It is funny seeing people ping pong between Anthropic and ChatGPT, with similar rhetoric in both directions.

At this point I would just pick the one who's "ethics" and user experience you prefer. The difference in performance between these releases has had no impact on the meaningful work one can do with them, unless perhaps they are on the fringes in some domain.

Personally I am trying out the open models cloud hosted, since I am not interested in being rug pulled by the big two providers. They have come a long way, and for all the work I actually trust to an LLM they seem to be sufficient.

I find ChatGPT annoying mostly

Open settings > personalization. Set it to efficient base style. Turn off enthusiasm and warmth. You’re welcome

Yea but even then it's still annoying. "It's not about the enthusiasm and warmth but the general tone"

Setting “base style and tone” to “efficient” works fine for me.

Their financial projections that to a big part their valuation and investor story is built on involves actually making money, and lots of money, at some point. That money has to come from somewhere.

I didn't express this well but my interest isn't "who is in the top spot", and is more _why and _how various labs get the results they do. This is also magnified by the fact that I'm not only interested in hosted providers of inference but local models as well. What's your take on the best model to run for coding on 24GB of VRAM locally after the last few weeks of releases? Which harness do you prefer? What quants do you think are best? To use your sports metaphor it's more than following the national leagues but also following college and even high school leagues as well. And the real interest isn't even who's doing well but WHY, at each level.

The technical report discussing the why and how is here: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro/blob/main...

Follow the AI newsletters. They bundle the news along with their Op-Ed and summarize it better.

Can you suggest some good ones?

Thanks for this!

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I really like latent.space and simonwillison.com.

Also (shameless self-promo) I publish a 2x weekly blog just to force myself to keep up: https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/treadmill/

Tips on what newsletters are worth signing up for ?