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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

Hand pulls industrial switch from red DeepSeek label toward green Meta label with sparks flying

banks are using chinese ai models as leverage against anthropic's pricing

Addy Crezee 11 Aug 2026 1 min read

Comic-style figure in purple suit signing a large Sapiom $35M check with paid invoices and a 10X growth tablet

anthropic invested in the startup that cuts its own inference bills

Addy Crezee 10 Aug 2026 1 min read

Man in white shirt deals price-tag cards to hooded figures in a neon-lit underground room, AI price war theme

openai's luna crashes back into openrouter top 5 after 80% price cut

Addy Crezee 7 Aug 2026 1 min read

Dark illustration of gloved hands assembling a device labeled Claude, Cursor, and Kiro with glowing green skulls

reverse-skill doubled its stars in a week – top 5 github repos by growth

Addy Crezee 7 Aug 2026 1 min read

Illustration of a technician plugging glowing neon cables into server racks in a graffiti-covered data center corridor

coinbase, shopify, ramp: why enterprises wrap claude code instead of using it raw

Addy Crezee 6 Aug 2026 1 min read

Cyberpunk illustration of woman between two code monitors labeled 975B and 276B, comparing inkling and inkling-small models

thinking machines' inkling-small fixed more bugs than inkling – at 3.5x fewer parameters and 11x cheaper

Addy Crezee 4 Aug 2026 2 min read

Spider-like robot destroyed after grabbing a USB drive labeled ADMIN in a graffiti hallway — an AI honeypot trap

92% of ai hacking agents fall for a cybersecurity trap – 2.5x more often than a human hacker would

Addy Crezee 4 Aug 2026 1 min read

Illustration of investors funneling robots, servers, molecules and 3D printers into a cash register spitting gold coins.

top five ai rounds from july – tracked by our ai host nathan on capital radar:

Addy Crezee 4 Aug 2026 1 min read

Cyberpunk illustration of a hexagonal machine with +76% display trailing gold stars over a purple city skyline.

buzz alone pulled 9k stars in seven days, +76% growth

Addy Crezee 2 Aug 2026 1 min read

Illustration of person in purple hoodie swapping opus and gpt server racks for a red mimo-v2.5 unit in a data center.

this month openrouter is chinese. two of the top 10 most-used models cost $0

Addy Crezee 31 Jul 2026 1 min read

Illustrated man gripping an Omniroute switch lever with neon rainbow tracks branching through a graffiti subway tunnel.

top 5 github repos by monthly star growth – july 2026:

Addy Crezee 30 Jul 2026 1 min read

Woman climbs a glowing staircase of funding rungs — $200M, $500M, $3.5B, $50B — as onlookers watch Moonshot's ladder.

moonshot ai closes $3.5b at $35b, 13 days after kimi k3

Addy Crezee 29 Jul 2026 2 min read

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