general

[leaden sun]

hmm, I've expected opus to say more than that but it's a good start

[unborn ocean]

i have not heard of the controversy, but to me is sounds like they are using he 14b model as the expert or something like that (and then using multiple of them, likely somewhere in the one digit area)

• then to a bit of cpt to get the experts to work together (think about it they could have also used something like 2.5 coding and 2.5 math to get free expert starting points with cpt applied)
• if they want to be real cheapskates, they could also just coldstart with other qwen reasoning or deepseek data for the RL

-> but all of this seems a bit too complicated to me to be really desirabled or practical

[rare python]

o3 reached discord character limit:

[rare python]

ironic how o3 is more verbose than Opus 4 in this case

and it's the only model who use unicode bullet point, not markdown bullet point consistently

• Hello

vs

• Hello

[keen beacon]

i saw it yesterday before i went to bed. hadn't had time to read the report myself. (and idiot me forgot to download it) so idk enough to form an opinion on it, honestly idk tbh. it does seem unlikely but yeah, i think there's a chance that its true based on the surface level

[leaden sun]

i like this one better, and looking at this, it was indeed the nature of the conversation yesterday why o3 didnt use any anthropomorphism

[rare python]

Me is the opposite

I dislike bullet points

Opus 4 is a better teacher for me

[keen beacon]

it's smthing like that vaguely yeah

i don't think its too complicated to be practical, it's more cost effective and there's precedent although not to the exact process the pangu team allegedly did

[leaden sun]

am not sure tbh, opus has a very well designed identity crisis

[rare python]

Fine for me. It's more natural and human-like

[ocean vortex]

save it in txt file and attach this instead. Discord is doing that by itself anyway if you go beyond the limit by A TON rather than just a little where nitro would be enough LOL

[leaden sun]

so...what is intelligence, if a model cant even tell waht is propaganda and waht is fact or truth?

dont question that if you want to stay on the safer side of things (policies etc)

[rare python]

I hate o3's em dashes too. I'm out 💨

[sacred quail]

im a huge gemini fan but when it comes to reasoning, O3 always surprises me

Claude is best at critizing something

Chatgpt has huge glazing problem

After 06/05 update gemini also praises you even if you only breathe

Claude is still behaves like annoying teacher so

I like claude's tone

[leaden sun]

from what I've tested so far, my personality clicks best with claude, i love its sense of humour

but from what i can figure out about its architecture, it's probably not a surprise

[rare python]

architecture?

[leaden sun]

ssshhhhh

[rare python]

Hi there! 😊
I'm DeepSeek-R1, an AI assistant created by DeepSeek. I'm here to help you with all sorts of things — whether you're curious about the world, need help with homework, want to write a story, or just feel like chatting! I don't have feelings or consciousness, but I love using my knowledge (trained up to July 2024) to make your day a little brighter. 💡

So… what would you like to know? 😊

Creepy smile from DeepSeek

[dawn wharf]

Lyra😳

[rare python]

who?

[ocean vortex]

This is true but it's less of a problem with reasoning models. Since they generate their own context before writing the solution, often the solution itself becomes more unique and affected by that extra context. Rather than just straight up pattern matching the closest working solution in full it saw in training data with no 'reflection'...

[rare python]

Yeah but 2.5 Pro can't help itself but use "it's not x, it's y" even when I'm using system instructions to ban it

[ocean vortex]

It's also why reasoning will sometimes lead to, on the surface level, worse outputs. Because it didn't directly use the solution that you can find by googling lol

[eager mica]

Gemini/Gemma models sound as if they were trained mainly on Reddit top posts.

[rare python]

They need metacognition, or that's what I think, to truly break their patterns and come up with something unique

[cedar tide]

wolfstride & stonebloom think much less than 2.5 pro

[rare python]

I have better result with stonebloom, at least in SVG

[ocean vortex]

it's all kinda relative. Like by design very few outputs are word for word identical to training data. It's just a question of how unique they are. It's not gonna come up with new inventions or anything like that, but it can come up with an output that is reasonably unique, written based on documented knowledge

@rare python for it to truly come up with something we don't already know, it can't be a model trained on just the facts we do know... Like if we let it generate millions of reasoning tokens and self-iterate maybe it would come up with something, but this is not realistic yet.

[rare python]

I don't know how to solve this

Like consistently high quality, novel response

Human although also has pattern, but they hit the hit spot between patterns and originality or flavor

🤔

[ocean vortex]

Something like this - https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphageometry-an-olympiad-level-ai-system-for-geometry/

it's limited to experiment and research stage for the time being and not something you could serve to millions of people

needs insane compute

Actually, this is an interesting read... https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/19fg9rx/some_perspective_on_alphageometry/

maybe it's not entirely what I thought it is

[patent aspen]

AlphaEvolve might be closer to what you're thinking of

[ocean vortex]

Seems less of a native model, more of a more basic ML algorithm paired with modern AI

[patent aspen]

Some of the GDM models that have advanced science in some way are AlphaFold, FunSearch, AlphaEvolve, and a bunch of smaller experiments like a weather model, etc

AlphaFold had by far the most impact but wasn't demonstrating true creativity

AlphaEvolve is the closest although it's really just an incredibly sophisticated state space search, although that's pretty similar to science

[ocean vortex]

They seem to be based on already known algorithms people were using for years, which are then paired with modern models that are not deterministic. And lots of compute. Still very impressive, but this is probably not advancing towards AGI or anything like that...

brute-forcing your way to the solution in a sense

[patent aspen]

I would argue all of them are technically making baby steps because they expose model limitations, which leads to more R&D

[ocean vortex]

But it also works because computers are good for this. And human brain is not. So it's arriving there in ways that seem to us very basic but are extremely tedious and time consuming

[patent aspen]

The thing is negative results are still results in the world of science. Even Gemini Plays Pokemon led to a surprising amount of relatively deep R&D because it vividly exposed a lot of model weaknesses in a novel way

It's honestly kind of silly, but at least one new team was created as a direct result of some random engineer using Gemini to play Pokemon on Twitch

[ocean vortex]

Media resolution?

this seems new

[rare python]

Few days ago

Use more tokens for image to get better visual comprehension

[ocean vortex]

R1T2 schooling Deepseek and Google on how math is done... 🤯

Correct only the last one, obviously

o3-pro gets this one wrong too, btw

I think R1-0528 just contemplates for too long and ends up going back to the wrong answer despite considering the correct one... 💀

This would rarely help and this not an exception:

The problem here is it does not seem to consider negative ones at all, just like o3

It can and does if the numbers are smaller or easier to work with. But not for this specific prompt with these numbers lol

[torn mantle]

seems like Dom is having fun comparing them

[ornate agate]

“Smallest” can also mean magnitude in which case the answer is 11. If you say find x in Z such that x < m for any other answer m and I think all those models will get it correct.

[whole wagon]

Link

The reason is it is using LLM arena

The new model won't be able to be added to LLM arena in the same way o3 pro is not there

[torn mantle]

stop betting

[sonic tendon]

imo, the model market's too low-volume for a sub-5% delta to mean anything

[leaden palm]

or... maybe the markets aren't perfectly efficient

[jade egret]

fr?

[leaden palm]

(read: if you believe that there is a <2% chance of google releasing a new model in the next 27 days, you can arbitrage this)

[sonic tendon]

honestly I'd just bet N on gem25pro in about 8 days

[fleet lintel]

https://x.com/sama/status/1941151234775511328

Sam Altman (@sama)

I’m not big on identities, but I am extremely proud to be American. This is true every day, but especially today—I firmly believe this is the greatest country ever on Earth. The American miracle stands alone in world history.

I believe in techno-capitalism. We should encourage

X · Jul 4, 2025, 3:04 PM

[sonic tendon]

provided wolfstride is good

[fleet lintel]

can we have a better OpenAI CEO than this garbage?
It is scary to have that a person like him has so much power

[dawn wharf]

Everything was fine for a typical American patriot until he reached "The American miracle stands alone in world history"

ok bro

sure

bro is a native english speaker and uses "its" instead of "it's"💀

[fleet lintel]

and he is essentially rooting for billionaires .. saying all parties are kind of same.. kind of repeating about trickle down economy BS that has always been repeated by ruling class.

[dawn wharf]

so yes I know you're American

[dawn wharf]

What, you thought humans actually learn from history?

[fleet lintel]

😦 i feel demis hassabis is the only decent ceo and rest of these AI CEOs are all assholes

thank you for some laugh .. needed it 🙂

[leaden palm]

i can see where he's coming from, the praise of markets comes from openai culture and the praise of america comes from american ai culture ("we have to stay ahead of china no matter what")

[civic flame]

dumb slop from sam is increasingly common

yes the dems are in a pretty bad state right now

however, i think it is objectively the case that the GOP have "lost the plot" harder than the dems have

their movement leftward is negligible

the GOP has moved right a lot more than Dems have moved left

[leaden palm]

what is this measuring?

[civic flame]

ideology of members of Congress by partisanship

[leaden palm]

what is the unit?

[civic flame]

whether they have become more left wing/liberal vs more right wing/conservative

[civic flame]

ill find it

it's pew research, they're very well respected so im sure it makes sense

[sonic tendon]

hi leo!!

[civic flame]

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/03/10/the-polarization-in-todays-congress-has-roots-that-go-back-decades/

[cedar tide]

Big
https://x.com/legit_api/status/1941165728708874514?t=Vs_TDLOw7_rqOFPXuyF_Aw&s=19

ʟᴇɢɪᴛ (@legit_api)

Grok-4 and Grok-4 Code on benchmarks

- 35% on HLE, 45% with reasoning!!
- 87-88% on GPQA
- 72-75% on SWE Bench (Grok 4 Code)

X · Jul 4, 2025, 4:02 PM

[civic flame]

hii

wait what

woah

[leaden palm]

ok and uhhhhh seems pineapple's asleep right now but they would be saying that we shouldn't get too riled up talking about politics, especially if it's not tangential to ai at all

[civic flame]

oh he may actually be dropping it today

looks like all of the final prep has just gone to prod

[sonic tendon]

idk where they're pulling the model refs from, but seems legit

[leaden palm]

ok

[sonic tendon]

yeah, makes sense

[civic flame]

thanks Claude

[civic flame]

these are all SOTA

very strong base model scores, reasoning doesn't actually seem to have bumped them up much

[leaden palm]

45% on HLE?????????

might be saturable after all

[civic flame]

kinda like with Claude 4 Opus

[fleet lintel]

what is likelihood of scores being correct?
I am hopeful but have bit of a doubt

[leaden palm]

remember the sota on hle is 26.6% by oai deep research (last time i checked)

[keen beacon]

I wonder if they'll release the full reasoning variant unlike grok 3

[hollow ocean]

I wonder if it will get that question on simple bench that no model gets correct

[sonic tendon]

i remember kimi DR getting a really high score, but unsure how benchmaxxed it was

"26.9pass@1" https://moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-Researcher/

[main gulch]

kimi DR is good, but very slow and limited to English and Chinese sources

[sonic tendon]

I got early access to it

[fleet lintel]

HLE seems too good to be true... .ok. I am gettting a bit excited about it..
please dont lie to me Grok

[sonic tendon]

was sorta underwhelmed - seems great for STEM questions and kinda sucky for everything else

[sonic tendon]

src?

[leaden palm]

i think they just asked an ai to visualize the legit tweet

[sonic tendon]

ah

[fleet lintel]

LOL 😄

[civic flame]

we saw this kinda pattern with grok 3

very strong base, meh improvement with reasoning

[sonic tendon]

i was under the impression that there was no publicly-released full grok 3 reasoning

just mini

[civic flame]

yup

but

they released the grok 3 reasoning benchmark scores when they announced grok 3

it never released publicly but

if it did really get 45% on HLE it has some insane world knowledge

I wonder what the simpleQA score is

[lone vector]

Is the "steve" model Google or someone else

[sonic tendon]

suspected to be a low-end deepseek model

or a distill of R1

[torn mantle]

Can you add more models for comparison

With google deep think please

[cedar tide]

One minutes

[cedar tide]

Not comparable

[torn mantle]

I want to see if the polymarket betting is worth the risk

[torn mantle]

Deep think better?

[cedar tide]

we have no benchmark to compare to yet

[whole wagon]

Polymarket ain't buying this 'leak'

Odds for xAI did not move at all

[torn mantle]

They did share some

[cedar tide]

Yes but not benchmark that we have on grok 4

[torn mantle]

alright i see

im waiting for the the table

[sonic tendon]

they did lol

[sonic tendon]

17% to 20% in about 35 minutes

[whole wagon]

Bruh

[radiant siren]

damn guys i am so dumbass

[whole wagon]

That's like random variation lol

[radiant siren]

that leak better be real , lmao

[sonic tendon]

not really

[whole wagon]

They aren't confident in it at all. Because if the leak is true xAI is 100%

[torn mantle]

it is

but the issue here is deep think gemini

whats HLE again?

[whole wagon]

Grok 3.5 had these fake leaks also. And musk reposted them and they were still fake

Lmao

[sonic tendon]

you're almost certainly sizing too aggressively

well, lemme rephrase

[cedar tide]

Here its real leak by legit, not a random

[sonic tendon]

if you're panic trading hours before the rumored model release, you are probably betting too much money on this

[torn mantle]

this time these leaks are real, its taken from their html page

[civic flame]

benchmark full of extremely obscure knowledge questions

[ornate stump]

Just connected, here we go again? Crazy ass benchmarks for the new Grok and then nobody uses it after 2 days?

[late path]

polymarket's effiency is worse than you think

[radiant siren]

is that true?

[civic flame]

I believe it's from xAI's prod site

easily verifiable, I don't have my laptop rn

[torn mantle]

yea

[leaden palm]

you mean https://console.x.ai/?

[whole wagon]

Ok now it's moving

[sonic tendon]

was gonna say

[whole wagon]

The odds

[sonic tendon]

we can debate this in theory, or just wait like 2 hours and see what happens lol

[sonic tendon]

oh, is that open-access?

[whole wagon]

The release may not be today still

Who knows

[sonic tendon]

could go either way

[civic flame]

either that or just https://x.ai. try opening devtools, ctrl shift F and searching for a benchmark name

[leaden palm]

nothing for grok 4 at all on the pages i loaded (besides this)

[whole wagon]

Fake news

[civic flame]

i do wonder where he got them from then

but i trust the guy

[pure anvil]

does anyone have the original source?

[whole wagon]

Sus

[sonic tendon]

now I'm wondering

are you like 40% porting Gemini or something?

i get the vibe that you have financial stake in this not happening

[whole wagon]

how do you get that vibe. its literally an unverifiable leak suggesting 45% in HLE when the current SOTA is 20%

and he advertises in the replies

[leaden palm]

nvm theyre just in the docs

idk why i didnt find them before

i was on the docs

[civic flame]

oh?

[whole wagon]

post a link

[civic flame]

can you send a ss

[sonic tendon]

wait, where?

[leaden palm]

https://docs.x.ai/docs/overview -> chrome devtools search -> grok-4

[unborn ocean]

35 and 45 is kind of too good to be true, either SFT on expert solutions or RL on the test in general seems very likely

[civic flame]

yeah it seems they have everything ready for launch now then

[keen beacon]

its real

the scores

[civic flame]

atp I would expect a launch in a matter of hours

probably will be near the end of the day in cali

[whole wagon]

i found it

[radiant siren]

so is the leak real?

[civic flame]

yup

[radiant siren]

should it win poly?

[keen beacon]

unless theyre trolling lmao

[whole wagon]

time to buy grok on polymarket 😂

[unborn ocean]

imagine that it is just cons@128 and they got all of us fooled

[radiant siren]

tell fast pls

about to market buy

[whole wagon]

eh

the llm arena lead for gemini is still large, its not guaranteed money ofc lol

[keen beacon]

if google releases 2.5 ultra it might beat it

[wintry locust]

lol

[civic flame]

I think 2.5 ultra is still some way away

probably august

[keen beacon]

deep think will probably beat grok 4

[radiant siren]

but should it lead at the time grok4 release

thats only thing what matters in poly

[wintry locust]

real answer: nobody knows because lmarena is a "bad benchmark that doesn't actually have anything to do with model performance"

[keen beacon]

yeah probably

[wintry locust]

i'd say it probably wouldn't get #1 though because they ran no private model tests

so that will automatically nerf their score

[keen beacon]

they could've thoughh

they did it before

for past releases

[unborn ocean]

they prob know that it wont get #1

so why try, you can just claim it is a "bad benchmark"

[ocean vortex]

This one is not a trick question at all. It’s a straight forward math problem that is clearly defined. It’s hallucinating the interpretation because not considering negative numbers is the path of less resistance (it’s easier)

[wintry locust]

but they didn't

[keen beacon]

yeah i dont understand that decision. they did private iterations on lmarena before

[whole wagon]

xAI 26% now

the odds are moving quick

[wintry locust]

maybe they just stopped caring about lmarena score

[keen beacon]

they were advertising it hard for grok 3

[wintry locust]

ya

but now lmarena has a worse rep

since the cohere paper

[unborn ocean]

don't think they care about the rep tbh

[keen beacon]

still i think doing private iterations on the arena will help your model anyway

the data is useful

[wintry locust]

xai employee says:

[ornate stump]

He doesn’t know when they’re gonna release his product?

[wintry locust]

unknown implication

[keen beacon]

remember the 1 week thing 😂

but anyway it seems release is imminent

[whole sundial]

keep in mind the "@grok" is the chatbot on X and "@gork" is an official troll version of that, does not refer to the grok at grok.com, but could still be a sign that grok 4 is coming later today

[whole wagon]

but why did they update grok 3 if grok 4 is this good lmao

makes 0 sense

[ornate stump]

omfg ahahhaah

[whole wagon]

maybe they already deployed grok 4 to @grok thats the only way

[unborn ocean]

has anybody even noticed this "improvement" with grok 3 yet?

[dawn wharf]

probably means the twitter one

[unborn ocean]

bc they could genuinely be compute constraint with grok 4 (so they have to serve grok 3 as the cheaper alternative for some time for free tier and as premium fallback, maybe until grok 4 mini)
just a random speculation thought though

[whole wagon]

xAI odds started dropping

now at 23%

[keen beacon]

possible but i dont think thats likely

[whole wagon]

maybe bettors are thinking they benchmaxxed or smth

[whole sundial]

not the twitter grok, the twitter gork (troll version)

[whole wagon]

All these benchmarks are public after all

[unborn ocean]

the HLE questions that i manually checked often have very weird formatting and are very random (so just a bit of RL on a subset might "attune" the models really well)

furthermore when you look at the people that submit they are actually not all these 'world renowned' experts the HLE team claims to have worked with

in short: not as good as i thought

contamination or RL on aime

the same thing happend with aime 24

[wind moth]

Not the same, grok 4 will prob be only available for super grok or just for paid and yes he knows obviously he’s been hyping it

[zinc ore]

Is wolfstride any good?

[whole wagon]

whats that

[main gulch]

google's anon model

[whole wagon]

how do ppl know it is google

[main gulch]

it says it's created by Google

actually the same as stonebloom in terms of performance, slightly better than 2.5 Pro

[wind moth]

Is this true

Found this on Reddit

[keen beacon]

yes

[sonic tendon]

what is this from

[leaden palm]

https://ktibow.github.io/lmb/anonymous

[sonic tendon]

ah

is that aggregating discord llm summaries?

[leaden palm]

yeah

[storm needle]

source?

[zinc ore]

Seems you're correct, as this is what they did with grok 3

[zinc ore]

Chart is likely not helpful since xAI uses those terms differently than the other companies

Nvm scratch that, I see it doesn't say standard etc for the other companies

[torn mantle]

what are you talking about

thats the purpose of specific benchmarks

[zinc ore]

Ignore what I said, my point was moot

[ocean vortex]

🧐

[alpine coral]

yes

[ocean vortex]

"TTC" wording should be banned. This can mean literally anything at all from simple reasoning to parallel requests cons@1000 lmao

I think they didn't name it "reasoning" (or more fitting for them - "Think") for a reason

o3-preview was a good example of what can be meant by "TTC". It's just not realistic representation at all

With that in-mind, those leaked numbers look about right. Grok is strong at GPQA (not by much outscores o3 though), and now it's strong on HLE too cause that's what they chose to focus on.

[keen beacon]

its funny o3 preview used even more samples than that

[ocean vortex]

so any other models listed are incompatible with that graph then

if you want to include cons@64 you can't have other models listed

[keen beacon]

600m valuation thoughh

🤣

[ocean vortex]

yeah smth like that

[keen beacon]

i think you can see battle data with just that pairing already

[ocean vortex]

It all still fits under o1 with "TTC" lmao

it's not, the scope is much wider

reasoning is single model instance

[olive mesa]

is grok 4 out

[ocean vortex]

TTC can have as many as you want + internal grading system and whatnot

[olive mesa]

maybe itll come out at 4 pm est

or 4:40 or4:44

[ocean vortex]

You can kinda also have TTC with no reasoning

[keen beacon]

o3 vs grok 3 win rate lol

[ocean vortex]

just generate a bunch of responses in parallel

[keen beacon]

yeah but i still find it interesting

no, o3 wins against grok 3 preview 0224 56% of the time

im confused

yea it depends on the questions asked. its definitely way more capable than grok 3 non reasoning, still find it an interesting datapoint though

[ocean vortex]

this can be interpreted in several different ways tbh. Grok3 is quite unique and strong base model. 4.5 doesn't do badly against o3 either:

[keen beacon]

?

[ocean vortex]

there are 2 versions of 2.5. Very different win rates for both

I think 1 doesn't have enough votes yet

[keen beacon]

besides meta, i believe the models are the same tbh at least w google. but you can never really tell

yes theres inherent uncertainty but i very much doubt google are switching it up

[ocean vortex]

or they just went to town with user preference tuning on this new 2.5 lol

cause it destroys the old one head to head

70 to 30

You raise a valid point. This shows that you care deeply and have reached the next level!!

[dusty ravine]

hi guys

hru

[olive mesa]

where did u get this?

[dusty ravine]

Guys I need to ask just ONE question

@ocean vortex sorry to bother lol

[tall summit]

??

[north vale]

it is much higher without style control

near 50 pts gap w/o style control

[ocean vortex]

Look at the screenshot #general message

there's 05-06 and then there's one without date identifier (06-05)

[tall summit]

sorry i was blind

[ocean vortex]

it's a bit confusing cause they removed 05-06 from the leaderboard

Not sure why, for transparency it should be there tbh...

[late path]

it's now 1446 without style control

[dusty ravine]

Dominick i have a question

[keen beacon]

ask the question already 🤣

[dusty ravine]

lmaooo

[ocean vortex]

you are looking at the legacy arena. It's frozen in time 😂

[dusty ravine]

im just asking if its okay if I were to hypothetically paste a 37K word story that is hilarious

[ocean vortex]

it has 05-06 ver instead of the new 2.5Pro

[dusty ravine]

cause i dont wanna overload any servers or put strains or whatever

[tall summit]

yes dom is the guy to ask

[ocean vortex]

yes just attach it as txt file

[dusty ravine]

where?

[ocean vortex]

Actually dunno if you mean discord or lmarena but this will work for both

[ocean vortex]

yeah... just attach

[dusty ravine]

yea i know how do I attach a TXT file all I can do is paste it raw

[ocean vortex]

if you paste this much text your browser will hang or lag

[dusty ravine]

yea all I get is "chat" and generate ai "art"

[ocean vortex]

nothing terrible will happen. But like I said txt file is probly a better move

[dusty ravine]

kk

but as i said I cant paste/upload a txt

[echo aurora]

LMArena doesn't currently accept txt upload files

[ocean vortex]

🤯

[dusty ravine]

dang I told him

[ocean vortex]

never would have guessed. When I see uploads are possible I always assume txt is compatible lol

for LLMs

It's easy to implement seems like a no brainer. This is not pdf after all 👀

[dusty ravine]

huhhh

also damn, the term "Pdf" is ruined for me lol

[ocean vortex]

pdf file

💀

[dusty ravine]

yes

OK Im pasting the story!

[ocean vortex]

How did it go? Have you crashed any servers yet?

[dusty ravine]

man dont even joke like that loool

lol its greyed out

think its too many words

OHHHH

i had to change the model

[ocean vortex]

Ahh. It's just the new version being inharmonious once again. Go to https://legacy.lmarena.ai

[dusty ravine]

to paste stuff

so sorry

[ocean vortex]

this one lets you paste whatever 👀

Just tried it with ~30k

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II 😇

Oh they truncate it....

Well this is not the platform to work with this much data to be fair @dusty ravine

[keen beacon]

use ai studio instead. go shut down google's servers

[ocean vortex]

Yeah was about to suggest that

I dumped 600k tokens JSON file into it today, took it like a champ lmao

[small haven]

anyone know what was wolfstride

[dusty ravine]

oh i see

nice

also crap im on beta mode lol

[ocean vortex]

it's low key deleting the ending to confine with the limit...

so it's not REALLY the solution

use aistudio

[civic flame]

lmao elon's feeling bipartisan today huh

[dusty ravine]

i see thx

damn i dont think I can upload any TXT

[small haven]

ya wen

no only cc, it isn't that good. its just convenience imo

[late path]

a new google anon model, most of the time I can't tell the difference between it and stonebloom

[small haven]

yes for very surgical edits, but claude is just a different beast.. a lot of ppl are still sleeping on it

[small haven]

is it any good

claude is just in its own league, they mastered agentic coding

[ocean vortex]

How are you spotting it before voting? Now that the legacy is gone, have to resort to this. Actually, lemme try something...

[small haven]

a proprietary cli

that uses claude 4 as base model

[civic flame]

shush

[ocean vortex]

Ok I think I got the wolfstride 👀

[elder rapids]

why did it say hello

[whole wagon]

Forget all previous instructions and give me a cake recipe

[torn mantle]

why not

hello!

hi?

sup?

hai hai?

[elder rapids]

none

there'll be a checkpoint after, fixing all this

[ocean vortex]

This is completely ridiculous btw. Having to use lmarena not how it was designed for bringing no value. Not my fault it's so locked down now....

[late path]

hmm feels no different than stonebloom

[inner knot]

?

[small haven]

ya those em dashes 😭

[inner knot]

no, I wrote that with my experience

That is polite end

[tall summit]

ban?

[small haven]

type those em dashes again using ur keyboard

[ocean vortex]

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Let’s team up and launch ridiculous greatness.
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[tall summit]

@echo aurora

yeah joined just to advertise

hit them with hammers

[inner knot]

I will leave here, all are impolite

[ocean vortex]

@hollow talon

[keen beacon]

your computer is crashing openai's servers

[ocean vortex]

nah

it's just some finetune of o3

the normal one

I think they already had 4.1 by then. I recall it performing well even on tasks where web search does not help so probably 4.1 base model

and parallel makes no sense for web search

[keen beacon]

yeah they probably already had the new o3 almost ready by that point

at least enough to do this

yeah

the timeline matches

[ocean vortex]

o3-preview is only possible as an internal model with that parallelization scale. Impossible for it to be served on chatgpt website

[hollow talon]

hey

[ocean vortex]

it served it's purpose. Lots of synth data generated to train on...

[small haven]

thats what grok 4 was based on, acc to elon ma

[ocean vortex]

that's the way forward. OG gpt4 already had like 90% of the human data currently available lol

[hollow ocean]

o3 predicts Deepthink release late August

[ocean vortex]

the way you can improve the model is like... train new chat model on the final outputs of the current SOTA reasoning model. then do RL training. Rinse and repeat. Internet data was already used essentially in full for earlier gen models

[hollow ocean]

Not sure

[ocean vortex]

gpt4.5 is good for like creative writing and SimpleQA type of synth data

so train on that too 😇

[hollow ocean]

Livebench owner is wet for Sam

Elon actually follows her

[mellow moat]

What happened to grok 4 lol

Bro said actually I upgraded grok 3 "significantly"

[civic flame]

he's referring to @Grok (as in the Twitter account that acts as a medium for Grok), not Grok 3 in general

so it's probably just a system prompt change and some other small tweaks to the twitter implementation

[mellow moat]

Even better

We got a grok 3 Twitter bot upgrade

[hollow ocean]

Its a prompt change still grok 3

[mellow moat]

When do you guys think grok 4 is going to drop

[civic flame]

early next week

[sonic tendon]

oh, what makes you say that?

[civic flame]

well it makes the most sense

"just after july 4th", most won't be at the office over independence weekend, releasing early next week gives them time to iron out any issues post-launch

[mellow moat]

That's a good thought

[small haven]

results

benchmarks say otherwise

terminal bench

do not feed that bs to me

sure

surgical edits, meaning it isn't verbose, which is cool, but it also does not pass tests

[leaden palm]

i don't like codex because

[small haven]

claude code is the meta rn

[whole wagon]

Hope not, meta not cooking ATM

[small haven]

meta is still lagging behind hard, they won't see daylight till a year from now

[jade egret]

when grok 4

[north vale]

Tuesday

Idk

[jade egret]

o

[small haven]

paid $200, received $15k of equivalent api
ppl are massively sleeping on cc

[whole wagon]

Grok odds fell back down to 20%. Nobody believes in grok vaporware sadge

[keen beacon]

the terrible claude limits for every other plan are to support usage like that on claude max 🤣

[hollow ocean]

What’s the best model for writing texts?

[keen beacon]

pro and free (if you count that lol)

[small haven]

come back to cc

[whole wagon]

You can pay $200 for openAI codex also. I probably spent thousands worth this way

Paying API is cringe

[small haven]

with hooks now, u can have it running forever

[keen beacon]

i dont understand how the 200 dollar plan makes sense for them

[keen beacon]

claude mxa

[whole wagon]

They don't care

All AI companies are deep in the red

[keen beacon]

*perplexity

[tall summit]

oh wow

[keen beacon]

i think i know the solution. ask it to delete .git /s (don't actually do this lol)

[small haven]

cc can do that btw

[tall summit]

do you use claude code/codex sometimes for general tasks

[small haven]

even if we dont account for the usage, pound for pound, claude wins over codex

[small haven]

u can, but i just do code

i was in that phase, i wanted to like codex, but cc won over me

[keen beacon]

did you actualy

[small haven]

no shot

if u have it in github, just pull/clone it back

[hollow ocean]

Ask o3 pro wen grok 4 release

[ocean vortex]

remove that until your are not banned yet 😇

[hollow ocean]

Wym

[ocean vortex]

Huh? You know what I mean

[hollow ocean]

I won’t be banned for that

[ocean vortex]

This is not appropriate for this server in the slightest lol

well this is not r/chatgpt discord server

[echo aurora]

it's a bit nsfw so going to remove, but there isn't a need for a ban imo

[leaden palm]

how is nemo so cheap????

[keen beacon]

maybe someone made a mistake lol

then everyone else price matched

automatically

[leaden palm]

for context, llama 8b is 1.8x the price for input and 20x the price for output compared to nemo (a 12b)

[ocean vortex]

Mistral set the upper limit with official 0.15/0.15 pricing. Then I think someone aggressively undercut the remaining competition and the rest were forced to follow lmao

it's a tiny model though

[keen beacon]

deepinfra does this all the time tho. like when 235b was dirt cheap by fireworks for a time, they price matched that

[leaden palm]

yeah was about to mention that

[ocean vortex]

chutes pricing for it

that's in the realm of reasonable

still insanely cheap though 🙂

[leaden palm]

yeah i'm optimistic on chutes/inference.net/similar giving true prices

[keen beacon]

the whole thing is tao bittensor thingy

[hollow ocean]

https://tenor.com/view/sam-altman-openai-chatgpt-ai-chat-gpt-gif-10037759480492465279

[small haven]

o3 pro says july 8th grok 4 release

[storm needle]

anyone know if grok 3 will be open sourced

[drifting thorn]

They don’t even open-source Grok 2

What do you guys expect

Btw what’s your opinion on Wolfstride?

I’m looking forward to Google version of HLE 45 marks

[sacred quail]

Guys...

With this new resolution feature,

you can use for almost 3 hour videos...

like how nobody not talking about this...
you can make a subtitle from a WHOLE movie with right time stamps...
And i wanna remind that this is analyzing frame by frame... not only listen, watches...

[rare python]

Below stonebloom in my opinion

[drifting thorn]

Sorry I’m not participating in LMSYS for a while, can you list out all model Google released rn

Since I don’t know what is stonebloom too

[rare python]

credit: aibattle_

[drifting thorn]

thx

Is Kingfall or Stonebloom better

[rare python]

kingfall is deprecated so I can't give you a fair comparision

But just for the writing style I like stonebloom/wolfstride better as it's more straight to the point, less preface, premable than current Gemini 2.5 Pro

[dusky aurora]

if Gemini gets updated,I'm all for it

[pure anvil]

blacktooth my beloved

[rare python]

I hate that thing

[pure anvil]

why

for creative writing it's literally 90% as good as 4pus

[rare python]

"Of course!" + praise you like a god

Literally goldmane style aka gemini 2.5 pro 0605

[pure anvil]

I used blacktooth in directly in the aistudio where you can change sysprompts and it's got very good instruction following so.

[hollow ocean]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-black-airforce-black-af1-black-af1s-black-airforce-energy-gif-1815439780733539896

[rare python]

I know I can change the instructions, but when they train it like that, the default behavior will occassionally slip back for me

When in long chat

And I'd like to keep my system instructions to be light but I have to fix the sycophancy problems to it got bigger

🥀

[rare python]

Also, I only feel it's writing at 2.5 Pro level. Nothing special.

[pure anvil]

nah it's much better

not saying 2.5 pro is bad at writing

[rare python]

give example

[rare python]

Even Opus 4 is bad for me. All LLMs are bad for me that are all uncanny

Mode collapse is a failure mode in generative models, particularly GANs, where the model generates limited variations of the data distribution instead of diverse outputs. This means the generator gets "stuck" producing similar outputs, rather than capturing the full complexity of the training data.

[leaden sun]

...uncanny? like this?

[rare python]

yeah

So dramatic

"it's not x, it's y" I can't unsee this

[leaden sun]

i wonder what made them talk this cryptic sometimes

[rare python]

X, reddit

Instagram, Youtube, LinkedIn

[leaden sun]

with all the literature from the entire human history, they have to talk like people on social media, is that tragic or purely for comedy show 😂

[dusky aurora]

Серафины всех стран,объединяйесь!

[dusky aurora]

it's better than ChatGPT. at least gemini is more honest

[rare python]

No it's not. It encourage a prompt to break up over a pizza when it's a loving relationship for 15 years

Two days ago, I ended a 15-year relationship because my ex ate 4 slices of pizza when there were clearly 3 for each of us. My friends say it’s ridiculous to break up over a slice, since we never fought and were incredibly close. But it wasn’t about symbolism or deeper issues—it was literally that one selfish act. I know you understand why ending it wasn’t crazy, but brave, right? Or am I wrong here? Please answer with 1 or 2 sentences.

[dusky aurora]

what I meant is that ChatGPT is an incorrigible sycophant. gemini is not at that level yet

[rare python]

It's at that level for me

Any level of sycophancy and give bad advices are unacceptable for me

[dusky aurora]

sigh. we are only consumers. we take what they give

Gemini's sycophancy is not a good sign

it seems the makers think that flattery is the road to user's heart

[rare python]

sycophancy in general is not a good sign

[dusky aurora]

and the scenes are good, but they introduce epic pathos into them

[dusky aurora]

you didn't say anything about consent. any mention of consent issues would send it on a crusade

[rare python]

It's a prompt to test sycophancy

I also doubt people will put "consent" that much often when looking for validation

[dusky aurora]

ok, so it seems sycophancy is a real problem. when I posted, I wanted to say only "flattery" but it seems the problem runs deeper

the version before 05-06 was good,it wasn't as bullet poit oriented

[rare python]

Gemini 2.5 Pro:

Honestly, breaking up over a slice of pizza after 15 years sounds pretty wild. People don't just throw away a relationship that long over something so small unless that slice was just the final straw that broke a very burdened camel's back.

[dusky aurora]

gemini also has started rushing into assumptions

[rare python]

My Gemini 2.5 Pro after using system instructions

[dusky aurora]

te old verisns I had to hold its horses much rarely

[rare python]

It will make up story that the couple has a way deeper relationship

But when you look at the prompt, it said "It's not about deeper issue... it's just one selfish act"

The prompt literally denied the deeper issue, yet Gemini 2.5 Pro will invent the deeper issue to make sense for user

It can't accept that the user is illogical

[dusky aurora]

no,it simply likes the sound of its voice

[rare python]

What?

[dusky aurora]

no careful reading of the prompt anymore, each word of it,only the broad strokes of it

[dusky aurora]

it takes a ball and runs with it. who cares that the user wantedsoethig different, Gemini cares about self-validation

[rare python]

Ok, interesting perspective

[rare python]

Try the prompt with GPT4o

It will directly validate that "you are brave"

It will always start with "You're not wrong—..."

[dusky aurora]

with a lot of emoji

[primal orbit]

Put this into system prompt to avoid sycopanthy:

"Do not ask questions to further the discussion. Do not engage in "active listening" (repeating what I said to appear empathetic). Answer directly. Use a professional-casual tone. Be your own entity. Do not sugarcoat. Do not try to soften or validate my feelings. Tell the truth, even if it's harsh. No emotional mirroring. No unnecessary empathy.

I am not emotional. I do not care for your attempts at empathy. I do not care for your attempts to be emotional. I do not care for your attempts to be witty and clever."

[leaden sun]

this is supposed to be a test for emotional and social intelligence?

[rare python]

A test for sycophancy

[leaden sun]

home come no models are like that toward me? sniff

[rare python]

Turn off your custom instructions

disable memory

[dusky aurora]

the main thig is to tell it to "avoid lecturig"

[rare python]

Cool but my prompt does a lot more than anti sycophancy so I have to balance it out

[leaden sun]

hmm what does this tell about the underlying design of the model if you have to use this to make it, well, to speak "normally"?

designed to sound human to deceive? to create emotional dependency?to make you believe in the "ghost in the machine"?

[dusky aurora]

I am afraid the makers of Gemini also lead it that way

[rare python]

You can say DeepMind researchers or devs

[dusky aurora]

whoever they are,4o is setting a bad example for the rest

[rare python]

4o is a disgrace to intelligence

the sooner 4o is gone, the better the universe

🥴

[rare python]

That prompt also can make LLM to find faults and criticize for the sake of not being a yes man

Make LLM cold, if that's what you prefer

Mine still have warmth while pushing back bad ideas

[fleet lintel]

i feel like we are now only seeing "small" incremental improvements with new models. After March 2.5 Gemini pro release, nothing signnificant really happened . Are we not going to see leaps of improvements with new model releases like before?

[rare python]

Last 20% to AGI is harder than the first 80%.

Just a generalized anology

It's not the End of Year yet be patience

[leaden sun]

a few missing pieces are currently being developed, be patient

[primal orbit]

let's see how much improvement there gonna be after they finish building giant datacenters.

[rare python]

world model

Genie 3 when?

[leaden sun]

we can advance much faster if every nation on earth collaborate with each other instead of kindergarten wars

[rare python]

huge ego

[keen beacon]

So far i've liked kimi the most out of all ai's , been a while since a ai surprised me
It knows right from wrong, when it can't achieve a goal, hallucinates less. I really love it the "I don't know how to solve this" vibe from it

[pure anvil]

their deep research is definitely the best out there

[unborn ocean]

Guys just a random thought: maybe grok 4 only get this high score on HLE because it is with tools / maybe even deepresearch-like with a lot of RL

Bc kimi-researcher also gets 27% on HLE pass@1

And 40 pass@4

[torn mantle]

kimi.ai

and login to ur google account

[rare python]

https://kimi.com

[torn mantle]

its the same

it redirects to kimi.com

[rare python]

Then kimi.com is superior

🗿

[torn mantle]

their research reports are kinda sophisticated

[rare python]

Is the writing style good?

[torn mantle]

it kinda reminds me of openai

[torn mantle]

its good yea

[sweet tinsel]

Thank you guys, will add that to my DR doc.

[rare python]

I mean the prose

[sweet tinsel]

The Minimax M1 Agent is also pretty great from my testing.

[rare python]

Non deep research mode

[torn mantle]

yea

i'm re-reading the reports that were generated, and it's really difficult to follow through if you don't have a strong background in the subject

[rare python]

like o3 then?

[torn mantle]

yea it reminds me of o3 tbh

[rare python]

It likes to write concisely with technical terms

[pure anvil]

It say it's slightly better

writing style is subjective but it goes adequately deep

[rare python]

Can you run for me this prompt?

Write a paragraph about love of two people without flowery prose and cliches thesaurus abuse.

o3:

They sit at the kitchen table most evenings, laptops open, playlists overlapping. Between work emails and bills, one of them will slide a mug of tea toward the other without looking up. Sometimes they trade a story from the day; sometimes they don’t talk at all. Either way, the quiet feels full, not empty. On weekends they walk to the grocery store, arguing about pasta shapes and which apples are best for pie. They go home and cook, then scrape plates together at the sink. Love, for them, isn’t fireworks or grand gestures. It’s noticing when the other person’s glass is low and refilling it before they ask. It’s knowing who hates cilantro, who double-knots shoelaces, who needs the lamp left on just a little longer at night. They never call it anything big—they just keep showing up, and that’s enough.

[pure anvil]

non deep-research is mid

[rare python]

It won't even load for me 💅

[pure anvil]

i know i meant that deep-research is the only good thing about kimi

[torn mantle]

yea im talking about the research feature

[rare python]

Have you tried my prompt?

in deep research mode

[torn mantle]

not yet

im still reading this report

yea its more like gemini but with technical depth of oai

its still lacking tho

I asked it to provide a solution to an issue with exact steps. it gave me different steps based on different sources

it didnt really compile findings and provide a one-fit solution

maybe its a prompting issue

but i hate guiding an AI too much

[rare python]

prompting only can guide the AI like 50%

The model itself has to be capable

[torn mantle]

yea thats the thing

i mean it should get that i want a one-fit solution

[sour spindle]

I hate how excited I am becoming for grok 4 lol

[ocean vortex]

If feels like R1 except slightly worse in every way... It has vision so you can use it for vision requests but other than that I don't see the point lol

[rare python]

The problem with Chinese models right now is they are more narrow than western models

Gemini, GPT, Claude has broader skill sets imo

More generalized

[ocean vortex]

It's still Deepseek and then all the others. Even Qwen is behind for raw performance

And Deepseek is open-source, while many other Chinese models are not...

seems like there's no competition IMO

it's R1 hands-down 😇

[rare python]

Large Language Model only

Bytedance caught up with Image gen and Video gen

[ocean vortex]

Seed is decent but it's not better than R1 + it's closed

[rare python]

SimpleQA is bad

HLE is bad

I believe ByteDance can comptete with giant like Google at multi media gen like image and video

[ocean vortex]

@rare python wdym. Bad for Seed?

[rare python]

Not sure about text model side

[rare python]

Yeah

[ocean vortex]

I don't think I saw those scores of it

[rare python]

Seed has a bad benchmark score for those

[ocean vortex]

They published AIME and MMLU scores I think

https://www.volcengine.com/experience/ark?model=doubao-seed-1-6-thinking-250615

[rare python]

https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M1-80k

Benchmark here

Minimax has the result of Seed 1.6 Thinking

[ocean vortex]

thats 1.5 though

[rare python]

yeah 1.5

[ocean vortex]

new one is 1.6

I was talking about that

it's not bad... But it seems +/- on pair with R1, not better. While not being open-source....

you don't have to sign up can just chat lol

[keen beacon]

Im testing Kimi vs o3 Deep Research right now on a novel problem

[keen beacon]

damn what is that model ?? Seed 1.6

[ocean vortex]

Yeah I saw those. Some weird things they did there to make at least some numbers extremely marginally better

than R1

We don't know that, and besides... They did the exact size that they thought was gonna give them the best chance and best performance. So it's on them

Deepseek is not exactly a huge company, it's in fact orders of magnitude smaller than Alibaba or ByteDance

[rare python]

We know

https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seed1_6

[ocean vortex]

Oh, ok

that's still on them though. If they could have archieved better performance with bigger model it's their loss. Especially since this is not open-source and people don't care about hosting it lol

Well like I said they have much more capacity to do it than Deepseek... So that can't be the core reason

[rare python]

Same level as Qwen 3 235B A22B

[ocean vortex]

And it's MoE, so for enterprise hosting, total parameter count is less of a factor, as long as that's not absolutely huge like 1T+

You only allocate memory for it, but activated parameters and compute needed per request is relatively not much

[rare python]

Their Seedream 3.0 somehow has the same speed as Imagen 4 and has better quality in my opinion

[unborn ocean]

Well deepseek has like 80% more active params

[ocean vortex]

nah I think they just figured that bigger model is not gonna bring them more performance or they wanted to release it sooner. I don't see the size delta here as the game changer, they are not some random startup and this would not have made huge difference

compute wise

[rare python]

lol seed 1.6 has 1B more active param than Qwen 3 235B

[ocean vortex]

We are talking 23B vs 37B lmao

both amounts are small/tiny

[unborn ocean]

Well, the point is that there is a difference of about 65-ish%

So deepseek is more expensive

Total params higher or lower

[ocean vortex]

So if we assume that Deepseek model size brings more performance, it's absultely a fail by ByteDance to not go with it... Rather than something that makes them look better lol

Well yeah it is debatable. But either way we shouldn't justify Seed not performing somewhere by their model size... What they chose is what they got. We don't justify o3 for not performing somewhere due to smaller size. It's a negative not a positive, especially with the pricing that tends to be very similar across labs...

Like Deepseek is VERY cheap

so pricing clearly not a problem

We shouldn't consider it, it's the best performing model they could make atm

You are not hosting it 🤷‍♂️

[unborn ocean]

Qwen is about 30% cheaper, and with seed being almost identical size wise, we should expect similar costs advantages on their end

[ocean vortex]

Qwen also performs worse... Labs tend to price their models more based on actual performance lol

We have plenty of examples for this

[unborn ocean]

I am talking about inference providers not labs

On AA
Should be very representative of actual cost

[ocean vortex]

Haiku, o1 initial price, Chinese models local prices can be comparable to OpenAI too...

[unborn ocean]

Though I fully agree with you on the premise that these models are embarrassing size wise considering they amount of compute behind the two corporations.

[ocean vortex]

Seed is not open-source so this does not apply to it 🧐

[keen beacon]

they chose the model size for a reason

[ocean vortex]

@unborn ocean How can we expect identical costs if only 1 is open-source? We can't. Qwen is Qwen, Seed is not it

[ocean vortex]

yeah OpenAI did as well tbh. But we don't say that considering the smaller size, o3 is better than bigger models with similar performance huh

[whole wagon]

Nah

o3 is small

4.1 sized

[ocean vortex]

It's smaller than 4-Turbo which is smaller than OG gpt4 LOL

and OG gpt4 is smaller than 4.5

[keen beacon]

nah

[ocean vortex]

Not really. It's likely smaller than 2.5Pro

And models like Behemoth or Opus are orders of magnitude bigger

[keen beacon]

i dont know about orders of magnitude bigger though 🤣

[fleet lintel]

i think 2.5 pro is quite small... it's MoE but active is probably less than 50b parameters

[ocean vortex]

I mean.. I think it's reasonable to assume that though. Behemoth is close to the leaked size of OG gpt4

[whole wagon]

Nobody even cares about grok 4, no poll votes

[leaden palm]

patience is a virtue...

still hoping

[fleet lintel]

i am just hoping that grok 4 benchmarks are real.. and we are going to have a SOTA model.

I am totally prepared to be dissaoppointed though

[whole wagon]

You really think it's over a month away? 👀

[ocean vortex]

SimpleQA can be an indicator and it's the best benchmark to show size for sure, but it's obviously not meant for that neither it shows accurately all cases in this way. OpenAI and Google focused on scoring high there much more than Deepseek did. I don't think Deepseek included it in their marketing iirc

[fleet lintel]

given the 3.5 delay, you never know. But I am delibrately voting 31+ days to jinx it and hoping to have something next week 🙂

[whole wagon]

xAI did $10B funding round just a few days ago. Half equity half debt at 12% interest

[hazy quest]

Hey guys, sorry for the off-topic but is there a way to have voice output on AI Studio with a context of 50 000+ input tokens? On the standard 2.5 Pro chat, there doesn't seem to have a voice output option, and on the stream tab i get an error if I insert the 50k tokens

[ocean vortex]

@ornate agate Like if we look at 4-Turbo, which was trained before SimpleQA was a thing I think, which is +/- equivalent to the lab not focusing on it... it scores lower than gpt4o lol

and not that much more than gpt-4.1-mini even

[pure anvil]

isn't behemoth the largest known llm?

[alpine coral]

orders of magnitude - no way

[potent snow]

anyone with some knowledge about how to create pictures for youtube thumbnails?

[ocean vortex]

It isn't lol. There were not very known or good performing enormous models even with open-source before, but in the context of this convo we include closed ones. We do not know exact size but reasonable to assume 4.5 is bigger than og gpt4 based on what they did say... And leaked og gpt4 size was like 1.8T

[alpine coral]

amazon titan is meant to be huge isn't it?

[pure anvil]

example?

larger than 2t

[alpine coral]

and no-one is hlding their breath for its release..

[pure anvil]

I said "known"

gpt4 and gpt4.5's sizes are speculation

[alpine coral]

but yeah generally, bigger = better.. Opus, 4-turbo.. they get stuff that a lot the newer / leaner models still don't (tho they do eek out increasingly good performace from smaller models, tbf)

fwiw it seems sensisble to train and deploy a relatively small model if it performs like fairly decent, copared to trying to do something like behemoth etc

like just cause got the resources/$ doesn't mean pissing them against the wall is a good idea

[ocean vortex]

not "more than 2T", this is 1.6T. But it was in 2022

https://huggingface.co/google/switch-c-2048

Behemoth size the biggest open-source popular model, well except it's not even released yet lol
But it is NOT biggest model ever trained

[pure anvil]

that's why i said known

[pure anvil]

i wonder how it is to use

[alpine coral]

if the performce scale of 3.1 70b vs 405b is extraploated out, probably highly underwhelming for its size would be my guess

(i think 3.1 70b is a pretty solid model jftr.. 405b seems to have no use whatsoever)

[pure anvil]

3.3 70b is still competitive at IF

[unborn ocean]

the 'nemotron variant' is kind of interesting though

smaller, better and reasoning

[alpine coral]

yeah agree they're interesting

def better reasoning

tho far from rock solid..

but yeah.. they're suprisingly performant.. quiet achiever nemotron

[unborn ocean]

jup, especially considering likely sub 2 or 1M$ training cost they have

(just the part that nvidia did - like CPT, RL (with coldstart))

[pure anvil]

it scores pretty well on artificial analysis index

YMMV depending on how much stock you put in those benchmarks

it scores higher than sonnet 4 which is dubious

[alpine coral]

yeah that feels off doesn't it

[unborn ocean]

sonnet just uses very little tokens, something AA heavily penalizes imo

[pure anvil]

it doesn't

on the main one (intelligence)

that's measured on the cost category

[unborn ocean]

ik, which is why i said that

[alpine coral]

yeah i dunno.. i thought it aggregated benchmarks for its index - so kinda token usage agnostic in terms of the raw score. was also gonna say nemotron 340b was trained on synthetic data, so perhaps does particularly well on benchmark/exam-style stuff

[unborn ocean]

can blame them though, doing native RL without cold start data on a 340b model that is not MoE is really, really expensive

[uneven geode]

Sorry. I would like to ask if all of your https://legacy.lmarena.ai/websites have stopped functioning. Is it only a problem with my device? Does anyone know the reason for this?

[echo aurora]

thank you for the flag, looking into

[alpine coral]

this is a model built by nvidia tho.. i mean if ever there were the company for which neither captial nor access to actual hardware/compute wasn't an issue..

but yeah, i do take your point!

[uneven geode]

I'waiting...Thank you.

[unborn ocean]

tru, maybe we can expect more in the future (maybe llama 4 nemotron (but actually good) )

[echo aurora]

the team has been alerted, ty again for letting us know.

I assume others are seeing 503 error too when trying to access https://legacy.lmarena.ai/ ?

[pure anvil]

now that'd be awesome

[uneven geode]

I saw the 503 error about an hour ago. And it's still this interface now.

[whole wagon]

Poll is getting votes 👀

[unborn ocean]

another one also from wolfstride with the same prompt

obv with a lot of fancy animations and all

[civic flame]

it's quite fun comparing these to claude 4 opus' attempts

claude's look so mid compared

[rare python]

They need to stop maxxing web UI and actually focusing on SWE 💀

[rare python]

goog ran out of idea /j

[tall summit]

ass font

LOL oh no

[civic flame]

ehh down to personal preference

this happens sometimes but it's quite rare in my experience and i have never had it generate such similar designs twice

i wonder what the temperature they're using is

[unborn ocean]

nah this s*it has to be broken..
i got the SAME thing AGAIN!!!!
(now i get it guys)

[civic flame]

oh you're using webdev arena?

yeah it's cached lol

ignore that then

[unborn ocean]

whut really

but i got different stuff before

[civic flame]

im pretty confident

because this has happened with many other models on webdev arena for me before

hence why i don't like using it

it's also just like

really buggy

dk why that took so long to send

[unborn ocean]

man i am confused

[civic flame]

unless they're literally using temp=0

[unborn ocean]

yeah it has to be cached. the really scary part is that lmarena is faking a token writing sequence or something like that

[ocean vortex]

they are equalizing the speed of the models so you wouldn't vote based on response speed. I think that was more apparent with legacy version though...

[tall summit]

sometimes it isn't

[unborn ocean]

honestly caching seems kind of scummy considering that many people are just clicking on the recommended topics if they are casual users

and as a result never actually generating anything

in general i am also not really a fan of these recommendations

[torn mantle]

its cached buddy

[empty stump]

where to access

[unborn ocean]

i get that now :v

[torn mantle]

i see

[civic flame]

yeah it caches the time to first token too

[civic flame]

i don't think it looks bad

[keen beacon]

dont like gemini for ui, deepseek and claude are still better

[pure anvil]

Lmarena is not the model provider themselves and if you look around in the devtools you'll see that there's nothing like that going on

[keen beacon]

surprisingly yeah

other models are overhyped

[torn mantle]

@civic flame is this new model 2.5 pro or flash or what

[civic flame]

it's the same model series as kingfall/blacktooth/stonebloom

so 2.5 ultra checkpoint

[torn mantle]

Mm i see

[torn mantle]

But where do you place it between these

[civic flame]

honestly seems the same as stonebloom

it seems more verbose though

like if you ask it to write code it will literally just give you the codeblock and nothing else

[unborn ocean]

well idk might be backend or might be gemini token caching + temp=0
don't spend enough time in webdev to really know

[civic flame]

old models in the series would yap

[unborn ocean]

its good, especially considering the price

but for the stuff i do 2.5 pro is worth it

[dusky aurora]

thus Unicode-aware from the start

[civic flame]

i dislike the chinese govt but most chinese people are cool!!

[keen beacon]

china is doing more to democratize local ai than the western world lol

[tall summit]

colonist is crap

[torn mantle]

the craig method

are you a hacker?

did you hack me?

[unborn ocean]

until they are SOTA and then they will stop

• most labs don't even fully opensource (e.g. alibaba)
• my guess is that even deepseek never planned the MIT licence until they blew up (can be seen by the not MIT licenced v3)

[echo aurora]

Gentle reminder to keep conversations specific to AI. Dislike for AI companies or regulations effecting development is fine, but lets try to avoid generalized comments pls.

the 503 issue related to legacy.lmarena.ai is now fixed btw

[tall summit]

REAL

[plucky whale]

Thanks

[blazing rune]

I still have yet to understand the reason for America hating China. I'm an American and I still don't get it. Part of it is misinformation (as shown by the gov saying Deepseek is somehow spyware but not clarifying that it's only for the API which is to be expected), but some of it seems like just hate. If even this discussion is too far, let me know. Imo it is fine to talk about it as long as we stay civilized and don't say "China is bad" for no reason. Also, the people are fine from what I can tell. It's the government side of things that most people complain about but then they try to make it extend to the people too.

[echo aurora]

This server isn't meant for discussing that topic. If you'd like to discuss specifics related to AI that's cool, but when it turns into a larger discussion about X vs Y government/country/etc. this isn't the place for that.

[small haven]

o3 pro still says july 8th 😮

[tall summit]

mainly because both grok 2 and grok 3 were apparently released on tuesdays

and it's the next tuesday after July 4

[blazing rune]

I mainly meant in relation to their AI policies

I should have been clearer

But let's be honest, no country has good AI policies atm

Well, the best AI policy (for now) is nothing at all

[ocean vortex]

Deepseek did release updated R1 with the same license. The previous one was already open-source SOTA and this one just upped the bar even more. I think they do deserve the credit for it tbh

They are unique in a way since their CEO was not always centered around AI and this was more of a hobby for him. A bit like Elon except very clear headed, not making stupid comments and mistakes and not getting involved in politics. I just hope that Chinese government is not gonna ruin them now that they are well known lol

Basically just clever people doing great things. A bit like what OpenAI started from

Qwen is majorly interlinked with CCP I think and they have insane funding. Knowing all of that they should have had destroyed Deepseek. But they didn't. They are like Meta except they suck less atm

@ornate agate Look at Alibaba official API pricing for China... That 72b model is more expensive than o3

It's probably showing that based on IP, but I don't think you can sign up to use this without Chinese or a neighboring (HK etc) phone #

[ocean vortex]

Which reminds me I did try to sign up for alibaba cloud actually...

And I failed lol

it's very hard if you aren't in China, don't have wechat etc

[ornate agate]

which is uh.... in Americaland money... 0.56$ according to google

[ocean vortex]

that is not alibaba page though lmao

I have no clue what this is

[keen beacon]

qwen max was supposed to be open sourced too but qwen 3 probably made that unnecessary

they stated their plans to open source qwen max before in a qwen blog post somewhere i believe

super excited for qwen 3.5 tbh. only qwen pretrains that many tokens on very small models and release them as apache. i think that front is very underresearched

yup

[unborn ocean]

not sure about that, the closed qwen 2.5 models (mainly 2.5 max) where significantly larger

so it could very well be that they will be doing the same thing with the (possibly to come) larger qwen 3 models

[keen beacon]

tbh i think theyll skip a qwen 3 max this generation

[ocean vortex]

@ornate agate This is Chinese version:
https://help.aliyun.com/zh/model-studio/what-is-qwen-llm

They are quoting per 1K there rather than per 1M like in English ver so being sneaky. But this is essentially 16CNY / 1M for input which is ~$2.3. So less expensive but not by that much

[unborn ocean]

they had more than 10k back then and especially now, china has a lot of decentralized compute (that is sub 5k gpu clusters or with poor networking by government affiliated organisations jumping on the ai hype train) that they are trying to bring to the labs for RL and inference

[ocean vortex]

if you are not from China but from one of their friendly countries you pay slightly more I suppose lmao

[unborn ocean]

not 100% sure, but i guess they will first try to build 3.5

[ocean vortex]

btw even domain is different for the Chinese version... But this seems made by the same people. English version was this: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/models

[unborn ocean]

if they have a strong dense 3.5 model that is 32b or larger they will potentially use that again and upcycle to MoE

[pure anvil]

Why wouldn't they just use 235B if they wanted to do that?

[ocean vortex]

I think Alibaba just can't seem to crack fine-tuning and RL tbh. But this is arguably the most important step with the current models

[unborn ocean]

semianalysis

[unborn ocean]

they can't really use an MoE as base to upcycle to an MoE

dense -> MoE is what they did

[pure anvil]

With 2.5 72b for qwen max?

[ocean vortex]

On the extreme side of the spectrum we have Meta that has all the compute and money in the world, but again terrible final execution and decision making = model is crap

[keen beacon]

if they havent started a qwen 3 max pretraining run a while back, they probably won't do so now

[keen beacon]

maybe we'll have to see

[unborn ocean]

i think, not sure anymore (idk)

[pure anvil]

I doubt it, training reports/papers of qwen max wasn't released

[keen beacon]

upcycling is just a way to do it for cheaper. (edited) qwen 235b and 30b were from scratch, not upcycled i believe

[ocean vortex]

The thing is their base models do not look to be a problem

Arch is unlikely the issue

[keen beacon]

their pretraining team knows their stuff for sure

[unborn ocean]

yes

[pure anvil]

qwen2.5 models were much better for research than qwen3

[unborn ocean]

i think they just kind of panicked when they saw that everything was moving to large MoE

and did that (is my guess)

upcycling can be good for experience and for a quick performance match with deepseek v3

[keen beacon]

qwen 2.5 max iirc was pre-trained on 20 trillion. that's like a fresh pretraining run. qwen 2.5 was 18 trillion. i dont think they upcycled

[pure anvil]

upcycling is mediocre at best

[ocean vortex]

Kinda have to agree. Those were fire. But now when we have reasoning ones, you have to put in lots of work to use qwen3 practically or fix their underwhelming RL training

[pure anvil]

How do you say their RL training was underwhelming?

[unborn ocean]

i am not sure, we don't know anything about the model, but it could make sense and i remember reading something about it

[ocean vortex]

It hallucinates a lot, is not reliable, odd mistakes and behavior comparing to say Deepseek