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Two interesting examples of inference speed as a flagship feature of LLM services today. First, Cerebras announced two new monthly plans for their extremely high speed hosted model service: Cerebras Code Pro ($50/month, 1,000 messages a day) and Cerebras Code Max ($200/month...

Deep Think in the Gemini app Google released Gemini 2.5 Deep Think this morning, exclusively to their Ultra ($250/month) subscribers: It is a variation of the model that recently achieved the gold-medal standard at this year's International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). Whil...

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This morning I sent out the third edition of my LLM digest newsletter for my $10/month and higher sponsors on GitHub. It included the following section headers:

• Claude Code
• Model releases in July
• Gold medal performances in the IMO
• Reverse engineering system prompts
• Tools I'm using at the moment

The newsletter is a condensed summary of highlights from the past month of my blog. I published 98 posts in July - the concept for the newsletter is that you can pay me for the version that only takes 10 minutes to read!

Here are the newsletters I sent out for June 2025 and May 2025, if you want a taste of what you'll be getting as a sponsor. New sponsors instantly get access to the archive of previous newsletters, including the one I sent this morning.

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Gemini Deep Think, our SOTA model with parallel thinking that won the IMO Gold Medal 🥇, is now available in the Gemini App for Ultra subscribers!! [...]

Quick correction: this is a variation of our IMO gold model that is faster and more optimized for daily use! We are also giving the IMO gold full model to a set of mathematicians to test the value of the full capabilities.

— Logan Kilpatrick, announcing Gemini Deep Think

Tags: gemini, logan-kilpatrick, llm-reasoning, ai, llms, llm-release, google, generative-ai

This week: the story of astrophysicist Charity Woodrum. Charity is an extragalactic astronomer who studies the life and death of galaxies, why some galaxies burn bright and others dim and sputter out. And in the midst of an unthinkable grief in her personal life, she discove...

A South Carolina ghost story is a harbinger of hurricanes and a window into history. All this week, the Atlas Obscura Podcast is hitting the sand, and taking a tour of the world’s most unusual beaches.  

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Jack Weatherford is an anthropologist and historian specializing in Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep476-sc See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit questions, co...

Anthropic released two major new features for their consumer-facing Claude apps in the past couple of days. Sadly, they don't do a very good job of updating the release notes for those apps - neither of these releases came with any documentation at all beyond short announcem...

In a review of City of Angels, the 1998 Hollywood remake of Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders, Roger Ebert says:

To compare the two films is really beside the point, since “Wings of Desire” exists on its own level as a visionary and original film, and “City of Angels” exists squarely in the pop mainstream.

In his latest video, Evan Puschak leans into the vast gulf between the two films to “explore the differences in cinematic cultures and styles”. He takes a close look at the same scene in both films and what they reveal about Hollywood on the one hand and European art cinema on the other.

Tags: City of Angels · Evan Puschak · film school · movies · video · Wings of Desire

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1787: “Caroline Lucretia Herschel became the first woman to receive a salary as a scientist and hold a government position in the UK.” 2025: “Professor Michele Dougherty CBE FRS FRAS became the first woman appointed Astronomer Royal in the UK.”

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Here are a few more model releases from today, to round out a very busy July: Cohere released Command A Vision, their first multi-modal (image input) LLM. Like their others it's open weights under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial, so you need to license it (or us...

The old timers who built the early web are coding with AI like it's 1995. Think about it: They gave blockchain the sniff test and walked away. Ignored crypto (and yeah, we're not rich now). NFTs got a collective eye roll. But AI? Different story. The same folks who hand-co...

Two of the most promiscuous snack brands, Oreo and Reese’s, are teaming up to bring the eating public two new treats: the Oreo Reese’s Cookie and Reese’s Oreo Cups. 🫱 Is this… 🦋 innovation?

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The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US. “I did not write an ‘end of term’ Supreme Court review piece this year because… what’s the point? [Critiquing individual cases] feels like a guy on the Titanic complaining about the song selection from the band.”

Qwen just released their sixth model(!) of this July called Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct - listed as Qwen3-Coder-Flash in their chat.qwen.ai interface. It's 30.5B total parameters with 3.3B active at any one time. This means it will fit on a 64GB Mac - and even a 32GB Mac if...

Entertaining YouTuber Benn Jordan built a setup to record and analyze bird sounds, songs, and calls. He used it to record a starling who has mastered mimicking all sorts of manmade and artificial sounds in its environment, including things like the default iPhone camera sh...

Motherfucking windfarms. In Europe, they’re called Royale with Breeze. (I stole that joke from Bluesky.)

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In 2009, novelist Haruki Murakami controversially accepted the Jerusalem prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society in the aftermath of Israeli military action in Gaza. In his acceptance speech, he related a story about something he keeps in mind while writing: “Be...