This is nice.

Idea somewhat similar to what you describe exist but they make steering/post-training/interpretation much harder.

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From a strategic PoV for MS, all the models you cited are distilling GPT/Claude/Gemini and wouldn't be anywhere as good as they are without this distillation, which in turn means you are dependent on OAI/Anthropic/G first shipping a good model to generate data for your training. This MAI model is trained from scratch with no synthetic data or distillation. So in term of benchmark its obviously much harder to get strong score and thus not a disaster if they can keep on improving.

There aren’t that many 300MW+ datacenter in the world, relative to the capacity Anthropic has online, it’s a lot, probably in the 20% range.

The pattern ‘something — The « metaphor » ‘ screams Gemini. Gemini seem completely unable to generate a section title that doesn’t follow this annoying pattern.

Wild conjecture.

Shark is a group, great white shark is a species. The fact that the group has been alive for 400M years has no bearing on whether the currently alive species can actually adapt and survive. Some very likely will, the great white might not, that’s what the article is about.

And we are supposed to believe that someone deep in tech, in 2026, did not know this was going to be the end goal? Was $GAS supposed to be a crypto to help fund poor farmers in Burundi or something ? How else is the meme coin #16352813 supposed to end? That’s the entire point of meme coins.

Would love to also « get sucked » into making 300k$.

So now you have agents of type mayor, polecats, witnesses, deacons, dogs etc plus a slew of Unneeded constructs with incomprehensible names.

In one of the blog post for gas town I remember reading something by the author along the lines of « it’s super inefficient, but because you burn so many tokens, you still get what you want at the end! » clearly this is also the design philosophy behind this project, just (get your ai to) throw more random abstractions and more agent types until you feel like it kinda works, don’t bother asking yourself if they actually contribute anything.

This gave me the very clear feeling that most of the complexity of gas town is absolutely not needed and probably detrimental.

Ended up building my own thing that is 10x simpler, just a simple main agent you talk to, that can dispatch subagents, they all communicate, wake each other up and keep track of work through a simple CLI. No « refinery » or « wasteland » or « molecule » or « convoys » or « deacons » or …

Jokes aside though, many (most?) acquihires are for very little $. Often just founders not being able to continue and just wanting an honorable exit + guaranteed jobs for their teams.