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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 31/05/2025

Anthropic went from $1B ARR in December to $3B now. We are seeing completely new levels of growth for the winners in the AI race.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 12/05/2025

WSJ comments on the Finnish government's effort to stimulate the economy to fund the defense budget. I fully agree that the 52% top rate is too high, and I also agree that it is applied at a middle-class level income, capping Finland's potential to attract top talent to work in Finland.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 07/05/2025

Updated state of AI cartoon. Accurate.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 06/05/2025

The AI coding wars are heating up! Anthropic has dominated the AI coding space for the past year, so OpenAI decided to get involved to guarantee a seat in the contest. What do you think, will OpenAI be able to catch up?

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 08/04/2025

Incredibly stupid, but true: With the tariffs,Trump has also made it too costly to manufacture anything for export purposes in the US.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 08/04/2025

Kelan johtajien valintaprosessi on ollut aina mystinen.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 07/04/2025

USA represents less than 15% of all exports from China. It is entirely possible that CCP uses this opportunity to end trade with the US and invade Taiwan. They will then also cut the supply of rare earths to US, creating massive damage in the process. Trump clearly doesn't know what he's doing.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 07/04/2025

I really like these predictions.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 03/04/2025

Corsaren on X figured out how Trump came up with the tariff numbers. He simply called the US trade deficit with each trading partner a "tariff" to make the US tariffs look reciprocal. Notably, Russia did not get any tariffs.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 22/03/2025

Trump is making sure no country buys anything from the American military industrial complex anymore. Great sales pitch!

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 07/03/2025

Trump's tariffs are benefiting Tesla against competition in the US. Who's surprised?

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 06/03/2025

Veroruuvi on jo kiristetty aika lailla maksimiin. Suomessa on valitettavasti todella vähän hyvätuloisia.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 06/03/2025

Purchasing American weapons just became a major threat to the European former allies. We need to rebuild our defense industry in a hurry.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 03/03/2025

If we accept the American demand for Zelensky to give in to Trump or resign, the result is that Russia wins in both cases. They will win outright or through massive election meddling that ensues Zelensky's resignation. Europe can't accept Ukraine's capitulation. It would be a disaster.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 02/03/2025

This is a good explanation on what's going on in Trump's head, from an ex-republican US army vet.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 28/02/2025

Now we know for sure. Trump and Vance are on Putin's side, most likely against the wishes of the majority of Americans. Europe needs to make the necessary adjustments, ASAP.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 26/02/2025

What do you think? Will DOGE cut the billions in government subsidies that have played a critical role in making Elon the wealthiest person in the world?

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 25/02/2025

Why fix something that works properly?

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 24/02/2025

Today, I turn 50, and I’m feeling reflective. There are more stories I have time to write here, but here are a couple of formational moments from my teenage years that made me, me.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 23/02/2025

People found out that Grok has indeed been given instructions on censoring Elon related information.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 23/02/2025

Elon has already censored the Grok 3 question of who is the biggest misinformation spreader on X, but when you ask Grok to analyze the topic deeply, it still concludes that there's at least 80% chance that he's the biggest, with no named alternatives.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 21/02/2025

The new American leadership now insists that Ukraine invaded Russia. Sad times 😔

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 20/02/2025

Russia is putting loyal dictators in charge of Africa now that Trump is withdrawing. The future of democracy in Africa looks dim.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 20/02/2025

Elon and China's CCP working overtime to put Nazis back in charge of Germany for the first time since 1945. We must hope they don't succeed.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 19/02/2025

🌟 Europe: it's our time to shine. 🌟 Have you doomscrolled the news lately? I'm sure you've felt the same depression that I have. But now is not the right time to get depressed. A thread.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 17/02/2025

The American pre-seed funding rounds for leading AI startups are at an otherworldly level.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 16/02/2025

As we approach superintelligent AI, humanity seems to be collapsing into total chaos driven by extreme stupidity, infinite greed, and the narcissistic selfishness of the wealthiest men on the planet. Maybe machine and human intelligence are inversely correlated?

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 11/02/2025

Europe is finally waking up to the AI race!

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 11/02/2025

The researchers even put together "The Humanity's Last Exam," which they say will prove superhuman intelligence when passed. Trust me, it's going to be conquered very fast. We are the last generation of humans who represent the highest intelligence on planet Earth.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 11/02/2025

With all the new tests we create to compare AI performance to human performance, AI is taking over humans faster than ever. We are already at a point where the new benchmarks can be conquered in a matter of weeks or, at most, months. This is what a fast takeoff looks like.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 05/02/2025

I'm glad EU is waking up to the tsunami of Temu/Shein/Aliexpress low-cost products now that US decided to put a stop on it. 91% of the low-cost, low-quality trash that floods Europe comes from China, vast majority of which from these three vendors. Removing the customs exemption is a good start.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 05/02/2025

The richest man in the world is happy and proud to take away all the money, support and hope from the poorest and most vulnerable people. If we are unable to oppose this development, we let the world turn into a dystopian hellscape while science and tech are already enabling a collective utopia.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 01/02/2025

Elon is taking over the US government payment system. What could go wrong when an oligarch with selfish interests takes over the biggest money flows in the the world?

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 30/01/2025

AGI will land in 2026. We still have a chance to make it good for humanity. Anthropic's Dario Amodei wrote yesterday that AI will surpass human capabilities in practically everything by 2026 or, at the latest, 2027. This will only require continuing development at the current pace.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 30/01/2025

Use Deepseek for coding through Deepseek's own API? As one would have expected, all your secrets now belong to China.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 29/01/2025

Anthropic's Dario Amodei says that at the current trajectory, AGI is going to happen in 2026, and latest in 2027. It's getting close - the coming years will be a breathtaking chain reaction of constant disruption. darioamodei.com/on-deepseek-...

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 29/01/2025

The list of Finland's "fastest growing" tech companies based on headcount looks sad, to say the least. What do you think? Will it even turn around now that AI is ubiquitous?

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 29/01/2025

PS. This image is real. I asked this very question from ChatGPT, and it refused to answer. Censorship is not only a Chinese thing.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 29/01/2025

Did Deepseek use OpenAI to train its model? Probably, but the real issue is much bigger than that. The buzz around DeepSeek potentially using OpenAI's model to train R1 has sparked debates on what constitutes "stealing" of the proprietary LLM models' IPR. But this misses the point.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 19/01/2025

Turns out the valuation is for current circulating supply, Trump's share is now worth $56 Billion. It's a crazy world.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 19/01/2025

Donald Trump launches a crypto coin, keeps 80% of the supply to himself, and the market cap of the coin is instantly bid up in Chinese exchanges to over $10B. Trump has found a way to accept large bribes from dictators, oligarchs and mafia bosses.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 07/01/2025

Over the holidays, I developed a mind-blowingly sophisticated AI agent platform as a hobby project. Here's how it happened 👇 1/

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 11/12/2024

Tämä selittää kannanoton. Kaveri on aito kommunisti.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 07/12/2024

The modern IT infrastructure has been replaced by the modern AI agent infrastructure, which now probably depends on a single preprompt added by a summer intern in 2023.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 29/11/2024

If Elon claims to own all X accounts, doesn't it also mean that he's then personally the subject of libel and defamation cases, copyright infringement and privacy breaches on all X accounts?

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 28/11/2024

Puola rakentaa ensi vuoden aikana laajamittaisen dronearmeijan, joka sisältää ilma-, maa-, vesi- ja sukellusdronet. Onko suomella jo suunnitelmat dronearmeijan rakentamisesta valmiina?

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