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New comment by andriy_koval in "Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model"

andriy_koval — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:12:57 +0000

> The same business model that Deepseek is using.

there is a chance their business model is absorbing government funding..

New comment by andriy_koval in "Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model"

andriy_koval — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:11:54 +0000

SFT/RL can be done without parent company.

New comment by andriy_koval in "Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model"

andriy_koval — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:35:16 +0000

> That turned into a $2 billion financing with NVIDIA doing roughly $500 million and was a complete pivot.

I suspect 2B is not enough to boostrap frontier model from the scratch (for both talent and hardware)

New comment by andriy_koval in "Why I Left Google DeepMind"

andriy_koval — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:30:16 +0000

Normal/not normal is a matter of opinion.

It sounds like it is normal for majority of political elite as well as voters, since this is not top of political agenda in this country.

It is not normal from my point of view, but I am not sure what can I do about this.

New comment by andriy_koval in "Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model"

andriy_koval — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:22:51 +0000

> It could be but there are a host of companies going after open weights models: Arcee, Reflection, Llama (TBD on Meta's focus on closed-source versus open-source), etc.

my bet is that Chinese government fund Chinese models way more compared to what those companies receive (except llama, which is outdated but was strong foundation at its time)

New comment by andriy_koval in "Why I Left Google DeepMind"

andriy_koval — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:18:31 +0000

> They’ve shot citizens and fabricated evidence to cover up their actions in multiple instances.

typical police activity protected by impunity in this country.

New comment by andriy_koval in "Why I Left Google DeepMind"

andriy_koval — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:17:07 +0000

its more like: good luck finding clients who don't kill anyone somewhere deep inside their supply chain.

New comment by andriy_koval in "YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database"

andriy_koval — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:23:37 +0000

> However with SQL/PGQ, the same query ergonomics are coming to traditional databases.

I like how PG19 with PGQ will kill lots of companies and startups.

New comment by andriy_koval in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

andriy_koval — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:10:25 +0000

> why are Anthropic rewriting a Javascript runtime from Zig to Rust?

there is a chance they tried..

New comment by andriy_koval in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

andriy_koval — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:02:09 +0000

> doesn't care if the application segfault 6 hours later (eg. a prototype game engine), C++ is definitely the superior choice to Rust.

I wouldn't say "definitely", given Rust deps management is way more streamlined.

New comment by andriy_koval in "GPT-5.6"

andriy_koval — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:11:30 +0000

I found that AI is excellent in narrow tasks(like bootsratpping some typical crud app), but suck in wide scope use-cases: business strategy for go to market, nontrivial product/infra/algorithms, etc, and need to be guided. I feel last part is more interesting than first part.

New comment by andriy_koval in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

andriy_koval — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:53:14 +0000

its sort of amazing how people dump so much far fetching speculations in response for such simple and specific questions.

New comment by andriy_koval in "Google Search lets creators know more about their reach"

andriy_koval — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:52:48 +0000

google search ads revenue still growing XX% a year.

New comment by andriy_koval in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

andriy_koval — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:49:14 +0000

Elon mentioned he is building army of robots. This likely could be a way to manage them.

New comment by andriy_koval in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

andriy_koval — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:44:19 +0000

what you do to fill difference between 200, 500 and 1gb?..

New comment by andriy_koval in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

andriy_koval — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:24:45 +0000

My bet they run gpt over dataset of 10k unsolved conjectures, it happened this one was solvable.

New comment by andriy_koval in "GPT-5.6"

andriy_koval — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:26:34 +0000

> to me and to many friends in their 30-40s, using AI models to achieve something we used our brains to achieve feels... empty?

you have to start using AI to achieve something which was way more challenging before, then you will feel lots of fulfillment and inspiration.

New comment by andriy_koval in "GPT-5.6"

andriy_koval — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:14:28 +0000

> Can someone explain how it in any way indicates how close we are to "AGI"?

I think it is historical name. At some point when benchmarking was very undeveloped, this was targeting abstract reasoning and generalization, hence AGI.

New comment by andriy_koval in "Pros and cons of solo development"

andriy_koval — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:32:37 +0000

sure, million dollar company can be automated using AI.

New comment by andriy_koval in "Florida Is Executing Prisoners at a Record Pace"

andriy_koval — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:32:50 +0000

you can spend some time researching the process, so you can come to better quality judgement.