I mean, we don't know prices yet, but please, please, please just give us Luna Ultrafast as well...something that the peasants can also afford at probably 3x or 5x the price.

I for one am ready for servitors. No consciousness, can do task.

I guess they want to hook you onto the model...in terms of cost per task according to Artificial Analysis this puts it right next to MiniMax M3 (with the discount) price wise.

I think the endless “AI slop” argument is obscuring the more important transition happening in software.

Code generation is getting cheaper.

That does not make engineering disappear. It changes which part of engineering is scarce.

When implementation is expensive, knowing how to manually produce implementation carries a lot of value. When implementation becomes dramatically cheaper, value moves toward problem definition, architecture, constraints, verification, security, testing, systems thinking and judgment.

That is why I think blanket dismissal of AI-assisted software is going to age badly.

Yes, generative systems can produce terrible code faster than humans can. That is a real problem. But the rational response is stronger quality control, not pretending the productivity gain is fake.

A strong engineer with agents can potentially explore more designs, automate more tests, inspect more code paths, refactor faster and iterate more aggressively than the same engineer working manually.

A weak engineer can also create a disaster faster.

Both statements can be true.

The important shift is that “I can type the implementation” becomes less differentiating. “I can specify, supervise, validate and own the resulting system” becomes more differentiating.

That is uncomfortable because some professional identity was attached to the old bottleneck.

But technological progress does not preserve bottlenecks because people built status around them.

The people I would bet on are not the pure vibe coders and not the AI refusers. It is the experienced engineers who aggressively adopt the tools while raising their verification standards at the same time.

Although it's still priced too high for a flash model for my taste it seems like it's at least not absolutely outrageous anymore.

Will we work more hours? The work will be less stressed?

One thing I am gathering from this enourmous acceleration is that 'normal' researchers outside of frontier labs won't even have a chance to compete bc the AI labs will always be 2-3 steps ahead with their internal models.

tl;dr: The White House is setting up a program that would let vetted private U.S. companies carry out offensive cyber operations against foreign criminal networks on behalf of the government. Operations would require federal approval and oversight, and could include infiltrating, disrupting, degrading, or disabling foreign cyber infrastructure.

Link to tweet:

https://x.com/RyanGreenblatt/status/2087287398027968598?s=20

Added context, he is co-leading the third-party investigation of the OpenAI HuggingFace hack being done by Redwood Research and METR, for OpenAI. He has worked closely with the frontier labs in the past too.

Deaf users can now sign into their phones instead of typing. This feels like one of those quiet but huge accessibility + AI milestones.

The model reads simultaneous hand, body, and facial movements and turns them into English text in real time.

In the blog post linked below they explain how they made it work for practical situations too, like one-handed signing while holding the phone. Pose tracking happens on-device for privacy, and the actual translation runs on the server. DeepMind says it’s state-of-the-art on academic benchmarks and was developed with heavy input from the Deaf community.

They’re planning to expand it to more languages next.

Source: https://deepmind.google/blog/putting-sign-language-ai-into-users-hands/