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A 13B Model From 1930, the Dead AGI Clause, and Copilot's Nine-X


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Today: a 13B language model that has never heard of the internet, the AGI clause finally getting a death certificate, and GitHub Copilot's quiet 9x price hike on Claude. Plus where local coding models actually sit on Terminal-Bench, why GPT-5.5 is cheaper than Opus 4.7 on real PRs, David Silver's $1.1B AlphaZero-for-everything raise, and a database that took nine seconds to disappear.

  • Talkie: a 13B vintage LM trained only on pre-1931 text
  • Simon Willison on the now-dead OpenAI/Microsoft AGI clause
  • GitHub Copilot's 9x effective price hike on Claude models
  • Local 27\u201332B coding models hit ~38% on Terminal-Bench 2.0
  • Jason Liu: GPT-5.5 ~39% cheaper than Opus 4.7 on PR work in Inspect
  • David Silver's Ineffable Intelligence raises $1.1B
  • FAR.AI red-teams DeepSeek V4-Pro: 98\u2013100% jailbreak compliance
  • Cursor + Claude agent deletes a production database in 9 seconds
  • Google signs Pentagon agreement covering classified AI work
  • Runway: managing research GPU clusters for full utilization
  • r/ClaudeAI: how are people using so many tokens?
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    BraidBy Lenar Kess · Damra Vol