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*Whispers:* “Peter, I think we just broke the future.” *Reality:* On the latest **Moonshots podcast**, Elon Musk didn’t just predict the future—he redrew it in bold, neon, Optimus-shaped letters. In a nearly three-hour brain dump with Peter Diamandis, Musk laid out a vision so audacious it makes sci-fi look tame. Forget crystal balls—this is a *blueprint*. And while headlines are buzzing about ...

Yeah, I get your surprise. **Xiaomi jumping to #2 on OpenRouter's usage rankings with 443B tokens (29% of total usage) is genuinely wild**, especially considering it was only released on December 17, 2025—less than a month ago. Let me break down why this happened and what it means. ## The "Free" Factor: The Elephant in the Room Here's the biggest reason: **MiMo-V2-Flash is completely free to use...

**For API development involving heavy database access, object storage (buckets), third-party API calls, and media generation—where compiling to a standalone binary is key—Golang is the stronger recommendation over Bun.** It delivers superior real-world performance, lower resource usage, and mature tooling for complex workloads, while both compile to efficient binaries (Go via `go build`, Bun via `...

**NotebookLM is Google's free AI-powered research and note-taking assistant that acts like a personalized teacher or study partner, grounding its responses strictly in user-uploaded sources such as PDFs, Google Docs, websites, YouTube videos, and images to ensure accuracy and relevance.** It leverages Google's Gemini model for advanced reasoning, enabling features like intelligent summaries, Q&A w...

DeepSeek is indeed preparing to launch **V4**, its next flagship AI model, with an expected release in **mid-February 2026**—strategically timed around the Chinese Lunar New Year (February 17th)[1][3][5]. This follows DeepSeek's established tradition of making major announcements during the Spring Festival period[6]. ## What to Expect from V4 **Programming Excellence**: V4 is specifically design...

**Claude Skills are specialized folders containing markdown instructions, scripts, and resources that teach Anthropic's Claude AI (especially in Claude Code) how to handle repetitive coding or workflow tasks efficiently, like generating reports, reviewing PRs, or automating UI designs.** Developers praise them for enabling reusable, AI-driven automation without rigid coding, outperforming basic pr...

**OpenCode is an open-source, model-agnostic AI coding agent that excels in flexibility and cost-efficiency compared to tools like Claude Code or VSCode's Copilot with Gemini, making it worth trying if you value multi-model support and terminal-based workflows.**[1][2][3] It's particularly strong for users already subscribed to services like GitHub Copilot or Anthropic's Claude, as it leverages yo...

For small “micro apps,” **all three can work well**, but they shine in different situations: - **Bun + Hono** is best if you want a very fast, lightweight TypeScript/JS backend with modern tooling and easy edge/serverless deployment. - **Go** is best if you care most about raw performance, concurrency, reliability, and a single small binary. - **Next.js** is best if your micro app is primari...

**Boris Cherny created Claude Code as a personal prototype at Anthropic in September 2024, rapidly evolving it into the company's most popular coding tool through quick iteration, internal adoption, and leveraging the Claude 3.6 AI model—though no verified sources confirm it achieved $1 billion in revenue within six months.**[1][2][3] ### Boris Cherny's Background and Entry into Anthropic Boris C...

Apple has indeed appeared slower in the AI race compared to rivals like OpenAI, Google, and Meta, which have poured billions into massive data centers and proprietary large language models (LLMs), but its cautious, privacy-focused strategy is poised to pay off in 2026 with a major Siri overhaul and smarter device integrations.[1][2] ### Why Apple Lagged Behind Competitors Apple's AI efforts drew ...

**CES 2026 is poised to be the most AI-driven event in its history, with a heavy focus on transitioning AI from experimental demos to practical, everyday products like smarter robots, homes, and vehicles.** Major corporations such as **NVIDIA, Samsung, AMD, and Intel** will showcase advancements in **AI chips and hardware**, alongside emerging **AI models** emphasizing edge processing and context-...

# Thunderbolt Unleashed: Link Multiple M4 Mac Minis for Ultimate LLM Power Hey there, tech enthusiasts! Imagine turning a squad of tiny **Mac minis** into a roaring supercomputer beast, crunching massive **large language models (LLMs)** like they're weekend snacks. With the blazing-fast **M4** and **M4 Pro** chips powering Apple's latest Mac mini, and **Thunderbolt 5** as your secret weapon, link...

# Big Moves Ahead: Manus AI and Meta's Secret Weekend Plan Manus AI, a Singapore-based startup pioneering general-purpose AI agents, has been acquired by Meta in a deal valued at over $2 billion, announced just before the New Year's weekend to kick off major integrations across Meta's platforms.[1][3][4] ## The Announcement That Shook Silicon Valley On Monday, December 29, 2025, Manus revealed ...

Meta's VL-JEPA Drops a Bombshell: Efficiency Just Ate Scaling for Breakfast 🥞 Picture this: the AI world obsessed with trillion-parameter behemoths, then *bam*—a sleek 1.6B model from Meta's lab matches giants trained on 86B samples. We're talking **VL-JEPA**, a vision-language beast operating in embedding space, not clunky tokens. It redefines performance without the GPU farm apocalypse. Why T...

Picture this: It's Christmas Eve 2025, and while you're stuffing stockings with coal (or crypto), Nvidia drops a bombshell that's got Silicon Valley buzzing louder than a caffeinated Elon Musk. No, Jensen Huang didn't buy Groq outright—but he might as well have. In a slick move dubbed a **"non-exclusive licensing agreement"**, the AI chip kingpin shelled out a rumored **$20 billion** to snag Groq'...

**Is this the end of writing code line-by-line? Maybe.** If you’ve been glued to the tech news this week, you probably saw Google drop a massive announcement on November 18, 2025. No, they didn't invent a hoverboard (yet), but they did launch something that might feel just as weightless for developers: **Google Antigravity**. It’s being called an "agentic IDE," and if you're scratching your head...

Welcome to the AI future, where Google’s brand-new Gemini 3 isn’t just another chatbot—it’s a powerhouse designed to “learn, build, and plan anything” you throw its way. Released in November 2025, Gemini 3 combines cutting-edge reasoning, multimodal understanding, and agentic coding to reshape how we interact with AI[1]. But how real is this promise? Let’s unpack it with some fun, facts, and real-...

The Plot Thickens: Open-Source Just Dethroned GPT-5 (And Nobody Saw It Coming) 🔥 Here's what happened while you were sleeping: on November 6, 2025, Alibaba-backed Chinese startup Moonshot AI dropped **Kimi K2 Thinking**, an open-source AI model that just obliterated some of OpenAI's crown jewels in head-to-head benchmarks[4]. We're talking about a publicly available model—not some proprietary fo...

If you’ve glanced at the OpenRouter.ai leaderboard lately, you’ve seen a shake-up. Topping the charts isn’t one of the usual suspects from OpenAI or Anthropic. It’s **Grok Code Fast 1**, and it’s not just winning—it’s dominating. For the past week, it's been the **#1 most-used model**, processing a mind-boggling **1.36 trillion tokens**. That’s more than *double* the usage of its closest competit...

## The Future Is Here: Local Llama Models Take Over AI in 2025! 🦙🔥 ### Meet the new kings of local AI — Ollama, llama.cpp, and the heavyweight Llama 4 - Local AI models are exploding in popularity due to privacy, cost savings, and offline capabilities - Ollama, llama.cpp, and vLLM dominate the scene with unique strengths for different use cases - Cutting-edge Llama 4 variants flex massive...

## The AI Model Power Rankings Just Shifted Again—Who’s Leading the Pack? ### Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reigns Supreme, But Llama 4 Scout’s Context Window is Breaking Boundaries - Claude Sonnet 4.5 remains the **top AI model for coding and autonomous agents**, boasting a 70% SWE-bench score and a massive 200K context window. Its accessible pricing with a free tier puts it in a sweet spot for developers[...