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O1 ISN'T A CHAT MODEL (AND THAT'S THE POINT)

o1 is not a chat model - it's like a report generator: give it enough context, tell it what you want outputted, and it'll often nail the solution in one shot. People often approach chat models by starting with a simple question and some context, iterating back and forth until the desired output is achieved. o1 needs as much context as possible otherwise it will just take questions at face value and won't try to pull context from the user. The most effective way to use o1 is to treat o1 like a new hire, give it as much context as possible, and focus on explaining what you want the output to be.

THANKS TO NVIDIA, THERE'S A NEW GENERATION OF PCS COMING, AND THEY'LL BE RUNNING LINUX

Nvidia's Project Digits will be powered by DGX OS, a customized Ubuntu Linux 22.04 distro. The desktop combines Nvidia's Blackwell GPU with a 20-core Grace CPU built on the Arm architecture. It can develop up to 1 petaflop of AI performance at FP4 precision and support 200-billion-parameter large language models. Nvidia's partnership with MediaTek will likely lead to a new generation of AI-powered PCs with significantly enhanced capabilities.

WORDPRESS IS IN TROUBLE

Automattic has announced that it will restrict its contributions to the open source version of WordPress - it will now put in about 45 hours a week in total, down from nearly 4,000 a week. The company is aiming to match the estimated hourly contributions of WP Engine as a response to WP Engine's legal response after actions by WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg. While usually, having the community take the lead would be fine, Mullenweg has the final say over some very important parts of the WordPress community. While it is fair for Automattic to focus on for-profit projects, Mullenweg still holds all the keys to WordPress. A fork is possible, but it will require new community-driven infrastructure.

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