Two days ago the US banned Claude Fable 5. Yesterday China dropped GLM 5.2. Today GLM 5.2 is #1 on @bridgebench BS at 100.0, and #1 on Reasoning at 42.8, beating Fable 5. At 1/10th the cost and 300 tokens per second. You cannot export control your way out of an open source race. The ban didn't slow China down. Unban Fable 5.

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…

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I’m going to try and achieve immortality by 2039. One year of time passes and I remain the same biological age. I invite you to join me. The search for the fountain of youth is the oldest story ever told. It’s been the dream of dreamers for millennia but always painfully out of reach. For the first time in the history of life on earth, in just the past 24 months, the window has opened for a conscious being to realistically strive for this goal. It is an absolutely insane moment. We currently do not know how 2039 immortality will be achieved. There are new, promising therapies that can turn back the clock decades, but they’re buggy. Sometimes they mistakenly cause cancer. We gotta fix that. But we know immortality is possible because nature has already solved it. This isn’t a physics problem like trying to travel faster than the speed of light, it’s a biological engineering problem that evolution has cracked multiple times. The freshwater hydra constantly regenerates its own cells and doesn’t succumb to senescence. It is effectively ageless. The "immortal jellyfish" (Turritopsis dohrnii) can revert its cells back to a youthful state and restart its life cycle indefinitely. Lobsters produce an especially active form of an enzyme called telomerase that preserves their telomeres and keeps their DNA from degrading as they age. We need to port the software to humans. 2039 is a reasonable target because of the accelerated, AI-driven rate of innovation. AI is morphing from assistant to scientist.  It is powering current researchers with previously unimagined capabilities to enhance discovery and development. That, coupled with enhanced biomarker measurement, creates a closed-loop system of improvement that will speed things up dramatically. This is what I’ve been doing for six years. As crude as longevity technology is today, the improvements I’ve personally seen are stunning. I started as a worn-down, inflamed, aged 42 year old who’d broken himself on the rocks of American food slop and entrepreneurship martyrdom. Six years later, my body largely operates at elite 18 year old levels. That includes my cardiovascular system, fertility, strength, and hormones. Not all is well though. I have mild to moderate hearing loss in my left ear that we can’t fix and my brain is anatomically age 42 (I’m 48). Still, unreal results. My team and I did this by following the scientific method. We measured the biological age of every organ. We referenced the best scientific evidence on how to slow aging and rejuvenate.  We methodically completed these protocols and measured again. Rinse and repeat. We could do so much more and faster if we had better measurement and better therapies. Both of which are cooking all over the world right now. To speed things up now, I’m currently having thousands of Bryan Johnson organ clones built in a dish. This will allow me to test drugs and other molecules against my biology to accelerate learning and save my body from potential mishaps. Yes, we’ll make mistakes. Hopefully they won’t be fatal. And of course there’s always bad luck to contend with. But I trust in fate and I believe that destiny is going to grant the human race the pleasure of achieving the ultimate: immortality. While immortality would certainly be cool, the real (secret) objective is to focus our collective attention on a positive goal. Something that helps us feel hope and excitement for the future. I personally love the idea of having a child-like mind, 18-year-old physical vibrancy, and a lifetime of wisdom. This 2039 goal is as much about AI as it is about us humans. It’s about how we survive giving birth to superintelligence. It’s kind of a big deal. We haven’t done it before. A lot can go wrong. I figure that one of the best ways to improve the probability that we build safe AI, and don’t kill each other in the meantime, is to transform our shared aspirations from yolo to don’t die. Right now, we are a suicidal species. We do all kinds of really primitive shit. We unnecessarily kill ourselves with what we eat and how we live our lives. Companies make profits from killing other people with their products. We trash the only home we have. We celebrate these things as virtue.  It’s really fucked up and backward. Soon enough we’ll realize just how infantile we are right now. The 2039 goal points us in the right direction. To say yes to life and no to death. Defiance even. If you’re interested in doing this with me, I’ll continue to share everything I do for free. I’m also going to build this out in Blueprint. We’ll help you do exactly what I’m doing, at a fraction of the cost and effort, alongside an aligned and motivated community. I think this is the coolest goal imaginable. I find it hard to believe that of all the people who’ve lived, it’s us who get the opportunity to have this moment. I pray that we have the courage to appreciate the sacredness of our existence. I pray that we will be brave enough to defend her amidst the onslaught of all the forces that would try to end her. We don’t know, but we may be the only intelligent life to exist in our corner of the galaxy. I pray we will be warriors, caretakers and stewards of existence and honor the gift that has been bestowed on us.

Two years ago, Barry and I created a brand called Monadians. If you were into Monad or NFTs back then, you heard about us. Everyone did. We poured serious money, time, and effort into this project. Monadians became the most hyped collection on Monad, ever. It genuinely felt like the 2021 NFT runback, and it didn’t stop inside the Monad bubble. We were the first Monad native collection to break into the wider web3 conversation. People who had never cared about Monad were suddenly talking about Monadians. We were growing fast. Momentum was huge. Then Monad started delaying, again, and again. At peak momentum, we made a calculated decision to launch on Ethereum, then migrate to Monad on mainnet, while continuing to build products specifically for the Monad ecosystem. A launch date was set, and everyone involved was fired up. Then, completely out of nowhere, @cryptunez (CMO of Monad) reached out with this message: “Launching on ETH is a bad idea. If you launch on ETH, we won't consider you as a Monad project.” So Barry scheduled a call with him. After the call, Barry relayed what was said: He loved what we were building. Monad wanted to work “closely” with us. He repeatedly used the word “endorsement”. We were promised significant support if we stopped everything and delayed. We were told: Monad mainnet was scheduled for Q4 2024 Monad’s strategy was to connect the ecosystem There would be NFT airdrops If we launched on ETH and migrated later, we would not be eligible. It sounded extremely bullish, but none of it happened. Here’s where it crossed a line: Barry explained that killing momentum would be incredibly dangerous for the project. The response was condescending and toxic: “If you’re not ready for this responsibility, you should reconsider launching at all.” Read that again. That wasn’t guidance, that was disrespect. It showed a complete lack of understanding of momentum, the most important metric in any startup, community, or brand. And worse, it showed zero respect for the work we had already put in. Now you understand why things look the way they do with Monad. A guy who knows nothing about the importance of momentum is steering the ship. At that point, I asked Barry to schedule another call so I could also join. Same story. More promises. More vague assurances. Anything to make us delay. I didn’t trust him. Something felt off from the start, and guess what? I was right. Shortly after, @keoneHD was suddenly brought into the picture and asked Barry to hop on a call. Barry asked if he could bring his co-founder (me). The answer was: “No. Just you.” That alone should’ve been a red flag. The same conversation happened again. The same pressure to delay. The same promises, this time coming from the CEO & Founder. After weeks of arguments between Barry and me, we made the worst decision we could’ve made, We trusted them. We delayed our mint, sacrificing momentum, based entirely on promises from the Monad team. On the day I tried to reach out to tunez to align and move forward? He ghosted me. Once. Twice. The third time, I got the message. Months later, he had the audacity to send me an article he wrote titled something along the lines of “How to Manage NFTs Properly” and told me I should read it. I ignored it. A few days later, he followed up with: “Did you read it? I recommend reading again” That wasn’t advice. That was arrogance. After that, communication with the Monad team effectively died, and we weren’t alone. Many founders on Monad experienced the same broken communication, the same vague promises, the same silence. I won’t name them, they’re still building on Monad. This is what happened to us, This is our story.