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➡️ All Quiet on the AI Frontier

For the last couple of years, all the frontier labs have collectively been churning out bigger and better models on a near weekly basis. However, following a series of high profile cybersecurity incidents involving frontier models, OpenAI have announced they are pausing their frontier model training to focus on alignment and safety.

This kind of unilateral action is admirable, if they stick to it. It’ll be interesting to see how the rest of the industry responds and whether OpenAI will start putting the pressure on other labs to follow suit.

➡️ OpenRouter Earns its Stripes

For those wanting to try out a range of LLMs or switch models on the fly, OpenRouter has quickly become the default, having been called “the Stripe of AI” by its founder. Clearly he was manifesting something with that quote, as the company announced that it will soon become part of Stripe itself, having been acquired for over $7 billion.

Given this turn of events, some of our engineers have optimistically started to refer to Fuzzy Labs as “the Greggs of MLOps”.

Source: Stripe

➡️ 999 Problems but AI Ain’t One

The UK’s non-emergency 101 line is vital for people in all kinds of situations where they need non-urgent support from emergency services. Unfortunately, it’s also the kind of place people call to help find a missing umbrella, compare electricity tariffs or even order a late night pizza. To separate out the genuinely needy from the misguided, the government announced this week that the service would have an AI front-desk, triaging the callers and streamlining the service for those in need.

How the public responds to the service remains to be seen, but if more time is spent on helping truly vulnerable people, it can only be a good thing.

Source: Gov UK

➡️ Average Individual, Heroic Effort

A San Francisco billboard promises “the leading chat interface powered by AI.” So is it the latest offering from Anthropic or OpenAI? Not even close. In this case, AI stands for “Average Individual” and it’s an art installation that’s caught the public imagination, where a San Francisco artist is typing every reply by hand, working for hours at a time for weeks on end.

That kind of dedication is not just peak human performance, it’s load-bearing.

Source: Not the Bee

➡️ A Tale of Two Coalitions

The AI world now has two rival clubs. China’s got WAICO, headquartered in Shanghai with the Global South doing most of the signing. The US has Pax Silica, built around allies, trusted vendors and friendly chip supply chains. While both offer different visions of the future of AI, it’s become clear this week that those visions are incompatible, with the US drafting a letter warning countries against trying to join both.

This puts Kazakhstan in the spotlight as the only country currently set to join both parties. Which side will they pick?

Source: Reuters