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Opus 5.5 and fable 5.2 will release tonight.

gpt-6-sol and Aeon (personal agent) on Thursday. Already preceded by a huge week with step, mimo, grok, and jev releases.

Relentless cycle.

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In a way it's like the 1980s again, when there were new computers and consoles coming out every week, or the 2000s with all the 3D cards :)

Whoa, no kidding. Takes me back to the MHz wars we had at school and like you said, the card wars. Excellent perspective.

At least after buying 166mmx you didn't get lowered to 133mhz after a month. The progress was legit back then.

Hey I bought a ‘cyrix pr166’ so i’m not too sure about that.

Funny I was duped into buying Cyrix instead of Pentium 2. The guy was telling me it would play Quake better. It didn't, of course.

Wow was the 80s really like this? I am interested in AI but it is a bit exhausting to keep up with

It's hard to overstate how much computers improved with each generation back then. Going from, say, an IBM XT or AT to an Amiga has no modern parallel. It was mind-blowing, exhausting, and exhilarating all at once.

You could literally count the number of extra colors you would get onscreen with each new computer!

The Mac M series is more impressive imo. But maybe that's just because it's more recent to me.

In the 1980s and earlier people thought that in 2000 computers would have the kind of AI we finally got in 2025 heh

In 1999 they even made a famous documentary about people in trench coats fighting AI

I think we feel like the 1980's were fast.. and they were.. but maybe not "this fast"...

https://claude.ai/artifact/6xFW1M4RVPj9rH9Nq8VG7E

Man that timeline is leaving out a TON of computers and consoles

I'm still waiting for Anthropic or OpenAI to release their take on OpenClaw.

Meanwhile, Meta's MUSE seems to be gaining traction in the US, while those of us in the EU are once again left watching from the sidelines.

OpenClaw isn't the target anymore, Hermes is. It may have been the first, in the same sense that new social networks were often referred to as Facebook-clones, not Myspace (or Friendster) clones.

Thank you! Didn't know Hermes. I will give it a try.

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