"impression_count":9126,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

Anthropic Doesn't Think You Can Be Trusted With AI, SpaceXAI Leaps Ahead, and DEFCON AI Swarms

Theo — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 22:21:33 GMT

Theo and Ben break down why Anthropic has the best model and is still losing against the competition! Plus Claude’s new watermarking, the EU rule behind it, C2PA, Dario Amodei vs Gavin Baker, Zuck’s latest memo, DEF CON agent swarms, GLM 5.3, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Qwen 3.8 27B, DGX Spark vs 5090, and Grok 4.6!

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Sources:
https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-text-watermark

https://claude.ai/code/artifact/803916fd-3bc1-465f-8738-d4ece6fc5071

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https://www.meta.com/thefutureisforeveryone/

https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/pull/879

z.ai/blog/glm-5.3 ","username":"Zai_org","name":"Z.ai","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1970775077181411328/W8XKaUIh_normal.jpg","date":"2026-08-14T05:17:49.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HPqGDYVXAAEtyrV.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/y3Y2AB0wxr"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":945,"retweet_count":2386,"like_count":19345,"impression_count":5628120,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3

@GavinSBaker:\n\n“Internally, Anthropic is very confident. I have been told by multiple people I trust that Dario has said ","username":"theallinpod","name":"The All-In Podcast","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1789812359084519424/hg3j0g2E_normal.jpg","date":"2026-08-14T20:51:40.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t3C8!,w_1028,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best,fl_progressive:steep/l_play_button_usfui2,w_88,e_colorize:0/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F__ss-rehost__tw-video-preview-13_2088366674667773952.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/WhxuYPlNrA"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":235,"retweet_count":189,"like_count":2493,"impression_count":1752365,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":"https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2088366674667773952/vid/avc1/720x1280/ujndux5bYJYgtGdq.mp4","video_preview_media_key":"13_2088366674667773952","belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@_sholtodouglas Sholto, thank you for setting the record straight. Larger issue is that multiple very serious people in Silicon Valley have heard some variation of this and believe it to be true. And the reason it is believable to so many is that it is consistent with Dario’s public messaging","username":"GavinSBaker","name":"Gavin Baker","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1396219525754937345/5L4n5L3O_normal.jpg","date":"2026-08-15T12:59:48.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":181,"retweet_count":254,"like_count":3620,"impression_count":3632930,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@GavinSBaker Awesome response - thank you for coming back with such good faith.\n\nSo much I agree with here. Also a lot of things I think the picture is more nuanced and I want to justify our takes more \n\nA few quick ones, but I might post more here later. \n\nI think that cyber is ultimately","username":"_sholtodouglas","name":"Sholto Douglas","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2003274349906919424/GyoVg0kX_normal.jpg","date":"2026-08-15T15:28:36.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":41,"retweet_count":54,"like_count":1348,"impression_count":244079,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@_sholtodouglas Ok. Becky just brought me another gin and tonic and is watching our daughter.\n\nSo: I think the framing of cyber as defense dominant and bio as offense dominant is sensible and the bio point is probably the best pro-regulation argument. And the USG should absolutely have all","username":"GavinSBaker","name":"Gavin Baker","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1396219525754937345/5L4n5L3O_normal.jpg","date":"2026-08-15T17:48:26.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":27,"retweet_count":20,"like_count":1209,"impression_count":285254,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@DarioAmodei Many thoughts.\n\nMost of all, I think it is great that you are engaging here in such a constructive, thoughtful way. Open dialogue is a great way to build trust with the public and these are difficult, weighty issues that I think deserve to be debated in the proverbial “town","username":"GavinSBaker","name":"Gavin Baker","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1396219525754937345/5L4n5L3O_normal.jpg","date":"2026-08-15T23:05:26.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":90,"retweet_count":54,"like_count":2373,"impression_count":178974,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

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Opus 5 isn't Our New Default

Theo — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:50:57 GMT

Theo and Ben break down why Opus 5 feels like GPT-5.5 crossed with Fable rather than GPT-5.6 crossed with Fable, what Fable found when it audited an Opus thread line by line, where Opus still clearly wins (3D, animation, and Claude Code limits at half Fable's price with no 50% weekly cap), plus Kimi K3, GLM 5.2, the Hugging Face hack, Grok 4.5, Codex, and T3 Code.

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https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3

https://www.axios.com/2026/07/20/ai-us-china-open-source-kimi

@nvidia signed on why open models matter.\n\nAI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.\n\nOpen models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty. ","username":"JensenHuang","name":"Jensen Huang","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2080613261674962944/OMXX4RJ3_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-24T13:18:05.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HN_qDVsa4AAI6XJ.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/t02bi51N4C"},{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HN_qDV1a8AARQwg.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/t02bi51N4C"},{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HN_qDV1awAAPTlH.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/t02bi51N4C"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":16100,"retweet_count":29463,"like_count":170847,"impression_count":62753727,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@huggingface to investigate an unprecedented security incident. \n\nCyber-capable OpenAI models compromised Hugging Face production during a benchmark evaluation.\n\nSharing preliminary findings to help defenders understand emerging risks:","username":"OpenAI","name":"OpenAI","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1885410181409820672/ztsaR0JW_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-21T20:05:06.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":2007,"retweet_count":3245,"like_count":20796,"impression_count":30713439,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@OpenAI:\n\n• Radical transparency: let’s release the traces from the “rogue” agents so the entire research community can study what happened.\n\n• More capabilities for defenders: let’s commit $100M in compute from OAI to help the","username":"ClementDelangue","name":"clem 🤗","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1100512198139498497/utHSJ4st_normal.png","date":"2026-07-25T16:39:10.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{"full_text":"Heading to San Francisco to have a little chat with that “rogue agent”","username":"ClementDelangue","name":"clem 🤗","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1100512198139498497/utHSJ4st_normal.png"},"reply_count":266,"retweet_count":556,"like_count":5195,"impression_count":959526,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

We're not handling the new Codex limits well

Theo — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:01:36 GMT

This week Grok 4.5, Muse Spark 1.1, GPT-Live, and GPT 5.6 all dropped. ⁠Theo⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Ben⁠⁠ break down which models you should care about, how OpenAI fumbled the Codex to ChatGPT app transition, the abysmal usage numbers for 5.6, and the latest drama surrounding OpenAI and Sam Altman. Plus, how many satellites would it take to trap humanity on Earth, and how many data centers to heat up the ocean?

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@cb_doge Scam Altman strikes again …","username":"elonmusk","name":"Elon Musk","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2053244804520427520/m8mdWZCG_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-11T10:13:43.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":899,"retweet_count":1214,"like_count":32281,"impression_count":686053,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

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We Tested GPT 5.6 Sol Early

Theo — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:44:19 GMT

We've spent six figures in tokens testing OpenAI's unreleased model (we're calling it 5.6?) to see whether if its better than Fable and what OpenAI have done to make it even better than 5.5. Also, we breakdown why we both moved our agents to Linux boxes, how to actually burn $65k on a single loop, and the Codex vs Claude Code subagent gap that's now bigger than the model gap itself.

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Fable Is (50%) Back

Theo — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:31:14 GMT

Fable was supposed to give us 14 days and instead we got 3 before the export ban. Now it's back at half the rate limits. Also, we break down why AI-generated Claude Code skills fall apart, what actually triggers Fable-to-Opus rerouting, the Mythos export-control timeline, and whether GLM 5.2 can really touch Sonnet 5.

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https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/microsoft-launches-its-own-ai-deployment-company-with-2-5-billion-commitment/
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/amazon-launches-new-1-billion-fde-org-following-openai-and-anthropic/
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/04/anthropic-and-openai-are-both-launching-joint-ventures-for-enterprise-ai-services/
@IntCyberDigest Hi, this is an experiment we launched in March that was meant to prevent account abuse from unauthorized resellers and protect against distillation. \n\nThe team has landed stronger mitigations since then and we’ve actually been meaning to take this down for a while. We merged the","username":"trq212","name":"Thariq","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1976939058741039104/r3GgzqRh_normal.jpg","date":"2026-06-30T22:07:59.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":328,"retweet_count":63,"like_count":823,"impression_count":579799,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/alibaba-ban-claude-code-workplace-over-alleged-backdoor-risks-source-says-2026-07-03/
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-china-alibaba-exploiting-ai-models-distillation-attack-2026-6
https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/561e7512-253e-424b-9734-ef4098440601/Industrial%20Policy%20for%20the%20Intelligence%20Age.pdf
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/openai-proposed-donating-5-of-its-equity-to-a-us-sovereign-wealth-fund/

They Launched GPT 5.6...(Kinda)

Theo — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:22:40 GMT

A new "government-approved rollout" for GPT-5.6 is coming, and it's got us wondering: are we entering the next dark age of AI model access?

Additionally, we break down the launch of T3 Code x Grok CLI, Apple's price hikes, the memory supply crunch driving RAM and SSD costs up, a repo-poisoning and AI PR spam wave hitting open source, the GPT-5.6 non-launch, and what frontier model access looks like in a Fable/Mythos-tier world.

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Timestamps

00:00 Cold Open
01:26 T3 Code x Grok CLI
07:30 Apple Price Hikes
09:27 Memory Supply Crunch
17:20 Repo Poisoning
17:58 AI PR Spam
25:18 GPT-5.6 Non-Launch
37:03 Safety & Alignment
46:54 Frontier Model Access
1:03:06 Audience Q&A

Sources

https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3358505/apple-price-hikes-may-hit-iphone-next-memory-storage-costs-soar-analysts

https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/
https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-6-preview
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/26/openai-limits-new-ai-models-to-trusted-partners-request-us-government.html
https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/06/promoting-advanced-artificial-intelligence-innovation-and-security/

https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/fusion-beats-frontier/

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https://sakana.ai/fugu

https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/features/mixture-of-agents

Fable is still banned and SpaceX Bought Cursor?

Theo — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:00:18 GMT

The US government banned Anthropic's Mythos and Fable models just after launch so we break down exactly how Project Glass Wing, a panicked AWS engineer, and Dario's failure to communicate with Washington triggered the chaos. Plus: SpaceX's $60B Cursor acquisition, GLM 5.2 beating Google, the Codex trick for running 200 parallel agents, and why your next GPU will ship with a GPS tracker.

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@cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI.\n\nThe combination of Cursor’s leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX’s million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will","username":"SpaceX","name":"SpaceX","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1697749409851985920/HbrI04tM_normal.jpg","date":"2026-04-21T22:11:20.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":2425,"retweet_count":5074,"like_count":39823,"impression_count":23472553,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@mntruell announcing Cursor’s new model at Compile. ","username":"morganlinton","name":"Morgan","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2058612692580184064/h0dOdYSc_normal.jpg","date":"2026-06-16T18:09:16.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ilGF!,w_1028,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best,fl_progressive:steep/l_play_button_usfui2,w_88,e_colorize:0/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F__ss-rehost__tw-video-preview-13_2066943425153581056.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/UEkwdY8ccO"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":55,"retweet_count":99,"like_count":1924,"impression_count":1083936,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":"https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2066943425153581056/vid/avc1/1280x720/Q3JYIjuYTrvJSW_A.mp4","video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

Fable 5 Impressions

Theo — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:39:00 GMT

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https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/d00db56fa754a1b115b6dd7cb2e3c342ee809620.pdf (⁠page 13 has the “prompt modification” quote)⁠

https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement

Cloudflare's Plan to Own the Web

Theo — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:54:16 GMT

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https://www.reddit.com/r/EconomyCharts/comments/1lp34n4/china_vs_us_energy/

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We (mostly) like Opus 4.8

Theo — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:47:06 GMT

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https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8

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https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/

https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/blog#results

https://github.com/scaleapi/SWE-agent/blob/402a7b8fdac8193f3f255bb53859ba274234f596/config/benchmarks/anthropic_filemap_multilingual.yaml

https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/

@AltimeterCap, Dragoneer, @Greenoaks, and @sequoia.\n\nThis investment will help us advance our research and expand our capacity to meet growing demand for Claude.","username":"AnthropicAI","name":"Anthropic","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1798110641414443008/XP8gyBaY_normal.jpg","date":"2026-05-28T18:11:13.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":1207,"retweet_count":1718,"like_count":22279,"impression_count":7696273,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

Google is Not a Serious Company

Theo — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:36:07 GMT

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@theo Claude Code is gonna make me off my self by NOT doing anything that I ask.... I swear GPT 5.5 has blessed me\n\nLiterally directly IGNORING instructions to not do things and also wanting to delete my databse which is funny as fuck ","username":"KorduGG","name":"Kordu","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2011057225620508672/OfrhBumZ_normal.jpg","date":"2026-05-26T05:15:26.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HJOKC1fWQAAmb_B.png","link_url":"https://t.co/KKZKfUzrhM"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":5,"retweet_count":0,"like_count":41,"impression_count":16891,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

We Need to Start Token Maxxing

Theo — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:07:48 GMT

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@jonathanbylos I can disable fast mode and it's 70% cheaper. So it's more like one employee.","username":"steipete","name":"Peter Steinberger 🦞","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1131851609774985216/OcsssQ9J_normal.png","date":"2026-05-15T23:21:23.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":14,"retweet_count":0,"like_count":153,"impression_count":36123,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

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The Craziest Collab in AI History?

Theo — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:06:49 GMT

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@SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.\n\nThis, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.","username":"claudeai","name":"Claude","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1950950107937185792/QOfEjFoJ_normal.jpg","date":"2026-05-06T16:19:29.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":4763,"retweet_count":12071,"like_count":130970,"impression_count":23669191,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@jaroslawjarosik because rust makes segfaults much more difficult by design. that is the primary motivation here. \n\nthere can be other kinds of instability. But we will see those quickly I expect. and we are also running much of node.js’ test suite so it’s a lot of tests.","username":"jarredsumner","name":"Jarred Sumner","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1342417825483300864/Vz4ChOFG_normal.jpg","date":"2026-05-10T08:28:55.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":1,"retweet_count":0,"like_count":14,"impression_count":2041,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@mitsuhiko \n\nmy name is pidalf, and i support this message. would love to have some spare cycles to join @antirez effort and use some of my GPU knowledge.\n\nalas.\n\n","username":"badlogicgames","name":"Mario Zechner","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1553485821767991296/87k3l720_normal.jpg","date":"2026-05-08T10:04:48.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":10,"retweet_count":11,"like_count":309,"impression_count":23121,"expanded_url":{"url":"https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/8/local-models/","title":"Pushing Local Models With Focus And Polish","description":"Local models need focus and polish.","domain":"lucumr.pocoo.org","image":"https://pbs.substack.com/news_img/2052688951048052742/6DOX8BTi?format=jpg&name=orig"},"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

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Theo Almost Lost $1 Million

Theo — Wed, 06 May 2026 00:54:42 GMT

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@davis7 you're probably right but man the fact that LLMs are fuzzy means we're all okay with everyone just making anecdotal claims\n\nit's entirely possible this isn't true","username":"thdxr","name":"dax","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1602333093485891584/mmVqjFNI_normal.jpg","date":"2026-05-02T23:30:21.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":7,"retweet_count":1,"like_count":328,"impression_count":75547,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

We need to talk about OpenAI

Theo — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:24:54 GMT

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@kyliebytes tongiht i have had a couple of drinks","username":"sama","name":"Sam Altman","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2046764873200394240/r7BxVezs_normal.jpg","date":"2026-04-22T04:28:01.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{"full_text":"@TheAmolAvasare ok boomer","username":"sama","name":"Sam Altman","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2046764873200394240/r7BxVezs_normal.jpg"},"reply_count":226,"retweet_count":121,"like_count":4328,"impression_count":1216844,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

mitchellh.com/writing/ghostt…","username":"mitchellh","name":"Mitchell Hashimoto","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1141762999838842880/64_Y4_XB_normal.jpg","date":"2026-04-28T19:46:08.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":550,"retweet_count":1621,"like_count":16791,"impression_count":2868469,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@badlogicgames: gpt 5.5 + minimal thinking slaps for bash based computer use. @davis7 was right on the low for code gen as well.","username":"davis7","name":"Ben Davis","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1906809545307131904/WSQb9s3G_normal.jpg","date":"2026-04-25T16:31:46.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":0,"retweet_count":6,"like_count":0,"impression_count":0,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@davis7 i am ready for that convo, that's how i make it bash my computers and its glorious. like a super smart and fast haiku.","username":"badlogicgames","name":"Mario Zechner","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1553485821767991296/87k3l720_normal.jpg","date":"2026-04-26T16:49:12.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":0,"retweet_count":0,"like_count":15,"impression_count":420,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

We've been testing GPT-5.5 for a few weeks now...

Theo — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:22:47 GMT

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Context.ai that he was using. The details","username":"rauchg","name":"Guillermo Rauch","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1783856060249595904/8TfcCN0r_normal.jpg","date":"2026-04-19T22:38:01.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":448,"retweet_count":1033,"like_count":7235,"impression_count":2614917,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/kimi-k2-6-the-new-leading-open-weights-model

@cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI.\n\nThe combination of Cursor’s leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX’s million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will","username":"SpaceX","name":"SpaceX","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1697749409851985920/HbrI04tM_normal.jpg","date":"2026-04-21T22:11:20.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":2357,"retweet_count":5070,"like_count":38393,"impression_count":20625265,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-27b

@OpenAI has claimed the #1 spot across all Image Arena leaderboards!\n\nA clean sweep with a record-breaking +242 point lead in Text-to-Image - the largest gap we’ve seen to date.\n\n- #1 Text-to-Image (1512), +242 over #2 (Nano-banana-2 with web-search","username":"arena","name":"Arena.ai","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2017015061454438400/iNKfXZ_I_normal.jpg","date":"2026-04-21T19:21:35.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HGc7c9zaEAAwbwW.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/IBN9a1RIJ4"}],"quoted_tweet":{"full_text":"Made with ChatGPT Images 2.0","username":"OpenAI","name":"OpenAI","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1885410181409820672/ztsaR0JW_normal.jpg"},"reply_count":209,"retweet_count":639,"like_count":5768,"impression_count":2197288,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

Theo gets conspiratorial about Anthropic

Theo — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:28:49 GMT

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We need to talk about gstack

Theo — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:25:05 GMT

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Anthropic Can't Stop Making Mistakes

Theo — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:21:57 GMT

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