We were offered like $600k to sell our company data to Micro1. 100% not doing it.
But it does interest me like crazy.
What a crazy business model and idea.
If you don't know, here's all I know about them: they go to private companies. They ask for your slack, notion, email info. Offer you 6-7 figures. Somehow anonymize that data and sell it to Openai, etc.
Seems like Micro1 has grown to 9 figures in revenue very very fast.
What else am I missing here. I get the value of this. But doesn't seem right to me.
We benchmarked DeepSeek V4.1 Flash by @deepseek_ai .
It reached 98% of GPT-6 Astra’s score at 1.4% of the cost on everyday design tasks based on user requests.
Every model except Astra scored lower AND cost more.
Are open models overtaking closed ones?
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Very funny that xAI was created to stop Anthropic which was created to stop OpenAI which was created to stop Google which would've actually never developed ASI because it was afraid of cannibalizing its ads revenue from search.