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New Models, Gossip, and Token-hungry Releases

AI Humor

So Much for Backwards Compatibility

Daily Roman Updates wrote:

Disappointing.

Okay, technically, that joke isn’t about AI, but it still makes me laugh and I wanted to share it.

Seems Legit

Sudox wrote:

That’s a Lot of Tokens

Captain Insight wrote:

Me: rename a variable.

Claude: 61% of your message limit has been used. 😭

It’s that Time Again

JT wrote:

anthropic’s revenue is 40% enterprise and 60% guys like this

Burn those Tokens

Yuchin Jin wrote:

a friend: “I burned 15B tokens last week.”

me: “what did you build?”

him: “nothing, mostly Anthropic revenue.”

It Does Have a Nice Ring to It

Shira wrote:

ok I will be stealing “land of the free, home of the rate-limited”

Can You Vibecode a Sunset?

The Jenkins wrote:

Fable Returns!

Aljosa Asanovic wrote:

Th..thanks Dario.

One More Thing

TechWithAmol wrote:

Please tell me I am not the only one

Sonnet 5

New Release

Claude wrote:

Introducing Claude Sonnet 5, our most agentic Sonnet yet.

It makes plans, uses tools like browsers and terminals, and runs autonomously at a level that just a few months ago required larger and more expensive models.

Is it Better?

Theo-t3.gg wrote:

Sonnet 5 cost MORE than Opus 4.8 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Angel wrote:

Why are they even showing these graphs?

Opus 4.8 is literally cheaper and better than Sonnet 5

What about DeepSWE?

AI Battles wrote:

Claude Sonnet 5 is now on DeepSWE

It scores below Opus 4.8, costs twice as much, and is even more expensive than Fable 5

Probably Anthropic’s worst release yet

DeepSWE is a benchmark used to evaluate how well frontier models handle actual real world engineering scenarios.

Gossip, and Updates

Next Gemini Model Release

Polymarket wrote:

BREAKING: Next Gemini Pro model projected to be released on July 17, as Google seeks to match Anthropic’s Mythos.

62% chance.

Gemini 3.5 Pro Leaks

Pankaj Kumar wrote:

- Gemini 3.5 Pro will have a good jump in design taste and UI generation, producing much more polished frontend results than Gemini 3.1 Pro.
- SVG generation is also going to be significantly better, with output quality getting much closer to Fable level (though still not surpassing it).
- Early impressions suggest its especially strong at creative one shot frontend generation, with cleaner layouts and better visual polish.
- Google is also preparing a new Flash model, though its still unclear whether it will launch as Gemini 4 Flash or Gemini 3.6 Flash.

Meta Isn’t Out Yet

Chubby wrote:

According to Alexandr Wang, Meta’s next frontier model, codenamed Watermelon, has already caught up with OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 on internal benchmarks.

The model is still training.

One interesting detail: Watermelon reportedly uses an order of magnitude more compute than Avocado (Meta’s internal codename for Muse Spark).

Via Business Insider

GPT 5.6 Release Imminent

Salio wrote:

-OpenAI is targeting a July 7 launch
-July 8–9 is the backup window if there are last-minute delays
-GPT-5.6 Sol is already appearing for some Codex users
- GPT 5.5 Sol, Terra, and Luna are all expected to be included with ChatGPT subscriptions
-More generous usage limits than previous GPT models
-Stronger safety systems, but reportedly less restrictive than Fable 5
-GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna have all been spotted in the app's code, suggesting rollout preparations are underway

Will GPT-5.6 be the biggest AI release of the year?

Grok Update

Blankspeaker wrote:

SpaceXAI is preparing for imminent release of Grok 4.5

With the first flag and mentions regarding Grok 4.5 live on the site this morning, it looks like they are preparing the subscription page to promote Grok 4.5.

Early release could be today, could be later this week, not sure, but it's usually very close to early release once we start seeing mentions on the site. stay tuned!

Cool Things People Did with AI:

Ammaar Reshi wrote:

I used Fable 5 to port Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour to the iPhone and iPad!

This is the actual 2003 engine compiled for ARM64 natively, no emulator.

Campaign, skirmish, Generals Challenge all work with touch controls built for an RTS.

Open sourcing it all below!

The guy who posted this is the Lead for Product + Design at Google AIStudio. There’s a video of him playing Command and Conquer on an iPad at the link.

Maxima Rivest wrote:

Fable turned my remarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter.

My prompts fade, a LLM respond.

Magical!

There’s a twenty second video at the link of him writing a question on the tablet and the answer appearing right after. It’s really cool to watch.

Sundar Pichai wrote:

Love this re-imagining of America’s founding using Docs, Gmail, Calendar and more from GoogleWorkspace:

. Really puts the history in version history :)

The video at this link is really cool.

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