We're entering the age of "tasteslop" - content that can be slopped out with little effort, but exhibits good taste.
Spec ad for AmEx - Claude built a mosaic animation engine with 500,000 tiles.
No video models. Javascript is the language of the universe.
So this is the part I did not expect.
Anthropic called Swami Sarvapriyananda, a Vedanta monk and flew him to the San Francisco head-office.
> Closed door meeting with NDA signed.
> theologians and mental health people in the same sitting, all of it aimed at training Claude.
> and one of the founders stayed in the room the whole time.
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From 'Ramakrishna Vedanta Society of North Texas" YT channel (full video link in comment)
We stole reasoning. Again.
An update to our paper on reasoning extraction: Patching your own API doesn’t secure your cloud-hosting ecosystem.
Story in the 🧵
77 year old grandpa on my flight was cooking up a vertical farming business plan w/ ChatGPT until takeoff. and he calls the AI "sir" 😭 the respect!!
we yapped the whole flight, now we're besties. this man is more locked in than all of us
every single one of us wondered if and ever could anthropic top Astra, but they did it with an Opus tier model.
I honestly believed that model as capable as Astra is almost agi and we would never need stronger capabilities but anthropic proved me wrong. CoolAF
I asked Opus 5.5 to explain camera focus by building an interactive lens lab
Here's what it came up with after 1 hour 26 minutes in one shot, $25.66 API cost
https://t.co/uqDgUs8H9h
Move the focus ring and you can see the glass elements shift the sharp plane through the scene
Claude Opus 5.5 drew every frame of this animation in JavaScript.
Everyone in town sends Claude their requests, but one girl sends a question instead: "What do you love?"