Gaétan Vandenberghe

AI builder. Pro-tech, pro-privacy, pro-ambition.
Mostly thoughts on software, Europe, startups and where things are going.

[OpenRouter @OpenRouter]

Grok 4.6 from @SpaceXAI is live on OpenRouter!

The latest Grok model shows strong improvements over Grok 4.5, and beats other frontier models on GPDVal-AA V2, while keeping its low $2 in $6 out pricing.

Use it now: https://t.co/eDJhjRGWDm

[Gaétan Vandenberghe @GaetanVDB]

@theo This is do damn usefull, always wondered about my usage. Would love a "total" usage page as well tho. . .

[Gaétan Vandenberghe @GaetanVDB]

@SpaceXAI Beautiful, great choice!

[Gaétan Vandenberghe @GaetanVDB]

Great article. Worth a read. . .

[Cern Basher @CernBasher]

https://t.co/fgTKfAx2Wl

[Maurits Vande Reyde @Mauritsvdr]

Het nieuwe wegenvignet is een platte belastingverhoging voor autobestuurders. De belofte van @BenWeyts dat het "enkel door buitenlandse bestuurders" zou betaald moeten worden en de belastingen voor Vlaamse bestuurders niet zou verhogen, wordt verbroken.

De bestaande verkeersbelastingen (BIV en jaarlijkse verkeersbelasting) blijven gewoon bestaan. Zeer veel Vlaamse autobestuurders (vooral elektrisch en bezine wagen) zullen fors meer verkeerbelastingen gaan betalen hierdoor.

Dat Vlaamse autobestuurders het wegenvignet ook gingen betalen wist iedereen al. Je mag van Europa geen vrijstelling geven enkel voor Vlamingen. Ook bestaande verkeersbelastingen evenredig verlagen kan helemaal niet.

Je had enkel de bestaande verkeersbelastingen kunnen afschaffen. Maar de Vlaamse regering heeft de inkomsten nodig.

Want waarom moet dit er toch komen? Gevolg van de desastreuze Vlaamse begroting. Het nieuwe wegenvignet moet 120 miljoen euro inkomsten per jaar opbrengen. Toppunt van een onbetrouwbare regering.

[Gaétan Vandenberghe @GaetanVDB]

@theo Already know this is going to be the most interesting tech podcast I’ve watched in a while. . .👀

[Gaétan Vandenberghe @GaetanVDB]

An absolute disaster for digital privacy. It effectively guts end-to-end encryption in Europe.

The way this was done is incredible anti Democratic.

Just utterly disgusting . . .

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇪🇺 European Parliament passes Chat Control proposal allowing private messages to be monitored.

[Gaétan Vandenberghe @GaetanVDB]

In a Europe that often feels determined to suffocate ambition, it is remarkable to see Revolut still thriving at this scale.

The ingenuity behind how they hire top talent is just as impressive as the growth itself.

Hats off. No words.

[Revolut @Revolut]

https://t.co/bzgXfHb326

[Gaétan Vandenberghe @GaetanVDB]

@theo Governments deciding for the people is a scary future. . .

[Gaétan Vandenberghe @GaetanVDB]

@OpenAI New frontier AI launch ritual:

Announce god-tier model, show benchmarks, say “safety”, restrict access, let everyone else fight over screenshots.

Still, the real moat is shifting from capability to access + governance.

[SpaceXAI @SpaceXAI]

You can now use your SuperGrok and X subscriptions inside T3code

[Gaétan Vandenberghe @GaetanVDB]

@jullerino Amazing work! Been using it daily, keep cooking!

[Datacurve @datacurve]

Claude Fable 5 debuts at #1 on DeepSWE.

It outscores the previous best by 3% and sets a new state-of-the-art on our long-horizon coding benchmark.

[Gaétan Vandenberghe @GaetanVDB]

@Kimi_Moonshot @datacurve GLHF👀👀

[Gaétan Vandenberghe @GaetanVDB]

@ClaudeDevs “Use the word workflow to get started”
Translation: “Say the magic word and watch 47 subagents turn your simple task into a venture-backed token bonfire.”

[Gaétan Vandenberghe @GaetanVDB]

@claudeai “Builds on Opus 4.7”. . . nothing says next-gen, like opening the launch tweet with “we patched yesterday’s failed homework.”

[Gaétan Vandenberghe @GaetanVDB]

@claudeai Even making it 3x cheaper, if it still uses as many tokens as 4.7, then GPT-5.5 is probably still cheaper... So hopefully it’s a meaningful bump up this time in agentic coding.

[Gaétan Vandenberghe @GaetanVDB]

@serenaa_ge Great work! Very interesting, would be amazing to see gpt-5.5 medium and composer 2.5 indeed. Especially since these are the workhorses for most people.