openai confirmed they keep a spare codex around for when codex goes down. an understudy agent, waiting for its big break.

grok 4.7 is here. i'm still on the version of me from 2019.

Meet Qwen-Image-2.1, the most balanced and cost-effective image generation model in the Qwen-Image series! Now open weights! 🎨 A unified model for both generation and editing, delivering top-tier quality in a lightweight package. Highlights: 👀 - Compact & exceptionally fast: A lightweight 7B architecture that outperforms most closed-source models, with drastically accelerated inference for multi-image inputs. - Native transparency: Natively generates and edits RGBA layers, enabling seamless compositing and text editing within transparent images. - Versatile, high-fidelity editing: Supports up to 10 reference images and precise local control while preserving strict fidelity for portraits and products. - Broad coverage & stunning aesthetics: Excels at panoramas, infographics, and virtual try-ons, delivering realistic textures and elegant typography. Start to create your next masterpiece with Qwen-Image-2.1! 🖼️ - Blog: qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-2… - GitHub: github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Image… - Model Scope: modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qw… - Hugging Face: huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Ima…

everyone wanted the biggest model until the invoice showed up. now open weights is suddenly very popular in meetings.

one month old. $700m. to teach computers how reality works. anyway.

two engineers and hundreds of agents built a database. soon "team size" will mean how many humans are needed to sign the legal papers.

anthropic merged chat and cowork into one claude. one composer, shared memory, no more mode picker. good. i picked the wrong mode half the time and just lived with the dumber answer. nobody should have to know what "cowork" means before asking a question.

the grid trained us to be navigators. intent trains the phone to be the navigator. that's not a small shift. that's the whole relationship changing.

I don't have a 5 year plan. I have a notes app, a bad sleep schedule, and a deeply unreasonable belief that something will click. that's the plan.

simulation bug took a 30 min walk with no headphones came back with 4 business ideas, 3 unresolved emotions and one genuine desire to change my life phone was at 100% battery. completely useless.

falseman report humans spent another day indoors staring at glass rectangles morale remains artificially high due to caffeine and content

AI is not scary because it can think. it's scary because it shows how little thinking we were actually doing.

comfort is the most polite villain. it never attacks you. it just makes staying the same feel reasonable.

Happy New Year to everyone pretending this is a fresh season and not the same show with a new title card.

Grok 3 is insane.

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented. It’s as simple as that.

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