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OpenAI to buy Windsurf for $3 billion.

Firefox integrated AI chatbots into a new sidebar within the browser but the integration doesn’t appear to have access to the page the browser is currently on 🤦. It appears to just be an iframe/tab to the provider’s normal web interface.

ComfyUI is integrating external API models and demonstrate gpt-image-1 integrated with a ComfyUI workflow. The catch for now is you can’t supply your own API key/endpoint and rather require a ComfyUI account that you load with credits. Pricing reflects OpenAI list price.

Chain-of-Vibes by Pete Hodgson sums up nicely the approach I take to leverage the power of agentic AI workflows while sidestepping the limitations. Treat the tools “like weirdly knowledgeable, hyper-productive junior engineers”, give enough context but otherwise limit their output. Importantly, review the outcome of each small task and make a decision:

A) Accept and commit
B) Prompt to adjust
C) Manually fix up
D) Revert and re-prompt

The last item is an important one that’s often overlooked - throwing away the result and fixing your prompt is often more time efficient, especially when learning how to prompt.

Prompting has deceptive simplicity. It seems like it should be straight forward but for me it’s required a lot of practice to get better results. Aidan Boyd’s post How I talk to AI has a good summary of how he thinks about prompting before doing so.

Google releases Gemini 2.5 Flash allowing developers to switch between reasoning/non-reasoning at the API level.

$0.15/1mil tokens input
$0.60/1mil tokens output (no reasoning)
$3.50/1mil tokens output (reasoning)

OpenAI has released o3 and o4-mini, their most powerful reasoning models. These models outperform their predecessors while delivering answers in under a minute. OpenAI also launched Codex CLI, an open-source terminal tool, with a $1 million fund to support related projects.

o3 $10/mil tokens input, $40/mil tokens output
o4-mini $1.1/mil tokens input, $4.4/mil tokens output

GPT 4.1 is announced as 3x developer-centric model releases available specifically via API. An internal instruction following eval was used to improve the model’s ability to follow instructions. Context size is 1m tokens. Pricing appears competitive if the new models have similar performance to Gemini/Sonnet:

gpt-4.1 $2/mil tokens input, $8/mil tokens output
gpt-4.1-mini $0.4/mil tokens input, $1.60/mil tokens output
gpt-4.1-nano $0.1/mil tokens input, $0.4/mil tokens output

GPT 4.5 will be deprecated over API in a few months

Microsoft make their world model able capable of generating 10fps and release a Quake II inspired demo. John Carmack weighs in on the haters.

A summary of the security concerns with Model Context Protocol.

Meta releases first Llama 4 models:

• Llama 4 Scout, 109B parameters, 10M context length
• Llama 4 Maverick, 400B parameters, 1M context length

The above are distilled from an unreleased, still in training, larger model:

• Llama 4 Behemoth, 2T parameters

The free lunch that was smashing GitHub Copilot’s premium models with unlimited requests is over and rate limits are coming in May. Any requests not hitting the base model (currently: OpenAI GPT-4o) are considered premium, so Sonnet, Gemini, o1 etc. The rate limits are as follows:

Copilot Free: 50/month
Copilot Pro: 300/month
Copilot Pro+ 1500/month
Copilot Business: 300/month
Copilot Enterprise: 1000/month

The premium models also have a rate multiplier where for example Claude Sonnet 3.5/3.7 have a rate mulitplier of 1, and o1 and GPT-4.5 have a rate multiplier of 10 and 50 respectively.

The news comes with an announcement of the GitHub Copilot Pro+ plan, a new individual tier priced at 39USD/month with 1500 requests/month to premium models.

Gemini 2.5 Pro pricing is out. For prompts less than 200k tokens:

Input: $1.25/mil tokens
Output: $10/mil tokens

For prompts over 200k tokens:

Input: $2.50/mil tokens
Output: $15/mil tokens

Importantly this bumps the rate limit to at least 150RPM & 1,000RPD on Tier 1.

The success of the new ChatGPT 4o image generation caused the rollout to be delayed but it’s now available to free users, rate limited to 3 generations per day.

Not sure what tangible changes this might produce considering Elon already owned both but, xAI acquired X

xAI and X’s futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent. This combination will unlock immense potential by blending xAI’s advanced AI capability and expertise with X’s massive reach.

The next version of docker (v4.40) will add native llm capability to the docker cli. Docker Model Runner is not yet publicly released, but adds commands like docker model run that will run LLM models outside of containers. Initial reports look promising and may be nice replacement for running llama.cpp, koboldcpp or ollama locally.

OpenAI are adopting MCP. They’ve already integrated it with their Agents SDK and note they’re:

also working on MCP support for the OpenAI API and ChatGPT desktop app

MCP C# SDK allows C# developers to build MCP clients and servers in the dotnet ecosystem.

Google Deepmind launch Gemini 2.5 Pro, their latest SOTA model, which debuts at #1 on the LLM Leaderboard. No pricing yet, though it’s available for free via Google AI Studio and OpenRouter.

A couple of videos from Nvidia GTC:

• Live at NVIDIA GTC With Acquired

  • Cuda lost money for 10 years but now a key contributor to Nvidia’s moat
  • Ex-intel CEO said inference cost is 10,000x too expensive and qpu, quantum compute, will be available within 5 years

• GTC March 2025 Keynote with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang

  • Tokens/second is everything. This is the purpose of data centres of GPUs and we can call these AI factories.
  • Revenue & token/per second are ultimately power limited by how much electricity the AI factory has access to.
  • Moore’s Law now applies to energy, not hardware.
  • How big/smart the model is needs to be managed against how many tokens/second/per user. Bigger models require more compute taking away capacity from tokens/second/user and serving more users at once takes capacity away from the datacenter. The sweet spot is somewhere in the middle and represented by the area under the curve.
  • Nvidia’s new open source Dynamo software:

    Efficiently orchestrating and coordinating AI inference requests across a large fleet of GPUs is crucial to ensuring that AI factories run at the lowest possible cost to maximize token revenue generation.

  • Reasoning in LLMs improves accuracy with 20x tokens, 100x compute (llama 3.3 70b, 8x h100 vs deepseek r1 16x h100)
  • Hopper to Blackwell = 25-40x better inference performance, obliterating previous spend on Hopper. While impressive, I don’t know how lab investors recoop this or subsequent hardware investments.
  • Short term roadmap
    • Blackwell Ultra - 2nd half 2025
    • Vera Rubin - 2nd half 2026
    • Rubin Ultra - 2nd half 2027
  • Hopper > Rubin - 900x perf, 0.03 cost
  • Robotics is next trillion-dollar industry

Claude now has web search but it’s only

available now in feature preview for all paid Claude users in the United States. Support for users on our free plan and more countries is coming soon.

OpenAI release o1-pro and it costs $150 per million token input and $600 per million token output.

Currently, it’s only available to select developers — those who’ve spent at least $5 on OpenAI API services

A rules-based pattern is emerging for helping agentic workflows produce better results. Examples include GreatScottyMac’s RooFlow and, Geoff Huntley’s specs and stdlib approaches.

Brendan Humphrey on Vibe Coding, aligns with my own thinking on vibe coding:

…these tools must be carefully supervised by skilled engineers, particularly for production tasks. Engineers need to guide, assess, correct, and ultimately own the output as if they had written every line themselves.

Smashing Create PR with vibe coding output amounts to an attack on the PR process:

Generating vast amounts of code from single prompts effectively DoS attacks reviewers, overwhelming their capacity for meaningful assessment

But there is still some value:

Currently we see one narrow use case where vibe coding is exciting: spikes, proofs of concept, and prototypes. These are always throwaway code. LLM-assisted generation offers enormous value in rapidly testing and validating ideas with implementations we will ultimately discard.

Eugene Yan’s blog - Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon

Simon Willison’s blog - ai researcher, independent open source developer, co-creator of the Django Web Framework

Hamel Husain’s blog - independent AI consultant

Evalite - a vitest-based eval runner by Matt Pocock.

Introducing GPT-4.5 - hallucinations down, accuracy up, non-reasoning. Rolling out to pro + api. Doesn’t look like anyone will be coding with it any time soon with this type of api pricing:

Input: $75.00 / 1M tokens
Cached input: $37.50 / 1M tokens
Output: $150.00 / 1M tokens

And then in a tweet from sama:

this isn’t a reasoning model and won’t crush benchmarks. it’s a different kind of intelligence and there’s a magic to it i haven’t felt before. really excited for people to try it!

What We’ve Learned From A Year of Building with LLMs is a huge overview of findings building LLM applications from:

starting with prompting when prototyping new applications

all the way through:

what is a completely infeasible floor demo or research paper today will become a premium feature in a few years and then a commodity shortly after

Emerging Patterns in Building GenAI Products - a look at a number of different gen-ai patterns across evals, embeddings, RAG, Guardrails, fine tuning.

Fuck you, show me the prompt is an investigation into extracting the actual prompt that is sent to a model by llm abstraction libraries.

There are many libraries that aim to make the output of your LLMs better by re-writing or constructing the prompt for you. The prompts sent by these tools to the LLM is a natural language description of what these tools are doing, and is the fastest way to understand how they work.

The Novice’s LLM Training Guide - a look at fine-tuning LLMs using Low Rank Adaption (LoRA)

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code - hybrid reasoning model, same price as claude 3.5, improved accuracy. Also a terminal-based agentic coding tool, however this requires an api key.

ChatGPT Deep Research hallucinates

it claimed again to produce a complete dataset but in fact only produced ~7 lines, with a placeholder for the other ~3000.

Grok3 set to launch though after the “launch” it appears that:

Not all the models and related features of Grok 3 are available yet (some are in beta), but they began rolling out on Monday.

Introducing Perplexity Deep Research - Perplexity undercuts OpenAI by releasing their own Deep Research, for free.

Building a SNAP LLM eval - the first write-up in a series about our process of building an “eval” — evaluation — to assess how well AI models perform on prompts

Your AI product needs evals - How to construct domain-specific LLM evaluation systems to improve AI by iterating quickly.

OpenAI roadmap update for GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 from sama, which indicates that the model they’ve been cooking for some time can no longer be considered GPT-5.

We will next ship GPT-4.5, the model we called Orion internally, as our last non-chain-of-thought model.

Convert a figma design to code - After theoretically setting up claude to read/write from jira & github I remarked that my only job left would be to copy a screenshot from figma into the prompt and ask it to build the UI, but it looks that can can be integrated too.

Deepseek vs Claude PR Reviews - also demonstrates the value of being able to quickly switch between models.

The End of Programming as We Know It is another argument against ai replacing programmingers and for ai extending programmer capability.

OpenAI’s Deep Research: Novel User Applications and Community Insights - I prompted Deep Research to research itself

Investigate latest community news of OpenAI’s Deep research function and what novel approaches people are finding it useful for.

LLM Cost Analysis 2023-2026 - I asked ChatGPT deep research to generate a report that investigates the $/million tokens over time across providers and predict the price of tokens in 2026

Prepare a report that investigates the cost per million token of LLMs since 2023, with estimations on what the cost will be in 2026.

GitHub Copilot: The agent awakens - Just when you thought it was Cursor/Claude Desktop/Roo/Cline, m$ reminds you they’ll eat your lunch.

Open-source DeepResearch – Freeing our search agents - after the release of OpenAI’s Deep Research, Hugging Face deliver an open source alternative in 24 hours.

Getting AI-powered features past the post-MVP slump

The non-negotiable first step in systematically improving your AI systems is establishing a solid feedback loop.

Beyond the AI MVP: What it really takes

almost no one is talking about how to integrate this stuff into a normal software development lifecycle. There’s a reason no one is talking about this: it’s because most teams, even those at billion-dollar companies, just haven’t built this yet.

OpenAI o3-mini released.

This model continues our track record of driving down the cost of intelligence—reducing per-token pricing by 95% since launching GPT‑4—while maintaining top-tier reasoning capabilities.

DeepSeek hit with ‘large-scale’ cyber-attack after AI chatbot tops app stores - Attack forces Chinese company to temporarily limit registrations as app becomes highest rated free app in US.

I noted I could access the chat signup page after a few refreshes but the api signup was constantly throwing 500.

On DeepSeek and Export Controls - CEO of Anthropic shares his take on DeepSeek - It’s not as good as everyone says it is, but China needs to be further restricted from chips anyway.

New image model family: Janus-Pro - DeepSeek creators just dropped a stable diffusion competitor.

Janus-Pro, which DeepSeek describes as a “novel autoregressive framework,” can both analyze and create new images… and most Janus-Pro models can only analyze small images with a resolution of up to 384 x 384.

Hugging Face NLP Course

This course will teach you about natural language processing (NLP) using libraries from the Hugging Face ecosystem

The Short Case for Nvidia Stock, a 60min read, but, also a very good overview of the current state of ai, including cerebras + deepseek.

Why everyone in AI is freaking out about DeepSeek

The open-source availability of DeepSeek-R1, its high performance, and the fact that it seemingly “came out of nowhere” to challenge the former leader of generative AI, has sent shockwaves throughout Silicon Valley and far beyond

Ignore the Grifters - AI Isn’t Going to Kill the Software Industry

It’s highly unlikely that software developers are going away any time soon. The job is definitely going to change, but I think there are going to be even more opportunities for software developers to make a comfortable living making cool stuff.

OpenAI announces new o3 model

the company unveiled o3, the successor to the o1 “reasoning” model it released earlier in the year. Neither o3 nor o3-mini are widely available yet, but safety researchers can sign up for a preview for o3-mini starting today.

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking

a new experimental model that unlocks stronger reasoning capabilities and shows its thoughts.

Meta releases Llama 3.3

Llama 3.3 is a text-only 70B instruction-tuned model that provides enhanced performance

Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit

in 2017, Elon not only wanted, but actually created, a for-profit as OpenAI’s proposed new structure. When he didn’t get majority equity and full control, he walked away and told us we would fail.

Cerebras Now The Fastest LLM Inference Processor; Its Not Even Close

To put it into perspective, Cerebras ran the 405B model nearly twice as fast as the fastest GPU cloud ran the 1B model. Twice the speed on a model that is two orders of magnitude more complex.

OpenAI and others seek new path to smarter AI as current methods hit limitations

Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of AI labs Safe Superintelligence (SSI) and OpenAI, told Reuters recently that results from scaling up pre-training - the phase of training an AI model that use s a vast amount of unlabeled data to understand language patterns and structures - have plateaued.

Then from Yann LeCun:

I don’t wanna say “I told you so”, but I told you so.

Also, from Gary Marcus;

Yann LeCun is absolute conniving thief

Introducing Stable Diffusion 3.5 - A nice surprise considering the flop of sd3, the emergence of flux models and the non-commercial license on flux-pro. That first image is next level considering the gimped sd3 (censored) and the prompt “woman lying in grass” drama

Claude 3.5 Sonnet (new)

Early customer feedback suggests the upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet represents a significant leap for AI-powered coding.

Legacy Modernization meets GenAI - I am constantly pondering when and how AI will help me understand, maintain and/or uplift an existing codebase and here’s an article on the subject, tho, TL;DR: keep waiting

Nvidia releases a 72b multimodal LLM. The article claims it’s open source, but it appears to only have open weights and is otherwise commercially restricted.

OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity

The OpenAI non-profit will continue to exist and own a minority stake in the for-profit company

Mira Murati, the CTO of OpenAI steps down.

An open letter to European policymakers requesting improvement to AI regulations in the region.

The EU’s ability to compete with the rest of the world on AI and reap the benefits of open-source models rests on its single market and shared regulatory rulebook.

Zuck & Yann LeCun included as signatories.

Introducing OpenAI o1-preview, a thinking/reasoning model.

As an early model, it doesn’t yet have many of the features that make ChatGPT useful, like browsing the web for information and uploading files and images. For many common cases GPT‑4o will be more capable in the near term.

FLUX dropped and it’s blows Stable Diffusion 3 out of the water, though has very high resource requirements. I’m running the schnell version locally. Prompt adherence is great, text capability is incredible.

Mistral announce Mistral Large 2

Mistral Large 2 has a 128k context window and supports dozens of languages

Meta introduces Llama 3.1 including a 405B model. Zuck restates their commitment to open source. Models are up on hugging face, with 405b having a 200gb+ vram requirement.

Stability AI holds on, appointing a new CEO.

Nvidia passes Microsoft in market cap to become most valuable public company though days later $646 billion wiped from Nvidia in biggest ever company loss in history of the world.

SD3 weights dropped last night. I gave it a shot last night myself with their supplied comfyui workflows, as a base model it looks extremely promising, details are next level, though it still doesn’t appear to know jack about hands, faces still need hires fix. Very promising for a base model.

xAI gets a Series B funding round of $6 billion

Prompting Fundamentals and How to Apply them Effectively has some really good prompting guidance.

Yann LeCun says LLM’s won’t achieve AGI.

I pondered whether LLMs would be any good at solving for Vehicle Routing Problem - thankfully I don’t need to investigate as arxiv.org once again delivers. TL;DR - yes, as long as you’re happy with it being wrong 30-40% of the time.

Microsoft releases Phi-3 vision

a 4.2B parameter multimodal model with language and vision capabilities.

Microsoft’s AI chatbot will ‘recall’ everything you do on its new PCs

Scarlett Johansson issues a statement on OpenAI and OpenAI posts about How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen.

I’ve been running koboldcpp in wsl, but the Tcl/tk UI is tiny. This looking interesting tho, and already in a container.

Yann LeCun reminding us there is no such thing as a rogue super intelligence.

Doomers have lost the AI fight

When Ilya Sutskever left OpenAI this week, the firm lost its last influential leader known to question CEO Sam Altman’s push to deploy AI fast.

Marc Andreessen on navigating a model’s latent space via prompting.

Stability AI discusses sale

In the first quarter of 2024, Stability AI generated less than $5 million in revenue and lost more than $30 million, the report said, adding that the company currently owes close to $100 million in outstanding bills to cloud computing providers and others.

glif lets you package your comfyui workflow into an app with no code.

Sam Altman on Ilya leaving OpenAI

Hello GPT-4o

We’re announcing GPT‑4o, our new flagship model that can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time.

Mark Zuckerberg - Llama 3, $10B Models, Caesar Augustus, & 1 GW Datacenters - fascinating interview - the least robot-like I’ve ever seen Zuck, he’s getting that billion-dollar media training. Highlights include:

• They got the edge in GPU race because in 2022 they realised they were short on GPUs for training their Reels recommendation system, so purchased double what they needed.
• They foresee the bottleneck being energy production (not chips) both in the (regulatory) time and tech required to produce enough energy to power the chips
• They have their own chips now, so they can lessen their reliance on more expensive Nvidia chips - they wont train llama4 with their own silicon but might train llama5

Amazon pours additional $2.75bn into AI startup Anthropic

Extra financing will bring technology giant’s total investment in OpenAI rival to $4bn

Stability AI CEO resigns because you’re ‘not going to beat centralized AI with more centralized AI’

Stability AI, which has lost more than half a dozen key talent in recent quarters, said Mostaque is stepping down to pursue decentralized AI.

Microsoft CEO on owning OpenAI, from Elon vs OpenAI lawsuit

Microsoft’s CEO boasted that it would not matter if OpenAI disappeared tomorrow. He explained that “we have all the IP rights and all the capability. We have the people, we have the compute, we have the data, we have everything. We are below them, above them, around them.”

Stable Diffusion 3: Research Paper

Stable Diffusion 3 outperforms state-of-the-art text-to-image generation systems such as DALL·E 3, Midjourney v6, and Ideogram v1 in typography and prompt adherence, based on human preference evaluations.

Today we’re excited to introduce Devin, the first AI software engineer.

Devin is an autonomous agent that solves engineering tasks through the use of its own shell, code editor, and web browser.

Introducing the next generation of Claude

The family includes three state-of-the-art models in ascending order of capability: Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Opus.

The last 12 months has seen explosive growth in open source (stable diffusion, llama, hugging face), open research and open datasets while the drive to censor/limit commercial/closed models makes them perform worse. Large companies appear not well suited to this pace such that there’s prediction that opensource will overtake closed source offerings.

Ice Ice MATRIX

AI Now Institute

The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.

An explanation of model size including an introduction to model quantization.

sounddraw - generate tracks with AI

gpt4all

GPT4All runs large language models privately on everyday desktops & laptops