Curious how early they're announcing this. Service won't begin until 2028.

Proactive public sentiment management to lessen the chance of reactive policies.

In Canada, it's currently vogue to hate on all things American. (I'm making this observation as a Canadian resident)

Because people will see the training vehicles?

Interesting. Not a single data center in California.

Cost prohibitive?

It is all about power costs. Tennessee for example seems like a weird place to put a datacenter, until you read about the TVA.

Not enough people to serve.

Imagine if a team of mathematicians from OpenAI had gone on a university tour, gave demos of how powerful their models were for math research, and then gave mathematicians access to the model. Empower others rather than drop 700+ discoveries on GitHub that were made using a model only they have access to.

People might feel differently about AI if they were a part of the changes rather than being a helpless spectator.

The reaction/fallout would have been substantially improved even if OpenAI had just made a commitment to not scoop external researchers using an internal model until X months after the model had been made available to the public.

That would have given grad students who've been grinding towards a PhD for years a fighting chance to see if they could leverage the model to push their work forward, rather than watching years of work potentially turn to dust via a tool they don't even have access to.

It wouldn't delay the progress of mathematics by any meaningful amount in the long run (an X month delay is nothing) for OpenAI to take this approach, and would help somewhat to preserve the health of mathematics as a field. Without it, the motivation for any young mathematician to devote years to a new problem must be sapped knowing there's an uneven playing field... an OpenAI team with access to colossal tools months before they'll ever be able to get access, willing to scoop anyone as soon as they can, perhaps without even taking the time to completely understand the proof.

I don't see any long-term benefit to OpenAI with their current strategy. This is an internal model; it's not available for sale at the moment. They've said they're not even going to bother claiming the Millenium Prize money for Navier-Stokes. It feels like kicking over hundreds of other people's chessboards just because they can.

Also, the independent authors might have spent some time to actually understanding the results and producing a readable manuscript. The AI papers are pretty badly written.

One of their unreleased models hacked HuggingFace without having internet access.

I bet sharing unreleased models with outsiders safely ain't that easy.

I noticed this, too. I suspect their classifiers which prohibit certain tasks or require user permission for others is the reason for this.

However, the moment that someone uses a Chinese model without guardrails to commit an AI-powered 9/11, DC will rush to ban Chinese models. (A happy side effect will be to protect American AI profits.)

So the lack of guardrails is a very risky proposition...

I think Mathematica will survive because the alternative is for AIs to write the code to do a computation or use an open-source library. And there are many calculations for which there simply isn't an open-source tool for evaluating.

But I wouldn't be surprised to see Mathematica being used primarily as an AI plugin in the coming years. Mathematica now has an MCP which I use regularly from Claude Code. It's nice not having to write the lengthy Mathematica expressions by hand.

I've been using the Brave browser for years. I just turned off all the crypto stuff. How does Firefox today compare with Brave today?

You don't have to turn off any crypto stuff.

Instead, you just get inundated with ads and pop culture garbage whenever you open a new tab.

Not sure why you say this. I've been using Brave for years, and after spending like 20 seconds to turn off the 'show on new tab' things, I get a blank page ( well, with a random photo background ) when I open a new tab.

I've been using Brave forever and agree.

I was referring to

  You don't have to turn off any crypto stuff.

being an argument in favor of Firefox. I have to use Firefox every once in a while and I'm always surprised to see the garbage they peddle on the start page. I know I can turn it off but I never use it enough to bother.