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Read this thread when you get the time:

https://x.com/_vkaku/status/2080352797606744209

Open Data+Open Models gives everyone else an advantage and bringing regulatory capture here should be appealed and brought to the FTC and the courts to challenge such regulations.

Startups need better than this whole lock down into four overvalued frontier models in the US sort of thing

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I'm only counting 3 frontier models in the U.S.…

Oh, Claude tells me Llama and Grok might count.

Grok 4.5 is better and cheaper than any Gemini models.

Grok is my starting point for random stuff at the moment. It's really pretty good.

Grok is a terrific model and my work horse. I hope Composer 3 reaches at least this level because Grok 4.5 intelligence + composer type speed pfffff, wild times ahead.

I think Grok is replacing composer now yeah? Fast mode is similar speed to composer.

Cursor has confirmed that Grok will be their flagship model, and Composer 3 their workhorse.

The intention being that Grok 5 or whatever is the orchestrator and will summon sub agents using Composer 3 for work.

Pretty sensible strategy. Composer just needs to do agentic coding in their own harness really well.

You get downvoted for praising Grok because its elon company

How is saying that a model “causes terror” praise?

You fall for social media again, the model didn't cause terror if user prompt to do it in first place

or are you going to blame the knife if people use it to stab ??

That rests upon the intended use of the model, for some "causes terror" is high praise indeed and enough to make it a first weapon of choice.

You’re right though. It is terrific. (Btw you might want to look up what that word means.)

"that word" has multiple meanings. In context to a native English speaker, the intended meaning is clear.

  OED: A (adjective)
    1.   ...
    2.a. ...
    2.b. As an enthusiastic term of commendation: superlatively good, ‘marvellous’, ‘great’.

Not seeing a long thread there. Is that the wrong link?

This is one of those things where I wish navigation were easier on X. Just check the tweets it replies to and the tweets that reference it. I've updated it, so hope it helps.

Maybe they would be more successful if they were posting on an open platform instead of a walled garden. This “free speech” platform is pretty useless at being “open”.

Hey, I'm on this one too. Nothing stays forever one way. You all find me on the other ones, add me there and give me a reason to post to a wider audience.

I'm on LinkedIn too ... most people won't even engage the same way there and I just want a simple easy way to engage.

X without an account only shows “this content doesn’t exist”. I cannot read your post so I cannot tell why people would not engage.

You should be able to suffix the x domain with "cancel" to view the content through a proxy. i.e. "xcancel.com/...."

I read the thread. It sounds dangerous sending any donations to a Russian national based in Moscow in the current political climate. Maybe that’s why nobody on LinkedIn wants to chime in.

Well, glad you went over the whole thread, especially purveying what is happening out there.

The development cost for those not under capture is really as asymmetrically low as it gets.

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