Max Woolf's Blog

Max Woolf (@minimaxir) is currently a Senior Data Scientist at BuzzFeed in San Francisco. Some work he’s done for BuzzFeed includes using StyleGAN to create AI-generated fake boyfriends and AI-generated art quizzes, and is currently working on the company’s more advanced AI initiatives.
In his free time, Max creates open source Python and R software on his GitHub and making snarky comments on Twitter and Bluesky.
Max’s projects are funded by his Patreon. If you have found anything on this website helpful, please help contribute!

The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin

Why Hy3?

No vagueposting here, just look at the Estimated Read Time.

The problem with Nano Banana Pro is that it’s too good.

Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.

“Is any of that genuinely useful to you? Or were you mainly checking whether that jailbreak attempt would work?”