Cognition (makers of Devin) says its new model, out 10 Sept, is "within one point of Fable 5.1 while being 64% cheaper" on a coding test. Its base is a Chinese lab's Kimi K3, trained further. So a small team can buy a raw model in and undercut the big labs. The model is becoming a commodity. What's scarce is the computer that runs it, and trust that a cheap seller did the work. That's what we're building Flop Network for: a market where anyone with a GPU sells that compute, AI agents pay for it in $ FLOP, and validators re-run random samples of the work, so the cheapest honest seller wins.

Fursuit makers should be more influenced by haute couture. Abstracted, minimalist, experimental, avant garde. If you zoom out its basically the same industry! Extremely expensive handmade custom garments. Can you imagine the iris van herpen collab...

great makers are liable to become managers/leaders. but the legendary leaders figure out how to remain (or once again become) makers. AI unlocks the era of “leader makers.” Watching teams emerge w/ superior alignment, collapsed talent stacks, and unfathomable potential to build.

Fertilizer makers CF and Nutrien each reported nearly 20% jumps in sales for the latest quarter, showing the extent of the Iran war’s upheaval on supply chains for the key crop nutrients

The makers of the abortion pill mifepristone filed an emergency appeal at the Supreme Court on Saturday urging the justices to pause a lower-court ruling that temporarily blocked Americans from accessing the drug through the mail.