This is simultaneously amazing and horrifying.

I feel like we’re at the stage where if AI decides it needs to delete your production DB to solve the user login problem, then it’ll find a way to do just that.

We're approaching the "Sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" stage.

We are already there but it's "Sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't tell you what mitochondria are."

I feel like we might already be there...

If anything, it’s a very conservative estimate. Short of a major turn of events it seems very unlikely Anthropic’s revenue growth is going to slow to zero.

I think the government should make the new 0% tax rate optional. Stores can either continue to collect 8% or drop the rate to 0%.

I think that might help motivate these companies to move things a long a lot quicker. They might even find it doesn’t take 1 year after all.

Second/third generation children of Japanese immigrants to Brazil were historically given special visa access.

I assume the OP is actually referring to these returned second generation Japanese.

Knowledge cutoff is completely insufficient as an explanation.

These models have access to a web search tool. Gemini and ChatGPT both happily search for give info on OpenClaw. Claude denies all knowledge.

What’s more it’s this part that’s very concerning.. Banned for wrong think..

> I gave it a direct link to openclaw.ai and the chat instantly ended and hit my 5hr usage limit.

Claude is notorious in my experience to lie directly to your face (even if its baffling) instead of using the web tool. I'll never prompt it without saying 'use web tool' Its ridiculous.

Claude does not use the web search tool unless it thinks there's a good reason to. If you nudge it to search, it will, and then it'll tell you all about OpenClaw. You can easily go try this yourself -- I just did. It works fine.

> I gave it a direct link to openclaw.ai and the chat instantly ended and hit my 5hr usage limit.

Again, go to claude.ai yourself and try it. It works fine. It happily tells you about OpenClaw.

Whatever happened to jrflo must have been a coincidence. It frankly doesn't make any sense for Anthropic to be trying to block this.

My guess is that it was an abuse filter over-keyed on OpenClaw pushing Claude to certain responses patterns.

Normally given a web search tool these models will search if they don’t know.

the model has no such magical access to tools.

it's the harness which responds to the models replies that has access to the tools.

I wish people would continue to reiterate this difference.

I said the model has access to a web search tool. Of course it’s the harness that provides that access.

I didn’t spell that out because it’s irrelevant detail, immaterial to the point I was making.

Is actually running the unit tests what is important here though?

Could you achieve the same by just telling the agent: “This is a Python project. We use uv and pytest”

Having them run the tests also demonstrates that the test suite exists, has more then one test and and currently passes.

It feels very much like Gemini’s writing style - overly excited with lots of unnecessary contrasts.

> It is also a bit weird that they are not incorporating speculative decoding

Wouldn’t speculative decoding decrease overall throughput, but optimise (perceived) responsiveness?

For compute bound region(high batch size) yes, but for low batch size it could improve the throughput.

These look like good results for a first model release. I’m hoping to see more, especially in the 30b parameter range.

I don't know that this is a first model release. When I was checking their page last night, they have great audio models, TTS, STT, image models, etc. I'm skeptical that folks do all of that on the first release. Possible but unlikely, with that said. The evals look amazing, the audios I got to play is amazing. I hope everything about them is legit, we need more sovereign models.

Looks like at least a second release, they had one other LLM before this.

Japan giving a security guarantee to Taiwan would be major news!

In reality no such thing happened and one YouTube video of a handful of protestors doesn’t make it so.

What she did say is that a Chinese attack on Taiwan _could_ clearly become an existential threat to Japan. Note that key word _could_

Which… of course it could!

Japan hosts multiple US military bases. If it developed into an armed conflict between the US and China then it’s exceedingly likely that Japan would be attacked. Think Chinese missiles aimed At Yokosuka, just south of Tokyo.

Not only that but Japan and China have multiple territorial disputes. It’s not hard to imagine China deciding to go all in and settle those as well.