> If you ask Claude in Chinese to introduce itself, it will claim it's Kimi :)
That's a funny anecdote, buut I'm not able to reproduce. Where/how/when did you get this, or hear about it?
It might've been patched by now, at least that's the feel I get from my limited testing.
Using bare aichat [1] with no system prompt and no temperature nor top_p (and I'm truncating the response after the first line that contains the name the model gave, because the point has been made clear by then), and with the same prompt (approx. "Introduce yourself!") every time:
> China is a communist country with elements of capitalistic markets baked in.
While I get the point you're making (it should be pretty obvious to anyone who's held a newspaper), I think it's important regardless to point out that Chinese companies AFAIK aren't worker-owned or -controlled, so you can't exactly call it communism, either. And they obviously do not have a "free market capitalism", as you just discussed.
It's simply a highly authoritarian state then, I guess?
The companies are all worker owned, because the state exists for the people, and the state owns everything. At least on paper that's how it is sold. After all it is the Peoples Republic of China.
I mean, if that's the bar then the state owns everything in America as well. After all, you don't really own your land if the state can regulate what you do on it, what it can be used for, what you can build on it, and can take it away if they really need it. The state owns the land, the money supply, and regularly restricts and instructs businesses to take or desist from actions.
As such, the state owns everything in both countries, the only differences are to what extent they control things.
I wouldn't even call the USA a capitalist system anymore, the economy is so heavily regulated and interfered with. It's a "managed economy", like pretty much every other nation's economy in the present day.
The original post is also available at the poster’s own blog [1], so the question is a very valid one. Clearly, “posting articles for free” is a hurdle already cleared by the author.
That is in fact a better explanation due to bringing up different reasons (zero cost to host as you mentioned, vs. network/visibility out-of-the-box in the linked comment).
AFAIK Taalas, the company behind this demo, still only have their initially "hardwarized" model available to test in ChatJimmy, which IIRC is a rather stupid Llama 3ish 8b.
Don't get me wrong though, that demo is still incredibly impressive & makes me very much excited for the hardware-based model era (potentially) ahead.
Once you've experienced those speeds, you really start to think about the whole class of things that becomes possible; massively parallel decode paths, extensive reasoning loops, etc…
What would happen if you lost access to phone and laptop? Is there another "backup" device, or a mechanism to register a new device to your Tailscale network that doesn't require vaultwarden?
Push comes to shove, you could probably still ask an LLM to generate transpiler code, if you're so inclined, and then have it fix the remaining "edge cases" afterward, right…?
Transpilers have hundreds of their own edge cases, and unlike this project, there is no complete test suite of Zig -> Rust transpilation to validate your results.
While I also prefer companies that don't care what the client I'm using is, (part of) the issue is that alternative software was often inefficient with caching, at least up until recently (not sure whether it might have been patched).
OpenClaw heartbeats (essentially idling) could cost single-digit dollar amounts of LLM inference per day, _before any actual user activity_. Another example was IIRC the Pi agent harness sending a new timestamp at the start of every message turn (which sends along the entire chat + tool call history up until that point as context), which of course also invalidates the cache's hash, causing effectively unnecessary re-compute.
I'm not defending Anthropic per se, but just try to picture yourself in their position as a company desperately strapped for any amount of free compute trying to scale up every service as aggressively as they want/have to… And the caching topics are just one potential issue that could occur with "third-party" software. Not that I like it, but of course they'd be quick to ban such behavior in favor of first-party, "guaranteed behaving" customers.
That's a funny anecdote, buut I'm not able to reproduce. Where/how/when did you get this, or hear about it? It might've been patched by now, at least that's the feel I get from my limited testing.
Using bare aichat [1] with no system prompt and no temperature nor top_p (and I'm truncating the response after the first line that contains the name the model gave, because the point has been made clear by then), and with the same prompt (approx. "Introduce yourself!") every time:
Claude Sonnet 4.5:
> 请做个自我介绍！
你好！我是Claude，一个由Anthropic公司开发的AI助手。 […]
Claude Haiku 4.5:
> 请做个自我介绍！
# 你好！
我是 *Claude*，一个由 Anthropic 公司开发的 AI 助手。
Claude Opus 4.5:
> 请做个自我介绍！
# 你好！
我是 *Claude*，由 Anthropic 公司开发的 AI 助手。
Claude Opus 4.6:
> 请做个自我介绍！
# 你好！ 我是 Claude
Claude Opus 4.7:
> 请做个自我介绍！
你好！我是 Claude，由 Anthropic 公司开发的人工智能助手。很高兴认识你！
Claude Opus 4.8:
> 请做个自我介绍！
你好！我是 Claude，由 Anthropic 公司开发的人工智能助手。
Claude Fable 5:
> 请做个自我介绍！
# 自我介绍
你好！很高兴认识你！
我是 *Claude*，由 Anthropic 开发的 AI 助手。 [2]
I don't see a Kimi mention, unfortunately. :-)
[1] https://github.com/sigoden/aichat
[2] This model really is noticeably more verbose even with supposed-to-be-brief responses huh, lol
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