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2025: The year in LLMs

This comprehensive review examines major developments in large language models throughout 2025. The post covers numerous significant trends, from reasoning models and AI agents to coding tools and image generation breakthroughs.

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Subj: Fwd: The survival of Swiss watches

---------- Forwarded message ----------

In April 1984, two entrepreneurs were sleeping in a car park in Basel, Switzerland. Each morning they would wash at the train station before heading to their display booth at the Basel watch fair...

Their stand was deliberately sparse — they only had two models to showcase, so instead they focused on pitching to industry leaders...

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Software engineers should be a little bit cynical
By Sean Goedecke
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$ curl -X POST https://podread.app/api/v1/episodes \

-H "Authorization: Bearer sk_..." \

-d '{"url": "https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-secret-behind-japans-railways"}'

HTTP/1.1 201 Created

{ "id": "ep_aB3xK9…" }

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$ curl https://podread.app/api/v1/mpp/narrations

HTTP/1.1 402 Payment Required

WWW-Authenticate: Payment

realm="podread.app",

amount=750000

$ npx mppx pay

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{ "narration_id": "nar_aB3xK9…" }

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