@danshipper image post · 2026-09-15
A week of testing at Every: probabilities instead of words
we almost never test new foundation models but we've been testing this for ~a week @every and it's pretty wild. the kind of things that will be obviously indispensible in 6-12 months it doesn't produce words as output, it produces probabilities. so it can efficiently act as a…
Why it is here
An editor at a media company on a week of testing the model, making the point the whole column keeps returning to — that the output is a probability rather than a word, which is what lets a decision sit inside a loop. One operator's judgement, no benchmark.
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