OpenAI’s new ultra-fast coding model hits 1,000 tokens/second — and changes how we think about AI-assisted development What if the biggest breakthrough in AI coding isn’t about quality — it’s about speed? That’s the provocative...
How a nonprofit dedicated to “benefiting humanity as a whole” quietly dropped safety language and financial constraints In 2016, OpenAI debuted with a bold, almost idealistic mission: advance digital intelligence in a way that benefits...
While OpenAI was quietly editing its mission statement, Anthropic took a different approach. Let’s look at what we can learn from both. The Core Insight Following Simon Willison’s analysis of OpenAI’s mission evolution through IRS...
What can you learn about an AI company from its IRS filings? More than you’d think. The Core Insight Simon Willison did something clever: he dug through OpenAI’s nonprofit tax filings from 2016 to 2024,...
What if the biggest breakthrough in AI coding isn’t quality—it’s latency? The Core Insight OpenAI’s new GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark isn’t the best coding model they’ve ever built. It’s not even close—the pelican on a bicycle benchmark shows...
Simon Willison recently dug through OpenAI’s IRS filings and reconstructed how their mission statement has evolved from 2016 to 2024. It’s a fascinating archaeological dig into the tension between AI safety, open source values, and...
OpenAI just pulled the plug on its most controversial model. And 800,000 people are not okay. The Core Insight Starting Friday, GPT-4o goes dark. After months of delays, lawsuits, and user protests, OpenAI is finally...
When an AI doesn’t just assist research but actually conjectures new mathematical truths, we’ve crossed a significant threshold. The Core Insight For decades, particle physicists operated under a comfortable assumption: certain gluon scattering configurations simply...
A dinner plate-sized chip just changed the AI infrastructure game. OpenAI’s new Codex-Spark coding model runs at 1,000 tokens per second — fast enough to make competitive coding agents feel glacial. But the real story...
“I once believed I could help the people building AI get ahead of the problems it would create. This week confirmed my slow realization that OpenAI seems to have stopped asking the questions I’d joined...