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The big winner in all of this is going to be open weights models. This is a huge win for the field, as a risk that was entirely theoretical and untested 2 days ago (that a model could be pulled back), now has a new precedent that’s been set. The game theory the US should highly consider, and the risk with regulating AI at the model layer vs. applied layer, is that other countries now have even more incentive to develop sovereign AI. If at any moment a model can be become unavailable to your country’s users or businesses, this poses very real risk on relying on technology from a particular country. As a result, it forces major countries to charter their own path on AI development, which reduces America’s leadership role in this tech stack over time. The most likely solution that other countries will rely on is open weights models, which currently is generally not coming from the US. America should be considering all of these downstream implications as it decides how and where in the stack to be regulating AI. At the same time, we should be doing a ton more OSS innovation.

I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true: — As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable. — Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.) — A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused. — In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.” — In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety. — In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community. — The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority. — Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.

I strive to make my writing unsummarizable, in the sense that it has so little fluff left in it that if you take any words out, as summaries by definition do, you lose a lot of interesting ideas.

One of the coolest things we think Agent One can do is read, understand, and completely break down any video you upload into the chat - and for filmmakers, this is a huge unlock. The agent reads videos (uploaded, or generated within agent one) and gives you a sitrep, spots continuity errors, picks camera movement, framing, the feel - practically anything in a video - and breaks it down completely. No other agent or tool out there can do this, this well. Check out our some masterclasses of how we use this feature on our YT channel

Wtf

- Every time I see a CRO that doesn't sell themselves, they fail. - Every time I see a CTO that doesn't code themselves, they fail. - Every time I see a CMO that doesn't market themselves, they fail. - Every time I see a CCO that isn't constantly meeting with customers themselves, in person, they fail. I know many will disagree. But this is across 30 incredible investments, 10 decacorns and unicorns, and more. Maybe this works at a huge public company growing 15% or less. But not before $250m ARR. And probably not before $1B ARR. If ever.

Fable 5 is crazy good.

There’s no amount of intelligence that can get packed into AI models that replaces the need for context. For any sufficiently general purpose AI, you will always have to guide it in the direction you want as it has an infinite range of directions it can go in. As long as the same model is used by a lawyer, an engineer, a financial analyst, or a healthcare professional, and as long as you’re trying to do anything uniquely differentiated or specific, then instructions, domain context, and proprietary data will always need to get into the context window for the model to be useful. This is partly why AI automation doesn’t come for free, and why there’s still a wide spectrum of who’s getting the largest gains from AI and who’s not. You have to put in real work, and you get real value on the other end. This is one of the advantages that applied AI will also have in the market. Any layer of abstraction above just the raw intelligence that can meaningfully get you off to the races faster will likely continue to be valuable.

Isn't all self-improvement recursive? I go to the gym, which makes me healthier, which makes it easier to go to the gym. I will soon be the strongest man alive.

JUNKYARD KING ⚔️ EP1 - "Training Day" Here’s what I learned making the latest episode of my 80s-inspired action-adventure fantasy buddy comedy about a kid, a glowing sword, and a mechanical crow. A thread 👇

invideo just made a full micro-drama series 10 episodes * 2 mins - send this to the friends of your micro-drama companies

Wow. This is really good!

Wow this looks amazing @_anshulk @sank

The singularity is here. I love the singularity. I loved the whooshing noise it made as it went by.

Google’s new model Omni is here. It does video, avatars, inpaint, lip sync, and a bunch more, all in one. I spent a day running 30 tests to figure out what it can do, where it breaks, and whether it's actually production-ready. The unlocks, the ceilings, the specs - full breakdown in the video and the thread.

Codex just found a “workaround” of not having sudo on my pc…

Claude un-ate my paper.

Large language marketing.

I’ve watched this episode more times than I should admit. AI is not replacing the craft, but giving more of it a way through.

Headless design - is that the name that will stick?