A 13B Model From 1930, the Dead AGI Clause, and Copilot's Nine-X
Today: a 13B language model that has never heard of the internet, the AGI clause finally getting a death certificate, and GitHub Copilot's quiet 9x price hike on Claude. Plus where local coding models actually sit on Terminal-Bench, why GPT-5.5 is cheaper than Opus 4.7 on real PRs, David Silver's $1.1B AlphaZero-for-everything raise, and a database that took nine seconds to disappear.
Talkie: a 13B vintage LM trained only on pre-1931 text
Simon Willison on the now-dead OpenAI/Microsoft AGI clause
GitHub Copilot's 9x effective price hike on Claude models
Local 27\u201332B coding models hit…
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