Christian Gamboa

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

I think AI has just hit a gigantic threshold, and Grok 4.5 is the PERFECT example as to why that is.

One of the hardest parts of working with AI is iterating on a project or task that you're working on.

As the models have gotten smarter (and more expensive), it's taking longer and longer to get an answer or action back.

This creates a ton of stall time per query or action, which is actually quite bad for creativity and staying in a state of flow.

You have SO many extended starts and stops. Which inevitably leads to your brain going somewhere else. And then when the AI comes back, you have to redirect your brain to that original task, spool your brain back up to what you were working on at that moment, and then adjust as needed.

There's a ton of mental friction involved.

This ESPECIALLY sucks when the AI takes a REALLY long time to get something back for you, but it's not quite what you were looking for or asked for. And what sucks EVEN MORE is that these "mistakes" are getting MORE expensive!!!

So wait time is going up. AND it costs more per run.

HOWEVER - even after using Grok 4.5 for about an hour - what's become obvious is that it's SO MUCH MORE ENJOYABLE AND BETTER to use a model that is FAST... and capable ENOUGH.

Capable ENOUGH is the real unlock here.

Imagine having Fable 5 performance but at the speed of Gemini 3.5 flash. Or Haiku. That's where we're inevitably going.

I think Grok 4.5 (and models like it) have really solved for one of the biggest unlocks in AI - a model that will get you a GOOD ENOUGH answer VERY FAST, at which point iteration can happen VERY QUICKLY.

This - counter intuitively - keeps the user in a state of flow and creativity for MUCH longer because you are constantly ENGAGED with your project... instead of letting the AI loose for a long time.

And as long as humans are involved, I think 'not quite right' will be a FOREVER problem with AI - because AIs, by default, CANNOT have human taste.

Because they are NOT human.

But they can be UNBELIEVABLE tools. And unbelievable tools are the ones that are VERY GOOD and VERY FAST.

I think that's the true unlock with Grok 4.5 and models like it.

Difficult to describe until you experience it.

I think this is a VERY big deal for @SpaceXAI and @elonmusk.

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

My entire end-to-end process to write a script for a YouTube video took anywhere between 30 minutes to 1.5 hours depending if I used Claude Opus 4.8 or Fable 5.

Grok 4.5 did it in about 5 minutes.

And the quality - at least for this try - is the same.

Consistency will be the key, but thus far, Grok 4.5 is a BANGER.

Great job @SpaceXAI @elonmusk!!!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Our internal assessment is that Grok 4.5 is roughly comparable to Opus 4.7, but much faster. The combination of capability, faster speed and lower cost is what makes it competitive.

We are closing the loop on real-world usefulness, not benchmarks. Hardcore engineers at Tesla & SpaceX find Grok 4.5 genuinely useful, which is what actually matters.

[Polymarket Money @PolymarketMoney]

BREAKING: Amazon plans to invest $5,000,000,000.00 over 15 years to expand AWS cloud infrastructure in the Philippines.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

UNBELIEVABLE

TRUMP: "For me, the memorandum of understanding is over. I don't want to deal with them anymore. They're scum. And if they get a nuclear weapon.. They're liars.. In my eyes, it's a waste of time to continue talking to them. They're crazy, for me it's over."

[Milk Road @milkroaddaily]

Joe Lubin: if you saw what Ethereum is seeing from the inside, you'd be "wildly bullish."

He thinks the bear market is essentially over - and that the web is about to "rapidly move onto decentralized rails" in the second half of this year.

"The future is definitely now and that'll start to ramify."

FT @ethereumJoseph @joechalom @BitcoinJesusETH @Securitize.

[NBA Memes @NBAMemes]

Tennis Rodman

[BMNR MNAV Tracker @BMNRTracker]

THE WORLD RUNS ON ETHEREUM

[Christian Gamboa @TheThinker7789]

@vladtenev when are you launching in the Philippines?

[Ethereum Institutional @ethereuminsti]

1/ Announcing Ethereum Institutional

An independent non-profit dedicated to accelerating the institutional adoption of Ethereum, its L2s, applications and overall ecosystem.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

We tax cigarettes to reduce smoking.
We tax alcohol to reduce drinking.
We tax fuel to reduce driving.

What do you think happens when you tax employing people and running a business?

[NotebookLM @NotebookLM]

Doom scrolling but make it educational 🤓

Introducing Short Video Overviews in NotebookLM! Turn your most complex sources into 60-second, vertical videos that deep dive into any concept.

Rolling out now to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers on mobile & web (free users soon!)

[Ben Cera @Bencera]

China will crash the US stock market this year.

They're dumping SOTA open-source models on the US, nearly as good as the frontier labs, basically free.

Nobody can refuse cutting a $100M AI bill down to $5M.

Once that deal is on the table for everyone, Anthropic and OpenAI can't justify their prices, or their valuations.

The bubble isn't AI. It's the price of AI. And it's about to pop.

[Min Choi @minchoi]

We are cooked.

China's Alibaba just revealed Wan Streamer.

AI agents can now see you, hear you, and talk back on video in real time.

This is not voice mode anymore 🤯

[Sakana AI @SakanaAILabs]

Introducing Sakana Fugu: A full multi-agent orchestration system accessible via a single model API.

Our ‘Fugu Ultra’ model matches the performance of Fable and Mythos, delivering frontier capability without the risk of export controls.

Try it: https://t.co/hhO6qTawgb 🐡

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jimmy Carr realized something big after years with his partner and no kids:

“Not having kids is like playing life on easy mode with a cheat code. You think you have skin in the game… but you don’t. Having kids is like your heart living outside your body. The stakes suddenly feel real.”

He says it’s made him more invested in the future, more aware of mortality, but also incredibly joyful.

“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” - Elizabeth Stone

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The US has issued Iran a general oil-related license allowing the production, delivery, and sale of Iranian-origin oil, petrochemical, and petroleum products through August 21st.

Iranian oil is officially returning to global markets for the first time since 2018.

[Christian Gamboa @TheThinker7789]

@Reuters the president of iran started, did you put it in your report / commentary?

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: The NSA confirms Mythos “broke into almost all of our classified systems, not in weeks, but in hours”

[First Squawk @FirstSquawk]

Iranian President: We signed a commitment not to possess nuclear weapons based on a request from America

#Breaking