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Addy Crezee

Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief at thehype. Addy is a serial entrepreneur building products and communities since 2014. In 2024, he founded /function1, one of the largest AI conferences in the world, scaling from 0 to 10k attendees in its first year.

ARTICLES BY Addy Crezee

Comic-style man in a suit signs a contract on a conveyor belt of cash and glowing AI chips while shaking hands on a deal

top ai investment rounds this week. nvidia put $1b into poolside, licensed its models for $6b, and offered jobs to 109 people

Addy Crezee 25 Aug 2026 2 min read

Three men in office chairs watch a split screen showing a bright day mall and a neon night mall — three.js render benchmark.

opus 5 vs kimi k3 vs muse spark 1.2 – one shopping mall, day and night, in three.js

Addy Crezee 24 Aug 2026 2 min read

Armored warrior holding an Opus 5 flag descends neon-lit ranked staircase toward #1

opus 5 re-enters openrouter top 10 at #8 – up 61% in a week

Addy Crezee 21 Aug 2026 1 min read

Illustrated Mark Zuckerberg plugs a giant META connector into a macOS panel, sparks flying in an OpenAI-lined server hall

meta followed google's exact playbook in three weeks

Addy Crezee 20 Aug 2026 1 min read

Robot arm stacks colored cubes under a lamp while a covered data center rack sits unused — Nvidia's on-device robot ai.

nvidia open-sourced a full pipeline for on-device robot control – no data center in the loop

Addy Crezee 19 Aug 2026 1 min read

Man holding glowing key in neon-lit corridor as suit-wearing pig approaches in maze benchmark illustration

glm 5.3 vs deepseek v4-pro: both saw the maze, neither escaped

Addy Crezee 18 Aug 2026 2 min read

Illustration of a man in tactical vest pointing at a blue screen filled with root access logs and login credentials

redwood's openai hack investigation: fixing exploits selects for models that seek full control

Addy Crezee 18 Aug 2026 1 min read

Comic-style figure plugging glowing cables into server racks, neon green energy burst, data center setting

nvidia is building a 1-trillion-parameter open model to beat deepseek and qwen

Addy Crezee 16 Aug 2026 1 min read

Illustration of figure stamping documents at a desk with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and xAI logos below

openai, anthropic, google, meta and xai trust one startup to grade their models

Addy Crezee 16 Aug 2026 1 min read

Soldier planting OpenAI flag on cracking #3 podium block while Chinese flags fly over #1 and #2 in graffiti-covered arena

gpt 5.6 luna is the first us model in the openrouter top 3 since june. just in 2 weeks after a 80% price cut from outside the top 10

Addy Crezee 14 Aug 2026 1 min read

Octopus at a cluttered desk flanked by Liquid AI and Alibaba robot arms holding a bounding box

lfm2.5-vl-3b vs qwen3.5-4b: 3b beats 4.2b on visual grounding, but neither finds the button

Addy Crezee 14 Aug 2026 2 min read

Robot in a suit at a metal desk sorting labeled folders with papers flying, graffiti-lit server room behind

top 5 github repos by weekly star growth. сloudflare shipped a durable filesystem for agents and pulled +6k stars in 7 days

Addy Crezee 13 Aug 2026 1 min read

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