cool but maybe i was expecting much more from both m5 ultra and the next gen so it feels somewhat underwhelming.
Hopefully m6 max is more than just a 10% improvement over m5 max
They seem to be serving it at 3x the price while also struggling with maintaining uptime on openrouter; while the vercel router advertizes even bigger speeds but has no clear uptime stats
I guess you really do have to try it at least for some time to actually know
Gpt 5.5 uses a third of the opus 4.8 tokens for the same task and scores higher. Glm 5.2 was worse in quality but used half the tokens - 5.3 is not tested yet but will be higher.
In my opinion, the coolest thing in NotebookLM is the podcast-episode-generator. Each one sounds like two people having a conversation. It's fun to listen to a podcast episode about some niche topic (e.g. nuclear isomers, or the Weyl curvature tensor) while I'm cooking or driving.
More evidence of the Smartphonification theory. Much like how all life trends towards crab, or all software towards reading mail and including a bespoke Scheme implementation, I posit that all hardware eventually becomes a smartphone.
Examples:
- the cellphone (obviously)
- my TV
- my refrigerator
- my oven
- music players
- tablet computers
- laptops (well on their way)
- cash registers->PoS sales machines
- handheld game consoles
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