I don't understand why they don't allow different domains. "gmail.com" is running low on email addresses; if they added more domains, they'd be able to really scale up their email offering.

Branding and marketing. It makes it crystal clear how popular it is.

And gmail.com isn't "running low" on addresses, I don't even know what that means. Whatever TLD you'd prefer, just append it to your username instead. Exact same amount of uniqueness.

I use Chrome and have 1500 tabs on my MacBook Pro. I'm a packrat.

Mozilla gets what, a billion dollars a year from Google to be the default search engine for Firefox? What do they need more money for?

You are describing Searle's "Chinese Room argument"[1] to some extent.

It's been discussed a lot recently, but anyone who has interacted with LLMs at a deeper level will tell you that there is something there; not sure if you'd call it "intelligence" or what. There is plenty of evidence to the contrary too. I guess this is a long-winded way of saying "we don't really know what's going on"...

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/

If an LLM was intelligent, wouldn't it get bored?

Why should it?

Unlike the rest of us who age 12 months every year ...

It's funny how they don't compare themselves to Gemini and Claude anymore.

Ask Gemini to summarize it? Or maybe NotebookLM to turn it into a 10-minute podcast? :-)

"Given that we've only scanned 300 out of 20,000 submissions"

Fuck! 20,000!!

> We were cautious to only run after each model’s training cutoff dates for the LLM models

Grok is constantly training and/or it has access to websearch internally.

You cannot backtest LLMs. You can only "live" test them going forward.

Via api you can turn off websearch internally. We provided all the models with their own custom tools that only provided data up to the date of the backtest.

But Grok is internally training on Tweets etc. continuously.

Not a single mention of any benchmarks or performance.

They say 4x more, but not 4x faster, 4x more memory, but not 4x more than what!?

4x more units, clearly

yea, they "officially" dont release benchmarks even if we asked the AWS reps