How to pronounce “opus” in English

But Kimi K2 Thinking and Kimi K2 is a model that is very popular. People say that has very good creative writing and also in doing some softwareClaude Opus 4.5 versus whatever model at the time was like, just crushed all the issues that it had from building in June and July and like, it might be a

We felt that there was demand both for a really powerful model, you know, and you that might be a little bit slowerAnd Opus, like a magnum opus is a large work, Opus was the largest, smartest model at the time.

That was the model that he set up himself and wrote many quartets before 1772.But Opus 20 totally changed everything and on so many levels.And we're talking about democracy a lot these days.

happening. Um, the establishment back then, there was a guy named Ernest Meissonier and he was the richest, most wealthy French painter of the day. Very exacting, battle painting. And hismagnum opus was this painting, Friedland. It took him 10 years to make and he, he hated the impressionists because of their rough sketches. And he was very exacting. And hewas known for painting horses in their, in all their glory. And so what he did, he was very wealthy, he had, he built, a, a railway station in his house and he had a train on

- You see the labs put different energy into what they're trying to do, and I think to demarcate the point in time when we're recording this, the hypeover Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 model has been absolutely insane, which is just... I mean, I've used it and built stuff in the last few weeks, and it's... it's almost gotten to the point where it feels like a bit ofa meme in terms of the hype. And it's kind of funny because this is very organic, and then if we go back a few months

We felt that there was demand both for a really powerful model, you know, and you that might be a little bit slowerWhen is Claude Opus 3.5 coming out?

And I'm like, because when I talk to him in 2004 or '03 or whenever it was, he directly-- he told me himself how much of an influence Rubber Roomand the Opus production was for him.And then Kevin was like, that's kind of funny that you mentioned that because I gave LP a Rubber Room demo back in like '95.

This is the first time where the quartet really became a totally democratic thing.You'll hear Opus 20, Number 2 beginning, shockingly-- and I know for us, the shock is somewhat tempered.Up until this point, string quartet playing was tune, diva, backup band.

And we're in dance mode.And in this one opus, Opus 20, Haydn returns to all of that.

And of course, instead of being a subordinate of his or someone that was in need of something, he actually became a benefactorto this grand opus.And that's how the project actually came to its inception as it is now.

left the White House Now Edmund Morris has dedicated his life to the biographical Craft um in addition towriting this Opus on on the on President Roosevelt he's also o written and acclaimed biography of of Ronald Reaganthe so-called Dutch book as well as a biography on Beethoven so with that please join me in in welcoming Edmund to

mathematician uh uh decided to u uh set it straight and so what he did is is uhbefore writing his magnum opus on on on what he wanted to do he wanted to redo mathematics all to sort of you know tostart mathematics from the beginning and prove everything from very simple actions and all of mathematics espec

seven months ago. And the models have only gotten better.We're up to Claude Opus 4.7 now, right?Two generations later. In the next decade, is it plausible that we'll have AI agents that can automate most coding?

We felt that there was demand both for a really powerful model, you know, and you that might be a little bit sloweris about as good as Opus 3, the largest old model.

So here's one exception, when I approached the subject.So "Treasured Lands" is my opus magnum.

And this is over 100 years ago he was saying this."Every page of this six Opus 20 quartets is of historic and aesthetic importance.There's perhaps no other opus in the history of instrumental music which has achieved so much and so quietly."

"Every page of this six Opus 20 quartets is of historic and aesthetic importance.There's perhaps no other opus in the history of instrumental music which has achieved so much and so quietly."Back to the point, many of you never heard these before, never mind heard of them.

So what happens to begin this quartet signifies a really cataclysmic change in what the quartet could be.So here's the opening of Opus 20, Number 2.[MUSIC - HAYDN STRING QUARTET, OP.

And that's what gives humor its power.She's working on a 500-page opus about her life in Oakland in the '70s, when punks took over from the hippies.

they give the software engineers a two-hour take-home exam, and they see how they do, and that's part of how they decide who to hire.They gave this same two-hour exam to Opus 4.5, and it scored higher than any human in history.Right. That was already

it only, only was a file and no file ending." So I checked out the header of the file and it found that it was,like, opus so I used ffmpeg to convert it and then I wanted to use whisper but it didn't had it installed. But then I found theOpenAI key and just used Curl to send the file to OpenAI to translate and here I am.

- They're secretive in terms of communication; they're not secretive in terms of the technical reports that describe how their models work. They're still open on that front. And we should alsosay, on the Claude Opus 4.5 hype, there's the layer of somethingbeing the darling of the X echo chamber, on the Twitter echo chamber, and the actual amount of people that are using the

And I actually think that's a valid argument.I think it would be cool to make Opus oatmeal, or single serve, add hot water kind of thing.

Like so. OK, go!Faster, opus.Stop. If I say engage, I need you to put your arms very quickly around the guy or the girl on your left

A few. Yeah, so there's some hardcore people.And how many people who have no idea what Opus 20 Haydn means?OK, cool, yeah. That's about what I was expecting.

And we're in dance mode.This is Haydn, Opus 20, Number 2.

And I think that's behind a lot of the things that people are worried about.And the bad actor scenario is imagine we have ChatGPT-8 or Claude Opus 7, and it's this incredible oracle that can

all of your stuff, if you let it, talks to you through Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage, and whatever else messaging client.Uses whatever AI model you like, including Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3 Codex,all to do stuff for you. Many people are calling this one of the biggest moments in the recent history of AI, since the launch of

But Kimi K2 Thinking and Kimi K2 is a model that is very popular. People say that has very good creative writing and also in doing some softwarewhere it took a smaller model further than pre-training a larger model like Claude Opus 4.5. So I wouldn't say pre-training scaling is dead, it's just that there are other more attractive ways to scale

with an updated version just now released, and then also Claude 3.5 Haiku was released.Okay, can you explain the difference between Opus, Sonnet and Haiku, and how we should think about the different versions?- Yeah, so let's go back to March when we first released these three models.

We felt that there was demand both for a really powerful model, you know, and you that might be a little bit slowerBut it increased its intelligence to the point where it was smarter than the original Opus 3 model, especially for code but also just in general.

Even Gabriel García Márquez said the book inspired him to write his magnum opus, “Cien años de soledad,” “One Hundred Years of Solitude.”

and was all up in my head about-- I had a 7,000 word opus all worked out, how the future of the works means that you're going to have

And so we came up with this plan, both for students and audiences, that we would go through a piece.In this case, we're going to play Opus 20 Number 2.So please stay for the end, because you'll get a whole performance.

So this year, a lot has happened.In March, Claude 3, Opus, Sonnet, Haiku were released, then Claude 3.5 Sonnet in July,with an updated version just now released, and then also Claude 3.5 Haiku was released.

It was an identity that researchers gave to a couple different AIs as an experiment– including Claude-3 Opus, one of the best Large Language Models at the time.

But yes, we're going to be doing the entire Mendelssohn Opus 80, and this is one of the staples of the string quartet

And to go back to a quote from Henry James, which was from his magnum opus, "Principles of Psychology," written over 100 years ago.

And so the theme song, we actually thought the "Tristesse," which is Opus 10, Number 3, etudes, is such a beautiful melody, which I played second to the last.

this is pianist alesio ba who will play for us another short work by brahs one of his Opus 10 bads and in the true

this questioning, skeptical attitude about what to believe as a magnum opus, or as a writing project, he shook his head and gave me a bit of pathos and said, "What are you

AI automating software engineering.And we saw back in November, I think, when Claude Opus 4.5 was released, Anthropic took this model, and whenever they're trying to hire a software engineer,they give the software engineers a two-hour take-home exam, and they see how they do, and that's part of how they decide who to hire.

Okay, here's the growth rates over time.That decides they want to do harm, and they have access to a jailbroken version of GPT-8 or Opus 7.

Okay, here's the growth rates over time.And they ask the model, you know, this oracle by GPT-8, by Opus 7, these are going to be able to do anything the

- Claude's. - Yeah. You know, when I, when I built it in the beginning, my agent had no personality.It was just... It was Claude Code. It's like this sycophantic opus, very friendly. And I... When you talk to a friend on WhatsApp, they don'ttalk like Claude Code. So I wanted...

ago, we can see the release date and the notes, as Gemini 3 from Google got released, and it seemed like themarketing and just, like, wow factor of that release was super high. But then at the end of November, Claude Opus 4.5 was released andthe hype has been growing, but Gemini 3 was before this. And it kind of feels like people don't really talk about it as much, even though when it came out, everybody was like, this

explaining things and I trust that it has this kind of background of knowledge and it's simple. And the Gemini app has gotten a lot better and-It's good for those sorts of things. And then for code and any sort of philosophical discussion, I use Claude Opus 4.5. Also always withextended thinking. Extended thinking and inference time scaling is just a way to make the models marginally smarter. And I will always

at this macro level, which I think is another way of thinking about the programming process.Also, we should say that Claude Code just seems to be somehow a better utilization of Claude Opus 4.5.- It's a good side-by-side for people to do. You can have Claude Code open, you can have Cursor open, you can have VS Code open, and you can select the same models on all of them—

But Kimi K2 Thinking and Kimi K2 is a model that is very popular. People say that has very good creative writing and also in doing some softwareis it gonna be financially worth it? And I think we'll slowly push it out as AI solves more compelling tasks, so like the likes of Claude Opus 4.5,