It’s been about a year since the last one of these.| Don't Worry About the Vase
Some amazing things are going on, not all of which involve mRNA, although please please those of you with the ability to do so, do your part to ensure that stays funded, either via investment or grants.| Don't Worry About the Vase
OpenAI gave us two very different Sora releases.| Don't Worry About the Vase
The big headline this week was the song, which was the release of Claude Sonnet 4.5. I covered this in two parts, first the System Card and Alignment, and then a second post on capabilities. It is a very good model, likely the current best model for most coding tasks, most agentic and computer use tasks, and quick or back-and-forth chat conversations. GPT-5 still has a role to play as well.| Don't Worry About the Vase
A few weeks ago, Anthropic announced Claude Opus 4.1 and promised larger announcements within a few weeks.| Don't Worry About the Vase
Claude Sonnet 4.5 was released yesterday.| Don't Worry About the Vase
This seems like a good opportunity to do some of my classic detailed podcast coverage.| Don't Worry About the Vase
I obviously cover many economical things in the ordinary course of business, but I try to reserve the sufficiently out of place or in the weeds stuff that is not time sensitive for updates like this one.| Don't Worry About the Vase
OpenAI is here this week to show us the money, as in a $100 billion investment from Nvidia and operationalization of a $400 billion buildout for Stargate.| Don't Worry About the Vase
They also show us the chips, and the data centers.| Don't Worry About the Vase
Previously I shared various reactions to If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies, along with my own highly positive review.| Don't Worry About the Vase
The Trump Administration is attempting to put a $100k fee on future H1-B applications, including those that are exempt from the lottery and cap, unless of course they choose to waive it for you.| thezvi.substack.com
No, Seriously, If Anyone Builds It, [Probably] Everyone Dies| Don't Worry About the Vase
As in, cases of AI driving people crazy, or reinforcing their craziness.| Don't Worry About the Vase
All the news that’s fit to print, but has nowhere to go.| Don't Worry About the Vase
Where ‘it’ is superintelligence, an AI smarter and more capable than humans.| Don't Worry About the Vase
Even in quiet weeks like this one, there are noticeable incremental upgrades.| Don't Worry About the Vase
The purported main purpose of school, and even of childhood, is educating children.| Don't Worry About the Vase
That does not mean AI will successfully make it all the way to AGI and superintelligence, or that it will make it there soon or on any given time frame.| Don't Worry About the Vase
I am a little late to the party on several key developments at OpenAI:| thezvi.substack.com
One result of going on vacation was that I wasn’t able to spin events off into focused posts this week, so I’m going to fall back on splitting the weekly instead, plus some reserving a few subtopics for later posts, including AI craziness (the Tim Hua post on this is excellent| Don't Worry About the Vase
Startup Roundups (#1, #2) look like they’re settling in as an annual tradition.| Don't Worry About the Vase
Traffic and transit are finally getting a roundup all their own.| Don't Worry About the Vase
There’s quite a lot in the queue since last time, so this is the first large chunk of it, which focuses on apps and otherwise finding an initial connection, and some things that directly impact that.| Don't Worry About the Vase
It doesn’t look good, on many fronts, especially taking a stake in Intel.| Don't Worry About the Vase
Once again we’ve reached the point where the weekly update needs to be split in two.| Don't Worry About the Vase
Is generative AI making it harder for young people to find jobs?| Don't Worry About the Vase
In the wake of the confusions around GPT-5, this week had yet another round of claims that AI wasn’t progressing, or AI isn’t or won’t create much value, and so on.| Don't Worry About the Vase
I happily admit I am deeply confused about consciousness.| Don't Worry About the Vase
What if DeepSeek released a model claiming 66 on SWE and almost no one tried using it?| Don't Worry About the Vase
In honor of Nate Silver’s analysis of when to leave for the airport, and because it’s been an intense week, I thought I’d offer my thoughts on various related questions.| thezvi.substack.com
What do I ultimately make of all the new versions of GPT-5?| thezvi.substack.com
Sam Altman talked recently to Theo Von.| thezvi.substack.com
Welcome to the monthly roundup of things that don’t fit into other categories and don’t rise to the level of their own posts.| thezvi.substack.com
Last night, on the heels of some rather unfortunate incidents involving the Twitter version of Grok 3, xAI released Grok 4.| thezvi.substack.com
What Balsa has been up to in the first half of 2025| thezvi.substack.com
The insane attempted AI moratorium has been stripped from the BBB.| thezvi.substack.com
Balsa Policy Institute chose as its first mission to lay groundwork for the potential repeal, or partial repeal, of section 27 of the Jones Act of 1920.| thezvi.substack.com
Related: Book Review: On the Edge: The Gamblers| thezvi.substack.com
There are a lot of ludicrously terrible government laws, regulations and policies across all the domains of life.| thezvi.substack.com
California Senator Scott Wiener of San Francisco introduces SB 1047 to regulate AI. I have put up a market on how likely it is to become law.| thezvi.substack.com
Note, To say it up front: None of this, or anything ever on this blog, is investment advice.| thezvi.substack.com
Previously: OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend.| thezvi.substack.com
For More Detail, Previously: Simulacra Levels and Their Interactions, Unifying the Simulacra Definitions, The Four Children of the Seder as the Simulacra Levels.| thezvi.substack.com
ChatGPT is a lot of things.| thezvi.substack.com
