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We continue our series about alternatives to transformers. In the AI of the week, we dive into Anthropic’s groundbreaking paper about natural language autoencoders.

By complete coincidence, the day we released Neil Zeghidour (CEO of Gradium, the for profit spinoff of the vaunted Kyutai Moshi )’s talk on what remains to be built for realtime voice, Thinking Machines emerged for only the third time in a ~year (despite much drama) to drop Interaction Models: A Scalable Approach to Human-AI Collaboration ,…

The proximal cause of today’s op-ed is OpenAI’s deprecation of their finetuning APIs. For years, OpenAI stood out among the big labs for their finetuning support, and many many many talks and content pieces and AI engineers promoted how you can get some variant of “get o1 performance at 4o prices” and insisting that it was an important part of the toolkit.

The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive. Claude Code , Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the imagination of software developers worldwide.

After two weeks of hearing from assorted witnesses that he was a lying snake, the jury finally heard from the lying snake himself: Sam Altman. At the end of the testimony, his lawyer William Savitt asked him how it felt to be accused of stealing a charity.

As investors scramble to get their hands on shares of AI companies of all stripes, Anthropic this week updated its website to warn investors that a slew of private and secondary investment platforms that offer access to shares in the AI company are not, in fact, allowed to do so. The company named Open Doors Partners, Unicorns Exchange, Pachamama Capital,…