So GPT 5.6 tomorrow, then?

GPT 5.6 is today

With 5.5 being ahead of 4.7 and 4.8 being a “modest” update, and 5.6 being the first update on a new pre-train, this will be an interesting matchup!

If not today, then sometime next week. I don't believe we've had a GPT release on a Friday yet, but I may be wrong.

> Maybe some money to be made?

In the same way that there is money to be made by entering a poker tournament, yes.

A poker tournament where there is a good chance someone participating has special information about which cards were just dealt.

When rights are equal, force wins. This is true for either the worker or the employer. Hence why employers frequently employed private firms to commit said violence on unions.

What does this have to do with the steam deck?

PC hardware like the Steam Deck is more expensive due to demand from AI hype.

Where do you think all the supply that the Steam Deck was previously leveraging went?

The insides of the Steam Deck have a lot of the same bits and bobbins and thingamajigs that go inside AI data centers.

RAM is expensive and there is scarcity in getting a supply of it = all consumer electronics will cost more

Looks like the BMW i3 met a Magic Mouse

Love it. Although I can't help to think you'll need to flip it around to charge.

So just use it for music. Who cares if the app bundle is bloated? If that's really your main criteria, just use the web player

they hire leading researchers, and leading researchers won't work for you unless they're able to publish

That was true 10 years ago. It’s most definitely not true now. The arms race is very real.

> leading researchers won't work for you unless they're able to publish

oh, honey.

Do we want the whole humanity to get richer, or few individuals (company owners)?

Which seems bizarre. Companies can’t afford to just give things away right?

> Companies can’t afford to just give things away right?

Let's say a cutting-edge young researcher is making a name for themselves in their field and earning $300k/yr at a company where they're encouraged to publish and speak. You're trying to headhunt them for a company where they'll be forbidden from sharing their work which will likely stall their career and reputation outside of that company. How much do you think you'd have to offer? $600k? $1M? $1.5M?

When faced with the choice to paying significant salaries, hiring lower-tier researchers, or just letting their people publish, many companies conclude that giving away some of their work is the best option. (And that doesn't even include the benefits of boosting the company's profile which makes it easier to attract other cutting-edge researchers.)

Yes they can. Your research papers are not the whole story. It’s like google could open source their entire monorepo and very little would change. No one else could operate it.

I love both of these platforms. The Wikipedia "map" tab on the iOS app is also a great source of neat local oddities.

Wow, worse than Three Mile Island

Apples and oranges. Radioactive gas v radioactive solids.