[shekhargulati]

I don't know, but I found the recording uninspiring. There was nothing new for me. We've all seen reasoning models by now—we know they work well for certain use cases. We've also seen "Deep Researchers," so nothing new there either.

No matter what people say, they're all just copying OpenAI. I'm not a huge fan of OpenAI, but I think they're still the ones showing what can be done. Yes, xAI might have taken less time because of their huge cluster, but it’s not inspiring to me. Also, the dark room setup was depressing.

[pixelsort]

Seems like the opinion of someone who doesn't know that OpenAI cloned Anthropic's innovations of artifacts and computer use with their "canvas" and "operator".

[cromwellian]

Those are applied-ML level advancements, OpenAI has pushed model level advancements. xAI has never really done much it seemed except download the latest papers and reproduce them.

[pixelsort]

Don't forget that OpenAI was also following Anthropic's lead at the model level with o1. They may have been first with single-shot CoT and native tokens, but advancements from the product side matter, and OpenAI has not been as original there some would like to believe.

[swyx]

and Gemini's Deep Research

[swyx]

(forgot to plug their interview https://latent.space/p/gdr)

[talles]

This sounds like "this feature is so 2024".