mr albanese … i have intelligence suggesting that atlassian is days away from developing a mythos class model. we must prevent non-australians from using this dual use technology and maintain our technological edge.
RIP David Hockney. There are infinite images I could post. Across medium, technology & time, relentless in returning the gaze to see better; colour, value, detail, mystery, wonder, joy in the world, inviting us to do so too. His life is a manifesto of what art can be. My hero
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OpenAI plans to undercut Anthropic’s pricing.
In light of massive Anthropic revenue growth and enterprises’ desire to cut token spending, OpenAI is considering lowering prices across all its models. If OpenAI significantly cuts prices, it could eat into both Anthropic’s enterprise share and both labs’ profit margins.
if we had gpt 9 and it was 100x more intelligent it would NOT be a simple textbox. it would be a hyper sophisticated app that let's you communicate with it with much higher bandwidth than text in text out
i'm obsessed with AI DIY projects.
my favorite one right now is this broccoli farmer in hokkaido, japan using Codex to run his 100-hectare farm
this guy never studied agriculture, never inherited land, started out as a civil servant.
but he wanted his farm to run better, and instead of paying an engineering firm he couldn't afford, he just built the tools himself.
here's what he's built on his own:
> remote control of his greenhouse vents from a chat app, wired up with an esp32 board, a motor driver, and cloudflare workers
> a bot that checks each greenhouse's temperature and opens the vents when it gets too hot
> satellite crop-health data laid over a map of his own fields
> an airtable base linking his plots, tasks, materials, and sensors
> wiring diagrams of his electrical panels, generated from a photo
stuff like this used to be locked behind machinery and engineers only the big agribusinesses could pay for.
but this legend just breezed past all of it with a laptop and Codex lol
vibes at codex checking in..
codex is for everyone now
after joining openai and launching the codex for open source program my second project was working on this WORKSPACES campaign and our incredible creative team.
tools like codex and codex remote control are the first time developers and knowledge workers can be photographed not just hunched over their computer in some undignified posture
soon, you'll see be able to see these on billboards and out of home campaigns!!
these are real actors, real photographers, and incredible art direction, and production team. no ai was involved except for the apps I build to show on the monitors.
i'm excited for a world where we're not even by their desks and our in remote control and cloud agents will definitly get us there, but until then...
Maybe that culture is fine for you at linear, and it looks like it’s working great for you! You’ve created something worth over a billion dollars in 7 short years, that’s something very few people on the planet have done before.
But sometimes there are big problems that need solving, and there is more creative thinking, not less, that happens with contact with the big problems. In our case, creating the financial operating system that owns the creation, transfer, financing, and investment of risk, using AI to automate the paperwork of the most regulated entities to make every business and person a little more profitable, waste a lot less time, and be more protected, is a big problem.
Maybe there were super geniuses at the Manhattan Project working 1 day per week like zen masters. I doubt it though, because if you’re obsessed with a problem, you work hard. Nowhere did I or do I glorify lack of sleep (I always think sleeping right and exercise are very important), and different people have different visions, cadences, and ways they want to run their companies. And that’s ok, but you attacking our style based upon sound bites when we are solving a really important problem, by market sizing probably the biggest problem large language models can solve, isn’t it.
@gbrl_dick disagree, this is 4D chess by albo and chalmers to incentivise plumbers and hairdressers use ai so that they are recognised as “tech startups” soon australia will have a tradie mafia