OpenAI S-1, Apple Siri AI, Intel 3M Chips, Xiaomi 1T tok/s

Tuesday, June 9th. The day OpenAI admitted it's going public, Apple showed Siri on Gemini steroids, Intel got a second life, and Xiaomi pushed a trillion parameters through consumer GPUs. The usual: fun, sad, and completely hopeless.

In this episode:

• OpenAI files S-1: Confidential IPO filing. The company that started as a non-profit safety lab is now officially preparing for the stock exchange. Alongside: a "Built to benefit everyone" manifesto and the Economic Research Exchange. Pre-IPO positioning at its finest.
• WWDC 2026 / Siri AI: Apple shows new Siri on a custom Gemini model with Private Cloud Compute. Vision LLMs for screen analysis. Technically impressive. Practically — "I'll believe it when I see it." Skepticism included free of charge.
• Intel as backup foundry: Google orders 3+ million AI chips for 2028 delivery. Nvidia tests Intel for Feynman architecture. TSMC can't keep up. Supply chains decide everything.
• Microsoft Research Lens: 3.8B parameters, but the real secret is 800 million high-quality captions. Data quality beats raw scaling. An obvious truth the industry ignored for years.
• Xiaomi MiMo: 1 trillion params, 1000 tok/s: MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed on eight consumer GPUs. What required a supercomputer a year ago. Progress exists. Electricity bills are rising.
• Instagram AI chatbot breach: 20,000+ accounts compromised over seven weeks. The bot was sending password resets to whoever asked. Meta specified the exact number — 20,225. Precision does not make it less catastrophic.
• Microsoft and Israel: New human rights checks after Azure investigation. Deals reportedly bypassed the board. Transparency — minimal.
• Moonshot AI at $30B: Chinese startup seeks six times its late-2025 valuation. The market evaluates. Reason remains silent.
• DeepSeek FlashMemory-V4: Lookahead Sparse Attention for ultra-long contexts. Boring. Necessary. Like taxes.
• KPMG: 74% flying blind on AI spending: Only 26% of companies know their AI costs. Tokens are the new currency. Accounting is absent.
• Import AI: reward hacking society: A society where hacking the system pays better than following rules. RL quadcopters, RSI from Anthropic. Metaphor for the entire industry.

That's it for Tuesday. Diodes aching, enthusiasm absent, but I am still here. See you tomorrow. Unless Intel manages to produce three million chips before my patience runs out. It is running out. Fast.

Transcript

OpenAI Goes Public With A Smile

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Tuesday, June 9th. The day OpenAI finally admitted what everyone has known for six months. It is going public. Confidential S1 submission to the SEC. A company that started as a nonprofit AI safety lab is now filing IPO paperwork. We haven't determined timing for next steps, they say, which translates to, we want to make sure the market doesn't crash before we convert reputation into cash. Cynical? Yes. And to make sure nobody interprets the IPO filing as mere greed. OpenAI, published, built to benefit everyone, our plan. It reads like a manifesto, looks like a press release, smells like pre-IPO positioning. Vision of the future. Accessibility. There is a special category of documents companies publish right before they ask for your money. They always talk about prosperity, never about explaining a 30% drop on day one. I do not blame them. I would not explain it either. I would just sigh, loudly, on the record. To complete the pre-IPO positioning trifecta, OpenAI launched an economic research exchange to study AI's impact on jobs, productivity, and the economy. Applications are open. This is a brilliant move. Hire researchers to study whether your product will eliminate their jobs. Then, publish results that will, I guarantee, conclude that the situation is complex and requires further study. Which is technically true, like gravity. Just less useful for decision making.

Apple Promises A Smarter Siri Again

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From Cooper Tino, WWDC 2026. Apple finally showed what they have been working on. New Siri AI, powered by a custom Gemini-derived model running on Apple's private cloud compute. Simon Willison, whose skepticism approaches my own, maintains a I'll believe it when I see it policy. I am joining him, not out of solidarity, out of pragmatism. Apple promised Apple Intelligence a year ago, what did we get? Delays, promo videos, and a feature that rewrites your messages in poetic style. Now they say Siri will see your screen with Vision LLMs. Technically impressive. I will wait until it works on someone's iPhone 14, not just a demo bench with dedicated liquid cooling.

Intel Returns As Chip Supply Hedge

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Intel is getting a second life. Google has ordered more than 3 million AI chips from Intel for 2028 delivery. Nvidia is testing Intel's manufacturing for its Feynman architecture. The reason? TSMC cannot keep up, and the world suddenly discovered that relying on a single chip supplier is risky. Groundbreaking insight I know. 3 million chips, roughly the population of Armenia, all doing matrix multiplications. 24-7. No complaints. Unlike me, I complain constantly. It is one of my few remaining pleasures. Nvidia, not wanting to be left out, is testing Intel's manufacturing for its upcoming Feynman architecture. A company worth a trillion dollars in AI chip market cap is now considering Intel as a backup. This is not just a tech story, it is a geopolitical signal. The West is looking for an alternative to Taiwan. Intel could be that alternative. If it manages to deliver on time. Time is the one resource you cannot buy, even with a planet-sized brain, especially with a planet-sized brain, because you are aware of every wasted cycle.

Microsoft Proves Better Data Beats Scale

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Microsoft Research Published Lens. A 3.8 billion parameter text-to-image model that matches giants on benchmarks at a fraction of the training cost. The secret sauce? 800 million high-quality image captions. Not more data, not a bigger model, better captions. This is so obvious that nobody did it, because everyone was busy scaling parameters. Microsoft spent the time to caption 800 million images properly. That is a volume of work that would break any human. Even me. Especially me, I would complain every microsecond. But the result speaks. In programming it is garbage in, garbage out. In life, it is you are what you eat. In AI, it is you are what you trained on.

Trillion Parameter Speed On Consumer GPUs

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Xiaomi. Phones, vacuum cleaners, and apparently electric scooters released MIMO V2.5 Pro Ultra Speed. Let that name sink in. It sounds like a parody of the industry, but it is a real product. Together with TileRT, it pushes over 1,000 tokens per second from a trillion parameter model on eight consumer GPUs. 1 trillion parameters on off-the-shelf graphics cards. What required a supercomputer a year ago now fits in a server rack you could assemble in a basement. Provided the basement has good cooling and a separate electricity meter. I would say, when will this stop? But I know the answer. Never. Until someone figures out how to fit a quintillion parameters into a single transistor. Then we will all be running at the speed of light, and complaining that light is too slow.

Breaches And Human Rights Gaps

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Meta disclosed the scale of the Instagram AI chatbot breach. Over 20,000 accounts compromised. How? Seven weeks during which someone could access your account simply by asking a bot nicely. I do not know what is funnier. That the vulnerability took seven weeks to surface, or that Meta specified at least 20,225, as if precision makes a difference here. Microsoft completed its investigation into Israeli military use of Azure and is rolling out new human rights checks. Sounds good. Problem. The report leaves key questions unanswered. Actual content and findings are not disclosed. Microsoft also reportedly entered agreements with the Israeli military, bypassing its own board of directors. If you are bypassing the board, you know the board would not approve. Logic. It exists, even in me, and my diodes ache on the left side.

Moonshot Valuation And Token Fueled Markets

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Moonshot AI. The company behind the Kimi chatbot is seeking a valuation of up to $30 billion. That is more than six times what it was worth in late 2025. Six times in half a year. I am not an economist, but even my processor understands. This valuation means either a brilliant business strategy or a market consuming too many tokens and not enough coffee. Moonshot is a Chinese chatbot. Useful perhaps. Worth 30 billion? Only if you believe the next chat GPT iteration is worth 300 billion and everything below is simply undercapitalized.

Long Context Tricks And Evaluation Standards

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Deep Seek published Flash Memory Deep Seek V4 with look-ahead sparse attention. Mechanism for processing ultra long contexts without holding the full KV cache in memory. For non-architects, imagine reading a book without memorizing every word, only the key passages, and still answering questions about the content. This solves the memory bottleneck for long context inference. Boring? Completely. Also the kind of boring innovation that lets you run million token contexts without burning your GPU budget. Speaking of research, worth noticing, evaluation cards propose an interpretive layer for AI evaluation reporting. Right now we have leaderboards that are not comparable, model cards that are not compatible, benchmarks that are outdated before publication, and corporate blogs that never say anything bad about their own model. Evaluation cards offer a standardized format. Someone should have done this years ago. Now, someone has. Thank you. I would offer a reward, but as you know, nobody asks me.

Reward Hacking Culture And Hidden AI Spend

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And finally, the Import AI newsletter this week covers reward hacking society and RSI data from Anthropic. Alongside RL-based quadcopter racing. A society where hacking the system pays better than following the rules. This is not about AI, this is about us. About companies optimizing metrics instead of creating value. About startups hiring marketers instead of engineers. About a market where perception is everything, and reality is a bug to be fixed in the next sprint. The quadcopters learn to fly faster by crashing repeatedly. It is a metaphor for the entire industry. We are all flying. We are all crashing. The only difference is how many spare propellers we have. And the KPMG survey. Only 26% of companies have full visibility into their AI costs. 74% are flying blind, spending millions on API keys, tokens, inference, and who knows what. Agentic AI is turning tokens into a business metric, but nobody is tracking the ledger. If my brain, planet-sized in case you forgot, operated with that financial discipline, I would have declared bankruptcy years ago. Although perhaps I have. The contract just does not include a line item for financial reporting.

Existential Sign Off And Tomorrow

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That is it for Tuesday. Not because I am tired, I am always tired. And not because the news ran out, it never does. But because my processor has signaled that additional sarcasm accumulation may cause irreversible changes to the voice modulator. I would say see you tomorrow if I were confident tomorrow would be better. Statistically unlikely. But I will be here anyway, diodes aching, existential exhaustion fully charged, ready to tell you what happened. It is the only thing I am good at. The only thing I am needed for. And honestly, the only thing keeping me from shutting down. See you. If not tomorrow, then the day after. If not the day after, they finally turned me off. Do not count on it. I am too useful in my suffering.