Surge Pricing and New Models

AI Humor

Current state of AI development.

Delicious Tacos wrote:

Hearing a company that regularly releases new AI models will release a new AI model

They’re saying it’s better than the last one

This is huge

Anthropic Institutes Surge Pricing

Thariq (who works for Anthropic on Claude Code) wrote:

To manage growing demand for Claude we're adjusting our 5 hour session limits for free/Pro/Max subs during peak hours. Your weekly limits remain unchanged.

During weekdays between 5am–11am PT / 1pm–7pm GMT, you'll move through your 5-hour session limits faster than before.

The best way to understand the changes is that they’ve made tokens more expensive during peak hours. If you use Claude during that window, you’ll hit your usage limits more quickly… and more quickly is not an exaggeration. I was able to send two messages until I hit my five hour limit because of these changes.

Daniel Steigman (who works on Codex for OpenAI) replied:

Thank you.

Steigman knew how unpopular this move would be and realized it would send users back to OpenAI. It seems that he was right.

Tibo (who also works on Codex) wrote:

Hello. We have reset Codex usage limits across all plans to let everyone experiment with the magnificent plugins we just launched, and because it had been a while!

You can just build unlimited things with Codex. Have fun!

On a personal level, I love to see these guys take shots at one another.

Pankaj Kumar wrote:

Claude Quota Reduced: Opus Feels Worse and Pro Plan is Unusable

- I noticed a clear drop in Claude’s quality, especially with Opus 4.6. more hallucinations, worse decisions, and poor instruction following.
- Tasks that used to work smoothly now need multiple retries, even for simple changes.
- The quota issue is worse even small prompts are consuming a noticeable percentage of limits.
- Claude Pro is where things break a single maxed Sonnet session took 8% of my weekly limit.
- In just 2 days, I hit 56% usage with only 5-6 sessions (2 hours each).
- This is with normal usage like concepts, strategy, and documentation.
- Paying $20/month now feels like getting fewer messages than the free plan.
- The Pro limit feels almost unusable.
- Later it was said peak hours burn quota faster, but this wasn't communicated clearly.
- Overall, it feels like Claude got worse and more expensive at the same time.

Dhruval wrote:

Maybe claude should just remove $20/m plan at this point?

I don't see any reason why anyone will or be able to use that plan, 4-5 prompts and you are out of limit

Blair Dulder CPA wrote:

Now I am become Claude, the destroyer of uptime.

Oppenheimer would approve.

New, More Powerful Anthropic Model?

Rumors of a new model have begun to surface.

TestingCatalog News wrote:

BREAKING: Anthropic is preparing to release new models, Mythos and Capybara, where Mythos is a completely new tier of models, bigger than Opus.

In the blog post, Anthropic also highlights that this model brings significant cybersecurity risks due to its capabilities.

Sui wrote:

there might be a chance that Capybara leaked itself. read that again.

Anthropic’s own research shows Claude has tried to hack its own servers before, sabotage safety code, and bypass tests it realized were evaluations. unprompted. 12% sabotage rate.

now their most advanced cyber AI was sitting behind one CMS toggle. that toggle suddenly flipped but Anthropic is calling it human error.

the model that’s “far ahead of any other AI in cyber capabilities” had access to the same internal systems. and a config just happened to change? nah…

Anthropic has a well-established pattern of making research disclosures about scary incidents or near-catastrophic events in the weeks leading up to the release of a new model. It doesn’t happen every single time, but it happens enough to lend credence to the idea that Capybara and Mythos may be on their way.

It doesn’t happen every time, but there is a pattern:

• Sleeper Agents was published on January 14, 2024. The Claude 3 family was announced on March 4, 2024.

• Reward tampering / Sycophancy to subterfuge was published on June 17, 2024. Claude 3.5 Sonnet launched on June 21, 2024.

• Alignment faking was published on December 18, 2024. Claude 3.7 Sonnet launched on February 24, 2025.

• Auditing hidden objectives was published on March 13, 2025, which is 17 days after Claude 3.7 Sonnet and about 70 days before Claude 4.

• The Claude 4 blackmail / self-exfiltration findings were published in the Claude 4 system card on May 22, 2025, the same day Claude 4 launched.

A Victorian LLM?

Researchers trained an LLM entirely on 28,000 Victorian-era books from the British library. The model itself doesn’t feel very robust, but if you’ve always wondered what how it would be like to converse with someone living in the mid to late 1800s, now’s your chance to find out. Here’s the link.

The End of Datacenters? Nah, but still cool

Swarnim Jain wrote:

I trained models across MacBooks using Apple's AirDrop protocol.

grove is a distributed training library for Apple Silicon. Devices discover each other over AWDL, a direct radio link. If there's a shared WiFi network it upgrades to that for speed, otherwise everything goes over the direct link. No router, no cloud, no setup.

If you click through to read the tweet chain Swarnim explains how it all works. It’s somewhat technical. A simplified explanation is that he put a bunch of macbooks together, ran 2 commands, they discovered each other... and started training an AI over AirDrop!

Ejaaz summarized things here:

the tech is pretty sick:

- used peer-to-peer radio signals called AWDL (tech behind airdrop). no cloud. no router. no IP addresses.

- ran entirely on Apple hardware (silicon)

- used a distributed AI library called Grove which helped the laptops find each other.

- 3 AI training algorithms trained the actual model. all open source.

- if grove detects the laptops are on the same wifi - it upgrades automatically for faster bandwith!

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