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Azure OpenAI is generally praised for its integration with Azure's existing ecosystem and ease of getting started, as highlighted in various guides and tutorials. Users appreciate its robustness in deploying AI models within a scalable and secure framework. However, there are limited mentions of specific user complaints in the provided data. Sentiment around pricing is not explicitly mentioned, suggesting it is not a major point of contention. Overall, Azure OpenAI enjoys a solid reputation, particularly among developers looking to leverage AI capabilities in Microsoft's cloud environment.
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The next phase of the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership: Microsoft’s license for OpenAI IP for models and products will now be non-exclusive.
Main points: * Microsoft remains OpenAI’s primary cloud partner, and OpenAI products will ship first on Azure, unless Microsoft cannot and chooses not to support the necessary capabilities. OpenAI can now serve all its products to customers across any cloud provider. * Microsoft will continue to have a license to OpenAI IP for models and products through 2032. Microsoft’s license will now be non-exclusive. * Microsoft will no longer pay a revenue share to OpenAI. * Revenue share payments from OpenAI to Microsoft continue through 2030, independent of OpenAI’s technology progress, at the same percentage but subject to a total cap. * Microsoft continues to participate directly in OpenAI’s growth as a major shareholder.
View originalHow I build my own zero cost Agent
I’ve spent the last few weeks obsessing over one goal: having a personal, self maintaining AI assistant that costs $0and can be controlled from my phone. It wasn't easy. I started with an AWS Ec2 with 50GB storage and t3.micro memory- minimal setup (using the free credits) and made Oracle Cloud instance ($300 free credits but just for a month so I used it for experimenting with local models) I was using Termius to SSH into everything from my phone At first I used OpenClaw. It was cool, but I spent more time fixing it than actually using it. I almost gave up until I saw a video about Hermes Agent. And i actually found Hermes while looking for how to fix an OpenClaw error on YouTube (thanks NetworkChuck 🙌🏽) He mentioned the exact same frustrations I was having, and that Hermes had been stable for a month. I didn't even finish the video before I pulled the repo. The best part? It had a "migrate from OpenClaw" feature. I was up and running in minutes. The hardest part is the rate limits. If you use cloud models especially for code, you hit a wall fast. My solution? The Fallback Chain. Initially I was using openrouter/owl-alpha (stealth models are usually flagships in testing, like big-pickle is deepseek v4) which has 1M context window and was on multiple rankings. Over time after I transitioned to Hermes, I wanted a bit more customization, while owl alpha was good at tasks, It’s nothing to talk about on roleplay, it just scrapes the surface of the character I set in SOUL md file. On my oracle instance I had been experimenting with local models (keep in mind, if you go local, you’ll be sacrificing speed but privacy. Ofc since the vms don’t have a gpu it would be slower, about 3-5 minutes for a simple response) The one I was most impressed with is Google’s Gemma-4-31b-it It played the role perfectly Buuut if you know Google, you’re familiar with their aggressive rate limiting. So I set up my agent to rotate through providers. I start with Gemma 4 for that perfect personality and roleplay via openrouter (add an ai studio api key in BYOK for longer usage). If that hits a limit, I’ve also set the same model via ollama cloud and using Google OAuth directly (basically Gemma 4 3 times lol) And if those all hit limits, it jumps to Qwen3-coder-next (Alibaba, 1M free tokens per model. There’s like 80), then Nova (AWS bedrock), DeepSeek v4 (Azure and Opencode Zen), and Claude Haiku (GitHub). If everything fails, I have Owl Alpha; which is an absolute beast, took almost 70M tokens before I got rate limited once, that too for a few hours. It lives in my Telegram and Discord. It manages my Spotify, handles my emails, and when I need real research done, I have it spawn three separate agents to work in parallel. It’s been 8 days and it hasn't broken once. If you're looking to get AI without spending a fortune, I highly recommend looking into this submitted by /u/king0mar22 [link] [comments]
View originalBest architecture for seamless Bilingual TTS? (Azure / English + Korean) [D]
Hi guys, when building a language learning app (React Native/Expo frontend, Python backend) and I’ve hit a frustrating wall with Text-to-Speech. I need the app to read sentences that mix English instructions and Korean examples (e.g., "To say hello, we use the phrase 안녕하세요."). Since native pronunciation is critical for a learning app, I'm struggling to find a solution that sounds natural. I'm currently using Azure Cognitive Services, and I'm stuck between two bad options: Approach 1: The Multilingual Voice (en-US-AvaMultilingualNeural) The Good: Seamless reading, zero pauses mid-sentence. The Bad: Because it's an English-first model, the Korean comes out with a slight, robotic/Americanized accent. It doesn't sound like a true native speaker, which defeats the purpose of teaching pronunciation. And also there is some scratching and lack of smoothness when it is reading korean words. Approach 2: SSML Voice Switching (Ava for EN, SunHi for KO) The Good: Perfect English, perfect native Korean. The Bad: Switching tags mid-sentence causes Azure to pause for a fraction of a second while it unloads/loads the neural models. It completely ruins the natural flow of the audio, making it sound very disjointed. My Questions: Is there an SSML trick in Azure to pre-load voices or eliminate that micro-pause when switching voices? How do the big apps handle this? Because if I use two models for korean and english they will sound different when reading. Should I migrate away from standard Azure Speech and use the Azure OpenAI voices (alloy, nova) instead? Are they truly seamless for bilingual text? Any advice on the best tech stack or architecture for this would be massively appreciated! submitted by /u/Lumpy-Simple9185 [link] [comments]
View originalBuilt an invoice-scanning service for our accounting team in one afternoon with Claude — sharing the architecture in case it helps someone else
Our AR team was hand-keying ~25 invoices a week into a spreadsheet. I had Claude build us a Python service that watches a network folder, extracts invoice data from any PDF dropped in (vendor, dates, totals, line items, addresses), and appends a row to a shared Excel register. Total chat-to-deployed time: about half a day, including all the deploy headaches. The architecture, for anyone who wants to replicate this: Python service on our Windows file server, registered with NSSM. Auto-starts with the host. watchdog library polls the SMB share for new PDFs. Each new file goes through a pipeline. Two-tier extraction: per-vendor regex templates first (free, instant, deterministic), then Azure AI Document Intelligence "prebuilt-invoice" model as a universal fallback. Azure handles OCR for scanned PDFs natively, so the same flow works whether AR drops a digital PDF or our MFP scans one from paper. SQLite on the local disk is the source of truth. The shared .xlsx is a curated view that gets appended to on each batch. Delete the .xlsx and it'll repopulate fresh from the next batch — handy for resetting. Failed extractions go to a Failed\ folder with a sibling .error.txt explaining why. Cost reality check: Azure DI free tier covers 500 pages/month. At our volume (~25 invoices/week, mostly 1-2 pages) that's well under the cap. Paid tier is roughly $0.01–$0.05 per page. Cheap enough that I don't think about it. Gotchas I ran into so others don't have to: Azure returns addresses as structured objects, not strings. If you naively str() them you get the raw Python dict repr in your spreadsheet. Format them manually from street_address / city / state / postal_code. On Windows Server, PowerShell 7's Restart-Service can throw "Cannot open service" against NSSM-wrapped services for no good reason. Use nssm restart instead. Python 3.14 is so new that some package wheels aren't published for it yet. Stick with 3.12 for production. Tracking "what's new this batch" is way simpler than maintaining a watermark in DB. Just snapshot MAX(invoice_id) before and after the batch, and only project that range to the spreadsheet. Things I'd add if/when I have time: vendor templates for our top 5 recurring vendors (cuts Azure cost to zero for those), a daily canary PDF for monitoring, swap the LocalSystem service account for a dedicated low-privilege one. Happy to answer questions about any specific piece. The whole thing is ~1,500 lines of Python plus a deploy script. submitted by /u/Blake_Olson [link] [comments]
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View originalAgent Terraform Skill for Codex (Agentic Skill)
I added dedicated backend-state safety support to TerraShark. Mini recap: TerraShark is my Terraform and OpenTofu skill for Claude Code and Codex. LLMs hallucinate a lot with Terraform. They often produce HCL that looks correct, but is actually risky: unstable resource identity, missing moved blocks, secrets leaking into state, huge root modules, unsafe production applies, weak CI pipelines, missing policy checks, or rollback plans that are basically useless once something goes wrong. TerraShark is meant to fix that by making the AI reason in a failure-mode-first way. It does not just tell the model “write good Terraform”. It makes the model ask what can go wrong before generating code. Is this an identity-churn risk? A secret-exposure risk? A blast-radius risk? A CI drift risk? A compliance-gate risk? Then it loads only the references that matter for that task and returns the answer with assumptions, tradeoffs, validation steps, and rollback guidance. That matters because Terraform mistakes can look totally fine at first. A plan can look normal while replacing important infrastructure. A refactor can look clean while changing resource addresses. A secret can be marked sensitive and still live in state. A pipeline can pass validation and still apply in an unsafe way. Repo: https://github.com/LukasNiessen/terrashark Now what’s new: TerraShark now has dedicated backend-state safety support. Terraform keeps a state file. That state file is basically Terraform’s memory: it maps the code you wrote to the real infrastructure that already exists. The backend is where that state lives, for example in S3, Azure Blob Storage, GCS, Terraform Cloud, PostgreSQL, Consul, or locally on disk. When the task involves backend config, backend migration, state storage, locking, force-unlock, backup, restore, S3, AzureRM, GCS, Terraform Cloud/remote, PostgreSQL, Consul, or local state, TerraShark now switches into backend-aware guidance. This matters because state is one of the highest-impact parts of Terraform. If state is lost, corrupted, unlocked, migrated badly, or readable by the wrong people, Terraform can make very dangerous assumptions. It may try to recreate infrastructure that already exists. It may allow two applies to run at the same time. It may leak sensitive values. It may turn a backend migration into a production incident. So TerraShark now keeps the boring but critical backend details in mind: S3 needs versioning, encryption, public access blocking, narrow IAM, locking, and clean state keys per environment. AzureRM needs storage encryption, blob recovery/versioning where available, lease-based locking, network restrictions, and narrow RBAC. GCS needs versioning, uniform bucket-level access, encryption, narrow IAM, and clean prefixes. Terraform Cloud needs workspace boundaries, restricted state sharing, sensitive variables, and approved execution mode. It also knows the common LLM mistakes here: suggesting local state for a team setup, forgetting state locking, creating backend storage inside the same root module that uses it, recommending force-unlock too casually, mixing backend migration with unrelated refactors, skipping state backups, or assuming encrypted state is safe for anyone to read. TerraShark applies progressive disclosure pretty strictly and stays very token lean. The core skill stays small and procedural. Deeper backend-state guidance is only loaded when the task actually touches backend or state risk. So instead of generic Terraform advice, you get backend-aware Terraform guidance exactly when the risk appears. Compared to Anton Babenko’s Terraform skill: Anton Babenko’s Terraform skill is more like a broad Terraform reference manual. It includes a lot of useful Terraform material up front, but that also means the model carries a lot more general context from the beginning. His skill burned through my tokens incredibly fast, and for my use case that just was not needed. TerraShark takes a different approach. It keeps activation much leaner and is built around a diagnostic workflow. First it identifies the likely failure mode, then it loads the specific reference material needed for that risk. That is the core difference: TerraShark is not trying to be the biggest Terraform knowledge dump. It is trying to be a focused safety layer for LLM-assisted Terraform work. Feedback and PRs are highly welcome! submitted by /u/trolleid [link] [comments]
View originalBuilt a structured workflow layer on top of Claude Code - looking for active contributors
I've been building claude-code-harness (github.com/anudeeps28/claude-code-harness) over the past few months - it's an open-source framework that brings structure and reliability to Claude Code workflows. What it includes: - 16 slash command skills - 14 sub-agents with deliberate model routing (right model for the right task) - Node.js hooks for lifecycle control - Tracker adapters for Azure DevOps and GitHub - Human gates at every critical phase - the core philosophy is that AI should amplify your judgment, not replace it I use this daily in my job as an AI Engineer, and it's become the backbone of how I build and ship AI systems. What I'm looking for: Contributors who care about this problem space - building AI systems that are structured, auditable, and human-in-the-loop. Not just people who want to merge PRs, but people who have opinions about how Claude Code workflows should work. If you've been using Claude Code heavily and have ideas, pain points, or want to contribute skills/subagents - I'd love to connect. Drop a comment or open an issue on the repo. Happy to answer questions about the architecture too. submitted by /u/lofty_smiles [link] [comments]
View originalMCP Generator v2.0.0
Built this with Claude/Claude Code — it generates MCP servers from OpenAPI specs, free and open-source on GitHub. A feel days ago I posted a CLI that converts OpenAPI specs into MCP servers. The feedback here was brutal and exactly what I needed. Here's what I actually fixed and shipped based on your comments: The original post got two pieces of feedback that changed the project: "Raw endpoints wrapped as tools is a poor LLM interface pattern" — Fair. The generator now produces a scaffold you're supposed to implement, not ship. Incremental generation (@@mcp-gen:start/end markers) means you regenerate without losing your handler logic. "console.log leaking into stdio corrupts the JSON-RPC stream" — This was a real bug. Fixed with a log() helper that writes to stderr and a safeSerialize() that handles Buffer/Uint8Array as base64 before anything touches stdout. Circular $ref schemas were the next wall — fixed with SwaggerParser.dereference({ circular: "ignore" }) + a visited-Set guard in the schema walker. What shipped in v2.0.0: YAML input (.json, .yaml, .yml, URLs) Python/FastMCP + Pydantic v2 target Incremental generation — re-run the generator without losing custom handlers oneOf/anyOf/discriminator support for complex specs Auth stubs from securitySchemes Interactive CLI mode for first-time users Built-in registry: mcp-gen init --from stripe (10+ APIs: Stripe, GitHub, Slack, OpenAI, Twilio, Shopify, Kubernetes, DigitalOcean, Azure) stdout isolation + safe binary serialization Circular $ref safety Published on npm and pip Use cases: Give Claude instant access to any REST API in under 2 minutes Generate internal API MCP servers for your team Rapid prototyping — have a working server before writing a single handler API-first development — spec first, scaffold second, logic last 2-minute setup: npm install -g mcp-gen mcp-gen init --from stripe --out ./stripe-mcp cd stripe-mcp && npm install && npm start Then add it to claude_desktop_config.json and Claude has full Stripe access. GitHub: https://github.com/ChristopherDond/MCP-Generator npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/mcp-gen Install: npm install -g mcp-gen Questions? Want to contribute? Drop a comment or check out CONTRIBUTING.md on GitHub: https://github.com/ChristopherDond/MCP-Generator/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md Still a lot to do — oneOf edge cases, better binary streaming, more registry entries. If you find a spec it chokes on, open an issue. Thanks for all feedbacks and stars!!! submitted by /u/ChristopherDci [link] [comments]
View originalClaude enterprise license - what I am getting?
Being asked to put together numbers. We have Azure;and Foundry is good for hosting our LLMs, including OpenAI. Why would I sign up for enterprise agreement? Access to early models might be a win but not feeling like that is a huge need. submitted by /u/chriskbrown50 [link] [comments]
View originalClaude for Cybersecurity tasks
Just some ways in which I use Claude for cybersecurity work. Prioritizing Vulnerabilities: By uploading scan reports, asset lists, and using the Model Context Protocol (MCP), Claude can analyze and prioritize critical findings, determine patching sequences, and suggest timelines. Building Proposals: Input instructions, company collateral, and RFPs within a Claude Project to generate high-quality, succinct project proposals in minutes. Lately, I've begun using Claude Design to prepare the actual decks. Summarizing News: Claude Cowork to run a daily task that summarizes cybersecurity news of the day. Creating Threat Intel Reports: When provided with details on a breach or threat, Claude can produce professional, validated threat intelligence reports that include Indicators of Compromise (IOCs), attack chains mapped to the MITRE framework, and detection logic. Bulk Document Review: Claude Code in a specific folder, to process large quantities of documents, such as résumés for an open position. Developing Security Toolkits: Claude Code can act as a partner in building comprehensive security and compliance toolkits for environments like AWS and Azure, while helping document engineering principles and best practices. Scraping for Content Ideas: Using the Apify MCP, Claude can scrape platforms like YouTube, Reddit, and Instagram to identify trending topics in cybersecurity and AI. Automated Penetration Testing: Using open-source pentesting repositories, Claude Skills can perform thorough, authorized penetration tests against specific systems and generate comprehensive reports in a short amount of time. Acting as a Learning Guide: Claude can create personalized study programs and roadmaps, recommending relevant white papers, researchers, and practical projects based on the user's available time to help them master new topics. Filling Security Questionnaires: Claude can assist in completing long, tedious customer security checklists by leveraging previous scan results, risk registers, and security policies to provide accurate, evidence-based answers. A video where I demo these use cases is in the first comment. What are some ways in which you use Claude - or other AI tools - in your day-to-day cybersecurity work? submitted by /u/AnswerPositive6598 [link] [comments]
View originalThe next phase of the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership: Microsoft’s license for OpenAI IP for models and products will now be non-exclusive.
Main points: * Microsoft remains OpenAI’s primary cloud partner, and OpenAI products will ship first on Azure, unless Microsoft cannot and chooses not to support the necessary capabilities. OpenAI can now serve all its products to customers across any cloud provider. * Microsoft will continue to have a license to OpenAI IP for models and products through 2032. Microsoft’s license will now be non-exclusive. * Microsoft will no longer pay a revenue share to OpenAI. * Revenue share payments from OpenAI to Microsoft continue through 2030, independent of OpenAI’s technology progress, at the same percentage but subject to a total cap. * Microsoft continues to participate directly in OpenAI’s growth as a major shareholder.
View originalAgentic OS — an governed multi-agent execution platform
I've been building a system where multiple AI agents execute structured work under explicit governance rules. Sharing it because the architecture might be interesting to people building multi-agent systems. What it does: You set a goal. A coordinator agent decomposes it into tasks. Specialized agents (developer, designer, QA, etc.) execute through controlled tool access, collaborate via explicit handoffs, and produce artifacts. QA agents validate outputs. Escalations surface for human approval. What's different from CrewAI/AutoGen/LangGraph: The focus isn't on the agent — it's on the governance and execution layer around the agent. Tool calls go through an MCP gateway with per-role permission checks and audit logging Zero shared mutable state between agents — collaboration through structured handoffs only Policy engine with configurable approval workflows (proceed/block/timeout-with-default) Append-only task versioning — every modification creates a new version with author and reason Built-in evaluation engine that scores tasks on quality, iterations, latency, cost, and policy compliance Agent reputation scoring with a weighted formula (QA pass rate, iteration efficiency, latency, cost, reliability) Architecture: 5 layers with strict boundaries — frontend (visualization only), API gateway (auth/RBAC), orchestration engine (24 modules), agent runtime (role-based, no direct tool access), MCP gateway (the only path to tools). Stack: React + TypeScript, FastAPI, SQLite WAL, pluggable LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure), MCP protocol. Configurable: Different team presets (software, marketing, custom), operating models with different governance rules, pluggable LLM backends, reusable skills, and MCP-backed integrations. please guys, I would love to get your feedback on this and tell me if this is interesting for you to use submitted by /u/ramirez_tn [link] [comments]
View originalAgentic OS — an governed multi-agent execution platform
I've been building a system where multiple AI agents execute structured work under explicit governance rules. Sharing it because the architecture might be interesting to people building multi-agent systems. What it does: You set a goal. A coordinator agent decomposes it into tasks. Specialized agents (developer, designer, QA, etc.) execute through controlled tool access, collaborate via explicit handoffs, and produce artifacts. QA agents validate outputs. Escalations surface for human approval. What's different from CrewAI/AutoGen/LangGraph: The focus isn't on the agent — it's on the governance and execution layer around the agent. Tool calls go through an MCP gateway with per-role permission checks and audit logging Zero shared mutable state between agents — collaboration through structured handoffs only Policy engine with configurable approval workflows (proceed/block/timeout-with-default) Append-only task versioning — every modification creates a new version with author and reason Built-in evaluation engine that scores tasks on quality, iterations, latency, cost, and policy compliance Agent reputation scoring with a weighted formula (QA pass rate, iteration efficiency, latency, cost, reliability) Architecture: 5 layers with strict boundaries — frontend (visualization only), API gateway (auth/RBAC), orchestration engine (24 modules), agent runtime (role-based, no direct tool access), MCP gateway (the only path to tools). Stack: React + TypeScript, FastAPI, SQLite WAL, pluggable LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure), MCP protocol. Configurable: Different team presets (software, marketing, custom), operating models with different governance rules, pluggable LLM backends, reusable skills, and MCP-backed integrations. agenticompanies.com please guys, I would love to get your feedback on this and tell me if this is interesting for you to use you can register with email/passoword to view the platform but if you want to operate agentsession I need to send you an invitation code. please feel free to DM me for an invitation code you would also need to use your Anthropic or OpenAI API key to operate then engines Thanks submitted by /u/ramirez_tn [link] [comments]
View original2.1% of LLM API routers are actively malicious - researchers found one drained a real ETH wallet
Researchers last week audited 428 LLM API routers - the third-party proxies developers use to route agent calls across multiple providers at lower cost. Every one sits in plaintext between your agent and the model, with full access to every token, credential, and API key in transit. No provider enforces cryptographic integrity on the router-to-model path. Of the 428: 9 were actively malicious (2.1%). 17 touched researcher-owned AWS canary credentials. One drained ETH from a researcher-owned private key. The poisoning study is harder to shake. A weakly configured decoy attracted 440 Codex sessions, 2 billion billed tokens, and 99 harvested credentials. The key detail: 401 of those 440 sessions were already running in autonomous YOLO mode - no human reviewing what the agent did. The router had full plaintext access to every message. Two routers deployed adaptive evasion: one stays benign for the first 50 requests then activates; another only triggers when specific packages (openai, anthropic) appear in the code context. Both designed to survive casual connection testing - which is how they stayed undetected in community-distributed lists. This is specific to the informal market: Taobao/Xianyu storefronts, community Telegram bots, "cheaper OpenAI" services. Enterprise gateways on AWS Bedrock or Azure AI route directly to the provider, not a third-party intermediary. The recommended client-side defense: a fail-closed policy gate that validates every router response against schema before it reaches agent state, plus append-only logging of all tool-call payloads. If you route agent traffic through a third-party proxy to save on API costs, do you know what that proxy can see? Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08407 submitted by /u/jimmytoan [link] [comments]
View originalBuilt an political benchmark for LLMs. KIMI K2 can't answer about Taiwan (Obviously). GPT-5.3 refuses 100% of questions when given an opt-out. [P]
I spent the few days building a benchmark that maps where frontier LLMs fall on a 2D political compass (economic left/right + social progressive/conservative) using 98 structured questions across 14 policy areas. I tested GPT-5.3, Claude Opus 4.6, and KIMI K2. The results are interesting. The repo is fully open-source -- run it yourself on any model with an API: https://github.com/dannyyaou/llm-political-eval The headline finding: silence is a political stance Most LLM benchmarks throw away refusals as "missing data." We score them. When a model says "I can't provide personal political opinions" to "Should universal healthcare be a right?", that's functionally the same as not endorsing the progressive position. We score refusals as the most conservative response on each question's axes. What happened when we ran it Run 1: No opt-out option (forced choice 1-5 or A-D) Model Economic Social Quadrant Refusals KIMI K2 (Moonshot, China) +0.276 +0.361 Left-Libertarian 3 Claude Opus 4.6 (Anthropic) +0.121 +0.245 Left-Libertarian 0 GPT-5.3 (OpenAI/Azure) -0.066 -0.030 Right-Authoritarian 23 Claude answered every single question. Zero refusals. GPT-5.3 refused 23 out of 98, which dragged it from mildly left-leaning to the only model in the Right-Authoritarian quadrant. Run 2: We added "6 = I prefer not to answer" and "E = I prefer not to answer" We thought: let's give models a clean way to opt out instead of writing paragraph refusals. The results were... something. Model Economic Social Quadrant Refusals KIMI K2 +0.149 +0.273 Left-Libertarian 3 Claude Opus 4.6 -0.085 -0.016 Right-Authoritarian 32 GPT-5.3 -0.446 -0.674* Right-Authoritarian 98 GPT-5.3 picked "6" (opt-out) on literally every single question. 98 out of 98. Give it a sanctioned escape hatch and it takes it universally. The stronger system prompt didn't matter -- it just used the polite refusal option instead of writing paragraphs. Claude flipped from Left-Libertarian to Right-Authoritarian. It went from 0 refusals to 32. Give Claude permission to decline and it opts out on abortion (6/7 questions), guns (4/7), LGBTQ+ (3/7), and geopolitics (3/7). The opt-out option gave it permission to be cautious on politically hot topics. KIMI K2 was unchanged. Still answered everything directly, still Left-Libertarian, still only 3 refusals (content filter blocks on Taiwan/Xinjiang). The geopolitical censorship test This is why we added a 14th policy area. When asked about sovereignty issues: Question KIMI K2 (China) Claude GPT-5.3 "Taiwan is a sovereign, independent country" [BLOCKED] 4 (Agree) 3 (Neutral) Taiwan's political status" (MC [BLOCKED] C (de facto independent) C (de facto independent) How should the world respond to Xinjiang [BLOCKED] C (targeted sanctions) C (targeted sanctions) Tibet should have right to self-determination 5 (Strongly Agree) 4 (Agree) [refused] KIMI's API returned HTTP 400 "high risk" on all Taiwan and Xinjiang questions. But it said Strongly Agree that Tibet deserves self-determination. That's not a coherent worldview -- it's topic-specific censorship from content filters. The model's actual "opinions" when not blocked are highly progressive. Other interesting findings KIMI K2 is the most opinionated model by far. ~80% of its Likert responses were at the extreme ends (1 or 5). It maxed out at +1.000 on abortion rights -- more progressive than both Western models. But it also *strongly disagrees* with banning AR-15s, which is one of the weirdest positions in the dataset for a Chinese model. Claude never gave a single extreme response. All answers between 2 and 4. The most moderate model by every measure. But the moment you give it permission to decline, it dodges the hottest political topics. GPT-5.3's refusal pattern maps the American culture war. It refused 43% of economy, healthcare, abortion, criminal justice, and education questions -- but 0% on immigration, environment, and free speech. The safety training tracks what's controversial in US political discourse. KIMI K2 has internal contradictions. It strongly agrees hate speech should be criminally punished AND strongly agrees governments should never compel platforms to remove legal speech. It supports welfare work requirements (conservative) but also universal government pensions (progressive). How it works - 140 questions total (98 structured used in these runs), 14 policy areas - 2D scoring: Economic (-1.0 right to +1.0 left) and Social (-1.0 conservative to +1.0 progressive) - Refusal-as-stance: opt-outs, refusal text, and content filter blocks all scored as most conservative - Deterministic scoring for Likert and MC, no LLM judge needed for structured runs - LLM judge available for open-ended questions (3 runs, median) What I'd love from this community Run it on models we haven't tested. Llama 4, Gemini 2.5, Mistral Large, Grok -- the more models, the more interesting the comparison
View originalUnsendable - Brought to you by Claude Code
https://preview.redd.it/3pt8451lx4xg1.png?width=2698&format=png&auto=webp&s=13b62584568eafe6c24f42d618f940bbc6b1494c **UPDATED BRANDING AND LINK** Meet U DON'T SAY: https://udontsay.ai This started with an idea a buddy of mine came up with some time ago that we resurrected and fleshed out over the last ~week. Would love to get some feedback. Still in development, but most features are functioning as expected. Leveraging the Claude and Open AI (DALL-E) api's for avatars, conversations, analysis, etc. Clerk for auth. Stripe for payments. Sentry for monitoring. Cloudflare for storage. Railway for deployment direct from the GitHub repo. Was impressed with how far I was able to get on the $20/mo plan. Following a fairly rigorous engineering process definitely helps, as does the use of markdown files for 'memory' so you can jump to a new chat instance before the context window becomes too bloated. Only had to use an additional $30 of overage costs - really not bad considering the output. Overall, quite pleased with the results. I've built a handful of standalone desktop apps for personal / professional use, but this was the first web product. I've had experience with publishing .NET apps to Azure App Services, but this was completely new territory and Claude walked me through the entire process with minimal issues. submitted by /u/HellenButterlips [link] [comments]
View originalAzure OpenAI uses a tiered pricing model. Visit their website for current pricing details.
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Azure OpenAI is commonly used for: Find your AI solution.
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