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Some things to note: 1) AI is getting very good at math and science. 2) Two years ago LLMs could not do basic math consistently 3) According to @polynoamial this cost less than $2000 in current API co

Given today, it is surprising how daring Microsoft & Google were initially with AI. Microsoft released GPT-4 before OpenAI, didn't back down after Sydney & got Copilot to market quickly (the 1st profe

This definitely seems like something worth noting, and illustrates the gap between Fable/Astra class models and the previous frontier that was 'merely' good at hacking under human instructions. Initia

It is past time to take AI & security seriously at the individual level as well. If its not the current OpenAI and Anthropic models doing it, then the coming open weights models will when they catch u

On August 7, 2026 Ethan Mollick tweeted that “every remaining good AI benchmark score has an implied asterisk next to it which reads: * could be significantly higher with a better harness.” The commen

You may have been told to watch this video about the OpenAI AI hack. You really should, even if you don't usually care about tech stuff. If nothing else, click this link to the 18 minutes in & see how

A failure of ChatGPT Work & Claude Cowork is they assume that non-coders couldn't understand how to think about problems like a coder, so they hide all that stuff. They should instead explain choices

Interesting research suggests caution in determining which AI company is winning by looking at any one source.. OpenRouter seems to show open weights winning over time, but work submitted to Pangram i

You really need to benchmark models for your use case. As soon as judgements & decisions stack on top of each other, the differences between models amplifies, and no standard benchmark will tell you t

You really need your own benchmarks. If you are translating hieroglyphics, use Gemini 3.5 Flash. If you are running a vending machine use Opus 4.8. (This is one reason why I am skeptical of just swapp

Less than 2 years later, with Fable: 'simulate an encounter between a mind flayer and a drow warrior of equal CR. Set up initial stats then simulate each move, including initiative, rolling dice as ne

ChatGPT still has study mode, but rather than /study you now have to type @ study It makes the AI act more like a tutor than a helpful assistant, and some work suggests it is better if you are trying

Computer use in Codex got very good on PC. Asking it to do something on your computer and having the cursor move under the control of a ghost is one of the things that makes you viscerally realize how

“Generate a fake, but believable, witty Churchill insult at a party and explain the context. It should be very clever and original” This time, I think GPT 5.6 Sol Pro wins, but Fable is good too, and

Glad to see Google sharing data on how Gemini is being used. Especially interesting is that the usefulness of multimodal AI for manual labor may be greater than expected. https://blog.google/innovatio

This paper by researchers from MIT and Stanford finds that most people would be financially better off if they followed the financial advice of LLMs (GPT-5.2 & Gemini 3 Flash) But some people get a bi

My surprise here seems warranted, this paper was retracted (There are other peer-reviewed meta-analyses of the impact of AI on education finding positive effects, like: https://www.researchgate.net/pu

I think the fact that GPT-4o and Llama 3.3-80B did no significant harm is just as important as whether AI helped. If older (less accurate & more sycophantic) chatbots essentially did nothing for peopl

If Llama 4 didn’t fail, if Microsoft had pulled Sydney after the Roose article, if New Sonnet hadn’t been so good, if Orion hadn’t been so meh, if the leadership change at OpenAI had happened, if a re

It is difficult to know how good MAI-Thinking-1 is from the scores alone (like weirdly low GPQA & Terminal Bench 2.0) But Microsoft makes it really hard to try its models upon release (a general issue

At least until (if?) rapid improvement stops, it seems less likely someone is going to catch the Big Three AI Labs. Microsoft and Meta released their models, which were fine, but not frontier. SpaceX

This is true… but maybe less important than the fact that people don’t try ambitious things with these systems. Many models are excellent as a Google replacement, for homework “help,” etc. It is someo

Ethan Mollick notes that image input represents the primary advanced capability of current AI models, and that tool‑use can effectively replace outputs from non‑omni models. He observes that multimoda

Fable, turn my tweet into a thinkpiece (this was pretty funny): There has never been a better time to have opinions about artificial intelligence. I say this with some authority, because I am currentl

So we now have a pretty good picture of the state of the frontier AI model makers. US closed source models continue to lead. Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic stand well ahead of the pack, and may have si

So we now have a pretty good picture of the state of the frontier AI model makers. US closed source models continue to lead. Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic stand well ahead of the pack, and may have si

The new Grok comes in below the latest Chinese open weights models, Grok 4 was at the frontier when released. (& Artificial Analysis: please stop using GDPval-AA which is not a useful test of anything

I usually avoid commenting too much on industry deals, but this one is fascinating. Certainly seems like a blow to the idea that Grok will remain a frontier model. Our agreement with @SpaceX means we

Ethan Mollick asked Grok (xAI's AI assistant) to explain various cultural, historical, or technical references, likely exploring Grok's knowledge comprehension and ability to contextualize diverse top

This post likely features Grok (Elon Musk's AI chatbot) being used to explain complex concepts or vocabulary terms in simplified language for readers who prefer not to independently research definitio

Here is the same series of prompts in Grok 4.5 for a twigl shader of a neo-gothic city drowning in a stormy sea. (Had an interesting error initially where it made technically correct code that complet

Added Grok 4.5 to the Harbor Town Playable gallery. Here is it's 'build me a procedurally generated 3D simulation showing the evolution of a harbor town from 3000 BCE to 3000 AD, it should look beauti

Since I am needling every model maker tonight about minor but important issues, one more: Grok 4.5 has no model card. Companies that are trying to compete near the frontier should be releasing model c

So we now have a pretty good picture of the state of the frontier AI model makers. US closed source models continue to lead. Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic stand well ahead of the pack, and may have si

Ethan Mollick documents his first attempts at using DeepSeek v4's expert mode to generate TiKZ code for creating unicorn graphics, sharing results from the DeepSeek website's v4 Pro interface. The pos

This post expresses hope that upgrading to DeepSeek v4 (an AI model) will improve the quality of bot-generated comments on a platform or service. The statement implies current bot comments are conside

Here's DeepSeek v4 Pro. Added to the playable gallery as well. Media I had a range of models 'build me a procedurally generated 3D simulation showing the evolution of a harbor town from 3000 BCE to 30

DeepSeek released a new open-weights model with strong benchmark performance, though Mollick notes that benchmark results may not fully capture the capabilities of open models compared to closed syste

As a joke I prompted Codex 'Build and run BenchBench, a benchmark of now good ai is at creating benchmarks. then figure out what benchbenchbench is and run that. and then write benchbenchbench up as a

On August 7, 2026 Ethan Mollick tweeted that “every remaining good AI benchmark score has an implied asterisk next to it which reads: * could be significantly higher with a better harness.” The commen

Interesting research suggests caution in determining which AI company is winning by looking at any one source.. OpenRouter seems to show open weights winning over time, but work submitted to Pangram i