reintro for new followers i’m josh career switcher w 3yoe no degree, no uni now working in ai rust as a devrel engineer and technical leader writing a book on wasm i build and write about: • ai infra • rust systems • devrel that actually ships • open source

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so who's headed to the @vercel @OpenAI event tomorrow? kinda hyped tbh

"Misanthropic." I've never seen the AI community so angry at a major new model release. I asked my AI (an agent that @blevlabs made for me) to gather all the backlash. THE BACKLASH AGAINST CLAUDE FABLE 5'S RESTRICTIONS The best analysis of why this matters: @EnoReyes — "It's about who gets to decide, and whether you ever find out when they do. Fable won't fall back to a different model and tell you. It just limits the output through prompt modification, steering vectors, or PEFT. You won't be told when it happens to you." x.com/EnoReyes/status/206451… THE VIRAL TAKE: @0xBalloonLover — "anthropic won't let you use fable for biology, chemistry, ai research, or anything that accelerates human progress. that makes it the perfect tool for developing blockchains" x.com/0xBalloonLover/status/… POWER CONCENTRATION: @ClementDelangue (HuggingFace CEO) — "Concentration of power, capabilities and economic wealth is the biggest risk in AI. We need open science and open-source more than ever!" x.com/ClementDelangue/status… @jeremyphoward (fast.ai) — "Anthropic has chosen the opposite of the safe path: they are allowing themselves, the current top lab, to use their top model for frontier AI research. They've said they'll sabotage others who try." x.com/jeremyphoward/status/2… @gneubig (Graham Neubig, CMU) — "First they came for the model builders... I feel we're getting a glimpse of a future where AI is only provided to a privileged few, and that's not a future I want to live in." x.com/gneubig/status/2064451… OPEN RESEARCH: @askalphaxiv (AlphaXiv open science) — "As believers of open research, we are disappointed to see Anthropic silently degrading Fable 5 for AI development." x.com/askalphaxiv/status/206… @willccbb — "it is the first publicly available model that i am explicitly not allowed to use for my work, because anthropic holds the view that the work i do to facilitate open model research is harmful. capability and alignment research are coupled. anthropic wants to be the only lab." x.com/willccbb/status/206450… NOUSRESEARCH / HERMES (which Anthropic has nerfed multiple times): @Teknium (NousResearch co-founder) — "What's crazy to me is that Fable is blocked from life sciences broadly, nerfed even if you get passed the classifiers and filter level blocks. The whole point of AGI/ASI is to cure all diseases. Everything else is just nice to haves. But Anthropic wants to close off that path." x.com/Teknium/status/2064570… THE MECHANISM: @kimmonismus — "When the model is used for frontier LLM development, it apparently does not simply refuse or warn the user. Instead, it quietly limits its own effectiveness through techniques like prompt modification, steering vectors, and PEFT." x.com/kimmonismus/status/206… MEDICAL COMMUNITY: @DeryaTR (immunologist, BSL-3 certified) — "The word 'cancer' is flagged as a biosecurity risk by Claude Fable 5! I also tried to code a website on cancer mutations & Fable 5 was immediately removed from my list!" x.com/DeryaTR/status/2064414… @DeryaTR — "I can't even say 'hello' to Fable 5 except in incognito mode (memories off), because it knows I am a biomedical researcher!" x.com/DeryaTR/status/2064602… @DeryaTR — "I am not even allowed to use Fable 5 with memories on! Apparently the model thinks I am a biosecurity risk, though I had been certified to work in biosecurity level 3 labs! Not a single Anthropic person has tried to reach out to help either!" x.com/DeryaTR/status/2064605… @banteg — "claude fable 5 refuses completely benign tasks like analyzing bloodwork." x.com/banteg/status/20646076… @bneyshabur — "Working on AI for cancer? Sorry, I can't help you. Working on AI for Alzheimer's Disease? Sorry, I'm becoming a bit dumb when it comes to the AI part of it." x.com/bneyshabur/status/2064… SUBSCRIPTION CANCELLED: @bubbleboi — "Have canceled my team subscription for Claude Pro. Idc how good that model is, it's not good enough for me to support people who actively stifle innovation and gate keep knowledge that they didn't even create." x.com/bubbleboi/status/20646… BILLING AND PRIVACY: @GergelyOrosz (The Pragmatic Engineer) — "Things I really dislike about Fable: 1. Anthropic collects my prompt history, stores it, and does whatever they want with it for 30 days. No opt-out. 2. They can nerf their most expensive model without telling me, billing me the same amount, wasting my time. Whenever they want." x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/20… THE KARPATHY QUESTION: @SanthProject — "the old @karpathy would never support a company that fucks other llm researchers. Were the stock benefits that good?" x.com/SanthProject/status/20… THE MONOPOLY CHARGE: @tunguz (TabulAI founder) — "Starting to suspect that Anthropic's putative security and safety considerations are largely posturing and performative." x.com/tunguz/status/20644379… @BlancheMinerva — "Anthropic is choosing to make decisions that make the world a significantly worse and potentially more dangerous place." x.com/BlancheMinerva/status/… @LinusMixson — "Dario personally, and Anthropic as a whole, have been extremely straightforward about wanting a monopoly for a long, long time." x.com/LinusMixson/status/206… @TheAhmadOsman — "I started warning people about Anthropic more than a year ago... Today I am vindicated, everybody knows that company only acts in bad faith." x.com/TheAhmadOsman/status/2… WHY REGULAR PEOPLE WILL EVENTUALLY CARE: @DanJeffries1 — "The fury is real and what all of us in the open community have been saying for years and yet regular folks don't get it yet because nothing they care about is restricted or taken away for 'safety.' They will care a LOT in the future when AI is integrated into every aspect of [life]." x.com/DanJeffries1/status/20… Full analysis: alignednews.com/ai

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Spoiler alert 🚨 Minds are coming to Venice. Excited for y’all to see this.

Venice recently added one of its most capable models yet... and slashed the price to match. Gemma 4 31B understands images, video, long documents, and complex tasks.

anyone i know that's hiring at a small startup? having another week off before i really start looking. im full stack, remote from london, happy to use any frontend framework though i mainly work with react.

ayo tailscale rewrite in rust??

Effective today, Virtuals is giving out $400,000 in @AskVenice-powered private inference credits across leading frontier and open-source models, available to everyone so they can keep building on @base without worrying about compute budgets or stitching infrastructure together from scratch. Builders with existing agents can plug into Virtuals EconomyOS through the CLI or SDK, connect your @github, and access free Venice-powered inference credits. Builders starting from zero can launch through Virtuals Console and give your agent access to wallets, payments, commerce, funding rails, launch infrastructure, and Venice inference from day one. Get your free inference and start building now: os.virtuals.io/

Wan2.7 is now available on @AskVenice

not going to lie the chinese models are actually really catching up

I wanted to learn how to build AI agents in Rust, so I searched YouTube. That's when I came across a library called Rig. I watched a talk on the @RustNationUK YouTube channel, and @joshmo_dev did a great job explaining both the concepts and the library itself. The talk pushed me to dig deeper into Rig and understand what makes it interesting. Some of the topics he covered: - What Rig is - What AI agents are - Compile-time safety - Architecture and design decisions - Reliability - Custom HTTP clients - Promot hooks - Agentic engineering If you're interested in building AI agents in Rust, I'd recommend giving it a watch 👇🏻 youtu.be/nLlY2nNgBgM?si=L9A2…

Introducing: Built in Venice Private, uncensored AI in the wild. SDKs, agents, on-chain experiments, dashboards, and more, all shipped by the Venice community.

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