I'm assuming this is a post-train of Argon ("Building on Gemini 4 Argon, which was launched two weeks ago, Carbon illustrates the pace at which we’re pushing the frontier forward."), but does anyone know for sure? The post isn't clear.

the rumour mill the last two weeks has been referring to carbon and argon as "checkpoints" of the same model

That's generally how models are made. There's several candidate checkpoints and experimentation going on.

are we that much in a rush that we need to release checkpoints this close? or maybe argon was a little rushed?

I assume weights can also be IP in the form of trade secrets.

Wouldn't that be the processing of obtaining the weights, and not the weights themselves?

Based on how vibe-coded this whole thing is, I’m guessing the newer models weren’t in the training data and the agent just picked what it knew existed.

There’s a whole niche of legal scholarship around this idea (and some startups): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5331811

Kieffaber spoke at my law school, dazzling and mildly concerning (like, "is he on something?" concerning) speaker

Pricing is available here: https://dev.meta.ai/models/muse-wonder

Input -- $4.00

Cached input -- $0.20

Output -- $20.00

Edit: Upon closer inspection, the benchmark scores for "Muse Wonder" on the main marketing page are actually for "Muse Wonder Full," which is only available on the higher-tier subscription plans. This pricing is for "Muse Wonder."

200% Sol 6.1 pricing for Luna performance.

> Luna performance

Source? On the available benchmarks it looks like Sol 6.1 level.

sol 6.1 is 50% cheaper than this. sol pricing$2.00 output $10.00

dont know why the f people downvote for saying sol pricing.

It sounds like you're disagreeing with the person you're responding to, but you're both saying the same thing.

i was agreeing with that.

> Zuck is proven once again as a great executioner

Executor is the word, but everyone also knows what this was supposed to mean.

Let’s be honest it’s funnier as written.

Or Lecun was just bad.

couldn't feel the AGI

If computers can’t make decisions, can humans? Relevant: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computational-mind/

edit: This wasn’t meant to be a rhetorical question!

> The experimental JIT compiler has been significantly upgraded, with 7-8% geometric mean performance improvement on x86-64 Linux over the standard interpreter, and 11-12% speedup on AArch64 macOS over the tail-calling interpreter.

Nice to see improvements here!

I'm a type-1 diabetic. I'm running Nightscout[0] on my VPS so I can sync my blood sugar from my glucose monitor to my pebble watch. Only took an hour or so to set up with the help of a coding agent.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightscout

If you haven’t read the book yet, I’m tempted to warn you against opening the visualization. Part of the joy of reading this book is letting your mind’s eye run wild, and I fear if I read it for the first time after toying with this site, I’d be remembering the cities rather than conjuring them.

That is the exact problem with the city of Dinipro.

Citizens of this city high in the sky imagine it so fully in their minds that no one there needs to open their eyes to walk the streets and live their normal lives. But if one makes the mistake of opening their eyes and tries to see the city directly, they would immediately fall through the clouds to the ground deep below.

Where is the city of Dinipro from? It's not one of the 55 from this book and I can't find anything about what you're describing on the internet.

On that note, I'd quite recommend the Coyote vs. Acme movie, some great world building there.

I heartily recommend the audiobook, narrated by John Lee.

The book is a trip and the dreamy sort of narration matched it perfectly. My wife and I would spend evenings listening to one city at a time, on a walk around our little park, one headphone in each ear. I don't know if it was just the environment or the time in our lives, but we both really look back fondly on this book.

I read the book decades ago, then I lost it in one of the many relocations. I always thought I should buy it again but never acted on the idea... A few years ago, I was walking by an antiquarian, and noticed a thin unmarked gray spine. I entered, picked it up, paid, and walked away.

PS I didn't open the gallery. Nice idea but I don't care about visualizing something I should feel.

In fact, having a physicalized 3D representation of the cities is IMHO antithetical to the text. I don't think OP ever stopped to ask if there was more to Calvino's work than 'cool city descriptions'.

Don't worry about opening the GPT-6 Astra one though, those ones are so bad that your brain will immediately expunge them.

Only applicable to those who have a "mind's eye". Some of us don't.

Aphantasia can be cured by deliberately engaging the imagination even when nothing is seen - you might not see anything at first but eventually you gain the ability through letting go of external awareness and developing the imagination pathways.

I did some hopeful googling, and curing aphantasia seems to not be a real thing, unless you believe in magic. I'm disappointed.

I fully agree, thank you for this warning.

How Opus 5.5 imagines these cities is a question for Opus. The real experience is how we imagine - and I believe there are no two people who have exactly the same mental image of an invisible city.

> I’d be remembering the cities rather than conjuring them

Having looked at some of them (and it being one of my favorite books) ... it won't do that. These visualizations are as terrible as they are unnecessary.

Maybe the interactive link in the article for the optic focus can lead you on a fun journey instead. And the bottom-right of every visualization is a link to yet another fun diorama to explore.

It's a techie creating the torment nexus but the imagination version. No need to picture in your mind the invisible cities! Time to make them visible!!!

Talk about missing the entire point of the piece of literature.

Checking Amazon, several of the available editions are illustrated, which I suppose would have the same problem.

I opened it because I had no idea what Invisible Cities meant here. I thought they might be some real cities that don't come up on maps.

The website gives you a good hint before opening up the visuals. So, I got an idea.

I don't really know about Marco Polo. My only knowledge comes from the Netflix series, which doesn't talk about these invisible cities.

Invisible Cities is a book.