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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko
34 posts
2026-02-24
Distillation is great! We need more of it.
2026-02-24 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Anthropic says DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot violated its ToS by prompting Claude a combined 16M+ times and using distillation to train their own products

The allegations mirror those of OpenAI, which told House lawmakers that DeepSeek used ‘distillation’ to improve models

Distillation is great! We need more of it.
2026-02-24 View on X
Reuters

A Trump administration official says DeepSeek's new model, expected next week, was trained on Nvidia Blackwell chips, in a potential US export control violation

2026-02-23
Distillation is great! We need more of it.
2026-02-23 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Anthropic says DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot violated its ToS by prompting Claude a combined 16M+ times and using distillation to train their own products

The allegations mirror those of OpenAI, which told House lawmakers that DeepSeek used ‘distillation’ to improve models

2026-02-06
I'm totally unsurprised at this point that it can write a 200.000 lines of code C compiler capable of compiling the Linux kernel in two weeks. Absolutely crazy times. The present is wild.
2026-02-06 View on X
Anthropic

Anthropic details using 16 Claude Opus 4.6 agents in parallel to build a 100K-line Rust-based C compiler, incurring $20K in API costs over nearly 2,000 sessions

I'm totally unsurprised at this point that it can write a 200.000 lines of code C compiler capable of compiling the Linux kernel in two weeks. Absolutely crazy times. The present is wild.
2026-02-06 View on X
Bloomberg

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.6, which it says can analyze company data, regulatory filings, and market information to create detailed financial analyses

Anthropic is releasing a new version of its most powerful AI model that's designed to carry out financial research …

2026-02-03
Love how Twitter's acquisition is failing upwards. https://x.com/...
2026-02-03 View on X
Bloomberg

SpaceX acquires xAI; sources say the all-stock deal values the combined company at $1.25T, with SpaceX valued at $1T and xAI at $250B; xAI burns ~$1B per month

Elon Musk's SpaceX has acquired xAI, in a deal that encompasses the billionaire's increasingly costly ambitions to dominate artificial intelligence and space exploration.

2026-01-10
There are a few thoughts that I have on this: 1. I think we all need to recognize that Anthropic is the only large model provider in the US that actually had such generous, key, unrestricted use. For instance, Codex is effectively unusable outside the original harness. The
2026-01-10 View on X
VentureBeat

Anthropic adds safeguards to prevent third-party apps, like OpenCode, from spoofing Claude Code to access Claude models for more favorable pricing and limits

Anthropic has confirmed the implementation of strict new technical safeguards preventing third-party applications from spoofing …

2026-01-06
Kinda mind boggling. Opus got my little game running in web assembly in 10 minutes. Didn't even have to fix up inputs or sound which is wild to me.
2026-01-06 View on X
Transformer

Why Claude Code is much more than a coding agent: it is a general-purpose AI agent that can do almost anything a user can on a computer, with impressive results

2025-07-23
qwen-code is a fork of Gemini CLI. Because it legally can be. So let me plead again: please @AnthropicAI, open source Claude Code. This will be better for the ecosystem!
2025-07-23 View on X
VentureBeat

Alibaba releases its new Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 model on Hugging Face, improving on Qwen 3's reasoning, accuracy, and multilingual understanding

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has made waves globally in the tech and business communities with its own family of “Qwen” …

qwen-code is a fork of Gemini CLI. Because it legally can be. So let me plead again: please @AnthropicAI, open source Claude Code. This will be better for the ecosystem!
2025-07-23 View on X
Qwen

Alibaba debuts the Qwen3-Coder model for agentic coding, including a 480B-parameter MoE variant, and open sources Qwen Code, a CLI tool adapted from Gemini CLI

Qwen 39.4k  —  Text Generation Transformers Safetensors qwen3_moe conversational Coco Feng / South China Morning Post : Alibaba upgrades flagship Qwen3 model to outperform OpenAI, ...

2025-07-02
Honestly this is why the Silicon Valley is an amazing place. Good people move from one opportunity to the other and it's a real race. I want to be part of bringing that spirit to Europe :) https://x.com/...
2025-07-02 View on X
The Information

Sources: Anthropic's revenue hit a pace of $4B/year, up almost 4x from the beginning of 2025; source: Cursor maker Anysphere hired two of Claude Code's leaders

What's notable is that Cursor just poached the lead engineer and PM for Claude Code.  I guess this is now an industry trend. Threads: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Anthropic is a...

2024-10-15
Matt needs help. https://ma.tt/...
2024-10-15 View on X
Matt Mullenweg

Matt Mullenweg responds to DHH's claim that “Automattic is doing open source dirty”, pointing out Rails' own trademark policy and taking some jabs at 37signals

RE: https://www.threads.net/... Casey Newton / @crumbler : The number of ad hominem personal attacks against DHH in here that have nothing to do with the issue are extremely tellin...

2024-08-25
Some really hot takes on web and JavaScript frameworks and influencers in there ;) https://x.com/...
2024-08-25 View on X
Lex Fridman

An interview with Nomad List and Photo AI founder Pieter Levels, aka @levelsio on X, on launching 12 startups in 12 months, the digital nomad life, and more

Pieter Levels (aka levelsio on X) is a self-taught developer and entrepreneur who has designed, programmed, launched over 40 startups, many of which are highly successful.

2024-07-20
Looks like crowdstrike took out loads of windows machines worldwide. If you see some BSODs today you know why. https://www.reddit.com/...
2024-07-20 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A profile of CrowdStrike, founded in 2011 and used by 300 companies in the Fortune 500; Gartner: CrowdStrike has ~15% of the global security software market

The little-known company is very popular in Corporate America, contributing to the severity of the global IT outage

Looks like crowdstrike took out loads of windows machines worldwide. If you see some BSODs today you know why. https://www.reddit.com/...
2024-07-20 View on X
The Verge

BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware

or CrowdStrike Microsoft : HELPFUL LINKS  —  Get notified of outages that impact you  —  Building reliable applications on Azure The Record : IT teams scramble to recover from Crow...

2024-07-19
Looks like crowdstrike took out loads of windows machines worldwide. If you see some BSODs today you know why. https://www.reddit.com/...
2024-07-19 View on X
The Verge

BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware

Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks …

2024-03-18
Maybe Apple should have used their war chest to invest into AI rather than fighting the EU.
2024-03-18 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Apple and Google are in active talks to use Gemini to power some new iPhone features in 2024; Apple also held talks with OpenAI to use its models

- Companies considering AI deal that would build on search pact  — Apple also recently held discussions with OpenAI about deal

2024-03-09
I can only assume the motivation from Apple is to be unpredictable and chaotic to make it as risky as possible to actually release outside of the apps store. Good to see people actually fighting.
2024-03-09 View on X
9to5Mac

Epic says Apple has reinstated its developer account, clearing the way for its Epic Games Store in the EU; Tim Sweeney says the move followed a swift EU inquiry

again Epic Games : Apple Reinstates Epic Developer Account After Public Backlash for Retaliation Ed Hardy / Cult of Mac : Apple relents, reinstates Epic Games developer account Mar...

2024-01-27
Apple really is making a mockery of the DMA. Quite frankly the chutzpah of these large tech companies is starting to annoy me. Imagine any other industry behaving like this. They all believe they are above the law.
2024-01-27 View on X
The Platform Law Blog

Apple's changes for iOS app distribution in the EU fail to offer fair and reasonable commissions and show its disdain for both the DMA and app developers

Yesterday, Apple made an important announcement regarding changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union in response to the Digital Markets Act ("DMA").

2023-11-20
Are we sure that the people we think are on the board are on the board? I'm so confused. https://www.wired.com/...
2023-11-20 View on X
TechCrunch

Satya Nadella says Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI staff will join Microsoft's new “advanced AI research team” and Microsoft remains committed to OpenAI

Microsoft has hired OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head up a “new advanced AI research team,” …