It would take something miraculous for the direction to reverse towards Europe. People have been complaining about European tech, economy, and freedoms (as in free speech) for decades now. Things have become worse on all of these fronts.

I think the AI act is a great example here. The EU came up with regulation for an emerging technology that basically killed the chance for Europe to compete. Lots of people disagreed with this criticism when the act was debated, but it turns out the critics were right. Europe will be buying AI services from elsewhere because Europe wasn't able to compete.

This entire way of thinking in Europe would need to reverse for there to be a chance that the brain drain changes course.

On the flip side, with the US cutting funding for scientific research, and increasing persecution of minorities within the US, I know a whole bunch of qualified scientists/researchers who are either moving to or actively hunting for a position in the EU

Really not many people outside far right proponents of hate speech (and more recently MAGA shills) have been complaining about free speech in Europe. Yes, there are laws against holocaust denial for specific historical reasons. The UK also had regulations on some Irish republican organisations access to TV, but not other forms of expression. And yes most European jurisdictions accept that speech can cause harm and try to balance this against free speech. But there is really no case that nonviolent political speech is -- in practice -- discriminated against in EU and UK.

On the IT and AI services: Europe hasn't really failed to compete in innovation, as much as scale of operation. That might change if we have a security imperative to protect our own markets for these things against an increasingly hostile US.

I've seen this before, but that was with the small hodgepodge mytho-merge-mix-super-mix models that weren't very good. I've not seen this in any recent models, but I've already not used Claude much.

I think it makes sense that the LLM treats it as user input once it exists, because it is just next token completion. But what shouldn't happen is that the model shouldn't try to output user input in the first place.

Whisking can make up for the boringness of a dry sauna (hitting yourself with some birch branches).

Well, not the branches as such but their leaves.

And the smaller Gemma 4 models can do audio too.

The Qwen models are also really good.

Rent doesn't work that way... yet. Imagine if it did though, people would be arguing:

"Well, you're not expected to be able to live in that home the entire month that you paid for!"

Can't you do that on OpenRouter? You can set a system prompt there. Is that insufficient for what you had in mind?

They are talking about the chat template and not the system prompt. With current gen models, the system prompt is only part of a larger pretext that is passed to the model at the start of the "chat". The models are trained on a specific chat template with things like tool lists, reasoning budget, special feature flags and the "system prompt" formatted in a certain template.

Qwen 3.5 Plus was closed weights too. It was supposedly the same model as Qwen3.5 397B, just with 1 million context size and only available on the API and their website.

I can't imagine Qwen3.6 Plus would be more expensive than the 3.5 Plus model. That was $2.4/m output initially and was reduced to $1.56/m at <256k context ($1.95/m above).

I've taken the numbers from the alibaba pricing page which says $2-$6

How often does your browser freeze up when you open a webpage? How often does your phone browser dump its memory when you switch to another tab and then switch back? Eg if you were writing a post and opened another tab to go check some fact then the post in the original tab gets deleted.

Because that's what happens if you use an old cheap phone in the modern day.

I even had a phone that would occasionally just crash when on a heavy website and the onscreen keyboard popped up. That was not at all infuriating!!! Especially when it would crash when I try to refine a Google search.

Old cheap phone is not the same as modern low end.

Because the phones stop working well? I write part of a post, open another tab to go look up some information, come back to the post and what I've written is gone, because the memory got dumped. That's the reality of using an old cheap phone.